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> Possible false positive because of the text was translated from Japanese to English with AI? People say this a lot, but I've never seen Claude or any other LLM insert clichéd LLM…

The federal government outlaws "knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" to obtain information from any "protected computer" (which, in …

The loser of every suit will simply always appeal the AI decision, thus requiring a human decision anyway.

> they ultimately launched what was by then the 7th or 8th AI-related product with essentially the same name let me guess, they called it "Copliot"

Yeah but, Taxi drivers usually don't hop around from place to place. They work in a specific metro area.

Well (to make an analogy), nature produces psychopaths - some people's brains just aren't capable of empathy. Whether you characterize that observation as "legitimizing" or just "b…

> Although guarded methods seem necessary, unfortunately, I don’t know of any mainstream languages that allow their definition. C++ has this feature. When you define a template cla…

if the government was able to lie on the jobs report, why wouldn't they just continuously pretend that jobs are up from now all the way through the election? (all the way through t…

Curious what you mean by this. There is very, very little medical knowledge today that aligns with historical folk wisdom. (Even simple things like "an apple a day" - apples are fi…

It can be both. Bell Labs performed a lot of speculative research while still producing economically valuable technology.

Like how OpenAI is (was?) structured as a nonprofit?

Plenty of companies in (or adjacent to) the AI space are still getting acquired and/or finding VC funding, even as funding in other spaces is drying up.

Meh. It does all sound rather grandiose, but in this startup economy I'm sure he can at least manage to get acquired. At least he's pursuing something more novel than yet another "…

It's a well-made show, for sure. Expertly crafted, visually, and very well-acted. Though I found the pacing questionable - there were (generously) 6 episodes worth of plot spread o…

I see nothing wrong with this, neither in principle nor in practice. Also, this was merged over 6 months ago without incident. What is the purpose of this HN submission?

Haven't encountered "marbles in an airplane"-style brainteasers, but leetcode challenges are definitely still the norm at Google and other big tech. Not sure who was claiming other…

For what it's worth, a GSL developer later reopened that GitHub issue and stated that they're going to look into fixing the UB. Sutter may have just been stating an assumption. htt…

GSL is not the standard library nor an internal runtime library. Its GitHub page claims that it supports a variety of compilers: > The GSL officially supports recent major versions…

the new Windows Terminal had horrendous performance when it first came out. in the aftermath of the drama surrounding that, was when I first started seeing a lot of terminal emulat…

How do you define a trait that is itself generic? Like: trait ConvertTo[T]: fun convert(self) -> T; Seems to create a single trait ConvertTo, for a generic type with a [T] argument…

If all you're doing with a bunch of cash over 18 years (!) is holding it in a bank account to collect interest, you're just losing money to inflation. Bank interest is almost nothi…