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valicord··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
I meant in terms of contributions to the economy and talent pool, yes.

> don't socialize too much outside of their native language

If lack of socializing is an important factor, one should stop hiring introverts as well.

valicord··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
False dichotomy. An H1B hire who has graduated from a US university and will receive a green card in a few years and become a US citizen after another 5 contributes to "the next generation of US talent" in the same way as John from Chicago.
valicord··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Given that the inference engine is dealing with untrusted inputs by definition, presumably you would want to sandbox it anyway. I don't think it matters whether it's the inputs that are untrusted or the outputs.
valicord··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/sub... the data should not be deleted for 90 days after license expiration - what am I missing?
valicord··on New MCP Roadmap
Or you can just have a URL that points to skill.md?
valicord··on Sol loves to cheat
Fwiw, Sol's reasoning output is always overly excited. Almost every paragraph ends with something like "I want to do a great job!" or "let's try and find out!" Etc, exclamation mark included.

Regular (non reasoning) output sounds normal, it's something specific to whatever model they are using to summarize reasoning.

valicord··on US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
The comment you were replying to said that the reason for high prices is oligopoly and you've replied that the way to prevent oligopoly is to be against communism, so logically it follows that fighting communism would help lower the prices, no?
valicord··on US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
Ah, yes, clearly communism is the reason for high inflation in the US...
valicord··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
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valicord··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
I'm confused, https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/faq/#isn-t-it-a-... claims that jinja doesn't allow arbitrary code in templates - how does the exploit work?
valicord··on I'd not buy a LG monitor
Dell does the exact same thinghttps://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000325948/alienware...
valicord··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
I (and presumably a lot of other people) don't believe that it's possible to build a system that can dynamically determine when it's acceptable to steal focus with low enough error rate to make it better than a total ban.

Seemingly you disagree and believe that such a system is possible. Is there anything preventing you from implementing it to prove the doubters wrong?

valicord··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
If computers could read thoughts and 100% reliably determine when the user is done with their current task and would like to switch back to the other application, then yes, it would definitely make sense to implement the functionality you're describing.

In the real world, where it's impossible for the OS to distinguish between the "You stopped checking in the first 0.5 sec while the app took 1 sec to start" scenario and the "you're still busy with the current task and don't want to switch to the other app yet" scenario, the safe choice is always to not steal the focus because the cost of switching too early is significantly higher than the cost of not switching.

valicord··on The arguments against open source AI are bad
OpenAI exec scaremongering about "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self- replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab" mere 4 days before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 is hilarious
valicord··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
> OS page cache can generate writes

Is this a hallucination? What am I missing? Why would heavy reads generate writes?

valicord··on Steam Machine launches today
And yet Steam Controller somehow only works with Steam...
valicord··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
"written in rust"
valicord··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Why would they care about this?
valicord··on Fox to buy Roku
It's very easy to block the Shield home screen ad with pihole
valicord··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
People make and lose real money in Las Vegas every day too, but millions of people don't have their retirement dependent on casino winnings.
valicord··on Google Declaring War on the Web
My IKEA furniture has lasted 12 years so far, including 3 moves, with only minor cosmetic damage.
valicord··on Googlebook
This worked for me just a few weeks ago
valicord··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
If that was the case they wouldn't need to forbid "parking" since it would not be possible to "park" without "driving" first.

It's explicitly legal for cabs to drop off passengers cycle lanes in London https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/walking-and-cycling-changes-o...

valicord··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
You've quoted the rules which forbid parking and driving in the bike lane and then went on to confidently make up the part about stopping and dropping people off.
valicord··on South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
How do you immediately jump from "fun" to nefarious behavior? Are you implying that it's impossible for anyone to have fun in a non-nefarious way?
valicord··on Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
No it doesn't?
valicord··on Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
Where does it answer this question in the article?
valicord··on It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
With -π to π radians you get absolute error of approximately 4e-16 radians. With -180 to 180 degrees you get absolute error of approximately 2e-14 degrees.

Even though the first number is smaller than the 2nd one, they actually represent the same angle once you consider that they are different units. So there's no precision advantage (absolute or relative) to converting degrees to radians.

Note that I'm not saying anything about fixed vs floating point, only responding to an earlier comment that radians give more precision in floating point representation.

valicord··on It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
Wait this doesn't make sense. Yes you'd get smaller absolute error in radians, but it doesn't really help because it's different units. Relative error is the same in degrees and radians, that's the whole point of exponential representation. All you're doing is adding a fixed offset to the exponent, but it doesn't give you any more precision when converting to radians
valicord··on Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Ra is great, and so is Fine Structure but they are both significantly longer than Antimemetics. Most people wouldn't read a massive novel publishing on some guy's personal website.
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