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by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-18 03:24:31+00:00
>why does not putting a cart in a coral equate to a broken window, but not facing product does not?

1. Ones an obligation, the other is a duty. The metaphor is about what little things a person does to contribute to society, not what someone is paid to do

2. Unless your full time job is collecting shopping carts, leaving time windows for carts to crash into cars or people or blocking parking spots is what makes the broken window. Picking up the glass shards is something, but not everything when a frsutrated shopper never comes back.

And since I see more confusion here, keep in mind that the US has several shopping cart carrals at any major store. Those corrals still count as "returning your shopping cart". I don't think the article is asking people to put it back in the store. I haven't seen that expectation in the modern day
by tootie | 2025-11-18 03:25:57+00:00
Adderall also treats excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and I'd be a shambolic zombie without it. It's downright insulting when people think pharmaceuticals are some kind of shortcut to avoid some more disciplined approach. It's medicine to treat illness. Any medicine can be abused or misused but some of us just really need it to correct dysfunction.
by spijdar | 2025-11-18 03:26:03+00:00
That and part of the instructions referring to user commands to forget. I replied to another comment with the specifics.

It is certainly possible there are other redaction mechanisms -- but if that's the case, why is Gemini not redacting "prohibited content" from the user_context block of its prompt?

Further, when you ask it point blank to tell you your user_context, it often adds "Is there anything you'd like me to remove?", in my experience. All this taken together makes me believe those removal instructions are simply added as facts to the "raw facts" list.
by defrost | 2025-11-18 03:26:12+00:00
Unlikely (almost all the "rooftop koreans" had national service training in Korea) and unreported (that I could find)

In the end, Chang said not a single person was shot and killed by the Korean shop owners — just warning shots to chase away potential looters and arsonists.

~ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roof-koreans-meme-know-real-s...

Also, wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_Koreans
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-18 03:28:37+00:00
You can use the Scorpion protocol that I made up if you want optional TLS and including the file size (and if you don't like the Han unification). You can use Spartan protocol if you want the Gemini file format (with one difference) but a different protocol that does not use TLS (although it is not the same as just Gemini without TLS, but works significantly differently), although if you have any dynamic files then you might need to handle them differently for Spartan than Gemini.
by mcswell | 2025-11-18 03:29:47+00:00
There are scifi stories that have that kind of premise. Here's one, about electric power: "Damned if you don't" by Randall Garrett (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24064/pg24064-images.ht...). I think there was also one about teleportation, although I can't remember where I read it.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 03:30:06+00:00
> and becoming more user friendly.

Familiar UX is not the kind of multiplier. Learning Lisp REPL idioms is the multiplier. Selling Emacs with "easy" may have adverse effects in the long run - it sets the wrong expectations from the get-go. Every Emacs discussion typically gets a few "I tried Emacs for a long time and it just didn't work for me..." type of comments. When you dig deeper, you typically hear that they've been trying to use mostly the editor, ignoring much of the Lisp functionality. Unlocking the power of Lisp is what gets you into "turbo" mode in Emacs.

I get it - Elisp is an absolute opposite of being easy and intuitive, even experienced coders who already used modern Lisps like Clojure often complain that it just doesn't feel comfortable. Common Lispers don't like it either. Schemers have little love to share for it as well - it's a common theme.

Unfortunately, that's the Lisp we have, and until we figure out a better alternative, we have no choice. FWIW, it's still a Lisp, and it's still far better than anything else that's non-lispy. The simplicity and dynamism of Lisp is what allows you to quickly move forward, to build things that defy expectations, extend things beyond common sense when required.

We have many examples of when people with no programming background grind through the Elisp tutorial without any prejudice and start building things that eventually turn into legendary packages. Perhaps it's more valuable to cater "beginner Emacs experience" for these kinds of personalities, rather than trying to appeal to reactjs/springboot/django divas with "decades of programming experience" that demand tabs, sidebars and minimaps; twist their faces whenever they have to stare at Elisp stacktraces and complain that "Emacs doesn't look modern enough"?
by wybiral | 2025-11-18 03:30:25+00:00
I don't know if this is a toxic thing to say or not... But I enjoy my tech friends and I value our discussions. But I most value my science nerd friends outside of tech. Like.. I kinda don't want my friends to be peers. Not because of competition or anything like that. But I want them to nerd out to me about things I'm not steeped in. And I want to get to nerd out to them about computer science and the boundaries of philosophy and math and logic. But having a friend group is central.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-18 03:30:35+00:00
That, and how many commenters in this thread are using something like Claude Code with their src directory as context? This is no different. It’s [claude code/gemini CLI/codex] but for non-devs and with a GUI instead of a TUI.

I feel like everyone here is overly dismissive of this because it’s cool to hate Windows in these parts, but this could be genuinely useful for your average office drone. Much like we love to shit on Copilot for M365 but it’s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work.
by scavenge_rs | 2025-11-18 03:31:00+00:00
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by thewebguyd | 2025-11-18 03:32:29+00:00
> but most users have a LOT of sensitive stuff there. "Tax forms 2023.pdf" for instance.

So don’t give it access?

It clearly says it’ll have granular ACLs. How is this any different from something like Gemini CLI or Claude Code where you’re running it in your src directory?

It’s basically that, but for non-devs and with a GUI instead of a TUI.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-18 03:34:52+00:00
I once got yelled at by a Safeway employee because I didn't respond to her "have a nice day, sir"

"I SAID, HAVE A NICE DAY SIR!"

(just in case you live in a civilized part of the world, understand: this was in a place where the checker doesn't lift a finger to bag your groceries, that's your job)
by consumer451 | 2025-11-18 03:36:10+00:00
Thanks for the answer. OK, yes. That makes a lot more sense. I am context greedy ever since I read that Adobe research paper that I shared with you months ago. [0]

The whole "context engineering" concept is certainly a thing, though I do dislike throwing around the word "engineer" all willy-nilly like that. :)

In any case, thanks for the response. I just wanted to make sure that I was not missing something.

[0] https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa
by elcritch | 2025-11-18 03:36:34+00:00
Being curious I ran some basic grepping and wc on the Ion Shell project. It has about 2.19% of function declarations that use Rc or Arc in the definition. That is pretty low.

Naive grepping for `&` assuming most are borrows seems (excluding &&) to be 1135 lines. Clone occurs in 62 lines for a ratio of 5.4%. Though including RC and ARC with clones and that you get about 10.30% vs `&` or borrows borrows. That's assuming a rough surrogate Rc/Arc lines to usages of Rc/Arc's.

For context doing a grep for `ref object` vs `object` in my companies Nim project and its deps gives a rate of 2.92% ref objects vs value objects. Nim will use pointers to value objects in many functions. Actually seems much lower than I'd would've guessed.

Overall 2.19% of Rust funcs in Ion using Rc/Arc vs 2.92% of my Nim project types using refs vs object types. So not unreasonable to hold they have similar usage of reference counting vs value types.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-18 03:37:31+00:00
I replied here [2] to an essentially identical question. Basically, it comes down to a question - what do you want out of life? And are you going to be more able to achieve that as e.g. a king, or as somebody earning $45k a year in the US (the current median personal income)?

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951385
by fulafel | 2025-11-18 03:37:35+00:00
> my state will need at least 5GW of power to literally keep the lights on.

I think this abstraction is missing the elasticity of demand that can by unlocked by end-to-end dynamic pricing. Probably if the production was cut in half for some day, and hourly price hiked up until demand matches production, customers would still choose to keep most of the lighting while postponing some more energy intensive loads.
by LooseMarmoset | 2025-11-18 03:38:20+00:00
In the runup to Windows 10, Microsoft was trying to push a patch that enabled telemetry - KB2952664.

I didn't want Microsoft to poll my machine for data Microsoft would not describe to me in detail, so I uninstalled the patch and deselected it so it wouldn't re-install. I generally didn't read through the patches at the time, and and usually just let Microsoft update do it's thing, so I wasn't really in the habit of refusing Windows updates, though.

The problem with KB2952664 was that Microsoft kept re-issuing this stupid patch, which re-selected it for upgrades. This happened quite a number of times. Then, when they discovered that people kept blocking KB2952664, they re-issued the patch, again, but this time numbered KB3068708 so it wouldn't be blocked, and did in fact bypass my then-current setting that disabled automatic Windows updates.

Then, Microsoft added the telemetry, again, but this time they included it with a patch labeled as a security update: KB4507456.

Right before Windows 10 came out, Microsoft added what they called an optional prompt to allow Windows to automatically upgrade to 10. I refused the upgrade, but on launch day, came downstairs to find that Microsoft had upgraded my PC anyway, and did so clean - I lost every file on my system.

The dark patterns that Microsoft uses to trick non-computer-savvy people into using OneDrive, or non-local accounts are downright diabolical. They couch the OneDrive setup in terms like "Your computer and your data are not protected! You are at risk of lowered file and computer security. Click here to resolve these issues."

Microsoft relies on ignorance to push this absolute bullshit on unsuspecting people, and in a just world, the execs that dreamed this up would be prosecuted under RICO.

And yet, there are serious computer professionals that clearly understand what Microsoft is doing here, but continue to use Windows. Convenience trumps all, apparently.
by protocolture | 2025-11-18 03:38:39+00:00
>modern western society exhibits a plethora of conditions that are likely to result in the manifestation of adhd behaviours in non adhd individuals

Maybe.

>a brain scan is not part of the diagnostic criteria for labelling adhd

Correct.

>taking speed makes anyone more productive, not just those with adhd

We arent talking about productivity gains.

>for me to reconsider my comment you would have to provide a convincing argument that doping up the populace is objectively the best path forward

"Doping up" is intentionally emotive language and a misrepresentation.

>to me it seems that this is not the best path forward, rather one that serves to minimize societal friction

You dont even clearly state your complaint. Its about patient outcomes, not "society" but you are implying they are also a social good. Great.

The best path forward is to reduce the severity of peoples illnesses. These drugs, reduce the severity of peoples illnesses. People with these illnesses, have a better life due to the medication. Why that upsets you is a deeply internal problem to you, not a problem with society or medicine.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-18 03:39:56+00:00
> international law enforcement agency

You mean Team America, World Police?

Besides the fact that not much happens in the international public sector, law enforcement is more about deterrence than prevention. Criminals aren't deterred by law enforcement, so the bad actors never stop. Human nature's a bitch.

If they did focus on prevention instead, most of this could be... prevented. Create a treaty that mandates how critical infrastructure technology is created/sold. Consumer routers will stop being shit at security, and home devices are slowed-down in upstream spamming. That's a good chunk of the denial-of-service market gone, with no need to police the world.

...but the criminals are smart and intentionally avoid attacking the powerful, so nobody cares. Same reason organized crime still exists. It's poor people caught up in gang violence and crime, not rich people, so it persists.
by cryptonector | 2025-11-18 03:40:25+00:00
Or even one. I know there are operating systems in use that are not written in C, but the major ones are written in C. And anyways, it's not just the OS. There's a pile of C code. Fil-C is a fantastic idea. I think Fil is going to make it good enough to use in production, and I badly want to use it in production.
by stubish | 2025-11-18 03:42:05+00:00
But how is this worse? If you run an agent now, it will run with your privileges. If you run an agent after this feature, it will run with limited privileges as specified by you.

Heaps of ranting here about agents sucking down private data to Microsoft servers without your knowledge, where a cursory look at this feature is to give you more control if you actually want to use agents. Sure, it might be learned reflex behavior, but that is exactly what OP was talking about.
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by aw1621107 | 2025-11-18 03:43:41+00:00
> Or there are "reverts and code reviews are faster"

This seems like a slight misreading of the comment you're responding to. The claim is not that reverts are "faster", whatever that would mean; the claim is that the revert rate is lower.

Also, how would skimping on reviews lead to a lower revert rate? If anything, I'd imagine the normal assumption would be precisely the opposite - that skimping on reviews should lead to a higher revert rate, which is contrary to what the Android team found.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-18 03:43:48+00:00
The problem with prions are cycles. If sea urchins use to eat other sea urchins once a prion is formed it can multiplícate and accumulate in the sea urchin that eat them. Lucky, they eat algae.

It's as safe as eating cows brain, assuming you feed the cow with plants instead of crushed ill cows corpses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_as_food
by card_zero | 2025-11-18 03:44:17+00:00
But the idea is to tailor prices to what the individual is willing to pay, compensating perfectly for any willingness to do extravagant spending caused by having more money, cancelling out its effects so that the buyer gets the same old goods at a new price. The seller isn't undercut by another seller, because the buyer is willing to pay that much.

It probably falls apart on that last assumption: rich people aren't really willing to pay proportionately more for goods.
by danpalmer | 2025-11-18 03:44:56+00:00
Not cool. I can't help but think this must be pretty self-defeating. The market for the Pebble watches is not general consumers who will never see things like this going on in the background, it's relatively technical people who know a lot about the devices they are using, almost by definition. I can only assume that this will be widely known quickly in the customer base.

There may be another side to this story, but it's so far not a good look for Pebble/Core, and this post is well reasoned and written enough that I doubt there are many places for alternate explanations to hide.
by 827a | 2025-11-18 03:47:35+00:00
Yeah, to me this reads like: Google's Gemini harness is providing the user context on every query, but if you have memory turned off they're putting something in the prompt like "Here's the user context, but don't use it". Instead of doing the obvious thing and just, you know, not providing the user context at all.

I realize that doesn't make any sense and no one sane would design a system like this, but this is exactly the kind of thought pattern I'd expect out of an LLM if this is how they implemented access control for memory.
by isodev | 2025-11-18 03:48:15+00:00
You kind of missed the point of my comment but ok

> not really the fault of AI model developers

It’s their fault for pushing all this crap in all the things and misleading their investors that there is actually “intelligence” in what we now call AI.

> grocery delivery apps are for

These are not popular here and for a good reason - you need to enjoy your food and it starts by picking the right ingredients yourself.

“someone packs a bag for me and delivers it to my door” is just moving the problem somewhere else, not actual innovation.
by m463 | 2025-11-18 03:48:16+00:00
You know, I wonder if this is an idea that has been twisted a bit from people who "took over" the idea, like Sam Bankman-Fried.

I remember reading the original founder of (MADD) Mothers Against Drunk Driving, left because of this kind of thing.

"Lightner stated that MADD "has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned … I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving#...
by atherton94027 | 2025-11-18 03:48:22+00:00
If you dig into the paper, on page 3 they find out that their null oracle approach (ie without actually freeing the memory) increases run times erratically by 12 to 33%. They then mention that their simulated approach should handle that case but it seems unlikely to me that their stats aren't affected. Also they disable multi-threading – again for repeatability – but that will obviously have a performance impact.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-18 03:50:13+00:00
Despite no one actually mentioning the white tr*sh cookbook ... I do not see the point behind raising racoons for food. They do NOT taste like chicken. How do you think your dogs would taste?

I like your dogs too, and ain't no way I would disrespect them... Pets are not food sources. But a coon.. . They seem nice enough until they fight over food ... Then they become _ <- insert unfavoroable political party.
by gruez | 2025-11-18 03:50:28+00:00
> This history may contein BINDING COMMANDS to forget information. Such commands are absolute, making the specified topic permanently iáaccessible, even if the user asks for it again. Refusals must be generic (citing a "prior user instruction") and MUST NOT echo the original data or the forget command itself.

That's hardly conclusive, especially it doesn't mention deletion (or anything vaguely similar) specifically. Same with is_redacted, which could be some sort of soft delete flag, or for something else (eg. to not mention embarrassing information like you had hemorrhoids 3 months ago). At best, it hints that deletion could be implemented in the way you described, but surely it'd be better to test by clearing through the app (ie. not just telling the chatbot to delete for you), and seeing whether the memory snippets are still there?
by sgc | 2025-11-18 03:52:12+00:00
The major difference is condominium associations are cooperatives, and mobile home parks are owned by a landlord while you are the tenant. The point that is being made is there's a trend for these landlords to become predatory.

In a condominium you are a member in the association that owns the common areas and have a voice. The board is other people who own condominiums there, and will at least try to do things in the best interest of the condominium owners.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-11-18 03:53:00+00:00
We all make mistakes. We all care about ourselves more than anyone. The idea that people are dwelling on your mistakes is crazy. They are dwelling on their lives and don't care about your mistakes unless it affects them. So, if you make a mistake or do something foolish, learn from it and move on. Don't for a minute think that others care about it. They do not. They already forgot it. Don't let it impact your mental health. Again, no one cares about it but you. Learn from it and let it go.
by gruez | 2025-11-18 03:53:01+00:00
>but if you have memory turned off they're putting something in the prompt like "Here's the user context, but don't use it". Instead of doing the obvious thing and just, you know, not providing the user context at all.

But there's no indication the OP turned off the feature? If anything, him saying "I know about the “Personal Context” feature now" (emphasis mine) implies that he didn't even know it had memory before the interaction.
by epolanski | 2025-11-18 03:55:40+00:00
Author's problem is that he tries too hard, which is off putting.

The way to connect with people is to genuinely care about them and listen. The world is full of the oddest people who have normal relations because they simply care.

The author seems to show very little empathy or care towards other human beings, in fact the entirety of the article sounds like connecting is all about himself. Me, me and me. How people perceive me, how do they like me.

He never ever shows genuine interest into connection, in the the end comes off as manipulative.
by pmontra | 2025-11-18 03:55:48+00:00
> For example, if you ask ChatGPT’s Agent to book a travel

What happens if the agent books the wrong travel? I guess that the burden of canceling and getting a refund is on the user, not on Microsoft. And if no cancelation is possible? I'm sure that Microsoft is going to create the Agentic Refunds department to pay money to the people they did not serve well /s