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Yes. However, using something like MCP encourages many companies to claim that they are "integrating AI" -- and typical MCP implementations burn tokens quite profitably.

Anthropic just said they're going to limit the ability of the new model to assist with building foundational models. The ability to assess the user's goal and tune the inference ac…

Heard a tongue-in-cheek comment about "building a god" from someone at one of these AI labs. The builders believe that the machine you describe will judge them positively, purely b…

> As a company, Anthropic always does as much as it can to work with customers to find creative new use cases and new sources of revenue that allow them to do more with their exist…

The First Reconstruction was a very different civ-mil scenario. The military protected freedmen from the various insurgent and paramilitary groups that sought to deprive freedmen o…

Not OP but -- there is reporting by The Intercept on a leak of guidance that explicitly contains double standards. [1] Before the leak there was already data-driven analysis about …

Having a system of rules does not mean that the system is inherently well-designed or well-intentioned.

It would be interesting to see the effect on average noise levels. Anecdotally, I have heard fewer honks from single unit trucks today.

"Real" is a misnomer. Interest expenses aren't included in the CPI adjustment for real wage growth. Decreases in used/new vehicle prices wouldn't necessarily offset increases in fo…

What are the units for the x-axis? I'm assuming milliseconds from context, but not having the axis labeled obfuscates the interpretation.

High school related questions can be a way for companies to infer your socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity, etc. Some companies even ask for the specific high school.

The author contradicts their own advice to avoid flowery prose, “show don’t tell”, and to use “nothing but words” — they frequently use italics and punctuation for added emphasis. …

> real outcomes in life are often the product of the expectations placed on you Quote from the following article: “But the gap between optimism and reality is far greater for white…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285162

> seems to imply It doesn't. It's crucial to understand how the socioeconomic landscape was shaped in context. Policies and historical movements are relevant to the analysis. Socia…

> it seemed like many people got a ‘deal’ > So while in the 50's, the advantages to being more high status seemed almost cosmetic, today, they're anything but. The “deal” you are r…

The widespread racism and sexism of the 50’s was not “one thing” and it’s not just in the past. There is such a thing as missing the forest for the trees. Socioeconomic status is i…

Greed is not the same as ambition. The difference is in ethical considerations and societal impact. Wanting a basic quality of life isn't a "level up," it's part of the human condi…

> I worry very few people respect how being wished out of existence so that females can enjoy plastics and pesticides impacts men. This is an incredibly sexist framing. No person “…

According to a university official, with no explanation of how they came up with that number. Unions typically needs a certain percent of the vote to approve a strike. IMO — this w…

The article is quoting Temple’s VP of Human Resources for that number, and therefore the number can’t be taken at face value.

> Was Aristotle misogynistic? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_views_on_women

Affirmative action is not illegal. If you take action to prevent adverse impact to any protected class, that is not discrimination. If a company hires only white men and rejects ev…