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chb··on Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Since when is HN a mirror of status pages? This post and another regarding ChatGPT (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614) are non-news.
chb··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
This. A thousand times this. It's as if Opus can only communicate in a glib, software engineering vernacular that presumes domain-specific knowledge and uses jargon accordingly.
chb··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
It seems cute_boi has it right: the 4th doesn’t apply to border crossings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Arnold

chb··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
The "Hardware" link indicates that the BoM specifies a "24-pin SPI e-paper for GoodDisplay panels (3.97″, 4.26″, 7.5″ and up)." A search turns up this: https://www.good-display.com/product/516.html
chb··on The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB
It seems to be a typo, unless the criteria for the award have changed: https://www.arrl.org/was
chb··on Proof of Care in the Age of A.I
Am I the only one who thinks the ending is a non-sequitur? How is the hackneyed, "the kids are allright" [sic] related to the preceding content?
chb··on Proof of care in the age of AI
>Click here to see the "how this was made" feature

^ at the bottom of the article

chb··on Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
This. And the "individual with technical savvy saving his child-like clients" scenario described earlier in this thread is delusional and Dilbertian.
chb··on A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
Reminiscent of Steve Friedl's excellent work: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html
chb··on Usborne 1980s Computer Books
What “modern platform” would you suggest?
chb··on Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
First I saw that it's written in Perl. Then I realized that the last release was 11 years ago and that the repository domains are hardcoded in the one-file script.
chb··on How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports
So was Trump being inclusive or exclusive when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?
chb··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
Is it possible that the supply of used GPUs available to home builders will somehow increase as the result of this?
chb··on I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
How does dot.bs make money? The about page and FAQ don’t explain what they’re monetizing.
chb··on Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be
A gross mischaracterization of the author's point (the word "type" doesn't even appear in the article). The author focuses on the cost of interpreted languages, which he describes as "memory hungry" and computationally expensive.
chb··on Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)
There are many young, economically disenfranchised Americans that see the military as a way out of poverty. The military understands this and positions recruitment centers in poorer neighborhoods.
chb··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
I'm in the same position and understand your complaints about the lack of uniformity across applications in Linux DEs. But I use the Linux desktop as a daily driver because I absolutely despise the lack of customization in macOS, especially as it relates to "virtual workspaces" or "virtual desktops." In Linux, I can have multiple different desktops, each named intuitively, and each with its own set of applications. In macOS, I can't even _name_ the virtual desktops. What's more absurd is the "logic" around when an application has focus when it's minimized, and how its window behaves when you Cmd-Tab to it. Utterly exasperating that Apple, a company who has long prided itself on HCI, falls so far short of the mark in intuitive interface behavior.
chb··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
Did you buy this from system76, or did you just install Pop!_OS on hardware you already owned?
chb··on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
Ha! I've been using tmux for years and I didn't realize one could do this.
chb··on I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Yeah, he'd spit it out because it tastes like corn-fed, feed-lot crap.
chb··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
"No one gets fired for buying IBM!"
chb··on Google is killing the open web, part 2
Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH.

Edit: then account for the fact that this rare breed of content uploader doesn't use an FTP client... there's absolutely no reason to have FTP client code in a browser. It's an attack surface that is utterly unnecessary.

chb··on Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs
Would love to see Spaceward Ho! (Delta Tao Software, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho!) in this list.
chb··on Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Of possible interest: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html
chb··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
An astute and accurate observation. However, there is no numeric target set in the mandate you allude to: "The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. In 1977, Congress amended the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to provide greater clarity about the goals of monetary policy. The amended FRA directs the Board of Governors and the FOMC to conduct monetary policy “so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.” [https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/files/the-fed-exp...]
chb··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
This. People should either be banned from filming at the private site, or be required to agree to some form of consent seeking.
chb··on Cinco 2.5
The "Cinco Midi Organizer" is a work steeped in creative genius; it is the ultimate comedic paean to late eighties techno-culture. Thank you for honoring Cinco.
chb··on Why are smokestacks so tall?
That’s not a bonus.
chb··on New Software Developer Generation Is Cooked. OpenAI Keys Exposed
Utter clickbait. Taking this one mistake as an indication that a "generation" is writing bad code. One more reason to not have an X account.
chb··on The Danglepoise
Where did you find these fixtures, OP? I see something similar offered by Feit, but not quite as elegant.
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