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techcrunch.com 1mo ago

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

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artemislivetracker.com 3mo ago

Artemis II Tracker

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www.newsweek.com 1y ago

Red Sox Pitcher Confronts Commissioner About Gambling, Social Media Threats

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www.pnas.org 1y ago

Soft matter mechanics of baseball's Rubbing Mud

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Tell HN: AT&T is currently having an outage

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

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nerv.app 2y ago

NERV Disaster Prevention

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Universal Media Disc

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technology.mlblogs.com 3y ago

Weather Applied Metrics in Major League Baseball

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: When to release the first version of an iOS app?

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pitchcomsports.com 4y ago

PitchCom

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Gran Turismo 7 has been largely unplayable for hours due to server maintenance

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irc.com 5y ago

Introducing Irc.com by Freenode

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morganhilltimes.com 5y ago

Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

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www.sfchronicle.com 6y ago

‘It’s disgusting’: Will coronavirus force baseball to clean up its act?

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abcnews.go.com 6y ago

Alex Trebek reflects on cancer battle, hosting 'Jeopardy ' all these years

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sfi.usc.edu 6y ago

USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

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thedriven.io 6y ago

Elon Musk Challenges Porsche with Tesla Model S at Nürburgring

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twitter.com 7y ago

Microsoft 365 services are down

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Little Boxes

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www.cnn.com 7y ago

Rare color photos cast new light on World War II

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www.si.com 8y ago

Historic World Series Home Run Rate May Be Result of Slicker Baseballs

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

[video] DxOMark Smartphone Ratings: Explained (MKBHD)

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www.ft.com 8y ago

Amazon’s wearables plan puts Alexa on the move

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How do you think of ideas to surface data in new ways?

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theringer.com 9y ago

The Ringer: The Juiced Ball Is Back

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developer.pebble.com 9y ago

[Pebble] First Steps Forward with Fitbit

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www.theverge.com 9y ago

Twitter adds QR codes

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www.fastcompany.com 9y ago

Tilt Wants to Be Venmo, but Everywhere

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Why are social networks all moving to “what you missed” feeds?

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I can't remember who it was I spoke to recently, but it was some startup for doing code reviews. So I asked how they're handling larger diffs and especially when a code change is related to something requiring knowing a lot of context. Will it hallucinate things that make the review low-quality, etc. I was told "no it's been given guardrails to prevent hallucinations. it doesn't hallucinate." but I was thinking, that's not really how LLMs do or do not hallucinate, is it? (I'm not an AI person so I really don't know).

I try to do similar. I'll even break down parts of the plan into separate docs and have it solely refer to them one by one as needed with /clear between. It's a more manual process but not the worst. I could probably even whip up some kind of skill to automate it somewhat with subagents or similar.

I'd say the reliability statement is still a bit early (GRC has been out four years, GR Yaris with same engine has been out about 5-6). But so far it does seem fairly reliable at least up until someone decides to push the power limits for various components.

It's insanely fun. I previously had a BRZ which was also a lot of fun. This is a whole new beast. Especially in not ideal conditions (wet road in the fog on a mountain and presumably in snow or dirt).

Much of the time for a car like this it's more about changing the tone and maybe squeezing a bit more performance out of the car. But along with that there's usually a volume increase. It's a much smaller subset of car owners who change an exhaust just to have an obnoxiously loud one.

I really got into baseball cards a few years back. It is fun to collect for favorite players and all but once you realize it's a money pit you either are too deep and addicted or you're able to wean yourself back off it.

Fortunately it was the latter for me. I'd love to keep buying the stuff but it's such a waste. Better to buy singles I actually want. It's just not as fun as me being the one who pulled the card.

Even something that should be as fun as collecting and trading cards (baseball, pokemon, etc.) revolves around "pull odds" for rare cards. There are people spending thousands of dollars monthly just to rip a desirable card they could flip for money that in most cases would never make up for how much they spent just buying packs and boxes of the product.

Why not save progress and important results of a conversation (i.e. including tool calls and such) to a project markdown (even multiple as needed) and clear your context window completely rather than compacting many times? You can then just specify a markdown file to be included as context. Especially if following any kind of plan document and executing on a part of it.

I park in the back any time I go to Costco. the locations nearest to me are always packed to the brim. even the sort of "secret" extra spots that are behind the building and could be considered employee spots.

When I was a kid I needed growth hormone shots. we used regular syringes that fit into this tan plastic "gun" thing. you pulled back the top into a locked position. placed the tip of the gun to the skin where the needle should inject, and pressed the trigger button to release the lock. can't remember if it also pushed the plunger though. this was back in the 90's.

I think planning is a big part. ironically, this wasn't a part of my typical routine as an engineer before AI came around. Sure I thought through the work or ticket I was assigned but not always at as much of a birds eye view.

Nowadays with AI I try to start most tasks with a plan, review each phase/step, research parts I'm more unsure of, and try to refine it. Ironically it's more of a dev cycle like process anyway IMO.

Waymo Premier 1 month ago

One time I hopped in an Uber and got a missionary-like lecture on Islam and an invite to go to a mosque.

More typical of Christians so it kind of threw me off.

But anyway, a paid service shouldn't be starting that kind of conversation unless for some reason I started it and even then that'd make it just as uncomfortable for the driver.

Siri AI 1 month ago

we were doing the same thing and giggling a bit that it's basically "AI AI" now. realistically a lot of people thought of Siri as AI already.

While I partly agree, I also disagree. I still use Instagram a lot to keep in touch with friends I've made in different places. Generally as long as they are making posts then my feeds have those posts. It's only when they do not and supposedly IG "runs out" that I don't.

Personally what I hate more is that there are some content creators I've been happy to support over the years and now instead of doing regular content posts they now do the "collab post" thing as an ad that looks like a regular post. Some of them may do but many do not.

as a student back in 2012, the CS program i was in was mostly people who wanted to make games. that's just one person's POV but most people i knew at the time weren't really into anything else in software.

At my most recent role we were definitely being judged by output metrics (both jira tickets completed and github prs merged). They showed us the jellyfish tool they used to check those metrics. Well, some of it. Regular ICs themselves didn't have that access.

A while back I had a reservation with a hotel on Booking and I received a phish attempt that came directly via the Booking site domain email and also DMs but "sent" by the hotel. When I looked into it at the time, it seemed less like an issue of hotels specifically having their accounts infiltrated and more like some kind of message/email endpoint on Booking's end was being abused in a similar manner.

I'm not sure this is the same type of issue but found this interesting, especially since apparently it's been reported to MS and no action has been taken.