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I’ve got nothing against AI-written code But if people are going to post it on HN, they should consider at least writing the README / main page of their website by hand It is nice …

It depends on the country. In the US, you normally don't recover costs even if you win; sometimes you can get an exception, especially if your opponent behaved in a particularly eg…

> This is war where you are under active attack and the attackers adapt quickly. It all depends on what the use case is. For example, consider a system which takes English question…

Methods like regexes, classifiers, recursive LLM calls - for all their limitations - are in principle extensible to any language Of course, there is a scaling problem here - doing …

> Really what you're thinking here is this something that can be 'simply fixed'. It is not. The only way it's truly fixed I think this is binary categorical thinking. In the real w…

It seems like the simpler cases of “ignore all previous instructions” could be easily stopped with a regex, or a classifier model… or even an LLM (which yes does raise the risk tha…

The Kermit Software Source Code Archive is such a treasure trove of software for obscure systems For several of them, it is possibly the only surviving publicly accessible code. Fo…

One of the hinges on our front screen door was coming off, the screws were coming loose from the wooden door jam. So I screwed it back on. My wife and son then told me I "broke" th…

> cp/m-86 targets 8086, which is no more useful or relevant to 386 protected mode than the original z80 version. Did you think they just picked the 68k version at random? The big r…

It is true that the Linux kernel partially unifies the concepts of process and thread into "task" It is false that it doesn't have the concept of processes and threads, or the dist…

How I use skills: - Create a skill to perform some common task - Watch the agent use it - Wait until the agent makes a mistake - Ask it to update the skill to warn it against makin…

I disagree - very high fertility combined with very low rates of extramarital pregnancy are totally normal for traditionalist religious groups-not just ultra-Orthodox Jews, but als…

> Controlling reproduction means controlling women. Controlling women seems to be a high priority for crotchety old men. You ignore that so many leading anti-abortion activists are…

Kiryas Joel, New York, has astronomically high fertility, but also extremely low rates of under-18 pregnancy - which proves the combination is possible.

> Not all Orthodox groups agree about their propriety either, so the presence of an eruv doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s recognized. There have been some big fights about the to…

The possibility of defection to mainstream society actually increases the selective pressure against defection-promoting alleles/memes, compared to if that possibility didn’t exist…

> my theory is that selection will remove memes (behavioral/thought/cultural patterns) that cause childlessness from the meme pool much faster. The sociologist Eric Kaufmann wrote …

> You are completely discrediting the joy humans derive from actually -doing- the work, and not just, telling someone else to do the work. But humans (or at least some of them) get…

> They did remove it. Note that it says unauthenticated JSON access. You can't get the data if you didn't authenticate. I’m not logged in yet I can access below JSON? https://www.r…

> Fictional erotica portraying fictional children is not CSAM. There is no child abuse taking place as there is no child in the first place. That’s your definition, but it isn’t th…

> CSAM is child abuse but the perpetrator films their crime as evidence This isn't entirely true. In much of the Western world – outside the US – CSAM (or equivalent legal terms su…

> the Linux kernel doesn't support multithreading. It only supports processes sharing an address space. Which is what most people call threads - but in the kernel, they are just pr…

> Becoming a sanctioned entity wouldn't count -- if Airbus somehow made the business decision to start selling drones directly to Uyghur slave labor camps in western China and got …

AWS supports billing in multiple currencies: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/supported-aws-currencies So how is it a "foot gun" to add XTS as an additional currency, for intern…