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New comment by jrflowers in "How to earn a billion dollars"

jrflowers — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:28:17 +0000

> Maaaybe we need to revisit some of these easy assumptions on your list?

Nobody said that banning Airbnb would by itself make buying housing in New York more accessible. It’s not an assumption that anybody in good faith ever made.

New comment by jrflowers in "FarOutCompany"

jrflowers — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:07:58 +0000

Some of them do, like Black Bear Ranch. I’d wager that there are more that just don’t advertise.

New comment by jrflowers in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

jrflowers — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:45:20 +0000

> (presumably) some qualm

This sounds like you’re imagining how prosecutors as a group sort of feel about things, generally, and that this notion you’ve thought of outweighs the demonstrable real-world system where prosecutors are awarded for convictions, full stop.

New comment by jrflowers in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

jrflowers — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:23:39 +0000

Why would you do that

New comment by jrflowers in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

jrflowers — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:56:55 +0000

The other party needs to run better candidates. It’s their job to drive voter turnout in their favor (not internet argument warriors) and they’ve lost two out of the last three elections by sabotaging their own primaries and doing “Our candidate isn’t good but at least they’re not a got dang cheeto!!” campaigns.

“Less bad doesn’t have to mean good” is a mantra with a current 67% loss rate, soon to be 75%, and then 80% four years after that if they keep trying it. And they’ll keep blaming the voters that they failed every time.

New comment by jrflowers in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jrflowers — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:24:31 +0000

>So you see why it's an important distinction.

No it isn’t. Your treatment of the word ‘opinion’ is wrong. Opinions are subjective, you can’t construct a gotcha out of pretending otherwise.

New comment by jrflowers in "We've suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5"

jrflowers — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:40:54 +0000

> rejecting out of hand the idea that there could be a true threat requiring genuine caution.

What true threat could possibly exist where the models are perfectly fine to use, just only by American citizens?

New comment by jrflowers in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jrflowers — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:37:03 +0000

Are you asking somebody what evidence they have that their observations are wrong? Like “I see you have an opinion there. What facts are you aware of that disprove it?”

New comment by jrflowers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jrflowers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:38:49 +0000

Imagining a time machine from the future arriving in 2020, of all the years, just to tell people about how sort of cool chat bots might get eventually

New comment by jrflowers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jrflowers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:34:11 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jrflowers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jrflowers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:14:06 +0000

I think GP meant Cortana from the Halo video game series and not the start menu bar widget

New comment by jrflowers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jrflowers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:51:22 +0000

It’s a pretty glowing review about a product that costs money with a two-sentence “Watch out!” at the end of it. Seems pretty reasonable to mention how much money it burned through given that “it’ll circumnavigate the globe instead of walking next door” has a direct concrete measurable effect (cost) unlike theoretical damage.

New comment by jrflowers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jrflowers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:11:22 +0000

I’d love to know how many tokens this burned through.

Did it spend $20? $30? $80? in order to

> debug what was, in the end, a two-line CSS fix

That detail is the difference between somebody having or not having Stockholm syndrome

New comment by jrflowers in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

jrflowers — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:52:26 +0000

“A business that does things that customers actually like is a charity” lmao

New comment by jrflowers in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

jrflowers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:20:10 +0000

Looks like it’s 380 in the Swiss Plateau (you might be mixing up sq km and sq mi), which puts its at about ~70% of the population density of the Netherlands as a whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Plateau

New comment by jrflowers in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

jrflowers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:07 +0000

If you increased Switzerland’s population density by 50% they’d be in a crowded hellhole like (checks notes) Belgium

New comment by jrflowers in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jrflowers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:55:06 +0000

They wiped out anybody that was hampering their businesses. Leaving the rest as an impossible barrier to entry for everybody else is a feature, not a bug.

Gemini is currently charging us $1K per hour due a bug with the cache feature

jrflowers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:54:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/_oliveiradanilo/status/2063660986213490882

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442868

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by jrflowers in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

jrflowers — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:29:02 +0000

I am not sure what to tell you here, because somebody literally posted the code of a bug that Claude inserted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419197

And your response to someone pointing out that sloppy, buggy code that Claude introduced, was to just quote Tridge (which does not in any way refute the fact that you’re looking at a bug that Claude introduced to the code)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419621

I’m not entirely sure what the purpose of this project is (maybe to “prove” Tridge’s opinions about LLMs and human intelligence that he made in the linked blog post to be right?), but it appears as though you are ignoring irrefutably true observations. You just asserted that “the data” doesn’t show Claude introducing any bugs (which is a bizarre claim) after previously responding to a documented bug with a… deferral? Do bugs not count if you can find a vague excuse for it?

There is nothing in the blog post that is evidence that Claude didn’t introduce bugs. It is a thought experiment that uses “increase bugs” and “increase bugs more than a given arbitrary statical amount that I selected” as interchangeable statements.

New comment by jrflowers in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

jrflowers — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:11:28 +0000

The only reason why people are talking about this is because of the bugs in the code that the chat bot generated OP. People updated to a version of rsync that didn’t work right, the one with all the bot commits in it. This blog post is about how claude didn’t create more bugs than usual if you think about it in one very specific way, not that it didn’t create more bugs at all.

It is like if your neighbor opens your door and a dog walks in, there’s no point in doing some weird analysis about all the times you yourself have let a dog walk in. He still did that.