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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens—and then everybody disagrees.
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seg_lol··on LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users
Thank God! And here we were stressed out that LLMs might democratize access to tech and knowledge.

All of those biases are still there even for the harvard bio. If from the exchange it thinks you might be presenting as something you are not, output degradation.

That said, in the beginning of my prompts I tell it exactly the persona of the target audience for the answer. Otherwise how would it know if it is explaining to a 5 year old or a phd in an adjacent domain?

As always the problem is the training data and how these models don't get to decide how they interpret the training data.

seg_lol··on Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images
And so does every satellite operator.
seg_lol··on Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership
Automating work in a work simulation game so you can relax.
seg_lol··on Looks like it is happening
If someone mentions Sabine Hossenfelder and it isn't to expose her as a rage-bait intellectual dark web grifter, then it puts that person in a suspect light.
seg_lol··on Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived
OMG, I'd love to fix that date picker. It is just so horribly broken, it causes me PTSD.
seg_lol··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
Google3 was already PPC clean when they did that. Not as impressive as made out to be.
seg_lol··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
Frankly, you have a pretty good chance of displacing windows right now. You should go for it.
seg_lol··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
I cannot believe there has been no mention of things like n8n, activepieces and windmill in this thread. SaaS will utterly collapse in 18 months.

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

seg_lol··on Turn Dependabot off
Be wary of upgrading dependencies too quickly. This is how supply chain incursions are able to spread too quickly. Time is a good firwall.
seg_lol··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Spoiler, that attorney supplies the list of people to charge.
seg_lol··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
> We can't actually write laws to solve real problems because real problems are hard.

Not making excuses for politicians, but nearly all big bureaucracies start exhibiting this same behavior. It is the lamp post fallacies of problem solving.

seg_lol··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
They have much much less time than one would think. Their ads business is about to go into freefall, this will cause the whole company to spiral.
seg_lol··on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models
NVidia has to spend the money while the music still plays. NVidias money doesn't exist. Nothing has meaning, the value of money depends on who holds it.
seg_lol··on What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]
How about we agree on the ABI and everyone can have their own C compiler. Everyone C's the world through their own lenses.
seg_lol··on Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
> I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process
seg_lol··on AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going
https://xkcd.com/810/
seg_lol··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
I just disabled webgl on my firefox and it worked fine.

Your problems could be caused by a whiny fan. Here is the source https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

seg_lol··on I built an AI that explains what your developers did this week
> cofounder used to ask me every Monday: "So... what did the team actually ship?"

Nice, subtly asking folks to work the weekend, "actually shipping". Did said cofounder also "ship" on the weekend.

seg_lol··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
They should have used base64 encryption.
seg_lol··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
Replace the C levels with AI. The C suite is am impediment to innovation and progress. They are the office politics mentioned in this entire thread. The person with the vision and the strategy is a random person out there that doesn't even work for your company. Hell, you could have done it.

> The point is: Technology companies are not immune to human failings, ego, protectionism/turf guarding, bad decisions, bad management, etc.

They only accidentally succeed in spite of those things. They have those things more than existing businesses precisely because having too much money masks the pressures that would force solid execution and results. When you have 80% profit margins, you can show up drunk.

seg_lol··on America has a tungsten problem
Don't make China the boogey man here, when it was America's rich that exported all those things (jobs, manufacturing, solid supply chains) to China.
seg_lol··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
You don't already do this with the NTP servers under your control?
seg_lol··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Cheap electronics are just the feed stock, the basis function for your new creation. Why start with raw matter when you can get fully formed matter for less.
seg_lol··on First Proof
New doesn't have to mean "the hardest thing yet", but as humans mastering our subdomain, they are often the same.
seg_lol··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
This is very much a John Brown claim that will in the end, kill the OP. I'd rather have the OP using LLM powered code review tools to add their experience to that AI generated compiler.
seg_lol··on Show HN: Hibana – An Affine MPST Runtime for Rust
HN is technical but not that technical. Next time explain why "Affine MultiParty Session Types for Rust" are cool! And maybe how they relate to choreographies and choreographic programming.

Thanks for sharing, this looks cool.

seg_lol··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
I realized that the GOP has been taking advantage of weaknesses in high trust society. This is an easy thing for fascism to do. So while I want to live in one, they aren't stable and must be protected.
seg_lol··on I shipped 706 commits in 5 days with Taskwarrior and Claude Code
You deserve some sleep! :)
seg_lol··on Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
I don't think Americans understand how large Volkswagen is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/brands-and-brand-groups-...

seg_lol··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
I would store them as offsets within the digits of pi.
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