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ipaddr··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
It should be -1, -.1, 1 because I don't know is slightly negative.
ipaddr··on US court rules Ohio can restrict children's use of social media
Forced age verification for anyone in Ohio using social media and soon nationwide then worldwide.
ipaddr··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
In a court of law sometimes. In the real world some facts have verifiable proof but the majority have little if anything that can be shared publicly or exists.
ipaddr··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
It does less than before and it blocks more things and has more spam. Now you have to pay for map embedding on a website. Let's go back 20 years
ipaddr··on No, everyone is not using AI for everything
The skilled interviewer is rare. But if truly skilled they understand why people hedge and would not consider that dishonesty but a skillset the company might need. A semi-skilled interview might pick up on that and assume the worst.

Very few jobs are looking for opinioned most are looking at people who might fit in unless you are hiring to distory from without.

ipaddr··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
Did they look Ukrainian or Syrian? Germany let in millions of people over the last few years and never built enough housing.
ipaddr··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
This doesn't make sense in practice. He hedged so not sure need to look at other factors vs he picked a side and he selected the opposite of what we wanted no-hire or he answered what we wanted small positive signal need to look at other factors.
ipaddr··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
This isn't a value item for most people. Employer doesn't want ai used great handcoding or employer wants ai used great prompt coding.

My truth is I don't care either way . I get the sense that's the same for parent poster. They just want a job and to say the right thing to get past the hiring filter. Even if I did have a truth its not something I would put above being remote, pay and how a company develops software. I'd rather not have a truth and not have a daily standup.

ipaddr··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Didn't happen last year when Kamila was selected by the leaders.

But in normal years candidates are successful because of the amount of money they can raise. The more they can raise the more brainwashing ads they can buy. The non so secret cabal is the donor class.

Anyone can run? You must meet requirements on age and how long you have lived in the US. You must pay fees and provide signatures for each state. If doing it through a party you have to meet their rules.

Cost to get on most states ballots at a basic level is a million. You could do it for free if you dont want to appear on any ballots.

ipaddr··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
Not snitches but paid government workers trying to get you to commit crimes and then you get arrested.
ipaddr··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
What's to wonder. Those third party apps are not part of the core OS and others apps can't access them.
ipaddr··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
They own the venues. And the artists are to blame because without them ticketmaster would have no product. Pearl Jam took a huge career hit trying to fight them.
ipaddr··on Siri AI
You can downloads millions of things for your computer without kyc protocols. Why are phones in a special class? Your data is being slurped by the people who sold you the phone and you are worried about the small fish.
ipaddr··on DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
I've been hearing that Anthropic want all major AI providers to stop developing front tier models for a year for safety reasons. The real reason is they need time to get there models cheaper because of the DeepSeek threat or local llms or other even cheaper providers.
ipaddr··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Great and I heard they offer haircuts at a discount. But they still block 25% of internet traffic
ipaddr··on Do We Need Billionaires?
Billionaire's always influenced policy. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford and Morgan were much more powerful than Egon, Bezos or Gates.

In Ancient Greece you had a larger gap between rich and power. Landowners vs farmer. In the early 6th century BC, inequality was so extreme that poor farmers regularly sold themselves or their families into slavery just to pay off debts and survive.

If we only learned more about history we might be more thankful for where we really are.

ipaddr··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare ensures decentralization

How by taking out 25% of the internet when they go down?

ipaddr··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Or users being able to access the forum. Why not just host it on localhost and call it a day.
ipaddr··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Vercel is killing free public repos in a month. Lure then lock in and pull the rug out.
ipaddr··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
Oracle and some company wide Microsoft licenses.
ipaddr··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Why did you breakup after everything?
ipaddr··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
Interesting to see people have such strong faith in Google's ability to filter. My experience is email from addresses marked safe ends up in the spam category. Wish you luck.
ipaddr··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Why not raise it then?
ipaddr··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
When I was growing up Adam would get his hands on a gun and taken out his last school.

Canada has moved to state assisted suicides that allows people who aren't terminal to get the state to pay for it.

Progress indeed.

ipaddr··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
I remember losing subdomain search: search.batcave.net 20+ years ago when they suddenly took it over. Batcave offered free hosting and a subdomain at the time.
ipaddr··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
Sounds great until you have an aging parent with a problem who can't get there. Get a power of attorney you say.. great but they won't accept unless parent comes to the branch.

This comes back to haunt you in the future.

ipaddr··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
I've never paid Google for anything. I usually get a check from them. What does Google sell? Office clone, ads, map api credits, search api credits, ad free youtube, ai credits sometimes phones and speakers that get bricked?
ipaddr··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
If the grocery store is selling your data (and they are) and meta has a connecting card number ads could be targeted.
ipaddr··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Blocking Singapore reduces the AI load 90%.
ipaddr··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
But the research becomes how much coffee can someone drink before it's unhealthy type studies.

The study you mention can be founded with pen and paper. No expensive trials or heavy equipment or team needed.

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