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ShinyLeftPad··on Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"
Do you think a malicious repo author won't think of prompt engineering Claude?
ShinyLeftPad··on Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"
Have a problem with pesky permissions dialogs from sandboxed apps? This unsandboxed unverified app that requests Accessibility permissions, to the rescue!
ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
> Who’s to say the consumers are humans?

economics is a social science. it studies humans. and yes "consumer" is by definition a person (or collective of people), with free will, feelings, needs, ideas and so on.

unless you are willing to say that models have gained those things and are now equivalent to us? then that is even more of a fantasy, because we should stop hurting them asap instead of talking about economy.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
What idea is a trap? That population will live at behest of overlords who control technology and give people the minimum necessary? Such an appealing trap huh
ShinyLeftPad··on After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home
I haven't heard of it until this fall.
ShinyLeftPad··on After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home
That's what I thought but then the article says it's supposed to be "with unbroken footsteps". I thought that literally was impossible in modern society and i guess it is
ShinyLeftPad··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Interesting, I heard PRC doesn't allow this anymore but apparently the law is only partially in effect so maybe they get away with it (https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/china-proposes-expan...)
ShinyLeftPad··on After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home
It's a bit mysterious how did he get from Russia to Mexico in 2006? The official website linked says just "displaced".
ShinyLeftPad··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Are they? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LICENSE...
ShinyLeftPad··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
and if this trend will continue the good ones increasingly aren't going to be working either. hopefully they realize they are getting themselves there by cooperating
ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
no we're back to UBI. First maybe UHI as Musk called it, later UBI. It's cheaper because people won't bite the hand that feeds you. If there's no hand, people won't fight each other for resources, they'll fight the rich.
ShinyLeftPad··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
> (and of course Kimi, Qwen, etc)

Latest versions of Kimi, Qwen, GLM aren't open, you need to pay them for commercial stuff and comply with PRC laws

ShinyLeftPad··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Yep and it's the same for Meta's "open" models which you omitted from the list.

Is there actually a competitive proper actually open model?

ShinyLeftPad··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Yeah to be fair you could've got me with "what about meds?", there is a blurred line when it comes to getting healthier from eating something...
ShinyLeftPad··on Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
That's downplaying the importance of human capabilities.
ShinyLeftPad··on We Won't "Just Hang Out"
I think these stats are true for most western developed countries

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-loneliness-epidemic-among...

Telling people to touch grass doesn't magically invert trends.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
> The big American capitalists will recreate communism?

They will do the minimum necessary to keep people from revolting. The minimum will be less and less as time goes by and surveillance/elimination get better/cheaper.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
I think they like socializing decreasingly less

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-ho...

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
The stranger will tell you just ask a model.
ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
> He wasn't asking knowledgable friends for advice, he was asking questions to strangers about linux on IRC.

A stranger is a friend you haven't made yet. Asking strangers is one good way to make friends.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
Anything to keep shareholder value going up!
ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
> If work goes away, society breaks down

The other premise was UBI. It's the article. how much better discussions would be if people read it?

> non-transactional reasons. Not just to get answers

0) i don't know about you but I like asking people about things because I just like hanging out with people, up to a point. how long this will remain true for humanity as a whole is the question, we can't know

1) if you listen to evolutionary biologists then everything we do is transactional for reproductive purposes, it depends on how deep you dig;)

ShinyLeftPad··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
How difficult would it be to not ingest a bird in the path of an airplane at cruising altitude?
ShinyLeftPad··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Don't mistake debunking Cloudflare graph for debunking that russian troll bots were affected, because they were: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-se...
ShinyLeftPad··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
Or just write some actual viruses and fully eliminate the root cause of networks being airgapped.
ShinyLeftPad··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
> You do if you’re malnourished. ;)

In that case you will end up healthier after a Mcdonalds, too.

You said

> Can’t be any worse than the contents of the food they’re ordering

I think addition of some E coli or whatnot from screen prints makes a McD meal much worse but sure YMMV.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
You are very selective. It writes "ways of how people build relationships disappear".

It says: work goes away (no colleagues), studying goes away (no classmates), showing off to potential mates by doing cool stuff goes away (because why bother, anything you make people can just say "it was AI/robots" and they can prompt it), asking knowledgeable friends how to do X goes away because you just ask LLMs. All things true regardless of whether you're online

And you just trigger on that IRC word like only neckbeards in server dungenons ever used it.

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
> Cooking, engaging with family, enjoying nature

If I had a penny for every advert that depicted it. And that's long time before LLMs arrive;)

You can basically ignore it as noise

ShinyLeftPad··on We won't "just hang out"
I read the article and I don't have the same impression
ShinyLeftPad··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
You don't magically become healthier from eating something, that's just not how it works.
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