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sys32768

1,310 karma · joined July 18, 2013

Here I am, an old man in a dry month...
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sys32768··on European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island
Did you have that discussion about Biden?
sys32768··on SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
I like this idea. Also a split-window view that uses AI to fact-check and de-bias content, or at least point out bias. Perhaps color coded.

I've been pleasantly surprised how well AI does describing bias, no matter the bias, which gives me hope.

sys32768··on Scott Adams has died
How many of his Coffee with Scott Adams broadcasts did you watch before forming the "off the rails" opinion?
sys32768··on SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.
sys32768··on Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
How was that post hacker news in any way?
sys32768··on Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
Um, no, I cannot imagine that.
sys32768··on ChatGPT Health
Most doctors are just people who had a strong ability to pass tests and finish medical school.

Most of the ones I've worked with aren't passionate about their specialty or their patients, and their neglect and mistakes show it.

sys32768··on Jeffrey Epstein Files Released
Michael Jackson was on their enemies list?
sys32768··on Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024
My partner doesn't even have health insurance.

My deductible is $8300, but at least it's 100% coverage once I hit that.

sys32768··on Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car
I'm skeptical of some of this guy's stories.

In one interview he says that after being surveilled overseas for a while by an obvious amateur, he told the station chief who then gave him the OK to kill the guy.

Surely they would try evasion, counter-surveillance, or maybe even sending a team to grab the guy off the street to figure out who he is?

He claims the only reason he didn't kill the guy is because for some reason he randomly decided to mention it to a general in the local intelligence service, and then suddenly the tail vanished.

https://youtu.be/BXtDH2IXKY8?t=650

sys32768··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
Would you be here pushing the war crime narrative if Hamas had pulled off this operation on the IDF?
sys32768··on YouTube deletes muscians's catalog over anti-zionist content?
Article is a big rant filled with speculation but zero information about what YouTube said to him.
sys32768··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Because it's the Cloud and we're told the cloud is better and more secure.

In truth the company forced our hand by pricing us out of the on-premise solution and will do that again with the other on-premise we use, which is set to sunset in five years or so.

sys32768··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
I work for a finance firm and everyone is wondering why we can store reams of client data with SaaS Company X, but not upload a trust document or tax return to AI SaaS Company Y.

My argument is we're in the Wild West with AI and this stuff is being built so fast with so many evolving tools that corners are being cut even when they don't realize it.

This article demonstrates that, but it does sort of beg the question as to why not trust one vs the other when they both promise the same safeguards.

sys32768··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
To YouTube's credit, at least the remaining videos aren't vertical.
sys32768··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
I remember testing the "breast crawl" in my first child.

I would stick her low on mom's belly and she would crawl and push and climb until she found a breast.

sys32768··on Measuring political bias in Claude
You must be using an LLM that cannot navigate formal logic puzzles or hasn't undergone chain-of-thought optimization.
sys32768··on Measuring political bias in Claude
AI/LLM doesn't have our monkey brains, so no gut-reactions, tribalism, or propaganda programming that short-circuits its rational capacity.

I think it could do a better job than 99.9% of humans at helping us spot the bias and propaganda we are fed daily.

sys32768··on Are you stuck in movie logic?
My mother's side of the family was from the Midwest.

Super polite, agreeable, but almost impossible to nail down with clear communication as to how they felt or what they wanted.

During reunions with that family, it was nearly impossible to get them to say where they wanted to go out to eat.

sys32768··on Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'
And the evidence is...a claim by an Italian writer who heard it from a former Bosnian intel officer who heard it from...

But this does remind me of that excellent docu-series The Line about members of a Navy SEAL platoon who accused their chief of war crimes.

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-line/umc.cmc.4u53f7zokr7g40...

sys32768··on The Return of the Tribe – Vancouvered Weblog
I don't want to live among a majority of rude, selfish people of any class, so I think the trend will be the struggling middle class moves into the dignified poverty of small farming among established rural farming communities that are outside the reach of urban or suburban blight.

Many who can afford it will move into giant private citadel communities created by the ultra-rich. Think Vegas but focused on not sinning.

sys32768··on The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes
Reminds me of how in the early 1980s we used my great-grandmother's Ouija board to spook ourselves to no end.

It was telling us names, giving us addresses, and all sorts of serious stuff you wouldn't expect adolescents to make up.

sys32768··on Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn't Working for Young People
Instead of wrecking it, can you just move to the place where capitalism isn't allowed?
sys32768··on Claude Is Down
Claude will return as SHODAN.

>Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

sys32768··on OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
I want to play again so long as there's a mod to reduce the cliff racers.
sys32768··on Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
The assault claim didn't cut the mustard, leaving a stain on the agency's reputation.
sys32768··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
In 1986, I lived a mile or so from where a mid-air collision sent a DC-9 crashing into a neighborhood, which killed 15 people on the ground: https://www.presstelegram.com/2016/08/30/cerritos-plane-cras...

Every time I board a plane, I think what a crazy thing I am doing, but then I remember that I could be safe and snug in my house and still be in a plane crash.

sys32768··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Helpful to remember that we humans often say "I think" to mean "I am fairly confident based on my hunch", and in that sense AI is very good at hunching.
sys32768··on The Science of Satiety per Calorie
Potatoes are king of satiety.

I dice up two giant baked potatoes for lunch daily and mix with a lean protein and some toppings like sliced jalapenos and sometimes Greek yogurt.

At 3 PM, I drink a Premier protein shake but don't eat again until 7AM the next day, yet I am still full by bedtime. Breakfast is a larger protein shake with fruit or almond butter + almond milk.

Easiest diet ever, and I feel great and hardly crave bread or sugar now.

sys32768··on How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
I started intermittent fasting and my sleep improved remarkably when I stopped eating calories after 3PM. Last night it shows I was awake for 16 minutes but in the morning my dream memories seem to be vast.

My mother got Alzheimer's in her early 60s and was always a super light sleeper despite a healthy and happy lifestyle. I suspect her brain's glymphatic system wasn't kicking in often enough to clean her brain.

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