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by jt2190 7mo ago
I’m struggling to understand how the advice coming from an LLM is any more or less “good” than advice coming from a human. Or is this less about the “advice” part of LLMs and more about the “personable” part, i.e. you felt more at ease seek
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by jt2190 7mo ago
> if you make life of an employee miserable, the employee is more likely to resign or ask for a raise, this does apply some pressure. Perhaps, but the question to ask is not “how to apply some pressure” but “how to apply pressure in the
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by jt2190 7mo ago
Yeah, I think that flighty already aggregates various data sources to predict flight delays, I thought maybe they were expanding to include security wait times.
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> We could have used that time to have a sensible conversation about policy trade offs [of age verification]… There is always a conversation, but it is often not the popular one and gets drown out by whatever everyone is excited about
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by jt2190 7mo ago
I was thinking this was something to help estimate the time to get through airport security. It's still very cool, though. I love the TV mode!
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by jt2190 7mo ago
I think I said that? > … it’s not typically like no taxes get paid. This is why I asked for elaboration: The poster was unclear about how, say, making capital improvements (and getting taxed on those over time) would somehow look suspici
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by jt2190 7mo ago
Can you elaborate? As a business owner in the U.S. I can opt to reinvest all revenue back into the business, thus would show zero net profit but (presumably) increase my company’s value. (And remember there are other taxes and fees paid to
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by jt2190 7mo ago
By choice. Your friend is presumably wealthy enough that they could talk to a human instead, or completely delegate whatever they’re talking to AI about and never talk of it further.
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by jt2190 7mo ago
> … last October [2025]…
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by jt2190 7mo ago
Original: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/hollywood...
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by jt2190 8mo ago
What's your take on WASM/WASI?
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by jt2190 8mo ago
Interesting, but couldn’t the agent be given access to tools that allow it to make those evaluations without having to modify the API responses? (Maybe I’m not visualizing “API” the same way you are.)
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by jt2190 8mo ago
The lesson to learn is that in-house development groups are often incentivized to “sell” custom software solutions to their organizations, as their existence (budget) relies on it. As an interviewee it’s important to try and identify whethe
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by jt2190 8mo ago
The U.K. Supreme Court case [1]: > This appeal is not about the merits of the workers’ claims, but rather whether England or Malaysia is the appropriate forum (ie. the proper place) in which the claims can and/or should be determine
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by jt2190 8mo ago
Settings > Apps > Safari > Reading List: Automatically Save Offline “Save webpages to read later in Safari on iPhone” https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/save-pages-to-a-readi...
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by jt2190 8mo ago
> How do you not see the difference between a machine that will hallucinate something random if it doesn’t know the answer vs a human... Your claim here is that humans can't hallucinate something random. Clearly they can and do. &gt
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by jt2190 8mo ago
The market currently values your reading of HN comments at $0.
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Having an app that tells you that you have a thing is not the same as physically having the thing. Owning gold in that sense is no different than owning bitcoin: They both rely on a societal fiction that you can actually get the value of th
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by jt2190 8mo ago
Every successful software project reaches an equilibrium between utility for its operators and bugs, and that point very rarely settles at 0% bugs [1]. When software operators tolerate bugs they’re signaling that they’re willing to forego
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by jt2190 9mo ago
> I also do not see it happening at scale while competition is considered the default operating mode of society at large. You don’t even need competition between people and orgs, just between solutions that work more-or-less equally but
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> The French government… announced last week that 2.5 million civil servants would stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — by 2027 and switch to Visio, a homegrown
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by jt2190 9mo ago
> I think the reality is that… people are willing to take on MUCH greater risk today for reward than they were prior to the pandemic. I’ll quibble that people have no idea of the risks they’re taking. I read somewhere that amateur stock
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by jt2190 9mo ago
Last paragraph is informative: > Anthropic relies heavily on a combination of chips designed by Amazon Web Services known as Trainium, as well as Google’s in-house designed TPU processors, to train its AI models. Google largely uses its
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by jt2190 9mo ago
> [Seth is using AI to try] to take over the job of the farmer. Planting, harvesting, etc. is the job of a farmhand (or custom operator). Ok then Seth is missing the point of the challenge: Take over the role of the farmhand. > Everyo
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by jt2190 9mo ago
> Employees get options at common stock prices. More specifically, when employees are granted options contracts the strike price of those contracts is based on the last valuation of the company prior to the grant. If all is going well an
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by jt2190 9mo ago
The tariffs haven’t really started hitting consumers yet, believe it or not. Major retailers rushed to get their Christmas goods into the U.S. before the deadlines. In 2026 we’ll start to see more of the impacts.
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by jt2190 9mo ago
It's a bit more complex and nothing new. Roughly: An individual lawyer creates a "national brand" law firm and advertises it widely to find new clients. Of course, an individual lawyer can only take so many clients a year, so
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by jt2190 9mo ago
Probably because the bidder is an aggregator sending the referral to many law firms, not just one. Individual law firms thus get outbid for an exclusive referral click, but can still pay the aggregator for a non-exclusive referral.
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by jt2190 9mo ago
That is not what Eric S. Raymond (esr) was describing. GNUnix was developed using the Cathedral-style, Linux was developed using the bazaar-style. How Linux development was coordinated was thought to be impossible for something that had to
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by jt2190 9mo ago
> In large companies, speaking up about what you see as a “bad project” is a good thing. But only in moderation. Sometimes the mark of seniority is realizing that arguing with people who won’t listen isn’t worth it; it’s better to save y

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