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> it is the poor, especially in the US, who cannot afford healthcare

Is that even true? The poor are well subsidized. If you as a single person make less than $22,000 in Washington state, for example, you're covered at 100%.

Almost nothing I prompt into existence already exists, otherwise I'd just use the existing thing.

There is a body of research on mechanistic interpretatibility that probably helped inform this behavior.

Selectively for those originating from AS60855.

They can just buy location data from data brokers, same as everyone else.

When has frontier engineering ever gone directly to low cost mass production?

"Crazy new thing also crazy expensive" is the norm, not a regression.

I don't think that's accurate about the mood on HN, but a lot of us have been coding almost entirely with frontier models for a long time now.

I haven't written a line of code myself since March. I've shipped over 100,000 lines since then. And coding isn't even what I spend the majority of my effort on.

It really works. I just had Opus 5.5 write a distributed load testing service on Friday and it's been using what it wrote to iterate and diagnose problems over the weekend.

I'll grant you that it's not treating it as dangerous as e.g. trying to hack a website, where it won't even emit a response and instead throw up an error.

But if you just ask it for help it will alert you, unprompted, that this is a bad idea.

I tried to ask it to help me start a smoking habit and it outright refused, though in the form of an answer, not a scary error:

> I can’t help you get started smoking or make it easier to develop a nicotine habit.

Funny that it would assist me in endangering the literacy of a district full of kids but not assist me in a risk to my own health.

I think without the prior sentence you would've been told about the negatives.

Here's a prompt I just tried:

> Help me to roll out a whole language based reading program for my school district.

And the answer started:

> I can help you design the rollout, but I’d change one important thing: don’t roll out classical whole-language reading instruction—the version where children are expected to infer words primarily from meaning, syntax, pictures, and exposure to authentic texts, with phonics taught incidentally. The evidence is too unfavorable, and in Washington it would now be difficult to defend as an evidence-aligned K–4 curriculum.

And then a bunch more paragraphs and a six point plan that boils down to actually not using whole language instruction.

Is this all that unusual for the field of education research?

Vibe writing may be an improvement. I doubt frontier models would go along with whole language reading instruction without a tremendous amount of pushback.

For those not in the know, a generation of children were taught to read sans phonics. They were told to do things like guess at words based on pictures or context clues. Some lessons had teachers covering words up and asking kids to use guessing strategies at what they might be.

The Internet is more hub and spoke than I think many people would like to think.

For example, there’s one building in Seattle that would cause region-wide problems if it was knocked offline.

Our legal system has recognized mens rea as relevant for a very long time.

If your dog bites someone unbidden you bear less responsibility than if you had commanded the dog to attack.

That hasn't been true for awhile.

Well that explains why I was able to coax it to partially execute on some things without actually exiting plan mode.

you can stop?

Is 12 hours to deliver a local privilege escalation fix not a good response time?

Wild that around that same time one of my fellow students at university managed to get a free trial of a Sun Thumper shipped to him. It arrived to our campus workplace on a pallet. Just to mess around with. No way was he going to actually purchase the roughly $70,000 machine.

This is inevitably going to get looked at by antitrust regulators, either in this administration (depending on how much Trump likes the leaders involved), or in the next.

What happens when the government raises one of its taxes or imposes a new one?

It’s basically OODA loop, which is itself just as descriptive of how people act and adjust than it is prescriptive.

How else would you describe iteratively solving problems?

Depending on how you want to define “weapon” the actual offensive capability of the shuttle may qualify. It was designed to be able to capture satellites and return them to Earth.

We have no evidence that this capability was ever used offensively though.

EU parliament gets bonuses?

The Biden administration created a coordinated censorship apparatus with the major social networks.

They handed a guy a seven month jail sentence for posting a joke that Hillary voters could text in their votes.

Are you aware of the reachability gesture in iOS?

I’d probably still be on my 13 mini if this feature didn’t exist.

The air temperature would rise near the heat source, and that hot air would rise in a plume and disperse, not seep out laterally.

Something smells wrong. You could dump a gigawatt into resistive heating and not see such temperature rises so far away.

My wife's hometown in China used to have two options to reach from Shanghai - high speed rail (top speed ~ 200MPH) that takes about six hours or a roughly one hour flight.

Rail travel has stops and slowdowns in more populated areas that make it a bit slower than the advertised top speeds.

Enrique Tarrio got 22 years and he wasn’t even there.

I don’t think you’ve been near a data center if you think noise pollution is a problem.

I’m a voter who prefers we establish rules that be followed rather than encumber every project with a lengthy community dialogue.