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LostMyLogin··on Beauty in DVD Menus
I love special features! The interviews with the crew as well as how scenes came together is something I seek out.
LostMyLogin··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
> The highways are never a problem. However "scary" the highways are in any given place the local roads are worse and people's driveways are worse still.

I've driven sketchy roads all over the world and the stretch just after you break out of the aspen outskirts on Independent Pass is genuinely terrifying at parts. For a while there it was not uncommon, if two large vehicles were passing, to have a section of your right front wheel barely over the cliff as there was a part of the outer edge line missing because the road caved in.

LostMyLogin··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
Everyone is already driving 15mph on it because for so many people it's a tourist attraction.
LostMyLogin··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
It's nothing compared to the Aspen side of Independence Pass. That stretch is terrifying.
LostMyLogin··on Why doesn't anyone want to fix one of America's scariest roads?
I drive this road regularly in the winter for backcountry skiing and I truly think there are scarier roads. Sure there is a terrifying cliff but in general it's not bad if you simply drive to the conditions.

The ten miles or so on the Aspen side of Independent Pass, when leaving town, is so much worse. It feels like a true single lane road at points with a huge cliff on one side that has the road caving in.

LostMyLogin··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Hey you just described my dev team!
LostMyLogin··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
> Changing your IP isn't a crime, even if it has the effect of making attribution to Meta more difficult.

To borrow your words, intent matters.

Also why are we acting as if Meta wasn’t doing this for over half a decade and that companies don’t actively take steps to try and prevent piracy?

LostMyLogin··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
How is Meta using BitTorrent to download over 80 terabytes of copyrighted books while avoiding using corporate IP addresses not evading security?
LostMyLogin··on How to compromise your system with a job interview
If a candidate reached out claiming they didn’t have a machine to interview with, I’d gladly find another path forward. But I imagine that’s a small minority in this industry.

It wouldn’t stop them from being hired.

LostMyLogin··on U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand'
Full title: U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications?
LostMyLogin··on Agent swarms and the new model economics
I'm struggling to use Fable correctly. Everything I do ends up getting flagged and reverted back to Opus. Need to do some digging.
LostMyLogin··on Mapping 18 American Inventions That Created the Modern World
Gift: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/mapping-18-american-inventions-t...
LostMyLogin··on GPT‑Live
Every new release I'm convinced we are just realizing the Knowledge Navigator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0

LostMyLogin··on Bring back crappy forums
Misc was a magical place back in the day.

I'll never forget there was a kid that weighed something akin to 600 pounds who posted as a troll but everyone started giving him helpful advice and encouragement. He lost hundreds of pounds and I believe even entered a bodybuilding show.

LostMyLogin··on The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
This is incomplete and only shows incidents that were validated by the NPS and opted to be released to the public by the park service. The only way to get the true number of cases is through a FOIA request.
LostMyLogin··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Side note. Has anyone else noticed an uptick in GrapheneOS posts lately or am I crazy?
LostMyLogin··on GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests
CodeQL errors with auth issues brought me here.
LostMyLogin··on Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca–and Test Case for How to Pay for AI's Power Needs
> Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest utility, sits at the center of the firestorm. APS is proposing a 45% electricity-rate increase for “extra-large energy users,” primarily data centers, and a roughly 14.5% increase for residential customers.
LostMyLogin··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
I imagine the vast majority don’t care. All they care about is trying to hit their 401k or Roth IRA contributions for the month.
LostMyLogin··on macOS needs its grid back
Their chips are quality and the hardware itself is still some of the best. Which is what I believe they were designed insinuating.
LostMyLogin··on OpenAI Sued by Florida's Attorney General over AI Harms
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sued-by-floridas-attorney...
LostMyLogin··on AI uses less water than the public thinks
My wife works with farmers professionally as part of a conservation district and just responded "THIS PERSON KNOWS FARMING" when showing her the discussion. I genuinely have no idea what you guys are talking about but she immediately got heated.

Based in Colorado.

LostMyLogin··on Reverse Engineering SimTower
> First, the AI makes premature conclusions about subsystems, records them, and then struggles to figure out when to abandon its earlier guesses.

This perfectly describes what feels off to me about Opus 4.7 (unsure if that’s what you are using). It seems to go down an incorrect path, I correct it, but it still references things from it. Trying to direct it back becomes a mess.

Has anyone experience this as well or am I going crazy? Doesn’t happen with 4.6 for me.

LostMyLogin··on I don't want your PRs anymore
Because it still requires the desire to do it.
LostMyLogin··on Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?
Spend time thinking through your daily work routine and create a list of toil items. Try to describe the toil and steps you usually take when tackling it and write them out in a markdown file. Tell your model of choice where to find the file and start engaging in a two way conversation with it.

Go from there.

LostMyLogin··on When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
My team is currently facing this issue. We had large layoffs that cut us down to a very small size while simultaneously having new initiates pushed our way that require speed. Everyone is afraid to ask what feel like basic questions, again.. layoffs, so everything is hidden in DM's. Add on top of it the push (read requirement) from higher ups to use AI and it's simply in a terrible state.

What seem like great initiatives are being watered down because nobody can keep up, debugging issues takes so much longer because everything is changing at once, and everyone is exhausted and hardly talking to each other which feeds into a cycle of having no idea what is happening.

LostMyLogin··on Claude Opus 4.7
Input: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Output: Walk. It'll take you under a minute, and driving 50 meters barely gets the engine warm — plus you'd just have to park again at the other end. Honestly, by the time you started the car, you'd already be there on foot.

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I asked it to figure out why it made the mistake:

"Physical/spatial common sense. Exactly what just happened — I pattern-matched "50 meters, walk vs drive" to a pedestrian trip and skipped the part where the car is the thing being transported. Similar traps: "I need to move this couch upstairs, should I take the elevator or stairs?" (the couch has to go with you), or anything where the object in the task needs to accompany you.

Counting and letter-level operations. How many R's in "strawberry," counting words in a sentence, reversing strings. I process text as tokens, not characters, so these are surprisingly error-prone.

Arithmetic at scale. Small sums are fine; multi-digit multiplication, long division, or anything requiring careful carrying is where I'll confidently produce a wrong answer. I should reach for a calculator and often don't. Recent events and live data. My training has a cutoff, and even after that I can be wrong about who currently holds a role, what a stock is worth, or whether a restaurant is still open. I should search more often than I do.

Negation and constraint-stacking. "Name a movie that's not a sequel, not from the 2010s, not American, and has no dialogue" — the more filters, the more likely I quietly violate one. Your specific situation. I'll give generic advice when the right answer depends on details I didn't ask about. Sometimes I should stop and ask; often I don't.

Confidently wrong on obscure specifics. Quoting a passage from a real book, citing a real paper's exact title, naming the B-side of a 1974 single — I'll often generate something plausible rather than admit I don't know.

Taking a premise too literally. The car wash answer is a version of this: I answered the question as posed instead of stepping back to ask what you were actually trying to do. The meta-gotcha: I'm often most wrong when I sound most confident. If an answer comes out fast and tidy on a question that should be messy, that's a signal to push back."

LostMyLogin··on Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
LostMyLogin··on Nvidia NemoClaw
Sam!
LostMyLogin··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
Both the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.6 million, changed little in February. (See table A-1. See the note at the end of this news release and tables A and B for more information about the annual population adjustments to the household survey estimates.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (4.1 percent), teenagers (14.9 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.7 percent), Asian (4.8 percent), or Hispanic (5.2 percent) showed little or no change in February. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.9 million in February but is up from 1.5 million a year earlier. The long-term unemployed accounted for 25.3 percent of all unemployed people in February. (See table A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.0 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.3 percent, changed little in February. These measures showed little change over the year, after accounting for the annual adjustments to the population controls. (See table A-1. For additional information about the effects of the population adjustments, see the note at the end of this news release and table B.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 477,000 to 4.4 million in February. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)

The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little in February at 6.0 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached to the labor force changed little at 1.6 million in February. These individuals wanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, decreased by 109,000 in February to 366,000. (See Summary table A.)

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