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putlake

1,142 karma · joined November 20, 2013

Created Diffen.com, SmashTheBubble.com and Hreflang.org. @thisislobo on Twitter.
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putlake··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Maybe the hackers can finally confirm or deny whether Ray Epps was FBI.
putlake··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Anyone can sue anybody. HF for sure was in a strong position after what happened. OAI gave them a lot of GPT credits under a sort of partnership agreement to mollify them.
putlake··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
From TFA: Yoti is an independently audited age verification provider for SOC2 compliance. Your selfie, document images, and any personal data are deleted by Yoti as soon as your age is checked. Anthropic never sees your ID or image; we receive only a pass/fail result and do not process or store any personal data from the verification.
putlake··on GPT-6 Astra
> GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS.

Not on Azure? If so, that's a big deal.

putlake··on ChatGPT outage – Resolved
It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!
putlake··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
If your data is leaking to OpenRouter, how many companies would be OK with that? So I doubt OpenRouter are peeking inside the workloads that flow through their proxy. However, they do publish "Top Models by Task" ranking[1] so maybe you have a point.

[1] https://openrouter.ai/rankings#task-spend

putlake··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
It's not only going to be "connection maker". If and when robotics advance to a point where the LLMs are embodied, they can run experiments in the physical world and find new knowledge.
putlake··on Why are all the amounts values negative?
Is it not dangerous to ignore text based on its color? For this particular case it might work but looks like you have a generic service that is supposed to work with any bank statement.
putlake··on Apple is getting this wrong
I have used a Macbook at work for 5 years without signing into any iCloud account ever.
putlake··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I think it was when the LLM asked me a question at the end of its response. It felt like something other than a machine. Until then the pattern was me asking a question and ChatGPT giving me an answer, with or without hallucination. When it asked me a follow-up question it felt like talking to a being with agency. An entity that has thoughts or ideas or questions of its own.
putlake··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
That gets billed as extra usage apparently:

/model claude-opus-4-6[1M]

  ⎿  Set model to Opus 4.6 (1M context) · Billed as extra usage
putlake··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
I think this is probably related to which eye is more dominant for you. I've never skateboarded, but if I imagine myself doing it, it would also be facing left. And it's because my right eye is dominant and I would like that to be facing forward.
putlake··on DeepSeek v4
By "completely Nvidia-free" do you mean Nvidia wasn't used for training nor inference? Because if it's only inference, we know that Opus already can run on TPUs. Not to mention Gemini.
putlake··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
Thank you for the link. I tried to opt out. They sent me this email:

Equifax Workforce Solutions (provider of The Work Number) has received your employee request communication, but additional information described below is required to fulfill this request.

We will be following up with a secure email to obtain the below requested documents:

Proof of Identity:

Provide a copy of one of the following (must include current/legal name):

- Driver's License (must be current) - Paystubs (must be dated within 60 days) - State or Government Identification Card (must be current) - Social Security Card - Military Identification Card - Passport (must be issued from U.S.A. and be current) - W-2 or 1099 Form (most current year) - Birth Certificate

Proof of Address:

If you are requesting an Employment Data Report (EDR) or selected ‘Mail’ as your preferred method of contact,provide a copy of one of the following (must include current mailing address and be issued within the past 60 days)

- Driver's License (must be current) - Paystub - W-2 or 1099 Form (most current year) - Utility Bill (phone, water, gas, electric, trash or sewer, etc.) - Housing Rental Agreement or Mortgage document - your name must be listed on the document

For Identity Theft Block Requests, along with Proof of Identity and Proof of Address (if applicable), please provide your identity theft report and designation of items to be blocked:

- Identity Theft Report (police report, FTC Identity Theft Report, Police report, or United States Postal Inspection Service)

For Human Trafficking Victim Block Requests ONLY, along with Proof of Identity and Proof of Address (if applicable), please provide victim determination documentation (as described below), and designation of items to be blocked.

Victim Determination Documentation:

Provide a copy of one of the following victim determination documentation confirming that you were a victim of human trafficking, such as:

- Determinations made by federal, state, tribal, or local governments, government agencies, or law enforcement - Determinations by non-governmental entities or task forces authorized by a governmental agency to make such a determination - Self-attestation signed or certified by such governmental agency or non-governmental entity - Determination by court in a case where a central issue is whether you are a victim of human trafficking. (Court documents can be made up of several documents from the court case that together show that the court accepted as true or finding no genuine dispute that you were a victim of human trafficking.)

We will be following up with a secure email to obtain the requested documents.

Data Investigation Team Equifax Workforce Solutions

putlake··on Honda is killing its EVs
Mining isn't the only bottleneck with rare earths. There also the processing, which is an industry China has monopolized through sustained investments over decades. They have also improved processing efficiency through investments in technology. It's going to take a while for anyone else to catch up.
putlake··on Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
My dad still uses PageMaker to publish his print magazine. He's been using this program since 1987, starting with a Macintosh and then later moving to Windows in the late 1990s. RIP Paul Brainerd.
putlake··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
That's not P/E. That's Price to Sales. P/E is price to earnings ratio. Earnings is profit. Since neither of these companies is profitable, they don't have a P/E ratio today.
putlake··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
Appreciate the transparency. Curious: What percentage of legal process on your users' accounts are subject to a gag order?
putlake··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
Neat! One feature I'd love to see is to follow/block users. Like this Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-followblock/dkbn...
putlake··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.
putlake··on Microsoft releases VibeVoice-ASR, an open speech-to-text model
VibeVoice-ASR is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass, generating structured transcriptions containing Who (Speaker), When (Timestamps), and What (Content), with support for Customized Hotwords.
putlake··on What I learned porting JustHTML to PHP with GPT 5.2 Codex
Thanks, Emil! I've updated the post with this link.
putlake··on Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
I'm one of those shareholders. No word from anyone so far.
putlake··on Claude in Chrome
The only model available for in-browser chat is Haiku 4.5. Is it just my account (Pro) or are others also restricted to Haiku?
putlake··on Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
Good point. Roth IRA was clearly a miss. It wasn't on my radar since you cannot contribute to it if your income is more than $165,000 (single) or $246,000 (married).
putlake··on Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
1. There are penalties for underpayment of estimated taxes. And there are even interest charges on penalties. https://www.irs.gov/payments/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-b...

2. The triple tax advantage is not ridiculous. (1) and (3) are not the same thing. 401k for example is not taxed going in (you fund it with pre-tax dollars) but is taxed when taken out. When you withdraw money from your 401k in retirement, you owe taxes on the capital gains that have accrued in the account since you first put the money in. But if you take money out of HSAs for paying medical bills, there is no tax on the capital appreciation you have enjoyed in your HSA account.

putlake··on Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
Trusts are like life insurance. It's not about when you're old and your kids are all grown up and self-reliant. The point of the trust is when you have younger kids and need to plan for you and your significant other both dying unexpectedly. It's no use naming your 8 year old as a beneficiary because they won't be able to use any of the assets without trusted adults.
putlake··on Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
Change your default elections - this is a great point. But I'm wary of giving out specific investment advice i.e. what to put your money in.
putlake··on Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
What you are saying is very reasonable but companies don't deduct enough in taxes at the time the RSUs vest. I don't know why that is. I'm sure there's some arcane reason. That's why it's important to keep track of this a little bit otherwise you will have an unpleasant surprise when taxes are due.
putlake··on Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
Shipping lanes is more Peterson's area of professional expertise, isn't it? He's not an economist.
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