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As somebody who met my spouse on there, I can confirm that their algorithm was amazing back in the day.

Though it definitely wasn’t income proxies as the only criteria, it probably was a decent part..

I also met a couple other people that I had good relationships with on that site. All in the 90%+ range of their compatibility scores. There weren’t many people in those tiers for me though. Any time a 90% match appeared was a big deal, there were only ever a few!

Anyone I met in the 80% range was usually also pretty great

Go much below their 80% match score and meeting in person didn’t usually go so well.

I asked Claude to research for me so don’t take this as truth but it sounds like

(a) as the levels drop below 300M barrels, pumping out of the reserve is much less efficient, so we can’t necessarily draw it down as quickly as when it’s full. So the lower it gets, the less useful it is

And (b) there are a lot of varying estimates for the real effective floor, anywhere from the 180ish to 300M barrels is within the range of a safe minimum level.

More than half of Gen Z is over the legal drinking age now, I’m not sure teen drinking is it
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:48PM (#49882638)
But also, having significantly more code churn doesn’t necessarily mean there is more or better software.

In fact, having more churn can lead to worse software due to diverging patterns and inconsistency

Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:30AM (#49879617)
To give the benefit of the doubt for that sentence, think of it more as “every human knows that there is implied social contract and implied downsides to badly screwing up.”

Nobody has to be in fear, but we do have an ingrained knowledge that there are consequences, good and bad, for our actions

That’s like saying light is common knowledge, creating a device that emits light couldn’t possibly be patentable. Or heat is common knowledge, induction stoves shouldn’t be patentable. Like if that’s your threshold then nothing is patentable
I mean if a competitors pens work for all of your use cases, then why not just use the competitor?
Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:13PM (#49834663)
800 running a desktop environment, iCloud syncing, tons of background programs (wallpaper manager is one! Another for keyboard brightness, probably)

Compared to someone on an ssh connection. No desktop, no Apple Account, no user session programs, etc. You really don’t need much

Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:30PM (#49818608)
Sorry how about this:

    # Models.Claude\*:
Maybe now it can be in a .md again :D
Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:59AM (#49817186)
Within agents.md, an idea. Feel free to steal if you work on this:

    Model.Claude*:
      Do this one thing

    Model.Claude.Opus.4.8:
      Extra specific instructions

    Model.*:
      This is relevant to everyone

    Harness.ClaudeCode*:
      Why not, let’s allow harness specific instructions so you can do things differently depending how you’re working
Sure, but also if there are a dozen bikes locked to the rack all costing $1000 and a $500 bike just sitting there completely unlocked, the average thief is probably gonna take the cheaper unlocked one and ride away.

It’s not hard to get into a garage but it’s really easy to steal a lawnmower if you leave the door open all night. I wouldn’t call that thief honest but even the minor deterrent of closing the garage was enough to make you not the target.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:39AM (#49811720)
Wow!! This is genuinely hilarious and is a pretty damning evidence of the problem
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:31PM (#49805992)
Oof thanks for sharing, that seems just as bad if not even worse than Opus 5 to me. Just about every sentence is painful. Particular standouts that a human would never write:

> Rewrites are declared by the publisher, never inferred from overlap

> NULL means dirty, and DELETE is the fence

CoMaps works really well as a wrapper of OpenStreetMaps. It even has seemingly-accurate hours for a few businesses near me! And if you are willing to dig into accessibility settings on the iPhone you can choose a good quality voice for navigation.

But yeah it’s offline navigation with all of the limitations that come with that

Yep, after being a huge Apple Maps advocate for years to family and friends, I have quit it completely after I got a pop up introducing new ads.

Mostly just using CoMaps now, or Google Maps if I need to look up business hours or get traffic info.

If Apple has ads too then I might as well just use Google for that stuff since at least it’s probably more correct…

I can imagine lots of things- mainly around making short summaries so the user can choose things more easily, or maybe as a smart autocomplete.

I can imagine a home automation app helping you build a workflow with an LLM. Or an RSS reader giving you a short summary of each article. A health app being able to pull recipes into a standard format. Maybe a fitness app being able to search your workout history if you give it good tools.

Idk I usually use my phone for reading HN on the toilet and listening to podcasts while cleaning, not much else. I don’t know what else people even do with a phone lol. But those are things I’ve done in the past that LLMs could be helpful for!

We already have laws that cover this.

If you know enough to write your own course that completes and steals significant share from the original, you likely have so much background knowledge that you didn’t need to take the course in the first place.

If you only ever learned about the topic from this course, you likely have an uninteresting shallow understanding that won’t take share from the original.

And if you substantively copy the course and publish your own version which is heavily taken from the original, then you may be violating their intellectual property.

Seems like it’s still fine to keep that as-is. We can still charge a license fees to use somebody’s works to integrate into their algorithm, since algorithms aren’t humans.

I do think copyrights should be shortened to 20 years but that’s another discussion

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:18AM (#49750734)
But how much slop are you willing to wade through, hoping to find a nugget of insight?
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:26AM (#49736407)
But that’s my point, it’ll tell you how things work. In libraries I’m using, you can just read the code yourself.

You need the documentation to know why certain things work a particular way, or to know why some relationships or methods are the way they are

Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:26PM (#49734910)
Yeah lol it’s basically the only reliable way to know how things work. Pre-AI, I read documentation for libraries that I used almost every day.

And now with AI I’m using it to fact check Claude. And still reading it for myself to understand why other peoples code is written a certain way. It’s basically the most important thing to reference when coding.

Sure today Claude can just read the library code and tell you what a function does or how to do something. But it still won’t tell you why something is a certain way or won’t figure out specifically-designed usage patterns as reliably as the author telling you “this is an example of doing x”

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:38PM (#49702718)
I’m not on normal social media so I had no idea that stuff was out there.

Absolutely incredible trolling from some of those people I’m sure, while others are actual believers

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:52PM (#49687360)
I mean I think there’s a similar level of judgement required.

Was the owner negligent in controlling their pig/dog/AI?

Was anyone else negligent along the way?

For example if the pig was just a normal pig, the owner cared for them normally, and there was a freak accident where the pig escaped and happened to kill a kid? Obviously nobody at fault.

If you have a dog with a history of violence and let it walk around off-leash with you around town, and it kills a kid? Absolutely the dog owner was negligent and should be charged.

Did you buy an AI sold to you as secure and the provider implies that it’s in a sandbox? Provider is on the hook for the damage.

Re:Feeling Sad about AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:27PM (#49662059)
> We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism

Eh maybe you did, I and a bunch of people that I know have worked in companies that build software that genuinely helps people and improves their lives - either by simplifying something that sucked for them or by just improving inefficient industries and giving people new abilities.

I don’t feel that way about anything I’ve worked on in my 20 years of building software

> Rarely works that way.

How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else cares? This exact thing could happen 20 times with everything turning up relatively ok and we only heard about it because they didn’t make that final call correctly either.

To be clear I’m not an aviator, just an armchair statistician with an interest in aviation

Re:Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:23AM (#49628086)
(1) not the point I was making, I’m not any of those categories. But I am worried about the treatment of those people, as well as giving the government tools to someday come after people with guns, people who vote incorrectly, meeting up with a friend who happens to have a strong political view, etc.

(2) It can be both - we can ban the government from having direct access to mass surveillance and data privacy laws which makes retaining and using data on individuals much more restrictive.

Re:Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:21AM (#49627096)
Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they can easily use cameras to prosecute those who they disagree with.

Current governments have used the mass surveillance to go after people for abortions and for being too foreign-seeming (even if here legally). If those don’t affect you, surely you can think of something that the next wave of government officials might be opposed to, which could use a surveillance network to take away from you.

Having laws to prevent abuses doesn’t help when the lawmakers change and can just revoke those laws, while the full infrastructure exists to do whatever they want.

> Red light cameras, for example, strike me as unalloyed good.

This actually makes me think that your post is satire, due to the heavy debate on whether these cameras actually improve safety [0]. Lots of studies that contradict each other on that. I agree we need to prevent the recklessness of drivers, and there is an argument to be made here. But it’s not at all obvious like you imply.

From [0]:

> When the Houston cameras were removed, angle accidents increased by 26 percent. However, all other types of accidents decreased by 18 percent. Approximately one-third of all Houston intersection accidents are angle accidents. This suggests that the program’s drawbacks canceled out its benefits.

> Our study showed no evidence that cameras reduce the total number of accidents. We estimate that total accidents are reduced by a statistically insignificant 3 percent after the cameras are turned off.

> Likewise, there’s no evidence that the camera program reduced the number of traffic-related injuries or the likelihood of incurring an incapacitating injury.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/red-light-cameras...

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:43AM (#49623307)
Her family can own their copies of Harry Potter forever.

But copyright restricts others from building on top of previous works. Can her family forever sue anyone into poverty for naming a wizard “Harry”? Does that even make sense in 100 years from now when most people have never heard of Harry Potter anymore?

For your building analogy, it would be more like the builders created your building there, and now you own it. It has a red roof and blue shutters. And also the government passed a law that said nobody else can own a building ever again with a red roof and blue shutters, otherwise you, the owner of the idea of those colors, can take possession of every new building like that.

Whole wheat is not ultra processed though?

It is processed but not ultra-processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference.

White flour though, generally is

Holy gaslighting! Why do more reputable sites which don’t rank highly in the shopping results not have this problem? It’s specific to using the shopping results from search engines, I didn’t recently get any “surprise fee” on the Polk Audio manufacturer website directly, for example
Re:Sony makes bold claim about game ownership on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:22PM (#49552580)
I think it depends. If they are also required to allow 3rd party stores, and one of the third parties has a “buy” button while the others have “lease (lifetime)” buttons, it might sway a decent number of people.

Same thing with consoles, if one has “buy” and the other “lease”, then it might not convert everyone but could it take 5% of sales? 10%? 20%??

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