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malcolmgreaves··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
The biggest improvement to readability is to capitalize the beginning of sentences. There’s no need for a toggle. Don’t default to making your writing unreadable, please.
malcolmgreaves··on Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
> “I think Minnesota is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in response to a reporter’s question about Iran’s possible involvement,

What a coward and a traitor to the American people.

malcolmgreaves··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
A refactor and then a feature implemented on that refactor is tightly coupled by definition. It would not make sense to implement the feature and refactor independently, because you’d be wasting time implementing a feature that you would have to refactor again.
malcolmgreaves··on Sam Altman says people don't want an AI to act as CEO
The robotic CEOs think we would notice if they were replaced by machines?
malcolmgreaves··on DConf 2026 in London
But with that design, you’re quite limited in what you can usefully do once you catch that exception.
malcolmgreaves··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
“A retreat may feel more relaxed than the office, but it is still a workplace, and the power dynamics don’t disappear,”

Ah, so sad :( Another story of a person who believed other people in the workplace too much.

These kinds of exercises are unfortunately a waste of time. If you’re honest, you’re walking into a minefield. But if you’re not being open, then no one is really getting to know anyone else in any meaningful way. In the end, a bunch of money and time is spent with zero value gained.

And given that this was about someone sharing their experience with a medical procedure to help them process the death of a parent, the company will probably lose the lawsuit, wasting even more money.

What a tragic waste of resources. Also, my heart goes out to this person. Loosing a parent is terrible.

malcolmgreaves··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I’m quite unfamiliar with this notion. What law says it’s illegal to lie when you’re not under oath during a court proceeding?
malcolmgreaves··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
You’re not making valuable conversation.
malcolmgreaves··on Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms
From the webpage:

> Image classification without the server seeing the image.

The value is in being able to get the prediction from the model without ever giving unencrypted data to somebody you don’t trust.

You could have an LLM generate code for you without ever giving the operator your proprietary source code.

malcolmgreaves··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
What do you think happens in war? Clean fighting from side to side?

You really think the massive amounts of death and destruction aren’t top ten? What do you think happens to the local population when an invading force arrives? You should go and read about the rape of Nanking. And just read about what happened in wars before the modern era.

malcolmgreaves··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
Iran is not David in this case. They’ve shown that their drone warfare is just a little bit under what the US military can provide. Remember that they destroyed a quarter of a trillion dollars radar installation. And the US has spent billions on munitions. The US can’t actually keep going in this war.
malcolmgreaves··on Married couple killed in first known fatal Tesla Semi crash
This story is so unbelievably sad!

> That leaves the question of automatic emergency braking: why didn’t the truck slow or stop itself before hitting stationary vehicles at a lit intersection? AEB is designed for exactly this scenario — it detects vehicles or obstacles in the truck’s path and applies the brakes when a collision is imminent, regardless of driver input. Most modern Class 8 trucks are already equipped with collision-mitigation systems from suppliers like Bendix and Detroit Assurance

So Tesla made a decision to make their semi less safe than the average for the vehicle class.

They could have had basic safety equipment, but they wanted to save a buck. Now two people are dead and another is almost dead. This is gross negligence on the Tesla semi truck’s engineering team and the executive leadership.

malcolmgreaves··on How to Earn a Billion Dollars
Even in his hypothetical, the founder is still not even earning a billion dollars. The actual people working to earn that collective billion are the employees.

> that you don't have to cheat to become a billionaire

I think he’s feeling some sort of way about this. He’s probably coming to terms with the fact that you do have to cheat to become a billionaire. Uber et al. showed you can just keep breaking the law and bribing officials to get to a billion quick. He and his buddies are currently having fun bribing Republican Party officials to make billions.

malcolmgreaves··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
J6 was organized as a violent insurrection from the beginning.
malcolmgreaves··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Trump helped organize and encourage the January 6th insurrection. He was president during the insurrection. So yes, there was a lot of federal Republican help during that one.
malcolmgreaves··on Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
Not at all.
malcolmgreaves··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
Ok, so you don’t understand that ALPR is two commodity technologies: object detection and OCR.
malcolmgreaves··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
The same kind of thinking was used on encryption algorithms in the 90s.
malcolmgreaves··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
The entire Republican party in all branches of government is supporting Trump. His politics and the Republican party politics are one and the same. The last election the party did not have a platform because, quite literally, they said that whatever Trump says _is_ their platform.
malcolmgreaves··on Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
> I dont think they have any obligation to save anyone else's life.

That’s the problem with republicans. They reject basic tenets of a society.

You do have a responsibility to do the absolute minimum to not harm other people.

malcolmgreaves··on Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
Michael Scott: I am a victim of a hate crime. Stanley knows what I'm talking about.

Stanley: That's not what a hate crime is.

Michael Scott: Well, I hated it, a lot, okay.

malcolmgreaves··on Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
Does a tree have a direct blood connection to a person? Does a tree die if that connection is severed?
malcolmgreaves··on White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled
It’s a purely political app, not an official US government.

So yes, it’s weird and illegal for the republicans to force all government employees to have a propaganda app on their work phones.

malcolmgreaves··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
Ok boomer.
malcolmgreaves··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
It’s not ageism. Don’t be so sensitive.
malcolmgreaves··on Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot
This is an idiotic take.

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars. At this scale, it’s the same comparison between a billion dollars and a homeless person.

malcolmgreaves··on Police remove biabetes researcher, other experts from medical conference
It’s a scientific protest.
malcolmgreaves··on Police remove biabetes researcher, other experts from medical conference
That’s not what free speech is.

The actual free speech violation is the federal government withholding research funding based upon what the organizations and people receiving the funding say publicly. This person was pointing out what the Republicans are doing right now.

but unfortunately, due to deficiencies and how the American legal system works, this person can’t actually sue the government for mass violation of constitutional rights. Despite all of us being harmed by what the Republicans are doing, we wouldn’t actually be able to show “standing” to have our suit be heard.

Of course, we run up into the larger, structural problem in American law: we’d have to be obscenely rich to even be able to sue. In such a Court) case could take years before any action could even start.

malcolmgreaves··on Police remove biabetes researcher, other experts from medical conference
This kind of behavior from the government is exactly what free speech is all about. It’s blatantly illegal for the government to censor people’s speech. This isn’t a story about a person trespassing and the local government reacting — that would be like looking at a program and declaring the final operation in a sequence the only thing the program does.
malcolmgreaves··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
What do you think the term woke actually means?
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