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New comment by agency in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"

agency — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:09:40 +0000

Did you want the article to teach you read Classical Chinese?

New comment by agency in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

agency — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:21:54 +0000

> Since these representations appear to be largely inherited from training data, the composition of that data has downstream effects on the model’s emotional architecture. Curating pretraining datasets to include models of healthy patterns of emotional regulation—resilience under pressure, composed empathy, warmth while maintaining appropriate boundaries—could influence these representations, and their impact on behavior, at their source.

What better source of healthy patterns of emotional regulation than, uhhh, Reddit?

New comment by agency in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"

agency — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:43:42 +0000

You sure about that? It really comes off as LLM output to me, in its general structure and formatting, attention-grabbing opening sentences of paragraphs ("This ratio has a profound consequence:", "This distinction matters."x2), and the classic "it's not X, it's Y" stuff ("The collector is a hybrid optical-power megastructure, not a single dense slab of ordinary powersats.", "The shell does not interact with a small number of giant launchers. It interacts with a dense distributed network.")

New comment by agency in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

agency — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:28:50 +0000

I'm sure all the vibe coded slop that eats the SaaS market will be better about license attribution.

New comment by agency in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

agency — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:11:56 +0000

I'm using tailscale for this and am finding it great. I have an Unraid home server/NAS, which has quite nice tailscale integration. The server can be used as an exit node, and each containerized application/workload can be configured to use tailscale and get a nice (https) address that works in your tailnet. I'm not close to hitting the free tier limits, though I'd be happy to pay for it (and I do pay for mullvad through them)

New comment by agency in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

agency — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:33:14 +0000

I can't believe no one has brought up the legendary Apollo 10 "turd incident" https://archive.ph/J61jD

New comment by agency in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

agency — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:27:06 +0000

I always wondered what that juggling animation slide looked like!

New comment by agency in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

agency — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:46:29 +0000

Simple Made Easy[https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/] in particular had a huge impact on the way I think about writing software at a formative time in my development/career. I have not had the chance to use Clojure professionally, but thinking about software in terms of "intertwining" is the idea I return to when evaluating software designs, regardless of technology, and gave me a way to articulate what makes software difficult to reason about.

New comment by agency in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

agency — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:41:39 +0000

Maybe not saying things like

> '[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."

New comment by agency in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

agency — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:04:02 +0000

I don't think this is true, though enforcement is another thing and the standard is different than in securities markets. Prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC and the insider trading standard is “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information” (vs any “material non-public information” for securities) https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...

New comment by agency in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

agency — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:48:17 +0000

Haven't you heard? Crime is legal

New comment by agency in "Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework"

agency — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:25:30 +0000

shorter syntax != higher level of abstraction

New comment by agency in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

agency — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:40:08 +0000

> Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.

New comment by agency in "A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson"

agency — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:27:53 +0000

> Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western territories and the only general to be elected president since George Washington

Do they mean up to that point? Eisenhower was elected twice

New comment by agency in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

agency — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:26:17 +0000

So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...

New comment by agency in "ChatGPT Pulse"

agency — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:42:21 +0000

> I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago

Ok, so subjective

New comment by agency in "Slow Liquid"

agency — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:23:26 +0000

on an iPhone?

New comment by agency in "Woman Ignored Scam Texts About Overdue Bills. Turns Out They Were Real"

agency — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:50:09 +0000

I recently had similar experience where a legitimate text from my insurance company was 100% indistinguishable from a scam text, directing me to a link on allstate.yem.bo. You would think it would be in an insurance company's interest not to train their users to click on scam links but what do I know.

New comment by agency in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

agency — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:04:25 +0000

I find the claim (repeated verbatim in some of the comments here) that people with ADHD process stimulants differently particularly specious. Are there any medical studies/not-reddit threads that suggest anything like this?

New comment by agency in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

agency — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:27:11 +0000

This honestly seems safer than the OP since there's no way you could get up to speed on the tiny perpendicular leg