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IMHO this is clear case of correlation vs causation…

This generation of kids were fucked so hard by Covid and all the remote “schooling” and closing of public life.

AI rise happens to be happening when the kids who were just entering teens at Covid time are now going to school.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:44PM (#47797722)
Something is very wrong about this whole release. They nerffed security research... they are making tokens usage increase 33% and the only way to get decent responses is to make Claude talk like a caveman... seems like we are moving backwards... maybe i will go back to Opus 4.5
Wonder if OpenAI has all the originals, especially in light of that lawsuit with nytimes.
Re:NYC Congestion Pricing on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:12PM (#42617686)
Both Work, however cheaper if you have an EZ Pass.
Re:Dear OAuth Providers on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:29AM (#42398597)
Giving a talk about this today. Biggest problem imho is the fact there were over 33 revisions, and now over 20 RFCs related to oauth. Developing to spec is hard when you don’t realize how big the spec is.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:30AM (#42062812)
The definition of “disposable income” used in this chart is gross income minus taxes.

I don’t think this corresponds with what most people think that means. i.e. gross income - (taxes + housing costs + food + health/childcare). I certainly didn’t.

Re:The Art Forger Had Fooled Thousands. Then He Met Doug on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:07AM (#41015885)
Earl Washington is a very interesting character. Obsessed with making wood printing blocks while also being a top-level con artist.
I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
Re:Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM? on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:26PM (#38620279)
Which ones?
An interesting phishing method… i.e. the new “leave a usb drive in the parking lot” trick.
Adding some more context. The Ukrainian refugees are fellow Slavic people and the refugees from last time were mostly Muslims from the Middle East... and that the Far-Right tends to be racist.
Re:What Is a Unified API? on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:29PM (#30012674)
An good article on some of the dark patterns that Unified APIs sort of hand wave around.
Re:Back Orifice (1998) on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:49AM (#28416118)
Wikipedia would seem to disagree:

> “ However, use of NetBus has had serious consequences. In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 images were discovered by system administrators, and the law scholar was assumed to have downloaded them knowingly. He lost his research position at the faculty, and following the publication of his name fled the country and had to seek professional medical care to cope with the stress. He was acquitted from criminal charges in late 2004, as a court found that NetBus had been used to control his computer.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

Why is any particular word derogatory? Every language has taboo or offensive words. This is one of them in English.
Re:Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:15AM (#28345814)
But for how long?
Which according to the article is what’s happening. They store heat in steal piles, and release it back on expansion.
Re:Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, but Not Female CEOs on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:42PM (#26105470)
Not sure why that's your conclusion. Doesn't mean the bias doesn't exist.
Re:Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, but Not Female CEOs on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:42PM (#26105456)
They through very limited data a a bunch of different ml algorithms, but also did "normal" statistical analysis. "less than 1% more predictive" in this paper. What part are you referencing?
Re:Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, but Not Female CEOs on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:57AM (#26103934)
Basically if the women is the CEO, their startups will not get as much funding by a factor of about 50.

Came across this paper while reading this below article from Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/02/09/ceo-gen...

PDF of paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.12008.pdf

Re:Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:20PM (#26018588)
Ran into this myself. Starting using `pyenv` instead. Never looked back. Allows you to maintain multiple versions of python outside brew's control and the system's.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

What's nice is you can find analog programs for a lot of different languages and platforms including

  Node: https://github.com/ekalinin/nodeenv
  Ruby: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
  Terraform: https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:29PM (#25694688)
“Who watches the watchmen”
Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:08AM (#25208005)
Just saw the episode... so top of mind but in “Future Imperfect,” Data using a contraction is one the things that makes Riker realize he is in an illusion.

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