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by asgraham 19d ago
I have heard multiple people say almost that exact sentence unironically.
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by asgraham 20d ago
Sure, and usually one of the ways Rust serves us is with safety guarantees. Which isn’t to say this optimization is a bad idea, just to say it’s sort of a straw man to imply coding in Rust to take advantage of safety guarantees is “serving
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by asgraham 24d ago
Microwaving takes less attention and less skill, though. And less cleanup. And you don’t need to own a pan. And you don’t need to own spices (steak is a bad example ofc). And you don’t need to think about the side dishes. And you don’t need
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by asgraham 1mo ago
But can I still give all my emails to OpenAI?? (semi-serious question because I’m currently very opposed, but I’m afraid of my future decisions)
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by asgraham 1mo ago
How good are these detectors? (Serious question— I’ve never had a reason to use one)
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by asgraham 1mo ago
Out of context it does sound like AInese. I think that’s largely because AI has a tendency to use location in very metaphorical terms that don’t quite read, and usually the idea of “relocating” a word would be exactly that kind of vaguely w
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by asgraham 1mo ago
Can you recommend a specific home assistant community to check out?
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by asgraham 3mo ago
To be clarify for everyone: both of the cited articles argue in favor of HPV vaccination. I assumed they would be arguing against since the comment is arguing against, but that is not the case. In particular, you've mistaken the result
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by asgraham 3mo ago
Sure, sure. I’m not arguing for removing drivers for uncommon devices, or even rare devices. But there’s a line somewhere. Maybe it’s at “devices that no longer exist.” But I think it’s somewhere before that. And I have no idea how you’d fi
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by asgraham 3mo ago
Is the parent really being sarcastic? I read it as genuine. There’s presumably plenty of code bloat in the kernel, and while no human would ever scan for bugs in a corner of the kernel that hasn’t been used or touched in decades, AI 100% wi
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by asgraham 3mo ago
> They can determine how much each work contributed based on those weights, so it's dishonest for them to argue it isn't possible. I don’t know about impossible but it’s definitely not a straightforward read from the post-tra
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by asgraham 4mo ago
My first impression when the Leaf image loaded was that you were being overdramatic. The Ferrari website created the impression of a similar but fundamentally more elegant car (not elegant, just more elegant). Then the Ferrari image loaded.
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by asgraham 4mo ago
Ignoring the spiritual part, emotional state does have a well-known feedback loop with physical state. There’s a (largely incorrect) idea in pop psychology that just as happiness leads to smiling, smiling leads to happiness. It’s not nearly
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by asgraham 4mo ago
Requires the MacOS desktop app. Windows "coming soon," but still no word on an official Linux app.
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by asgraham 6mo ago
The good is hidden: court systems are already overwhelmed. If the arbitration cases were added, then it’d take even longer to get a court date. (Which isn’t to say I think the system as it is is good, just that there is a good)
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by asgraham 6mo ago
Are you arguing that eventually a competitor will emerge that does support OpenClaw with a subscription model? Wouldn’t that just be more expensive for the exact same reason Anthropic is banning it?
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by asgraham 7mo ago
I know for a fact [1] that the neuroscientific discoveries were not independent of physics: the people doing the developing were largely former physicists. They likely didn't cite anything because why would you cite phase transitions o
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by asgraham 9mo ago
The irony is that youth are simulatenously the biggest consumers of (new) social media, and the staunchest haters [EDIT: this is directly contradicted by the research article I found below…]. I can’t find the source so take it with a grain
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by asgraham 9mo ago
I was so with you the first half of that. But the notion that everything should be capitalism is just as wrong as the notion that nothing should be capitalism (or, that capitalism only leads to bad things; obviously wrong but somehow a broa
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by asgraham 9mo ago
Lots of good suggestions. However for Svelte in particular I’ve had a lot of trouble. You can get good results as long as you don’t care about runes and Svelte 5. It’s too new, and there’s too much good Svelte code out there used in trainin
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by asgraham 9mo ago
Those prices seem geared toward people who are completely price insensitive, who just want "the best" at any cost. If the margins on that premium model are as high as they should be, it's a smart business move to give them wh
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by asgraham 9mo ago
Interesting! I imagine speech-related motor artifacts don't help matters either, even if noise starts mattering less at scale.
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by asgraham 9mo ago
Really cool dataset! Love seeing people actually doing the hard work of generating data rather than just trying to analyze what exists (I say this as someone who’s gone out of his way to avoid data collection). Have you played at all with t
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by asgraham 10mo ago
This isn’t really “Show HN” so you might want to remove that, but looks really awesome! https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by asgraham 11mo ago
I was initially skeptical of this claim because I’d previously learned that to cross the blood-brain barrier particles need to be ~200nm (PM2.5 = 2500nm). However, PM2.5 does seem to be an important category of particles for brain damage: s
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by asgraham 1y ago
Doesn’t this mean browser sandboxing is secure, not JS? Or are you referring to some specific aspect of JS I’m not aware of? (I’m not aware of a lot of JS) It’s maybe a nit-pick, since most JS is run sandboxed, so it’s sort of equivalent. B
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by asgraham 1y ago
It’s partially that for sure, but I think it’s also a kind of “common sense” feeling of the public that if people use technology to commit a crime, there must therefore be a record of that crime and therefore the police should be able to us
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by asgraham 1y ago
First of all, you absolutely cannot release an OS with a known zero day. IANAL but that feels a lot like negligence that creates liability. But even ignoring that, the gulf between zero days and plain-text LLM prompt injection is miles wi
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by asgraham 1y ago
If you can write tests fast enough, you can specify those business rules on the fly. The ideal case is that tests always reflect current business rules. Usually that may be infeasible because of the speed at which those rules change, but I’
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by asgraham 1y ago
I totally agree that the agent is essential, and that right now Claude Code is semi-unanimously the best agent. But agentic tooling is written, not trained (as far as I can tell—someone correct me) so it’s not immediately obvious to me that

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