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bot403··on EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
Now imagine you have double the charging power yet have to drive less due to Europe's more compact nature
bot403··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
To support you further, why would neovim users have any illusion there would be cross compatibility between undo files? Separate undo files seems the obvious and expected choice.
bot403··on The Mars Delusion
Something nags at me the ideal mars astronaut would be more late 20s and 30s rather than 60/70.
bot403··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
Any reason in particular this time?
bot403··on Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
I'm not sure why you say this. It's well known food is often very staged, and inedible substitutes often used in advertisements.

Do you want an advertising picture of a puddle of melted ice cream under hot studio lights?

And why would it be illegal for food?

bot403··on Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
Also telcos.
bot403··on Show HN: AI Facial Attractiveness Model Aligned with Human Preferences
Hot or Not for the AI era eh?

Or is this the beginning of the AI Facebook?

bot403··on Custom home server built from spare parts
Hmmm. Only fans Linux service running?
bot403··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
I'll write the dissenting opinion that the models still aren't very good at planning rather it's the agentic harness and prompts thereof that are giving us better planning ability on long and larger tasks.
bot403··on Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it
No, sorry. Promising to permanently delete data without doing it is the madness and should be illegal if it's not already. Hide the permeantly delete for privacy just a bit further and offer a soft delete to the user then for the normal case.
bot403··on Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
I'm not a fan of expanding surveillance but the alternative of unmonitored transit seems worse.

Going to shoot up a place? Take your guns on a waymo. It won't complain. Guy wants to take an obviously distressed and co-erced girl to an abandoned lot? No complaints. Person with obvious head injury and slurring speech wants to go home instead of the hospital? Sure. Person has heart attack and passes out in back? We'll just drive your limp body 45 minutes in traffic to your destination.

These are just a few situations any human driver would obviously react to. And a modicum of detection and human review could solve in an autonomous vehicle.

bot403··on How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread
Goodness thanks for taking a terrible article and getting to the point.
bot403··on OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out
That's the pickle isn't it? AI solved it with human help. But it's standing on their shoulders. Neither AI nor the humans got it alone.

Humanity is better having solved this issue. But which humans were credited and benefited is the issue.

bot403··on OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out
The world is pretty pissed at the u.s. and seeking sovereign models and ai. Richest or not if the companies are wise they will try a bit not to piss off the entire rest of the world. At this point many countries are willing to cut off the u.s. even if they take a short or medium term hit.
bot403··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
This is a succinct summary of most the the profession of software engineering. Just replace AI with "programmers".
bot403··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Anyone remember the gpt-3 era where adding "this is important to my job" and "if this is wrong someone dies" to prompts made a measurable improvement in accuracy and reduced hallucinations?
bot403··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
The answer is genuinely yours
bot403··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
Crispr gene editing is an amazing and terrifying technology. We have the capability to edit people in permenant ways which could be passed to all future generations with unknown side effects and consequences.

I believe now we only have a shaky agreement by researchers and countries to "promise" not to do this due to the unforeseen dangers to humanity.

bot403··on Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]
The hardcore ai folks still assemble their instructions in prompts for best speed and control of the underlying model.
bot403··on Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
I don't consider meta too big to fail. If they go out of business the world can move on with minor disruption and inconvenience.
bot403··on The browser's main thread is expensive
I would think, or hope, a UI library like that could benefit from webpack and tree shaking such that only the needed components end up in the final bundle.
bot403··on The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great
The decision to copy-edit ai output is genuinely yours.
bot403··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
Just encrypt your CSV after export with the tool of your choice.
bot403··on Norway Shrugged (2024)
That round G company with negative cashflow is probably employing people, buying goods and services, etc all within Norway. To say it's not generating economic value is disingenuous at best.
bot403··on Anthropic candidates face blunt money question
The decision to hire me is load-bearing and genuinely yours.
bot403··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
I run local models. Your op is absolutely wrong. To get a local LLM is at least a $1500 investment at the cheapest. $5000 if you want usable.

At $1500 that's 75 months of $20/mo Claude which are MUCH better models than you can run locally.

bot403··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
The decision to leave is genuinely yours.
bot403··on Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
It's interesting but It was hard to tell from a quick read if this was a fun game with LLMs or a productivity tool. You could stand to make that more clear.
bot403··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Sure buddy. And the uncertainty principle means you can't prove I was at the scene of the crime.

The fact phones don't usually wipe themselves will be plenty good for a judge.

Btw: Regardless of the above I support this guy's right to protect his private data from baseless and unreasonable searches. He should not be charged with a crime.

bot403··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
And what if he was erasing a steamy affair with a border patrol agent? That's not illegal, but releasing knowledge of it could be damaging to all parties for no reason.
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