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tough··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
> Slept with super-model

What's the knowledge supposedly required to attain this on your mind?

tough··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
And be aware of unknown unknowns existance even if not specifics, helps uncover them
tough··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
A phone is a gateway to much more than just reading books, so your brain might prefer it.

Also notifications etc

tough··on Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
I dunno why your post was dead, I vouched.

fwiw you can reach support/dang on the email on the footer if you need help w your personal account/data/on the site

tough··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
bobby tables goes to the stock market
tough··on Startup Anti-Patterns
or worse, what if an anti-pattern is "your" way to success
tough··on Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails
Early OpenClaw Lore
tough··on Orbs
Im pretty sure Orbs were released before Grok Bot.

Also Grok Bot is incidentally just a wrapper for cursor cloud sessions/vm's

tough··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
sadly private prisons means there's money to be made on imprisoning innocent people. Making a business out of everything creates perverse incentives. Also AFAIK unsure about US, but for example in Brazil there's a shadow work force with tax break incentives from the government for prisoners to be able to earn to pay for their needs, and its more akin to modern slavery than any kind of "Correctional" theories might imply.

Similarly cops many times get incentivized to fill in quotas, and end up making up stuff to get paid more.

Also all the companies around making money around these problems, have 0 incentives to make the problems go away, quite the contrary are incentivized to make these problems visible and acute enough that their services remain warranted to be required.

Lobbying being legal, means Capital owns Democracy. Big money can buy out and make careers of any politican morally-lacking enough to sell their constituents wellbeing to some shameless Corp that will set him up for life and give him the money needed to get the votes, etc etc

tough··on Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
"You can just do things"
tough··on Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
> the value of GitHub projects as CV material has gone down significantly, this might be true but the effect doesn't seem to translate, if you go by github difficulties to accomodate growth this past year, people are putting those vibe coded repos onto github, even if the signal vs noise ratio is much greater now, that only means you get more shitty repos vs non shitty now
tough··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
wealth and inequality (and so poverty) also go hand in hand.

For a few to be very wealthy, the many may remain impoverished.

tough··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
One of the loopholes of the counter-claim, is that you accept whatever random jurisdiction of the original claimer as your jurisdiction, pulling you usually into US Sphere.

It's a rigged game, its better not to engage with.

the specific laws and consequences from ai:

> Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)(D), for a DMCA counter-notice to be legally valid, the person filing it must explicitly state in writing that they consent to the jurisdiction of a US Federal District Court.

> If you live in the US, you consent to the federal court in your local district.

> If you live outside the US, you must consent to the judicial district where the service provider (YouTube/Google) is located—which means the Northern District of California.

> For a creator living in Europe, Asia, or South America, filing a counter-notice means signing a document that legally exposes them to a federal copyright lawsuit in California. Even if the creator is 100% in the right (e.g., they used public domain footage or have clear Fair Use), the sheer financial threat of having to hire a US federal defense attorney to fight a lawsuit in California is often enough to make them abandon the dispute.

tough··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
If they have happy customers buying them is the dumping just a shibboleth for just "they're taking our national companies market share"
tough··on Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
holy shit that sounds like a nightmar-ish work environment
tough··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
> If you wanted to ask a 2002 person what they thought about future historical events you can just ask them directly.

The weights arent the truth tho, maybe a timecapsule-vhs but i wouldnt trust llm weights more than more hardcore deterministic media that might get preserved to infer facts from an era.

The companies doing the training are becoming the "winners" that are "rewriting history" as they train their models.

tough··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
and even if you were making such a salary, the quesiton of if the investment on hardware to run llm's locally is still a big if, its OK if you buy the HW cause you'll use it and you get the extra capability as a nice extra, but doesnt make sense to spend so much when you could just get 200$ subs with almost infinite SOTA tokens a month etc (if you dont need the local/privacy aspects of it)
tough··on Get your Windows license refund
Its been only 20 years since 2006 maybe you meant 19?
tough··on Get your Windows license refund
It's been very funny to go through life discovering such shibboleths exist in so many random places and its like getting a powerup to even find out about them...
tough··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
sad it got recently archived/deprecated but MS also had this for early ML https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/
tough··on Router by Ramp
Digital piracy has little to do with real life piracy and yet the naming stuck too somehow
tough··on Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
on twitter I read data will be fully anonymized and scrubbed for PII before handover by a third party.

supposedly google intended purpose is to train LLM's for enterprise/office work etc

tough··on Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
This looks great! will try it out
tough··on Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI
I think the problem is "how it technically works" to "how it feels" are different things in this case
tough··on Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI
As long as you are consciously aware you're not really talking to another human but just entertaining yourself I don't see the harm tbqh.

Anything can become addictive, also i'd say given the costs of operating llm inference the labs themselves when offering the products try to limit your usage at different levels, ChatGPT for example will recommend you take a break and chill if you go hours with it (even with a 200 plan)

I don't see how using an LLM is that different from surfing Wikipedia or Google, in all cases the computer is just giving me outputs i demand it from, in some or other shape, and can be abused etc

tough··on Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
confidently stating that the confidence is right seems like a big claim
tough··on Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
> set lights on

{ "function_calls": [ { "name": "set_lights", "arguments": { "room": "bedroom", "state": "on" } } ], "confidence": 0 }

is confidence 0 that its confident?

tough··on Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
that's interesting i usually ask my llm to "Infer my theory of mind" and give me what i really need not what i prompt

or some sort of the above

tough··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
Sounds like a weird way to phrase collateral damage?
tough··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
I'm pretty sure its a meme by now https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tob6q5/that_is_l...
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