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New comment by tadzikpk in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

tadzikpk — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:55:05 +0000

On page 13 you'll see _why_ the judges don't apply the letter of the law - they're seeking to do justice to the victims _in spite of_ the law.

"there is another possible explanation: the human judges seek to do justice. The materials include a gruesome description of the injuries the plaintiff sustained in the automobile accident. The court in the earlier proceeding found that she was entitled to [details] a total of $750,000.10. It then noted that she would be entitled to that full amount under Nebraska law but only $250,000 under Kansas law." So the judge's decision "reflects a moral view that victims should be fully compensated ... This bias is reflected in Klerman and Spamann’s data: only 31% of judges applied the cap (i.e., chose Kansas law), compared to the expected 46% if judges were purely following the law." "By contrast, GPT applied the cap precisely"

Far from making the case for AI as a judge, this paper highlights what happens when AI systematically applies (often harsh) laws vs the empathy of experienced human judgement.

New comment by tadzikpk in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

tadzikpk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:28:58 +0000

> I'm sad that a lot more people don't know that Signal for Desktop is much, much less secure against adversaries with your laptop

Educate us. What makes it less secure?

New comment by tadzikpk in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

tadzikpk — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:50:08 +0000

I live in MA and wish that this were true, but do you have data / evidence to support that it rarely happens? Also, I don't know if you have tried to get your $10, but it's not like the sign is always obvious and every time I've tried, it's not like the cashier says "oops" and gives you the thing for free - they call a manager, the manager argues with you, other customers complain about the checkout delay you've created... there's social pressure there so I can understand why customers would not do this even when they can.

New comment by tadzikpk in "What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)"

tadzikpk — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:58:03 +0000

PNRs also contain info on the Form of Payment used to pay for the ticket, in case you were ever wondering who's paying for their airfares in cash...

New comment by tadzikpk in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

tadzikpk — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:51:07 +0000

That tracks. I learnt Gaeilge Uladh growing up and standard Irish feels like reading or writing a legal agreement compared to the spoken word…

New comment by tadzikpk in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

tadzikpk — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:42:38 +0000

> 2. Not removing students with bad behavior from classrooms and schools

This is basically _the_ reason people send their kids to private schools

New comment by tadzikpk in "Engineered Addictions"

tadzikpk — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:36:30 +0000

Right, maybe social networks are a utility, like electricity or ISPs

New comment by tadzikpk in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

tadzikpk — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:58:01 +0000

The friction of changing bank accounts is high, and few people choose their bank accounts based on how easy the online authentication is. Unless a bank does this meaningfully much worse than their competitors (low bar) they have little incentive to fix it.

If you think TD is bad, try some European countries where there's only a handful of banks...

New comment by tadzikpk in "Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods"

tadzikpk — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:13:03 +0000

This is so informative, thank you. I always got my kids baby food in glass, thinking it would reduce their microplastics exposure as well as reducing plastic waste. Turns out only one of those was true :(

New comment by tadzikpk in "Cars suck, man"

tadzikpk — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:44:46 +0000

There’s whole sites dedicated to this problem, example https://thecarseatlady.com/narrowest-car-seats/

But if you pick narrow seats you can make it work. I have 3 car seats in the back of a 2016 Subaru Legacy, which also generally a bloatfree car

New comment by tadzikpk in "Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition"

tadzikpk — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:17:24 +0000

If this credential is still valid 2 years later, what is their credential rotation policy?

New comment by tadzikpk in "Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)"

tadzikpk — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:23:59 +0000

You simply need a colder wall…

New comment by tadzikpk in "How to be a -10x Engineer"

tadzikpk — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:33:41 +0000

Oh, you forgot “publish a service with undocumented limitations that others are required to use”. You can easily achieve -10x that way!

New comment by tadzikpk in "Ask HN: Looking for Email Service Recommendations"

tadzikpk — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:09:45 +0000

Most important is to use your own domain name for your email. That way you can switch providers as you like without having to change your address, and all the hassle that goes with that.

Personally, I like Migadu for mail hosting. The mail gets delivered, the price is reasonable, and there’s good tech support

New comment by tadzikpk in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

tadzikpk — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:57:46 +0000

Use Che browser to mimic your usual device…

https://chebrowser.site/