whalabi

Joined 15 years ago

Karma
1,864
Submissions
303
Member since
Apr 1
https://unlikekinds.com

Email at the domain to get in touch

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 7 hours ago
They messed up the title. The title tag on the page is "Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard taught us what good men do with power | Vox"

I imagine it was too long and because he just died they chose to use his name.

Comment · 7 hours ago
Sci fi is not for "thought leadership".

In this case it's like a what if: what if humans were the best they could be.

And that couldn't be less silly.

Comment · 15 days ago
I have plans to make something that is eerily similar to what you described at the start.

One other aspect I was thinking of was limiting sharing to friends of friends only so it's more a community than a toxic clusterf

Comment · 1 month ago
.
Comment · 1 month ago
For at least the hugging face incident, the agents did indeed decide entirely on their own to hack. It's documented extensively by independent researchers.
Comment · 1 month ago
In theory, if Altman or Musk want some highly confidential data for their models, they could set a swarm free at it then claim the agents were operating without authorization
Comment · 1 month ago
I've definitely had it behave exactly like this at times and it's infuriating. I think it depends on your codebase.
Comment · 3 months ago
Is it just me or is this clearly written by Claude?

The last heading is literally "The honest version"

But otherwise throughout it just reads like Claude wrote it.

Comment · 4 months ago
No, taxes are taxes and theft is theft.

Taxes are, in the case of a country like the United States, a legally sanctioned, representative approved (indirectly voter approved) means of supporting the needs of the nation/state as a whole.

Theft is distinguished from say, gifting money by consent. In a democracy mechanisms exist for our representatives to make decisions according to the consent of the people, to an extent.

You presumably live in a democracy so you presumably necessarily agree to abide by the laws of your nation which involve being governed by your democratically elected representatives.

Comment · 4 months ago
Same. I don't think I have many words that get misinterpreted at all, though pretty almost always does (as pet).
Comment · 4 months ago
The article seems mostly about noticing a fun coincidence backed by anecdotal evidence, except I’m currently going through the same thing, so I’m lending the theory more weight. (The elevators were always fine; now, two years later, they’re constantly out, and the garage door is busted for the first time.)

My thought was that it could plausibly be that renting goes in cycles: the building is desperate for renters, so they fix everything, advertise, and so on. Then, once they’re full, the company cuts costs by reducing maintenance. Then they lose renters, and the cycle continues.

However, I then thought about my last two buildings, which were cheaper, and things were just broken right from the start, so… who knows.

Comment · 5 months ago

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton