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GrinningFool··on Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880
On the other hand, there are million(s) of gasoline trucks on the road and thousands(?) of electric.
GrinningFool··on Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880
> especially when the battery is huge and fully charged.

Huh, TIL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10973-018-7899-y

GrinningFool··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
I think the bar should be higher. Incomprehensible is not justified by an interesting topic.
GrinningFool··on Compromised EMudhra Intermediate Certificates
I don't see anywhere that said it was unverified. I would assume it came with evidence.
GrinningFool··on My old job feels distant now
Did you look closely at what it had done? It's possible to save a lot of time on CI by omitting tests, for example...
GrinningFool··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Asking in the US seems to risk a faux pas these days. "Why do you assume I'm 'from' somewhere else?"
GrinningFool··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
That's irrelevant, the context was "Or we just go somewhere else that's cheaper, because capitalism means competition." Amazon is making it so that's less of an option, effectively regulating [portions of] the market through their size and leverage.
GrinningFool··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
Amazon's regulation often means sellers are blocked from selling the same items at a lower price elsewhere.
GrinningFool··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
It seems those classes of things are more important than ever. It's not about how tedious it is - it's about the models being able to build accurate context and understanding. All the same things that made it better for humans also makes it better for models. More specifically in this context, well-maintained code results in fewer bugs and lower token usage.

I tend in the other direction when I can (for components and microservices - harder for monorepos): I encourage refactors on a continual basis, as it prevents the models from getting bogged down with the way the system used to behave across changes.

GrinningFool··on Firefox Enterprise
You can already do that in regular firefox. I think in this case, it's adding the capability to enable/disable via policy at the enterprise level.
GrinningFool··on Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
I think there's a time-spent curve. If you put enough time into iterating and refining with attention to arch and design (weeks or months) then it might be worth sharing. If you've done it in days or a week, probably not.
GrinningFool··on The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
I used to put it first for convenience, but got increasingly paranoid about something same-named getting slipped into my ~/.local/bin; now it lives at the end.
GrinningFool··on The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)
My cat does both. He will sit in human spots hoping the human will join him and perhaps be better furniture.

And he will sprawl all over the dog bed,with the intent of rubbing in that he is there and the dog is not going to take it.

GrinningFool··on Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
Indeed. I would much prefer to read someone's poor English over their fluent LLM.
GrinningFool··on Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
For me (not the OP) I see the patterns 'The X is the Y', 'Every X is a Y' (both of which are there) and llm-sense tingles. Add in Not A, B, C or Z and I'm increasingly convinced it's LLM generated text.
GrinningFool··on Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools
Didn't appreciate the two separate popups that took over my screen while trying to read a linked review.

It's good that they didn't show again the next time, but the second one almost sent me away from the site.

GrinningFool··on Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Right now, we are pretty much guaranteed that they can access the data. As opposed to no guarantees that they can't.

I'm not clear the point of your post. Is it to say that what we had before is not guaranteed safe, so let's do this worse centralized thing because reasons?

GrinningFool··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
Perhaps once they all agree to calling it "superintelligence", these troubles will go away.
GrinningFool··on Commit description as a thinking tool
But the code doesn't always have the answer to "why". At best that means the commit-writer has 'guessed' at why.
GrinningFool··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
On a smaller scale, driving through the mountains and seeing the tunnels where we said "screw it, we're going through" is also pretty amazing.
GrinningFool··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Be careful with the goals you give for writing tests. Telling it that you want 100% coverage can often lead to performative tests that don't validate anything meaningful.
GrinningFool··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Fair, but isn't that the nature of these accusations? It's almost always one party's word against another's. So insufficient corroborating evidence seems to mean no witnesses or paper trail.
GrinningFool··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
The criterion for being considered false accusations in that table seems to be 'no charges filed'. Even in those cases, the disclaimers are pretty strong:

> The police continue to misapply the "no-crime" or "unfounded" criteria.

> It is impossible to "discern with any degree of certainty the actual rate of false allegations" because many of the studies of false allegations have adopted unreliable or untested research methodologies.

GrinningFool··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
I think it's a matter of trust. How many times has Meta proven untrustworthy over the years? Do we have reason other than their pinky-promise -- backed by the potential for nuisance fines and lawsuits -- to assume they should get it now?
GrinningFool··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Absolutely; though in context of the article, names aren't being named and nobody's being accused. It's literally a private-ish list of "stay away from/be careful around these people".
GrinningFool··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Your source doesn't really say what you're stating though. The ranges seem to be 4-13%, with the majority closer to 8. The one that was highest for the US (10%) was a self-reporting survey that asked people if they had been falsely accused -- surely not the most reliable method.
GrinningFool··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
While we can easily find a ton of documented cases of sexual assault, cases of false accusations seem relatively sparse.
GrinningFool··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
> Posted article has nothing on my data ending up in Kenya.

Did you think they were making it up? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

I couldn't conceive of a world in which I'd provide meta with video of my family. Or... anything, really.

GrinningFool··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
I think the license was the best tool available for the ideology around ownership.
GrinningFool··on A warning about 'model welfare'
All of this is true - yet in between calls of the loop, they don't exist.
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