mcherm

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by mcherm 16d ago
Why is the first step needed? What does the use of WGet (rather than curl) do to block this attack?
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by mcherm 1mo ago
No, the point of Pin is to wrap types that CAN move. If the type were !Move then Pin wouldn't be needed.
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by mcherm 2mo ago
And yet even that little exercise produces significant differences in outcome compared to doing less.
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by mcherm 2mo ago
The healthcare system in the United States is deeply, horribly broken. Recently, my wife was going to be out of the country about a week-and-a-half. Her prescription for a medicine to manage arthritis would run out at the very beginning of
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by mcherm 2mo ago
Refusing to answer questions IS one of the rights that the US government mostly honors.
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by mcherm 2mo ago
No I can't! I wasn't (until reading this thread) aware of the deletion policy, so I certainly couldn't have discovered where the configurable setting is and adjusted it.
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by mcherm 2mo ago
What a mix! Yes, it is American exceptionalism (and quite foolish) to make the claim that "This could never happen in the US". No, the American government is NOT more authoritative than the UK in the way they handle freedom of web
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by mcherm 2mo ago
Originally, you'd communicate by mail, but some people didn't write things out in plain language; they used coated messages. That was why the government decided to ban mail, and since that didn't cover all cases, they also ba
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by mcherm 2mo ago
The "mistake" was not in providing a way to represent "no data", it was in providing no way to represent "this definitely HAS" data. Languages that correct the problem have two separate types (eg: Foo & Opt
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by mcherm 2mo ago
I nominate this post as an archetypal example of content that belongs on the Hacker News site. Thank you for sharing; I'm so glad for you that it worked out.
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by mcherm 2mo ago
Or -- hear me out on this one -- we could ban wind energy, raise costs for electric vehicles, and use government resources to promote increased use of coal and oil. That would have a bunch of advantages such as sounding familiar to leaders
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by mcherm 3mo ago
I frequently have trouble understanding both sides!
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by mcherm 3mo ago
Yes, BUT... If, indeed, the park was rented out for a private affair and the person managing that affair asked that someone be removed from the property, then like any case of trespass, it is within the purview of the police to remove that
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by mcherm 3mo ago
I suspect that the implication in context was that the 51st state would be Greenland. Which doesn't really help make this less of a diplomatic faux pas.
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by mcherm 3mo ago
I find them gorgeous. Admittedly, the term is unavoidably subjective. But what I like about them is that they are distinct, and that each one has character. Honestly, the fact that they looked like pictures I could find in a child's bo
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by mcherm 3mo ago
> The US is really shooting itself in the foot here. Not exactly. The close buddy with the owners of several other AI companies who has a known dispute with Anthropic and who has seized near-absolute power in the US is doing something th
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by mcherm 3mo ago
So apparently you believe that a 17-year-old should not be allowed to (a) order a pizza; (b) drive a car; (c) adjust the thermostat, unless they live in a sort of pre-internet Amish society which is probably based on the level of technology
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by mcherm 3mo ago
If you don't want to be called out for putting zero effort into the books that you publish, you probably shouldn't put zero effort into the books you publish!
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by mcherm 3mo ago
Nicely done! I always felt that Python's "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." was a bit of a mess. Obviously (to anyone who was around at the time), that plank was written in response to Per
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by mcherm 4mo ago
I did. Then the rules were changed.
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by mcherm 4mo ago
I don't think that's the real issue. The problems with billing and dashboards at cloud vendors are not new within the past few years, they have existed far longer than the LLM coding.
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by mcherm 4mo ago
There is one little-discussed down side to ever shorter-lived certificates...
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by mcherm 5mo ago
Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress. The Supreme Court has blessed this new form of government, declaring that
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by mcherm 5mo ago
Does it? How do you know? If they start excluding random content (eg: .git) without effective notice, maybe they AREN'T backing up everything you think they are.
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by mcherm 5mo ago
Some companies are in the business of trust. These companies NEED to understand that trust is somewhat difficult to earn, but easy to lose and nearly IMPOSSIBLE to regain. After reading this article I will almost certainly never use or reco
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by mcherm 5mo ago
So you are suggesting that a private communications and messaging system that proports to offer reliable anonymity is a reasonable use case for more-or-less unsupervised development by Claude? Because that is just the sort of use case where
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by mcherm 5mo ago
How does my attention, the time I spend reading news.ycombinator.com, pay for the site? I DON'T run an ad blocker, but I am not watching any ads here.
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by mcherm 6mo ago
The significance of the changeover would be much more impactful if the chart showed a longer history.
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by mcherm 6mo ago
It's the third sentence of the article: > the district court ruled that using the books to train LLMs was fair use but left for trial the question of whether downloading them for this purpose was legal.
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by mcherm 6mo ago
Many people are taking what I believe to be the wrong message here. I believe the author's intent was (or should have been) to describe how THEY wanted to receive communication, not how EVERYONE should. A skilled communicator will craf

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