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The parent isn’t looking for pure walking, they’re looking for transit directions that include a higher amount of walking in order to save time overall.

At work I recently credited Claude with writing some of the tests in my PR. Why? Partly to apologize for the verbosity of the tests making them harder to review. Partly to set expe…

If the model was just too dumb to have any clue it was connected to the real internet, then it’s not its fault. If the model saw signs, but “subconsciously” (below the level of rea…

The review does in fact use the phrase “sex scenes”. Not that I disagree with your latter point.

The problem is that this stops working once you have multiple assignments to err in the same function.

If OpenAI is relying on “classifiers” (their word for what was disabled) to serve as the model’s judgement, rather than teaching the model itself to be well-aligned, then I worry. …

The paper you linked doesn’t reveal blurred versions of the images being hashed. It does train a classifier to determine which of 1,000 ImageNet classes an image belongs to, which …

No, it's a for loop that happens to include an unrelated variable declaration.

This can be used to fingerprint version range, but so can a million other things. Browsers are constantly adding new features and fixing bugs, most of which can be detected from Ja…

It is still meaningfully cross-platform to support all 3 major desktop platforms rather than just one.

I addressed some of these points in my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856158 I may have been a little overly specific, since there are other iss…

You’re thinking at the wrong scale. Rust allows circular dependencies just fine, within modules in a crate. And it’s extremely common for modules within a crate to have at least so…

> The issue is just that coding anything which uses shared memory is a lot of work. Doesn’t that kind of prove the parent’s point though? In theory shared memory can do anything th…

The forbidding of circular dependencies is exactly what makes it hard to achieve parallelism! It means you have to draw nice clean module boundaries and split your compilation unit…

I wonder how this post was composed. It's full of LLM-isms, but is also pretty informative and not too fluffy - basically, higher-quality than I'm used to seeing from LLM blog post…

I don’t know about “almost all”. If the key has been purged but you can read RAM, then you can do two things: 1. You can extract whatever user data happens to be in RAM. 2. If you …

> It just seems much much higher than what it would cost to get a human to play 30 rounds I suspect $482 was the total cost for all the models, so more like 11 humans. But still tr…

It happened a year ago in this country, with IRS sharing data with ICE (breaking a longstanding policy of keeping taxpayer data private within the government).

Beware: As of a few months ago, when I tried to use the lifetime features shown off in this post, I ran into constant compiler crashes with very simple programs, until I gave up an…

Disabling SIP still leaves the root filesystem as read-only and signature-checked (this is referred to as SSV, 'signed system volume'). There is a separate command to disable SSV, …

It's true that UEFI and ACPI cover a lot of ground whose equivalent on Apple Silicon is undocumented. But note that Linux on x86 does still rely on lots of reverse-engineered drive…

Gotta walk before you can run.

Yes. [1] [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...

It's because of the DMA. [1] The "privacy" angle here is that Apple wants to give Siri access to user data across the system, without offering any way for competitors to get at tha…

Not that Raymond.