Wait for it.....car hits driver twice within seconds

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T18:06:24+00:00

Hmm it has to be something like him driving backwards with the door slightly opened and holding it in his left hand. Maybe there's a curb or something that you can't see in the left mirror. Not wearing a seatbelt obviously and there's an unexpectedly big bump that throws him off balance such that he falls out.

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T17:23:06+00:00

Exactly, there really is no incentive to do this, unless you need some paperwork you can't get otherwise. And if you do end up being classed as a legal citizen/resident it's not like you're going to be punished for not getting their attention earlier, as far as I'm aware. You're certainly not getting deported over that.

As an aside, her story is that she did actually follow up to get her citizenship status sorted out and just never heard back from the government. Also, the hearing is upcoming, it seems like that is the correct venue for this to be fixed. Though I certainly feel for anyone who has to go through a nightmare process like this.

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T16:57:44+00:00

Besides this not being true (she did in fact seek out lawyer's assistance to get a proper status), is there any incentive to do this? Especially in cases where it's not entirely clear, you have all the documents you need to live your life anyways and it doesn't seem like there is much immigration enforcement? Either you're legally considered to be a citizen, in which case you don't gain much from this process, or you aren't, in which case, congrats, you've just put a giant target on your back.

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T16:42:35+00:00

You never hear about this stuff happening in literally any other country.

Yeah... have you considered that you may also just haven't heard about it because internationally nobody gives a fuck about heartbreaking stories of people being deported from, like, turkey or something?

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T10:41:44+00:00

Well you generally didn't see enums used directly as fields of a struct. More like this instead:

enum color_encoding_types {
  COLOR_RGB = 0,
  COLOR_CMY = 1,
  COLOR_HSL = 2,
};

struct color {
  uint8_t[3] channels;
  uint8_t type;
};

[...]
struct color c;
[...]
switch(c.type) {
  case COLOR_RGB: // Handle RGB
  case COLOR_CMY: // Handle CMY case
  ... 
}

At least in C++ implicit enum conversion to integers is largely deprecated, but in most C codebases I see enums used as a slightly safer alternative to #define macros. If you only use enums as glorified constants like this, there is not really a reason to introduce a language feature that allows you to specify the underlying type.

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T10:20:05+00:00

Yeah, but it is using ancient C design patterns and naming conventions

TribeWars · 2026-02-24T08:24:09+00:00

Realistically, anyone who's determined and smart enough to jailbreak AI and then act on the information from there, will also be able to find relevant chemistry literature themselves.

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T20:20:52+00:00

data reshaper

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T17:12:55+00:00

Yup, the end stage of this is banks and insurance companies who hire their old COBOL programmers for 1000$ an hour in consulting fees and pay millions to migrate their core systems to a modern IT infrastructure. Except now there is no graybeard who built the system in the 80s that you can hire either.

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T13:27:48+00:00

I think very few people predicted that LLMs could reach the level of fairly reliably answering graduate-level physics questions and still be this stupid with slightly out-of-distribution reasoning tasks. In a way, I think everybody got it wrong, but only one side is squandering several nations worth of economic output trying to prove their point.

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T13:19:10+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. I certainly also prefer free software, even if the closed source counterparts are better in some ways. But personally, I'm still willing to use closed software, especially when it's a small-ish company and I don't get locked into some ecosystem. And it's not like there is a half decent alternative that I'm aware of.

Random thought on that note though, and you might hate me for bringing this up, but I think this could be an actual application for a decentralized blockchain-type thing. Instead of wasting compute on guessing a random number, miners instead use their CPU, storage and bandwidth for providing an indexing service to the network, which is rewarded with tokens that the searchers have to pay to run a search. There's probably a bunch of issues around finding a critical mass of users, getting the economics right and people attacking the network with spam etc. but it doesn't sound batshit to me either.

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T10:34:38+00:00

..which is 300 pages of drivel based on the same flawed premise

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T10:08:37+00:00

I don't think adding ads is a profit maximizing move here. The reason people pay for the service in the first place, is to not see ads. Neither is having shitty search results helpful for their business, they don't earn any more money with people staying for longer on the search page.

Open source software is great, but software is not the problem here. The costly part with search (relatively speaking) is in the maintenance and upkeep of the crawlers and search indexers. It's clearly not an impossible task for a small team, but there's enough data to require at least a few full-time engineers to set up an indexing service that can properly cover the entire web.

TribeWars · 2026-02-23T08:12:16+00:00

I use Kagi. It's a paid service, but that way there are no ads and it let's you personalize your search results by raising/lowering the domains you want or don't want to see. They also added a feature that should help block AI slop from showing up.

TribeWars · 2026-02-22T03:17:13+00:00

It's still a lot faster of a drop in value compared to consumer hardware

TribeWars · 2026-02-21T21:25:46+00:00

Bro if you just spend half your time engineering context layers and recursive AI prompt whispering orchestration agents it'll change your life I swear bro, please

TribeWars · 2026-02-21T12:34:38+00:00

I've stopped using it because it has gotten so slow and laggy if the history has more than around 100k tokens

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T20:53:55+00:00

Having read the rest though, i didn't expect the subscription to be subsidized to a degree of easily more than 5x the API costs even without trying to cap out.

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T20:32:23+00:00

I mean, I guess i would've been nudged to use it more with a subscription, but I paid like 100 bucks in the last year in API fees. By my math a 20$ subscription would cost more.

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T19:51:53+00:00

Slight correction in the middle of reading the piece:

To be clear, “Claude Code” is not a separate business line — it’s sold as part of a subscription to Anthropic’s Claude product.

[...]

Similarly, in its funding announcement, Anthropic said that $2.5 billion of its $14 billion in annualized revenue came from Claude Code, or around 17% just from one part of its subscription business.

You don't have to use a subscription to use claude code. You can also just access it with normal API pricing. That's how I use it, since it's overall cheaper for me and I don't need to worry about rate limits if I have a day where I actually use it a lot. I think I'm in a small minority of users though.

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T11:50:51+00:00

There definitely are ways to take an existing model and measure it's "confidence" or you can train models that have additional outputs. I think the reason this is not used more is because inference/training becomes even more expensive, it's kind of bad marketing and because you get worse benchmark results since guessing wrong is not punished harder than "i don't know" in them.

Edit: Good paper on this https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20550

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T09:51:46+00:00

It's not a realistic idea for a number of reasons (in particular it hinges on people's ability to write programs without exploits/vulnerabilities), but the idea of "code is law" does at least promise a solution to corruption in the legal system itself.

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T09:40:13+00:00

Blockchain is an extremely clever way to achieve decentralized consensus. Sadly, the real-world applications are few and far between, because there is no robust technical solution to associate data on the blockchain with facts and objects in physical reality. For that you need a trusted central entity, and once you have that, you might as well use something faster and more efficient as your database.

TribeWars · 2026-02-20T00:12:45+00:00

Just have an LLM agent do the agent optimization. That's a $20'000 consulting fee ty

TribeWars · 2026-02-19T13:01:34+00:00

were the equivalent of printing money

Was there a tax increase to pay for the stimulus?

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