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Chicago and Boston look like tired old men with bad posture.

Contrast that with the virile Beijing and Madrid.

I’m not sure why Saragossa is wearing a dress.

And Warsaw looks like he’s ready to fight somebody.

> Afterwards you are tired but also grateful and socially energized in a way that feels fundamental to my existence.

Every culture with a tradition of being a welcoming host has a saying along the lines of, “the pleasure is in the preparation”.

For those of us that live that life, it’s hard to imagine it any other way.

> A major implicit component of such complaints is that supply of good teachers is too low, suggesting we need to raise wages.

This would be a fine argument if we could somehow align incentives, fire low performing teachers, and rate them retroactively based upon the outcomes of their respective students.

Why do you claim they are underpaid?

If there’s plenty of people willing to do the job, that’s simple supply and demand.

“I think educators should be paid more” or “I want us to pay them more” does not mean they’re underpaid.

> Like management and shareholders aligned against workers, parents and administrators are aligned against teachers, who are underpaid, under resourced, and being asked to deliver far beyond what they can accomplish on their own.

Teachers are not underpaid. We live in a free market society and they have extensive collective bargaining agreements. If anything, they’re overpaid vs a totally free market.

Those who can and want to use those same talents in a different progression are free to do so. Nobody is forced into the progression (okay maybe grad students but that’s something else…).

> I recommend being a teacher to no one, and will help any teacher who wants out into a better career or industry.

People who genuinely want to teach should be teachers. Just as people who genuinely want to cure the ill should be doctors.

Given his advanced age, he should have sold his lawsuit rights. Sealed bid auction and could even let Nvidia bid as well.

Every 1% expected value would put it at $10 million dollars.

> Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers with the claim that their model is the one currently most capable of ending the human race.

You know we’re living it off times when this is not an Onion article.

> Don’t you need to stop at least once to take a leak?

Not if you have the right plumbing and a bottle with you.

> Look at the, pretty obvious, natural human child-mode of learning: playing games.

> Just not escapist nonsense games. Games that model relevant aspects of reality in an engaging way. Where you can fail without real-life consequences and learn from it while enjoying yourself.

In a lot of ways, that’s math contests and games like Around The World.

And that’s exactly the type of thing modern educational philosophies have eliminated.

For some reason it’s perfectly fine to have little Johnny show that’s he can run a race faster than the next kid, but he can’t show that he can solve math problems faster.

Indeed. This is the same type of bankrupt government logic that classifies a slingshot as a firearm.

I always thought it’d be some kind of railgun. A 1 kg slug would take out just about any satellite.

> Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

This also works for Google support.

> And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

It was already a problem before agents could automatically perform these actions.

And it’s not something you can really automate on their end either. At least not the judgement call on the removal. Imagine if there was a fully automated process and it inadvertently took down a legit project.

Nobody is saying you can’t have different classes of service or product offerings. But if I’m buying a banana or you’re buying it, it’s the still a banana.

> You can't ship faster than you can comprehend, unless you stop caring about comprehension.

That is the best thing I’ve read on this topic in a while.

Overcast days are the worst offenders for sunburn because the melanin impaired don’t feel the heat of the sun to remind them they are going to roast.

The root problem with SAML is there’s a million and one permutations to do the same thing.

Signed assertions. Signed messages. Encrypted messages. Encrypted assertions. Sign after normalization. Sign before normalization. Encrypt then sign. Sign then encrypt.

There’s too many ways to do too many things.

Put all your backups in one basket, and then pray that nobody crushes the basket.

From the article, emphasis mine:

> Anthony Thomas Hoover II was 33 when he arrived at a hospital in Kentucky, unresponsive after a drug overdose. Doctors told his family he was brain-dead, and the family agreed to remove him from life support. A procurement organization was called in to collect his organs.

> While being evaluated for donation, Mr. Hoover opened his eyes and thrashed on the bed. The case should have been stopped. Instead, Mr. Hoover was sedated and given a paralytic drug. Hours later, he awoke again and moved his toes on command; his family was told he was merely exhibiting reflexes.

> In the operating room, Mr. Hoover pulled his knees to his chest and shook his head “no.” Tears rolled down his face. The surgeon refused to proceed. Whistle-blowers say procurement executives called their staff member on-site at the hospital and demanded she find another surgeon to take the organs. No surgeon would.

> Mr. Hoover survived, though he still asks his older sister, “Why did they try to kill me?”

There are some seriously fucked up people in this world.

> He was elected by the board too, rather than directly placed by Warren.

I don’t think the last name hurt his chances in 1993 either.

> I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one.

From the README for that skill:

> Install the skill, and Claude debugs your code the way you would — not with print statements.

Jokes on you! I use print statements too!

> So if Canada tries to make friends with anyone other than the US, it's a hostile act?

I believe the terms in human relationships are coercive control and social isolation.

> Our Mitsubishi has other nice features like it can recirculate the water in the bath through a heat exchanger after you already filled it and got in, so it will keep the water from cooling down to lukewarm, and you can even adjust the bath water temperature if you ended up with filling it with too warm or too cold water.

How long do you sit in a bath?

> Of course, there's also an app so you can start filling up the bathtub when you leave work for home so a hot bath is waiting for you.

My immediate reaction to this is, “there’s a way for my house to be remotely flooded”.

> Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's staff lead on keeping the technology aligned with human goals and values, backed up Coxon claims in a follow-up post of his own, though he didn't quit the company.

> "Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," he said.

> Hubinger estimated the chances of that happening to be higher than ten percent within the next decade, and added that there's no plan yet on how to keep AI aligned with human goals in the superintelligence scenario.

10% chance we kill everybody is a small price to pay for Motown remixes of classic 2pac songs.

My favorite movies review was for a film in the late 90s. The name of the film escapes me, but at the time it had full page ad in the paper with quotes from the review. It said “Watching X like a beach vacation”.

I randomly stumbled upon the full review and the rest of the line was “… and you’re not invited”.

A corporation is just one or more people pooling their resources for legal and accounting purposes. Theres nothing inherently virtuous or evil about the concept.

Going back to my original example, why is it okay for a media company to use their platform and resources to promote whatever speech they want promoted, but I can’t use money I made selling hot dogs to do the same?

The only way to make the playing field fair is to allow everybody to take part. Otherwise you have a handful of media companies with outsized control of indirect messaging.

> I don't know, if we'd had an overwhelmingly Democrat-dominated government, we'd have comprehensive bans on government insider trading

We had two years under Biden with Democrat control of the House and the Senate. They passed no legislation to ban insider trading.

It probably didn’t help that the poster octogenarian for insider trading was Speaker of the House

> and we'd correct the bad ruling in Citizens United.

CU was absolutely the correct ruling as it just means I can take money from wherever I’ve earned it and spend it on publicizing my message.

Prior to that you had to buy a media company to have the same effect. It was perfectly fine for Fox News or The NY Times to focus articles and segments on what they deem newsworthy to push their narrative. But if I made my money selling widgets, I couldn’t spend it the same way.

It’s a perfectly reasonable ruling.

> Corporatism is definitely a bipartisan issue, but at least Democrats recognize it as a problem, while to Republicans it's a feature.

The same people probably complain the Senate is an antiquated body that should not exist because mob rule is the only true voice of the people.

> Data retention. Our new system of Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) gives customers complete privacy (the same as a zero data retention policy) while still being state-of-the-art at preventing adversarial use. EFS works by storing data in cloud infrastructure controlled entirely by the customer, not Anthropic. It will be made available to enterprise customers in phases, beginning later this fall. Until EFS is available, eligible customers will be able to use Fable 5.1 with zero data retention.

This is interesting. I wonder if customers will be allowed to create an auto expiry for their own data to prevent future subpoenas. That’d be a treasure trove for discovery.

The prefatory clause of the 2nd amendment’s usage of “well-regulated” means “well-equipped” (i.e., they should have lots of guns!).

It’s been repeatedly established through multiple SCOTUS interpretations that it’s just one example of why such rights shall not be infringed.

> Its like being kosher. Some people choose to not eat non kosher food. I choose not to consume AI generated materials.

This is great analogy when you consider the sheer deliciousness of pork and shellfish.

Yes it’s only bad when Trump does it.

Refusing to enforce drug laws or immigration laws is perfectly fine. Ditto for refusing to honor the 2nd amendment.