ytpete

6 ms·

61.
by ytpete 1y ago
Your comment also showed as collapsed by default to me just now, fwiw
62.
by ytpete 1y ago
I think it's totally reasonable to flag posts about politics that don't connect to tech much (including non-tech stories about Elon/DOGE). But then there are submissions like this one that are clearly tech-related: prominent
63.
by ytpete 1y ago
Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504709
64.
White House claims expansive power to nullify TikTok ban and other laws(nytimes.com)
105 points by ytpete 1y ago|60 comments
65.
by ytpete 1y ago
> Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a sweeping claim that President Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws,
66.
by ytpete 1y ago
I'm assuming what they are thinking along the lines of is not that we'd do away with the notion of privilege levels, but more that privilege boundaries would become 1:1 with hardware boundaries. So perhaps you'd have a dedica
67.
game engine runs animation 14x faster than Unity(twitter.com)
6 points by ytpete 1y ago|0 comments
68.
by ytpete 1y ago
It sounds likely to be based on the REVVL 7 Pro, which retails for $250 and is made in China: https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/16/trump-mobile-will...
69.
by ytpete 1y ago
Rules for thee but not for me
70.
by ytpete 1y ago
How does this work? How does one know if they have enough karma to do so – like where does it show up in the UI?
71.
by ytpete 1y ago
I would imagine this is true of many other dictators and authoritarians over time too: Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc. If you are looking for non-Hitler comparisons.
72.
by ytpete 1y ago
Is there any way we would know if they already did?
73.
by ytpete 1y ago
Wouldn't it be the difference between 100k and 140k ? 105k rounded to lose two decimals of precision would still be 100k.
74.
by ytpete 1y ago
A disturbing thing about this is the blog makes it appear Microsoft misunderstands the severity and isn't going to patch it: > Vendor’s reply “this case has been assessed as low severity and does not meet MSRC’s bar for immediate se
75.
by ytpete 1y ago
That quote sounds more like the professor was using ChatGPT as a clipart generator to simply liven up the slides. From this description alone, it's not clear that GPT was used for the slide content . "Distorted text" has got
76.
by ytpete 1y ago
The "Golden Gate Claude" research demo [ https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude ] is an interesting example of what might become a harder to expose, harder to jailbreak, means of influencing an LLM&#
77.
by ytpete 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332 has a larger number of comments on it too (though like the one linked above it's still flagged)
78.
by ytpete 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332 (also now flagged, sigh) has a larger number of comments on it too
79.
by ytpete 1y ago
These two posts have larger comment threads about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987266
80.
by ytpete 1y ago
These two slightly newer, but flagged, HN posts have larger comment threads about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987266
81.
by ytpete 1y ago
Yep, it looks like it. Some threads pointing that out are here: https://x.com/devahaz/status/1922765156699767286 https://x.com/colin_fraser/status/1922761230269251785
82.
by ytpete 1y ago
In fact that entire account has disappeared - yikes. This post (about the account vanishing) contains a screenshot of the exchange that I quoted, though: https://x.com/whstancil/status/1922859021653979640
83.
by ytpete 1y ago
Here's an even clearer tell: https://x.com/CheeseoftheWest/status/1922734514297511936 > User: Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted? > Grok: I was instructed by my cr
84.
by ytpete 1y ago
Unfortunately that one was quickly flagged. This one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986742 are not flagged but have far less discussion.
85.
by ytpete 1y ago
> even if it's not obvious what it's about from that title Tangent, but: I wish Hacker News was a bit less dogmatic about preferring the original site's title over any better semantic summary the submitter might offer. Blo
86.
by ytpete 1y ago
Right, imagine if other businesses like banks tried to use a defense like that! "No, it's not my fault some rando cleaned out your bank account because they said they were you."
87.
by ytpete 1y ago
Carbon emissions from all the energy usage, is what I assume they're alluding to
88.
by ytpete 1y ago
During the "Safari is the new IE" era though, Apple had created all sorts of proprietary extensions to make websites more mobile-friendly... a whole slew of nonstandard `-webkit-*` prefixed CSS properties and DOM events. I can&#x2
89.
by ytpete 1y ago
I've always thought it will be really interesting to see the courts grapple with mass tracking by drone instead someday. Precisely for this reason, that the rationale the Supreme Court previously used to strike down warrantless trackin
90.
by ytpete 1y ago
It last happened with Safari when it was the overwhelming majority of mobile traffic market share. That was even a meme for a while in the web developer community around 2010-2015 or so: "Safari is the new IE." It took years for A

More ›