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throwaway-0001··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
I think we should see a chart as % of “fabricated” references from past 20 years. We should see a huge increase after 2020-2021. Anyone has this chart data?
throwaway-0001··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
Ok and buys the laptop with malware? How the customs knows that high value target will buy that specific laptop they swapped the ssd? And what they do exactly? Put malware to steal his data?
throwaway-0001··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
Can you expand a bit? They didn’t notice the ssd swapped? Which country? Customs as in sending deliveries or passing a border with a laptop?
throwaway-0001··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
…Also partially because it’s better then most other sources
throwaway-0001··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
If were true then people could predict this AI many years ago
throwaway-0001··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
I think there is a correlation between when you can you expect from something when I know their internals vs someone that doesn’t know but is not like who knows internals is much much better.

Example: many people created websites without a clue of how they really work. And got millions of people on it. Or had crazy ideas to do things with them.

At the same time there are devs that know how internals work but can’t get 1 user.

pc manufacturers never were able to even imagine what random people were able to do with their pc.

This to say that even if you know internals you can claim you know better, but doesn’t mean it’s absolute.

Sometimes knowing the fundamentals it’s a limitation. Will limit your imagination.

throwaway-0001··on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
Could you share publicly? Or it’s secret?
throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Yeah but what’s the bottom and the top?

Bottom is 0? Or is 1mg? Or what?

Top is killing a human by dose? Killing an elephant dose? Make you feel dizzy?

What’s too much? What’s being in the middle?

You see, it’s a stupid logic “in the middle”. The point is being in the middle or moderate is not always “good”.

Also it’s hard to define. Tbh only non logical people throw words like “in the middle” etc

throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
“I use the computer a lot” :

For an average person: maybe means 8 hours.

For a dev maybe means: 16 hours

For a farmer: 2 hours.

Who’s right?

throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Better maybe fact based? I use ai X amount of hours per day. I use Ai for % of needs? My personal feeling of AI improvement in my life is +X%

Something like that. What you think?

throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Good question. I don’t know either. Just I know “middle” is not the right thing. It’s so easy to draw the narrative you wish - self fulfilling
throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Maybe your “sometimes” is too much for me or others. How can you ensure it’s in the “middle”? Maybe I consider extreme. Maybe others consider not enough. Like driving every day: is it extreme driving, or moderate?

You see how makes no sense this in the “middle” concept?

throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Do you know any translators? They all pretty much lost much of their clients.

Devs can write at a very fast rate with ai.

throwaway-0001··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Personally I hate this “in the middle” as it’s so relative you can shape to fit your narrative.

For example: what’s in the middle for programming?

For me 0 is writing 0 and 1. For others 0 is making the nand ports.

And 100 is ai llm vibe.

So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends.

Same for anything really. Some people I know keep saying not 8 not 80 to mean the middle.

Like what’s in the middle for amount of coding per day? 12 h? 8h? 2h?

What’s middle for making money? 50k, 500k, 500m?

What’s the middle for taking cyanide ? 1g? 1kg?

What about water? What about food? What about anything?

As you can see, it’s all relative and whomever says it, is trying to push his narrative as “middle” aka correct, while who does more or less is “wrong”.

throwaway-0001··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
I can hire you if you decent and don’t expect high salary ports-spatial5c@icloud.com
throwaway-0001··on All it takes is for one to work out
> You don’t need every job to choose you. You just need the one that’s the right fit.

You mean, the first one to say yes. Tbh seems more like first to say yes, not first to be fit and say yes.

> You don’t need every house to accept your offer. You just need the one that feels like home.

Same here. Is easy to find one to say yes. Hard to be “feels like home” && say yes.

> You don’t need every person to want to build a life with you. You just need the one.

“The one” is hard.

>You don’t need ten universities to say yes. You just need the one that opens the right door.

Same. What even means “the right door”? How can you even know before you got in?

I think it’s a bad analogy. At least frame it a more realistic: your only need one job to say yes. Might not be the right job but it’s a job. Same for all other.

throwaway-0001··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
> It's so common that the only logical explanation is that it is encouraged. It appears to be the norm and the non-slurper is the exception. I'm glad that your parents taught you to not slurp. You are an exceptional individual.

Anyway I’ve asked enough Chinese people about it to get the same answer. Not all do it, but some do it for these reasons.

I doubt you ever asked any Chinese.

throwaway-0001··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
https://ali.mk/posts/the-role-of-noises-in-chinese-dining-et...

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/6w5hux/slurping_nood...

+ personal questions to real Chinese people.

throwaway-0001··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
In China making noise with mouth when eating is considered respectful.
throwaway-0001··on Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)
Non for profit does not equal to no salaries for executives- they still have highly inflated salaries.

Non for profit just means there is no dividends to owners but they can very well get huge salaries. So actually non for profit is a very bad name.

Should be called non dividend company.

throwaway-0001··on Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)
I think we have no evidence someone bought the book and summarized. And what if an ai bought the book and summarized, is it fine now?
throwaway-0001··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
Interesting codex just did the work once I sweared. Wasted 3-4 prompts being nice. And angry style made him do it.
throwaway-0001··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
Yes, but from the hiring effort what you said maybe is 10-25%. Any reason for this to increase in the last years to justify so many rejections? TBH I know many people that changes jobs in last 24 months just fine.
throwaway-0001··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
I have to agree with you. Companies don’t waste time on interviews if they don’t really want to hire. And if they didn’t hire him, maybe is because was not a good fit, and probably hired someone else. So the job was probably filled — by someone more competent?
throwaway-0001··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
Yeah a lot of stuff seems to be based on these fuzzy data which I also think is unreliable.
throwaway-0001··on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
I expected to be “personalized”. I’m definitely more into programming than dancing. I see 0 personalization tbh. And I tried a few different peoples phones.
throwaway-0001··on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
Which model you using exactly?
throwaway-0001··on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
Can you show me what results you see for “locking”? I see dancing move in all profiles I have.
throwaway-0001··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
You never had that coleague that says yes to everything and can’t get anything done? Same thing as seahorse.
throwaway-0001··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Rebalancing weights?
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