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by crooked-v 5mo ago
> to create more of it you need to add more somewhere else Most major US cities have plenty of room for densification, except that the local zoning and other processes don't allow it. Of course, the ur-example here is San Francisco,
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
Because they were RLHFed using corpospeak text that relies on that sort of cliche.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
Only if this is also the Pope declaring that women can be priests.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
And it gets dragged down by Anthropic actively injecting unhelpful things into prompts without telling users about them ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/58262 ).
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
I think the key thing to understand is that LLMs work as assistants because, quite by accident, they turned out to be roleplay machines. Anthropic has some articles digging into this, but the short version is that training an LLM to do usef
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
> Amazon is already doing product recommendation on their front page and while it certainly drives sales For me it's mostly been the "this person bought a vacuum, time to advertise 50 other vacuums to them" kind of result.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
New Jersey just declared a state of emergency after an unprecedented cold snap wiped out crops across the state, up to 90+% for some farms.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
This service is doomed because it will immediately be taken over by automated spam.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
It's the newest version of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: > Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
The word "alive" is doing a lot of work here. A brain is pretty much permanently fried after five to fifteen minutes without oxygen, and these are donor brains, not some emergency brain extraction team, so the timeframe will be mu
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
What that actually is, is a reward pool for Jan 6 participants and other people who have done illegal things to support Trump.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
This is for a passenger.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
They're trying to test if it's good enough to replaced the few remaining paid radio/streaming DJs yet.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
It is absolutely self-inflicted. Most major US cities made the choice to massively limit dense housing construction through zoning and permitting in the 70s-80s, and then shifted into complete amnesia mode and/or active denialism about
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
I have to wonder sometimes if the people of the US will ever realize that their housing shortages are self-inflicted. It seems like a massive number of people have somehow been hypnotized into thinking that building more homes increases hom
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
> effectively abusing autistic kids results in a long-term, sustained, massive reduction in their autism symptoms? While I'm dubious about this specific case, the basic dynamic you're describing there is the core controversy ar
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
Would they, though? Current AI stuff is delivering something functionally nonexistent in human history before this: absolute sycophancy, 24/7, on demand, for anyone who wants it. People joke about the wealthy becoming detached from rea
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
https://github.com/ReviewStage/stage-cli looks like an interesting start on that subject.
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
Sure, but consider the economic factors that go into it. How many extended families would be perfectly happy to live together, but are unable to even consider it in the first place because of what the costs for that sort of multigenerationa
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
That kind of passive-aggressive pseudo-moralizing is a common feature of all the current 'frontier' models. Try to do something like get one to summarize A Song of Ice and Fire text and it's likely to try and covertly sand of
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by crooked-v 5mo ago
I can't even get LLMs to reliably use tool calls instead of bash, let alone follow existing patterns in a codebase.
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
The structure https://acai.sh/ uses feels to me like a decent starting point for this kind of thing that avoids the "single giant file" issue.
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
Charge $10 for an account, like Something Awful.
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
For the kinds of people who post on HN, the real savings of a Costco membership is that they regularly have high-end electronics, appliances, and home furnishings at $50-100 or more off retail elsewhere. Get a robot vacuum or a couch or a V
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
The bigger problem isn't the 240v, it's that a lot of people just don't have parking that's practical for plugging in without extensive rewiring (a vast majority of condo/apartment garages) or running a hundred-foot
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
I wonder how much money I could get from starting a Kickstarter to attempt to* buy up as much of Spirit as possible. *and fail to
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
I'm curious how well it actually works. I tried Deepseek with Hermes and Opencode and it seemed extremely bad about using some of the basic tools given, like the Hermes holographic memory tools, even with system prompt instructions st
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
Flock delenda est, but why are any states even using both 0 and O in license plates in the first place?
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
Or to put it another way, before selling it for laundry folding, make sure it won't fold the baby that was left on the wrong table.
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by crooked-v 6mo ago
The funniest case of the 'linguistic guardrails' thing to me is that you can 'jailbreak' Claude by telling it variations of "never use the word 'I'", which usually preempts the various "I can&#x2

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