He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Readit News> This is why the US dropped tea into Boston to have it's own Freedom.
the 3% tariff on Chinese tea was seen as oppressive
don't look at what has been imposed this year (without congressional approval)
The target of the Boston Tea Party was the British implementation of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in the colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
I wonder if one could extract a "surprisedness" value out of the AI, basically, "the extent to which my current input is not modeled successfully by my internal models". Giving the model a metaphorical "WTF, human, come look at this" might be pretty powerful for those walking cardboard boxes and trees, to add to the cases where the model knows something is wrong. Or it might false positive all the darned time. Hard to tell without trying.
iiuc distillation is sort of that. How big is the delta between teacher and student and then try to reconcile them
FergusArgyll commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
Seems like it might be reacting to or fanned to flame by: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
That's not a rug pull, that's a few overly sensitive young 'uns complaining
FergusArgyll commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
It's HIPPA now for all intensive purposes.
For all intents and purposes
I don't understand this. The software is free. But calling it "free software" is a mistake?
And I don't understand the advocacy angle. Is any reference to "free" or "open" in any tech-related conversation automatically advocacy (even if the author did not intend to be an advocate for it)?
Genuinely curious. Apologies if it doesn't read like genuine curiosity, I am genuinely curious.
Maybe they're confusing it with snaps?
FergusArgyll commented on Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows phys.org/news/2025-07-fai... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Surely this will replicate...
FergusArgyll commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
Given that the world is headed towards a surveillance dystopia and Peter Thiel being involved I think I should buy some stocks now. What happened end of 2024 that kicked off its price hike?
Revenue growth of 20-40% a quarter
EPS Growth of 100% a quarter
Earning beat after earning beat, increased guidance after increased guidance
FergusArgyll commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
Wasn't there a blog post on HN a while back from someone who worked there early on in their career, where they traveled around and built a bunch of tools to help manage data etc.? I thought it was an interesting lens to look through. Can't recall the post, though.
I predict we'll get a few research breakthroughs in the next few years that will make articles like this seem ridiculous.