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dominicq··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
The point isn't to be a complete solution to social interaction, the point is to provide a significantly better than random sampling and pairing.

You can then still apply your usual filters afterwards, such as smell, looks, vibes.

dominicq··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
> In short, stable matches mean nothing when nobody is committed and the best options might exist outside of the matchmaking pool

This is wrong. Stable matches still mean something, and in fact probably mean quite a lot.

You are given a much better match than a random pairing. If you still aren't interested, you can decline. If you go on a date and it doesn't work out, you can decline.

Nothing forces you to use this process, it is just an offer of a significantly better than random matching to what you might prefer.

It doesn't even need to account for preferences not covered by the questionnaire.

dominicq··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
The Road hurt me spiritually
dominicq··on Doing Everyone Else's Job
Nice post, but I would appreciate examples. Anyone has good examples of this, and of the "not like this" section?
dominicq··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Do you align ants in your backyard, or do you simply demolish their home and build your shed?
dominicq··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
The same reason why taking a bicycle is preferable through a nice wooded area even though you could technically drive as well
dominicq··on De-Brainrot Vacations
Good post!

I spent my vacation reading From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew.

And I have a couple of university textbooks (Physics and Biology) lying about, waiting for me to keep working on them.

I concur with the general feeling of it being difficult to plan much ahead. I think that learning and reading is good, and has been good basically always (just because someone else knows something doesn't mean that you shouldn't learn it too, even if this someone else is an LLM).

Anyway, I enjoyed your post and mostly feel the same (and funnily I have similar interests).

dominicq··on Exit the Cave
You could also have lost because of your genetics or not actually working as hard as the others or both. This whole "wanting it hard enough" schtick feels like an invented reason. I want things, I don't get things, therefore I must have not really wanted them.
dominicq··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
Homework is no longer useful in the era of AI. Options are: treat kids like they are able to make responsible choices, and accept that much more of them will fail; or, keep the charade of grading AI-"assisted" homework and push kids farther along the track, even though they definitely don't know enough.

I much prefer the first.

School shouldn't be impossible, but you shouldn't have a charade of schooling.

Obviously, extra practice is a good idea.

dominicq··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
doubt
dominicq··on About Rx Kids
Rx? Is it like Rx by Paul Le Roux, famous drug kingpin?
dominicq··on How to Exist
Same lmao. Similarly, I don't want to be rude or assume things but I'm really annoyed with 20-something-year-olds giving out life advice. (I don't know if the author is in 20s)
dominicq··on The hardest way to make a GIF
"Acquire photons" was funny
dominicq··on Doing nothing at work
Lmao cringe, 23 years at NVIDIA is supposed to be, what, a credential?
dominicq··on Social Cache Busting
Using "cache" for this whole dynamic is annoying; not everything is a computer
dominicq··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Good post! Also, in my opinion, domain expertise is actually more interesting than pure coding ability. Coding, for me, has always been a means to an end. I'm equally happy with a spreadsheet if it solves my problem, and in fact I hate most apps.
dominicq··on Claude Opus 4.8
I have model fatigue
dominicq··on GTFOBins
:(

Sounds super 1337 and I hope it's actually possible somehow.

dominicq··on GTFOBins
The first thing. Invoked processes inherit the permissions of the user who invoked them (unless they have the setuid bit). It's just in case you land access to a computer which has all the standard Unix tools disabled to stop attackers from lateral movement.
dominicq··on GTFOBins
Huh? How does that work exactly? I've heard of /proc fuckery before but didn't know you could disable aslr with it.
dominicq··on GTFOBins
You need initial access. This is just a list of tools you can use if you can't spawn a standard interactive shell, for whatever reason.

It doesn't make it easier to "hack" servers, it's just a list of things that you could use once you're already inside.

dominicq··on Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
> Fundamental in the dependency cooldown plan is the hope that other people - those who weren't smart enough to configure a cooldown - serve as unpaid, inadvertent beta testers for newly released packages.

This is wrong to an extent.

This plan works by letting software supply chain companies find security issues in new releases. Many security companies have automated scanners for popular and less popular libraries, with manual triggers for those libraries which are not in the top N.

Their incentive is to be the first to publish a blog post about a cool new attack that they discovered and that their solution can prevent.

dominicq··on Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
This would just speed up the discovery -> patch cycle, at least until such time that all the low hanging fruit (=represented in training data) is patched.

Though another possibility would be that since LLMs generate so much code, the LLM vulnerability discovery would just keep chugging along and we'd simply settle for the same amount of potential vulns, same relative vulnerability-exploit-patch dynamics, though higher in absolute numbers.

dominicq··on EFF is leaving X
I agree with you. It's clear that they're leaving X because "X bad", but they don't want to say it that way. I don't know if X is or isn't bad, but it seems pretty mainstream and a good representation of a lot of society, both US and international, so for an org that apparently cares for the online rights of people, it feels silly to leave a platform where there are - people. (and this is coming from someone who doesn't use X or social media in general)
dominicq··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
I can't get it to save emails that I've corresponded with on the Android app. I always have to find specific emails in the email history, and then "Compose message to". If I try to start a new email and start typing the name, or email address, there's no dropdown, no suggestion. Have you ever had this issue on Android?
dominicq··on Everything I hate about the Mac
didn't work but thanks for googling that for me
dominicq··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?
dominicq··on Cache Monet
Mmmm, funny shapes go brr
dominicq··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal? I have friends and I don't use Discord or understand why I would want to use it.
dominicq··on Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
Yeah, I don't get it either. Deploy a VM that runs an LLM so that I can talk to it via Telegram... I could just talk to it through an app or a web interface. I'm not even trying to be snarky, like what the hell even is the use case?
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