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clueless··on We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start
exactly, based on this:

  There is a political benefit for Trump and fellow Republicans. The accounts will become available in the midst of a midterm election, providing money to millions of voters — and a campaign talking point to GOP candidates — at a critical time politically. The $1,000 deposits are slated to end just after the 2028 presidential election.
They are obviously trying to buy the vote, so they can keep benefiting from the various tax breaks this admin is giving the wealthy...
clueless··on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
> Not sure the full motivation behind this

This feature was one of the main reasons how Netflix movies/shows could be captured/uploaded to piracy sites in full quality as soon as they were released. People recorded the video output and uploaded them. This is to remove that path. Kinda obvious if you ask.

clueless··on How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
Title should be updated to include "unused android phone"
clueless··on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
Same, really don't understand what all the hoopla is about. AI integration in Firefox is inevitable, as is with all other browsers.
clueless··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
With a avg latency of 4 seconds, this still couldn't be used in real-time video, correct?

[Update: should have mentioned I got the 4 second from the roboflow.com links in this thread]

clueless··on Show HN: Chirp – Local Windows dictation with ParakeetV3 no executable required
Mind sharing your local setup for Mac?
clueless··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
World class open source browser, A+ ad blocker, better tab-style tree extension, more free/open extension store, no corporate overload, on and on....

Who the f needs/uses WebUSB? :D

clueless··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
how is 52 users representative??
clueless··on Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence
where is the monthly book suggestion?
clueless··on Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
Is there a beets LLM version as well, where I can RAG-style search through my music collection?
clueless··on James Watson has died
arguably I'd say wars can be generally indicative of intelligence. Higher-ability groups are more likely to choose war when their greater power raises the expected payoff of fighting. Climate change is also related to intelligence as it can argued that the more advance societies do end up consuming/producing more and thus create more Climate related waste. The end result of it might not be desirable, but probably something these advance societies can deal with.

I'm not sure I understand your point around late-stage capitalism and the devaluation of the common...

Are you really arguing that the western world has not been more advanced?

clueless··on James Watson has died
In a clean game-theoretic terms, without making any moral or ideological claims about “who is smarter”, we’ll treat underlying advantage as any positional asset (intelligence, wealth, charisma, skill, social capital, etc.). The question is: If a subset of players has an advantage in a repeated, large-group game, how do they best play to maximize payoff and stability?

Here's the strategy chatgpt came up with (amongst many other):

What Not to Say (Avoid These)

Don’t describe intelligence or talent as intrinsic, innate, or permanent. This triggers resentment and identity defense.

Don’t use language that signals “I am ahead of you.”

Don’t use your advantage to win every interaction—save leverage for important conflicts.

People tolerate talent. They hate being made aware of being lower in the hierarchy.

_____

Is it possible the backlash to Watson could be viewed from this game theocratic perspective, and not that he was racist and wrong?

clueless··on AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
This article feels lazy. Is the main argument in similar vain as "don't read the books that experts have written, and go figure stuff out on your own"? I'm trying to understand what is wrong with using a new data compression tool (LLMs) that we have built to understand the world around us. Even books are not always correct and we've figured out ways to live with that/correct that. It doesn't mean we should "Stop wasting time learning the craft"..
clueless··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Is there a dump of all archive.is sites (similar to libgen dumps) in case it goes down, so it could be set back up again?
clueless··on A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification
what does it really have to do with?
clueless··on Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future
any you would recommend that would compete with a fire-stick 4k Max level of hardware? and is open software, but that would also allow the installation of other media apps, like netflix, HBO max, etc?
clueless··on Acronymy (Can we define every word as an acronym?)
this is pretty cool, here's another question, how much language compression would we get if we collapse all related words to a single synonymous word? Here's what chatgps came up with:

Assume an English-like active vocabulary V = 50,000 word types (a rough stand-in for “distinct words” seen commonly). We could get a realistic guess of: ~30% reduction for a less modest, more aggressive embedding-style collapse in typical English text. I.e. Collapse words with similar meaning directions in vector space... happy, glad, pleased, delighted → happy

clueless··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
looks very similar to https://particle.news how would you distinguish your approach (other than the tech focus)?
clueless··on Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
The Cray-1 supercomputer icon looks like the outline of burning man's black rock city. Wonder if there was any inspiration from Cray-1 supercomputer's design.
clueless··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
How easy would it be to integrate this with immich (instead of needing the access to google photo)?
clueless··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
in terms of a good self hosted email client, in this day and age, I'm looking for great AI integration. I.e. are there good open source projects that come packaged with a locally hosted LLM integration?
clueless··on Blog Feeds
if you think this will work, you haven't fully understood why the likes of twitter has become successful, i.e. centrally controlled collaborative filtering, amongst others aspect
clueless··on LLMs are the ultimate demoware
What evidence did we have that LLMs would be such transformative techs before they were suddenly introduced, and have such surprising behaviors? Not sure we need to always be looking for evidence for potentially surprising and disruptive tech
clueless··on LLMs are the ultimate demoware
"then fails to consistently help in completing tasks when deployed for daily use."

This article seems to be baitware trying to push some outdated perspective. LLMs have only gotten more powerful over the last 3 years (being able to do more things), and so far not much has stopped them from becoming even more powerful (with the help of reasoning, other external methods, etc) in the future.

"daily use" is so subjective and this article will be out dated soon as we get closer to an AGI (with LLMs as the base layer and not the main driver)

clueless··on Kagi News
Looks like a decentralize and locally hosted version of https://particle.news
clueless··on Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments
Amazing amazing project, thank you for sharing this
clueless··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
would love to see the prompt they used and the final code of the Claude.ai clone it generated
clueless··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
ublock origin
clueless··on Qwen3-VL
This demo is crazy: "At what time was the goal scored in this match, who scored it, and how was it scored?"
clueless··on OpenDataLoader-PDF: An open source tool for structured PDF parsing
sorry I should have been more clear, I meant around open source llms. and I guess the question is, how are closed source llm doing it so well. And if OS OpenNote is the best we have...
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