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hugh-avherald··on UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s
Parents do not have infinite resources to 'take responsibility'. I do not think that is a practicable option, let alone a serious or optimal one.
hugh-avherald··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
The analogy extends to driving generally. Everyone knows it's very dangerous but people keep doing it.
hugh-avherald··on The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners
It's really hard to navigate. I cannot work out what the contest is; it seems to assume you know what it is already.
hugh-avherald··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
`--dangerously-skip-hype`
hugh-avherald··on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
You are probably in the top 1% of individuals by how perceptive you are about your car.
hugh-avherald··on Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
I do not think that self-defense of an invading force is what just war theory is concerned with. The passage also says it is outdated, not that the doctrine is abrogated.
hugh-avherald··on Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers
"Normally he was wont to be about twelve feet from nose to tail, but when he was very depressed, Trump's AI likeness could be anything up to eight hundred yards long."
hugh-avherald··on Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
When the 10-year yield hits 6%. Basic macroeconomics.
hugh-avherald··on Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
We are all Berliners.
hugh-avherald··on Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
When the plane comes to rest on the ground.
hugh-avherald··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
I don't believe my 20 year old university essays were written by AI, despite your criteria.
hugh-avherald··on All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous
It sounds like the prison recordings were compulsory, which is a different kettle-of-fish. The key phrase "if they share" implies voluntary and deliberate action, and is not much of an oversimplification imo.

> What matters is that the parties intended and expected communications to be privileged.

I would contend that your summary, not theirs, is a oversimplification. Jurisdictions will obviously differ, but privilege does not attach merely because of the intent and beliefs of the lawyer and client.

hugh-avherald··on US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached
I can certainly believe that the assurance the US gives to its pilots that they will never be left behind and the public demonstration of that assurance as something the US values in the billions of dollars.

It is also clear that if the mission was not a purely rescue mission then it would have taken a lot more equipment than what appears to have been used. Even for an escalade style high-risk low-probability mission it would be inadequate.

I think the most likely version of the claim would be that the Pentagon would have used the planning and execution of the mission as a valuable opportunity to learn for a dedicated mission to extract uranium in a contestable theatre. But even that is pushing it.

hugh-avherald··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
LLM providers are not obliged to only use LLMs to guard against hazardous output. They could use other automated and non-automated techniques. And they ought to do so if they are given good evidence that existing safeguards are inadequate. Loss of product quality or additional cost should be secondary.
hugh-avherald··on 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
It would be logical if your date of birth changed the available options for country of birth to the set of countries that were contemporaneously recognized.
hugh-avherald··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
You're still using outdated bio-hearts? Wouldn't it be better to just use a cronjob on a server-controlled heart?
hugh-avherald··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
This does not strike me as an anti-pattern or ugly. Indefinite free period would be unreasonable, and automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. A $200 bill shock is not great but it's also at a size that won't cause enormous distress while simultaneously being noticeable enough that you won't pay more than a month over. (As an open-source maintainer already on a Max plan, I still wince every month.) Income-constrained users should not adopt it or should set a reminder well beforehand.

Your suggestion of "we'll evaluate" individually would be a very costly undertaking for Anthropic. Not reasonable. If your suggestion was for Anthropic to evaluate at the end of the 6 months whether to continue the free plan generally, I don't see anything that prevents them from doing so.

I think Anthropic should probably give some notice in the CLI or Claude.ai in the final month of the offer. Not doing that would be a bit ugly.

hugh-avherald··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Speculation only obviously: highly-charged conversations cause the discussion to be channelled to general human mitigation techniques and for the 'thinking agent' to be diverted to continuations from text concerned with the general human emotional experience.
hugh-avherald··on Ghidra by NSA
Bit advanced for Hacker News folks I think.
hugh-avherald··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
Epstein Scandal Update: Epstein sleeps nude in a oxygen tent which he believes gives him SEXUAL POWERS!
hugh-avherald··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Humans make very similar errors, possibly even the exact same error, from time to time.
hugh-avherald··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
Can't you do that for any epsilon? (i.e. for every e > 0 there exists a area of the United States such that 90% of the crime is in an area < e)
hugh-avherald··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
The conquering alien civilization is more likely to be encountered than the pacifist one, if they have the otherwise same level of intelligence etc.
hugh-avherald··on GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Maybe I'm silly, but why is this relevant to GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark?
hugh-avherald··on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
Does targeting research towards 'more promising' fields actually produce greater economic returns?
hugh-avherald··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
Shiny?
hugh-avherald··on Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
But humans non-deterministically use that or use a hand-rolled formula.
hugh-avherald··on A lot of population numbers are fake
Given that Texas forgot to take advantage of this during the last election, it would seem the incentives are pretty negligible.
hugh-avherald··on A lot of population numbers are fake
I think "no idea" is an entirely reasonable summary of the magnitude of the uncertainty.
hugh-avherald··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
How did you sub poena Microsoft without a court order? Are you saying the court denied your application for an order to produce after Microsoft objected?
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