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That can be done in any cab. Heck a driver would have a much easier time covertly recording you.

I mean, yeah? Would you have put someone in the car?

smegma2on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

Seems like an ok solution, but what about doing something like the opposite? Write out the scaffolding and general shape of the code (classes, interfaces, function signatures), and have the LLM fill it in. That seems more important for understanding.

smegma2on Deflock Casa Grande

I do actually

smegma2on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

> let them get used to using it every day for 18 months, then pressure the EU to let it continue or you rip the feature away and anger users (who you then point to the EU as the problem)

And you’re saying that consumers would be incorrect in thinking that?

smegma2on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

What ecosystem is it endangering? Is using the land a problem? Utah has 10.5 million acres of farmland that I would think has some impact on the ecosystem too, should we stop doing that too?

smegma2on Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Why not find out and let us know? You’re implying an answer without knowing what it is

smegma2on 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images

The article doesn’t say when this collection happens but there is some part of the game the involves photographing specific landmarks which does involve pressing a shutter. I’m guessing that’s where this comes from but would be great to hear from a better source.

smegma2on Palantir defends its role in the kill chain

Not trying to be contrarian here, but I don’t get the problem. What’s wrong with Palantir producing weapons or military intelligence? How is it different from making guns?

Is the problem what those things are used for, or is it the way Palantir does it?

smegma2on US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]

Is there a link to a primary source with more details? I skimmed the video and see some quotes but couldn’t find the policy that they come from

smegma2on Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position

I think comments on pretty much everything skew negative. There’s not much to say if you support the fine.

smegma2on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

Yes, but people who lie are also at fault

smegma2on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

No? He’s talking about rendered text

smegma2on Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79

A large majority of SF residents support upzoning: https://growsf.org/pulse/growsf-pulse-october-2024/#allowing...

smegma2on Tests suggest clues of whose content was used to train OpenAI’s Sora

I’m normally skeptical of claims like this, but looking at the examples it seems that Sora is reproducing some of its training data verbatim. I guess it’s a case of overfitting? In particular the Civ example seems like it must have been copied almost verbatim.

smegma2on Find SF parking cops

I agree with the sentiment but I want to point out that a car is not essential for most people living in SF, although many people outside the city think this. Around 35% of households don’t have a car: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

smegma2on Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates

Why the scare quotes? What else is supposed to be done when every other remedy is either illegal or too expensive!

smegma2on Find SF parking cops

It exists: https://www.sfmta.com/media/9654/download?inline

smegma2on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

Honestly I do wonder the same thing.

smegma2on When the job search becomes impossible

Everything you listed is liquid. CDs can be withdrawn early for a small penalty, and most likely without even losing any of your principal.

smegma2on When the job search becomes impossible

Sure, I couldn’t find a better data source than that. If you find a better source that includes liquid assets specifically that would be helpful. I am skeptical that of the 39k in assets listed there, there isn’t a substantial amount that can be used to pay the bills (i.e. who has $39k in their 401k but $0 anywhere else?).

smegma2on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

Yes, in 2020 Grindr was forced to sell for similar reasons.

smegma2on When the job search becomes impossible

The median American also owns $39,000 in liquid financial assets.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf (page 22, “Financial Assets” section)

smegma2on When the job search becomes impossible

The median household net worth in the US is $193,000. The rate of home ownership is 65%. I don’t think the median American is at risk of becoming homeless during normal unemployment. Maybe you mean that the article isn’t as relevant for a global audience which is fine, but I would think that the median American lives in “the real world”.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/table...

https://www.nahb.org/blog/2024/08/lowest-homeownership-rate-...

smegma2on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

There is no greedy solution to the problem. A greedy algorithm would start by taking 3 10-cent coins to make 37 which is wrong.

smegma2on EV automakers see billions in revenue disappear as US ends emission credits

True, I would be interested to hear to what extent EV subsidies sway people who are already planning to buy a car vs people who would otherwise not buy a car. The former category is almost definitely larger but to what extent?

smegma2on EV automakers see billions in revenue disappear as US ends emission credits

It looks like the OBBB ended the CAFE standards which have been blamed for the increase in car sizes over time (e.g. https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...). Also personally although I would prefer that people purchase EVs rather than ICE cars, I think it’s best not to subsidize cars at all, since it only benefits those who can afford cars, and it’s better to encourage other forms of transit.

smegma2on Yes in My Bamako Yard

Fair enough

smegma2on Yes in My Bamako Yard

I mean, I feel like there’s plenty of useful information in the article despite that. Africa is a large continent sure, but there are also useful things to say about the state of housing and urban development in ‘the West’ and most of the world. I don’t think those topics are too broad either.