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About advisedwang
I am a user of hackernews with username "advisedwang", an account that was created in Oct 12, 2010. You can find information about me at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=advisedwang.
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Comment #49211852
Right... label them differently. Now you're just arguing what the label should be
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Comment #49199711
Axon is a public company with market cap of $50B. It is an incumbent with a huge business in bodycams and tasers with a huge number of US police departments. Flock has a $7.5B valu…
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Comment #49186111
Yeah HA isn't the best choice. It can do some of that stuff, but will require lots of customization to do so. Plus I think you would find things it can't do at all.
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Comment #49184636
Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its …
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Comment #49173943
There's no such thing as legal ownership of data. There's IP rights, contracts and innumerable data regulation laws, but not actual ownership. "Ownership" here just provides a vagu…
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Comment #49173654
Open to all people, not open to all roads.
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Comment #49172752
> Camera data is owned by the police department and permanently deleted after 30 days There's so much going on in that sentence! What a thing of pure PR beauty. What does "owned" m…
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Comment #49172669
Labelling people as haters (or fanboys, for that matter) is just another way of dismissing people.
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Comment #49171693
And Iran, for that matter
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Comment #49171607
Users know to expect different things at different speeds, and have come to expect the actual "buy" button to be slow. 200ms is pretty fast for that, tbf
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Comment #49171027
You could, but there's two big reasons why this isn't useful: 1. The translation system would still have to implement the underlying ideas. For example, your spec might explain "ke…
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Comment #49151262
Dangerous game... getting in a legal battle is expensive and stressful even when you win.
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Comment #49129467
If you do it, don't say so in front of witness or where a call might be recorded.
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Comment #49115700
I love recap. Their pages are easier to use than PACER itself. I fetch from PACER when needed to contribute, and have never hit the $30 charging threshold.
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Comment #49115675
How do you know that this is the system prompt and not just a hallucination of the system prompt?
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Comment #49115662
My understanding is that it's not actually XML, but special tokens that can be injected into the input stream (and read from output stream). The XML format is just how those tokens…
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Comment #49115169
> what does it matter how much CO2 I produce Because the author of the piece is worried about the CO2 levels in their home, not about global warming. (well maybe they are worried a…
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Comment #49091376
Apparently it can take 2 months (or sometimes 4) before the initative is registered
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Comment #49090762
The page says "when Claude CLI is detected" so I don't think it's forcing anything. The title is misleading, it seems.
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Comment #49086728
Calibre has a feature that will fetch a rss feed or (IIRC) scrape a site and make an epub from it.
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Comment #49086143
To be fair, this was a comment about commercially produced cows milk.
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Comment #49086116
Perhaps just random variation? They only did one plate, after all.
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Comment #49078949
Relevant Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/ The interviewee seems pretty inept yet still managed to uncover something really interesting and nefarious…
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Comment #49038340
Most of them still have remote operators.
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Comment #49038314
Generally because they prioritize ease of operations over helping customers overcome jetlag. In this particular situation I'd guess the ease of operation comes from: * full custome…