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almosthere··on Swiss to vote in referendum on proposal to limit population to 10M
I've heard about these small european countries dealing with 10%+ of their population changes happening within a period of a few years, that must have a mind numbing and really crazy affect on the people that lived there their entire lives.
almosthere··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
She also did quite a few guest appearances in DS9 - she was in love with Odo. Both have sadly passed.
almosthere··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
The original email RFC is also completely unaware of how bad spam is. Sure it might mention it but it's not really AWARE of the problem. The truth is, companies like Google, Microsoft and a few others have de-facto adjusted the minimum requirements for an email. Signing, anti-spam-agreements, etc.. are the true standard if you want an email to get from point a to b. (none of which are going to be REQUIRED in the RFC)
almosthere··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
Bad idea
almosthere··on Why vampires live forever
Most unless they dated a vampire slayer...
almosthere··on States Weigh Bills to Allow You to Make Your Own Electricity
?

This title and article make it sound like this is illegal. It is not illegal in any of the 50 states.

almosthere··on Ask HN: Do you bother with take-homes?
Stick to not doing take homes. Even with the work email address of a hiring manager, after spending a full day on a take-home, he didn't reply. I emailed twice and no reply.
almosthere··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
There are also Azure versions of Opus
almosthere··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
Remember there are no moats in this industry - if anything one company might have a 2 month lead, sometimes. We've also noticed that companies paying OpenAI may swiftly shift to paying Google or Anthropic in a heartbeat.

That means the pricing is going to be competitive. You may still get your wish though, but instead of the price of an engineer remaining the same, it will cut itself down by 95%.

almosthere··on YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
It also turns out that $1B is like... pennies to those people now
almosthere··on YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
Yeah don't worry you were in a crowd of 99% of people that thought the same thing.
almosthere··on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
11 and now 45. I am still interested in it, but I feel like in my 20s I would get a dopamine rush when a row showed up in a database. In my 30s I would get that only if a message passed through a system and updated on-screen analytics within 10 seconds. Thank god for LLMs because all of it became extremely boring, I can't stand having to get these little milestones each new company or each new product I'm working on. At least with LLMs the dopamine hit comes from being in awe of the code that gets generated and realizing it found every model, every messaging system interface, every API, and figuring out how to make it backwards compatible, updating the UI - something that would take half a day, now in 5 minutes or less.
almosthere··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Try to remind your neighbors that you can go outside and talk to people to share news of the hood
almosthere··on CA Sues Gatalog for distributing computer code for 3D printing firearms [pdf]
I think a design of a gun should not be treated as a gun. It's free speech. If CA gets their way, then it is a form of speech curtailment. How would this be different than someone explaining how to forge a gun and bullets?
almosthere··on The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is Claude?
Yep, all the other AI companies blocked the Terminator scripts from being trained on except Anthropic. (sorry just a joke because I'm paywalled)
almosthere··on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
I imagine government mismanagement.
almosthere··on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
I've noticed this lately - when someone dies by accident or somewhat on purpose, people are re-writing the story to say something like: "they put them on the curb, stomped their neck, a shot them in the back of the head with 4 ak-47s for 10 minutes. Something they planned for 6 years."
almosthere··on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
When is the stopping point to get it so that our phone system stops scammers. We should migrate off phones except for personal calls to each other (without a number - more of a 2-step authorization, you can call me, I can call you, negotiated via links over email...

The phone number is dead, and the only last need for it is scammers and companies that want to record you but you not record them.

almosthere··on Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines
So,... isn't it illegal to do that. If someone in the Philippines does not have a CA/AZ/Whatever driver's license - then Waymo is breaking the law. It's probably worse than that.

It also proves that Waymo's capabilities are overstated. I keep getting pushback when I complain about specific situations in this forum about how Waymo thinks about complex situations - and this entire time, it may have been humans navigating them.

almosthere··on Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
He was able to show all the evidence David had. The evidence had to be leaked out of the government of MN because it was silent whistleblowers that had been turned down after doing internal investigations. The government of MN may be complicit in all of this. It could be that they were trying to be anti-racist, which is why a lot of the fraud is specifically being performed by Somalians. But it can also be pay for vote fraud - where the leaders of the Somalian communities tell everyone who to vote for, and they are doing this because Walz (or some other people) are shielding the daycares from being shut down.

There is literally nothing wrong with stating this, we ought not be political about this. There may also be conservatives being elevated from Fraud as well, all of it should be routed.

At this point it definitely warrants deep investigations, not more articles trying to destroy a 23 year old that went viral.

almosthere··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
This is like the 6th trending claude story today. It must be obvious that they told everyone at Anthropic to upvote and comment.
almosthere··on Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
I've mentioned previously somewhere that the languages we choose to write in will matter less for many arguments. When it comes to insecure C vs Rust, LLMs will eventually level out the playing field.

I'm not arguing we all go back to C - but companies that have large codebases in it, the guys screaming "RUST REWRITE" can be quieted and instead of making that large investment, the C codebase may continue. Not saying this is a GOOD thing, but just a thing that may happen.

almosthere··on Ask HN: Have you started to use "->" when you type after working with LLMs?
I don't write code much anymore.
almosthere··on Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win
I don't think the BTC market is worth playing unless you are good at knowing how the whales (who control it in its entirety) operate.

Everyone already knows BTC will be back at 110 in a few months. It might dip to 30 first, who the hell knows.

almosthere··on Ask HN: Have you started to use "->" when you type after working with LLMs?
-> I don't think I used that in anything but C++ and I use LLMs a lot
almosthere··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Think about it differently - let's say a free OSS product can be installed and you can use ALL features except for LDAP (because that's the paywalled portion that requires you to buy it for $25k / month.)

Well, with claude, you can download the code, tell it to implement LDAP authentication, and smile all the way to the bank. And for said fortune 500 company, employing an employee to spend 100% of their time maintaining the app at 10k per month is a 15k savings! And because it _doesn't really take 100% of their time_ it's really only like $500 per month? And to be completely honest, how man times did you get Jira to fast-track your issue?

I get it however, the manager angle. It's still a distraction. But the article being referenced still shows revenue going down.

There's definitely a lot of cope in here, mostly because SaaS is keeping them employed... be ready, the crush is "almosthere".

almosthere··on AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed
The current trend seems to be that fewer and fewer people will be employed with larger and larger salaries.
almosthere··on I built a 30KB language model that's never been wrong
So if I made something that answers all questions with "maybe" it's always right too.
almosthere··on Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime
> as draconian

So its draconian, just not "as draconian".

almosthere··on Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime
It can if Trump topples the regime. This kind of regime doesn't just "walk away".
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