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verve_rat··on Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
Yes, a better framing might be that they were negligent in not preventing the attack on a third-party.

They didn't explicitly instruct an attack to happen, but they should have done a hell of a lot more to prevent it from happening.

verve_rat··on Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents
>youth sports industry

Yup, well there's your problem.

verve_rat··on Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material
Interesting. I've been working on the same problem (you need stuff at a kid's level, but not aimed at kids, if you are interested in the content then it will be easier to learn): https://tailoredreaders.com/samples

I think I like your solution better than mine, which is basically generating children's books from user prompts.

When you say you generate stories from the films, are you summarising / simplifying the narrative of scenes in the film (to down level the language), or creating something new, just with the vocabulary the film uses?

verve_rat··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
Or indeed natural language to instruct humans.

If it was easy to specify exactly the behaviour you wanted then we probably wouldn't have contract law.

verve_rat··on Incident with Github.com
That sounds like an opportunity for GitHub to clip the ticket for providing a way for those businesses to support those projects more directly.
verve_rat··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
I know complaining about the site is poor form, but it is really hard to take advice seriously for a site that lets other visitors spam... just general internet things to other visitors.

Cute idea, but it is pretty clear the author doesn't consider practical consequences, so why should I trust their judgement about Tailwind?

verve_rat··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models
Pets.com was only 25 years to early.
verve_rat··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
And if you squint a bit and stretch some definitions... then tipping culture isn't a million miles away from bribing culture.

What is a tip if it's not a bribe to not spit in your food?

verve_rat··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
I'm a little disappointed that https://bribes.fyi/bribes doesn't redirect to that support page to be honest.

When I saw the name/tag line I thought this would be a travel advice site, but I like this so much more. Great work.

verve_rat··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Yup. In other words, we totally could, but there is no reason to put the time, effort and money into doing so.
verve_rat··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Yeah, seems to be the direction the US is heading in. I'm interested to see what the response to that will be from the rest of the governments in the world.

No need for everyone else to cut their noses of to spite their faces.

verve_rat··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Not necessarily. A reproduction task as a spaced repetition activity can help embed learning. If you are trying to write that prompt there is no reason you can't refer back to the text book to build the prompt and check the output.
verve_rat··on That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing
> We have difficulty defining “actual understanding”.

Indeed. C.f philosophical zombies and the Chinese room problem.

The idea that some “actual understanding” (or more precisely, the outward appearance of it) needs a mechanism that includes free will is a bold claim.

verve_rat··on GPT-5.6
Using remote control I will choose a model but Claude will always revert to Haiku for the first turn.

Basic stuff about features that are more than a week old just get no attention at all. From the outside Athropic seems to be a clear feature factory.

verve_rat··on CarPlay Is Additive
And maybe they just wrote a sentence like that because that's how they write. LLMs learned their style from humans, we were here first.
verve_rat··on A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice
Do you think the US needs all of its current military capacity to just deter outside aggression?
verve_rat··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
When you read someone's comment there is some responsibility to read the words they wrote and not attempt to attack them for an argument no reasonable person would extract from those words.
verve_rat··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
But paying the money is less resource efficient than using the waste heat for a productive use. As a general rule we should probably insensitvise good use of resources that benefit the general population.
verve_rat··on How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
You know China is busy genociding its Uyghurs population, right?

Their cars are probably better than US ones, but they are not free of the taint of genocide.

Edit: and that's not counting their aggressive territorial expansion in the South China Sea and their threats against Taiwan.

verve_rat··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
Retired people have had to deal with this. I assume it is less of a problem in multi-generational homes.
verve_rat··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
I think you'll find America failed democracy.
verve_rat··on How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
Yes, compare Czech Republic-> Czechia. No problem typing that out, no problem updating my mental map of the world.

Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it contains a non-English letter.

verve_rat··on Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
Oh wow, that's a game I haven't thought about in forever. Thanks for reminding me.
verve_rat··on Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
> But in any case you cannot go back to a GUI and not have that problem of GUIs being too restrictive: invariably there shall be a need to chain several simple commands that do one thing and that excel at that one thing and that only become powerful when chained with other commands. GUIs cannot solve that.

But TUIs can't solve that either? The ability to pipe CLI commands together when using a tool non-interactively is orthogonal to what UI is used interactively.

verve_rat··on The dead economy theory
Just because they weren't paid doesn't mean women were not doing economically valued labour. The washing machine is probably the greatest productivity unlock since the steam engine.
verve_rat··on The dead economy theory
Changing the tax system to tax capital rather than labour would probably get you 90% of the way there without great societal upheaval (capital would fight back though).
verve_rat··on The dead economy theory
There is a basic problem with framing though. Why does the labour need to find somewhere to go, but capital doesn't? Why can't the increase in productivity be captured by labour and denied to capital?
verve_rat··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
None of those are helpful examples we could mimic to figure out how to use the tools.

This reads like a CV, not trying to help or educate.

verve_rat··on Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers
Agreed. I'm actually excited to hope for a cambrian explosion of IDE experiments.

LLM powered visual diagramming of the code as you work? The ability to edit the diagrams and have tje LLM apply that back to the code? Visualisation of test coverage over the UI you are working on? Allowing you to attach user submitted videos of bugs directly to tests in the code?

I don't know if any of that is a good idea, but I really hope a bunch of people try.

verve_rat··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
They (Stripe) don't have to be a arbitrator of every edge case, just use the information they have that merchants want to give them and surface a risk signal back to merchants, then it can be up to the merchant what level of risk they are happy with for each customer.

It doesn't seem like an unreasonable ask frankly.

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