shalmanese

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by shalmanese 5d ago
We don’t have to rely on polling as the 2019 district elections happened in HK that November and the message was extremely clear that the bulk of the population was pro-protestors and anti-the HK government: https://en.wikipedia.
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by shalmanese 14d ago
But that's the entire point. Pair programming isn't for producing more working code in this session faster. It's that it empirically is the fastest way to erase knowledge gaps because the two of you are working on a shared ar
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by shalmanese 1mo ago
> Except OpenRouter sees all your prompts, sends your requests to different providers with pinky promises that they dont use your data, and is therefore a non starter for any company who cares about compliance. OpenRouter provides a Zero
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by shalmanese 1mo ago
> Probably. But I like reading a lot of articles I'm not the target audience for, because I like learning things. OK, but the definition of not being the target audience is you bear that burden, not the author. If the author bore
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by shalmanese 1mo ago
I’ve been caught in a bug the last month where every day, it will ask me to complete a captcha, it tells me my account is banned, I click a button and it says congrats, I’m unbanned now and the first five likes I click tell me about how I’m
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by shalmanese 1mo ago
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created some absurd token burning architectures.
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
They don't need to care, they just need to learn to tune it out, after which it becomes ineffective. Characteristic of this style of AI art is pseudo-detail: the artwork looks busy but when you inspect the detail, it contains no inform
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
I had an amazing AI system that did this and worked well for me. What you did was you started off with the high level vision of the story, you'd figure out the characters in detail, supply their motivation, think about how those things
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
> I feel like there's this one random comment on HN that should be adopted on its merits alone, but everyone will ignore for no good reason. Because it's populist slop, just like how every long enough discussion about governmen
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
> I think there’s a lot of social media influence from nation state competitors going on to try and slow SOTA development in the US. No sign of datacenter activity at the local 4-H club either. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the com
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
ICE was a reshuffle of the INS and a few ancillary departments but the core functions are continuous. It's like saying Meta has only been around for 5 years, most of the engineers were doing their previous job unchanged by the rebrand.
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
Why not submit with ?utm_source=hn instead which is far better understood by indexers etc. and is generally supported inside of CRMs to allow for paywall free access.
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
"Survival", as conceptualized as an industry, is that you're holed up in a secure location with adequate food, ammunition and other essentials to last months to years. Plenty of preppers who diligently prepared bunkers for th
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
The Youtuber AwakeWithJP has constantly shifted his apparent political beliefs over time in a cynical attempt to find new audiences. He started off as a crunchy granola hippy, then an "anti-woke" activist before going full Trumper
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
I think it's impossible to grapple with this without fully reckoning with the impact of porn. One thing I like to ask people is if they can name me an openly straight female pornstar. That is, a female porn star that has never appeared
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
One test I now use on survival related material, especially ones written pre-COVID, is how long does it take them before they start talking about how to cut hair. One thing we learned during COVID was a significant limitation in people&#x27
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
No, by far the most parsimonious explanation is they got slapped by a capricious US government so they went overboard on caution in an attempt not to generate any more controversy. A predictable response of chaotic government regulation.
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
Whatever else it is, it definitely isn’t AI written.
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by shalmanese 2mo ago
Software owner learns that posting blog posts about their support woes also doesn't lead to an outpouring of love.
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
> Why can't my password be a 5KB long Because that opens you up to an entirely new class of attack. You have to set the limit somewhere and if you set it at INT_MAX, then a malicious user could find a O(n^2) path in your password va
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. You're never going to have success optimizing a system towards goals that are not the goals of the system. You need to first assess what the system is optimizing towards in the first place and n
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
I think the most important thing to be aware of is that your own personal estimation in how willing some group of people is to help is regularly off by several orders of magnitude. I've had people assume that person X must be asked sev
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
What I'm curious about is why all AI written articles try to hide they were written with AI vs being open about it. I'd actually be far more willing to engage with an AI written article if the author shares the chat transcripts th
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
The more parsimonious explanation is that commercial jet engine production is downstream of commercial airbody production and China's currently limited by COMAC's scaling woes. All the money and talent in the world can't repl
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
> It's a shallow article. Yeah, because it was generated by AI. As soon as I got to "That is the pattern worth naming. Most rewrites answer to the engineer - ", I stopped reading.
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
This is a counter intuitive result around surveying. Best way I’ve found to explain it is if you want to test if a soup is too salty, it’s about the size of the spoon, not the size of the pot.
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
Be warned though, the equity you are granted will be exceedingly illiquid.
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by shalmanese 3mo ago
"The three effects are not separable knobs. You cannot dial in one without moving the other two. The browning claim is the contested one, so it is worth pinning down. " Is classic Claude-speak.
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by shalmanese 4mo ago
The paradox is that we love reading our own AI generated writing and hate reading anyone else's AI generated writing. On a recent weeklong trip to the Philippines, I generated over a 500 page novel's worth of content from AI aroun
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by shalmanese 4mo ago
The entire "blame" paradigm is unproductive. Does Lyft "blame" Uber for it's lowered market share? The entire system (including nurses and technicians) are just agents making semi-rational decisions in their own sel

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