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Comment #49152140
I mean sure but I’m curious to what extent and why it’s so obvious to some. I haven’t seen this sort of language in a marketing post before.
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Comment #49150823
“self-evolves through feedback loops” Does this mean they distilled Claude? Sounds like what Claude Code will often do.
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Comment #48929609
I wonder if we can trust that it will actually be deleted though based upon what happened to DOGE and Social Security data https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-so…
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Comment #48367659
or maybe they don’t actually cache (fully) but lie and just don’t charge the user right now. at least half the users, who are probably also using the most similar tokens / prompts,…
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Comment #48363284
i meant the credit card number itself
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Comment #48352658
credit card itself can’t be used to ad targeting. But plenty of proxies make this point largely irrelevant.
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Comment #48352224
besides proof-of-work, is there any realistic alternative to fingerprinting?
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Comment #48333336
Because Jane Street is unabashed about greed, and yet they do not let that greed lead them into attempting to pollute and derive us of our attention every day.
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Comment #48008279
Isn’t this sort of just “chain of thought” (i.e. the seminal https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903 ) where the user is helping the model 1-shot or k-shot the solution instead of 0-shot?…
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Comment #47983815
While I like that you debunked the article . . . I want to hear an argument for where the SWE job market can grow in a post-Claude world. I might expect something like: “CEOs are n…
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Comment #46584324
It’s not cutting corners. Apple does most of their testing using strictly internal resources, like secret “mini malls” in the Silicon Valley area. They fail because this testing bi…
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Comment #46462305
Appreciate the nature and scale of the internet... and also how it's changing though, yeah? While I agree with much of the article's thesis, it sadly appears to ignore the current …
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Comment #45238220
Yes but two other considerations: 1) Assume the buyer/seller holds capital from sources that the majority of the market considers “illicit” and/or is legally sanctioned and/or phys…
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Comment #44363471
uv can also run even a beefy linux desktop out of file descriptors for larger projects. And does not have deterministic / reproducible installs. Still needs maturity.
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Comment #44286502
A key idea premise is that LLMs will probably replace search engines and re-imagine the online ad economy. So today is a key moment for content creators to re-shape their business …
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Comment #43790618
Who has a $2.4m RSU package but only $330k remaining in a mortgage? The four dozen Google L7s who bought foreclosures in East Palo Alto?
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Comment #43677589
A candidate wants a _competitive_ offer. While stock is almost impossible to compare across offers, candidates can at least stack-rank the company’s funding and check to see how th…
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Comment #43235577
Also know a non-smoker who got lung cancer, in particular a (rather rare) genetically sensitive form. Most of the damage ended up to the bones and brain versus the lungs.
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Comment #43111150
Hugginface is mostly AWS, so these experiments might be done on an AWS-provided cluster? I wonder how many of the results are reproducible on "open market" clusters listed on e.g. …
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Comment #43033131
And/or try contacting a bank (one of the underwriters?) to see if they’ll loan you cash for taxes using the RSUs as collateral. A lot of early Uber employees were able to get loans…
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Comment #42828643
It’s also important to weight dramatic changes in the White House this week, too, right? There’s the intel itself, but then there’s also the guy trying to control the news cycle.
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Comment #42828609
Need to also consider the ones that had a qualified exit event and then the product got axed (e.g. aquihire or just customer acquisition). It’s a very different graveyard but in ma…
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Comment #42475113
And do regularly call in for a discount or fee revision. A few years ago AT&T credited me over $700 for years of over-charging for an improperly disconnected line. I got the refund…
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Comment #42458419
> We cannot find qualified applicants. By chance has your employer posted on HN who’s hiring?