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by ethbr1 10mo ago
That'd also be a good idea, but transparency without action doesn't seem like it would fix the non-active front page problem.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
At this point, it's fair to assume that Stephen Miller et al. are willing to pull any "get non-white people out of the US" lever they can find, and Trump (naively or otherwise) signs off on it. The US government now has an ex
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> This site has always had a bad faith flagging/downvoting issue The real tragedy is that this is fixable -- look at which accounts regularly flag inappropriately and shadow-ignore their flags going forward.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Everyone has ethics until they get rich...
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
As a passerby, I'm honestly not sure what pedantic hill you think you're dying on. Basically no crime was pretty obvious.
726.
by ethbr1 10mo ago
Digg (or Slashdot before it) wasn't Reddit in the same way that HN isn't Reddit: aggregators vs community discussions. 2/4chan or BBSs would have been the previous alternatives. What was the scaled pre-existing topic-divided
727.
by ethbr1 10mo ago
Are there any good references for work on retraining large models to distinguish between control / system prompt and user data / prompt? (e.g. based on out-of-band type tagging of the former)
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> There's actually a place (or used to be) somewhere near Silicon Valley where you can take your least favourite piece of IT gear and blast it with rented firearms The entire state of Nevada?
729.
by ethbr1 10mo ago
Reddit had a first move and scale advantage by then that Anthropic could only dream of. Plus its product utility scaled with user count. To the upthread/sibling conversations about substitutability of LLMs (and therefore pricing power)
730.
by ethbr1 10mo ago
Somewhere deep inside your iPhone, an LED is toggling.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
I think any workflow that doesn't cater to human constraints is suspect, until genAI tooling is a lot more mature. Or to put it another way -- understandable piecemeal commits are a best practice for a fundamental human reason; moving
732.
by ethbr1 10mo ago
Anthropic thinking they're Reddit ~2023 feels pretty arrogant. And if they've made a business decision to do this, rolling it out without announcement is even worse. Did they think no one would notice?
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> the variety and quality of beers we have to choose from in America is pretty astonishing That feels like a 2000+ change though.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> After all, isn't gluttony one of the deadly sins? Ergo its opposite is a missed branding opportunity for the religiously inclined: 'Ozempic: bring yourself closer to God'
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
I've seen patients (both family and non) meaningfully improve their health outcomes with statistically-significant frequency primarily via 4 methods. 1. Take ownership of their own medical records, learn them, and bring them to appoint
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> If you were American you'd have shot them. Archaeological evidence strongly suggests earlier Americans preferred hands, feet, and occasional repurposed sporting equipment. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2xBXm4y7
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
A boxing referee says "Protect yourself at all times." They do this not because it isn't their job to protect fighters from illegal blows, but because the consequences of illegal blows are sometimes unfixable. An encouragemen
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Patients should always advocate for their own care. This includes researching their own condition, looking into alternate diagnoses/treatments, discussing them with a physician, and potentially getting a second opinion. Especially
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
The irony about that is that a lot of the Confederate flag-flyers (ironically enough, overlapping with the Don't Tread on Me crowd) seriously hate the government. The administration's kept them on side with culture wars red meat
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
It's next to the period.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
It's a good observation, and one I don't think is widely enough appreciated among modern post-COVID, pro-censorship liberals. Trust primarily by virtue of authority is a bad quality to inculcate in a populace. Yes, any alternative
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
The benefit of focusing on coding is that it has an attractive non-deterministic / deterministic problem split. In that it's using a non-deterministic machine to build a deterministic one. Which gives all the benefits of determini
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse, or you really don't understand orders of magnitude. Are you okay with 1000x as many people dying to make a point?
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
For Business
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Also the brief foray into "Live" https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_Live
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Rapefest 2026 isn't an inaccurate name for X.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
They don't outnumber anyone. There's always a minority of hardcore supporters for any side... plus enough undecided people in the middle who mostly vote their pocketbook. What to do about it is to point out to those people in the
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
I think the people around him believe (1) he's competent to win the popularity contest that is an election & (2) he's vengeful against any perceived disloyalty. There are probably some true-believers among his cabinet, but mos
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
That seems like an accurate appraisal of the last year. Sometimes Trump doesn't decide to veer off-script and scupper plans. But it happens more than never! And rarely, when he does, more informed heads are able to turn him back around
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> completely delusional view of what was going on below them due to lies spread by middle-management Corporate dysfunction made more sense to me when I realized higher execs, because of span of control, are too busy to dig into any iss

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