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aaronharnly commented on Amazon CloudFront Global Outage   health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/barabara13
aaronharnly · a day ago
Status pages hosted by Atlassian's statuspage service are among the affected resources by this, which is always fun.

e.g. https://status.atlassian.com/

aaronharnly commented on GitHub Agentic Workflows   github.github.io/gh-aw/... · Posted by u/mooreds
microflash · 3 days ago
Soon: AgentHub Git Workflows
aaronharnly · 3 days ago
WorkHub Agent Gitflows?
aaronharnly commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
amluto · 9 days ago
The efficiency loss of nighttime is approximately 100% if we’re talking about solar energy. At least at a most basic level, it’s not totally absurd to stick some kind of power beaming contraption in space where it is mostly not shadowed by the Earth and beam power to a ground station.
aaronharnly · 9 days ago
I concur it’s not necessarily totally absurd — but when you consider that such contraptions require large — very large! — receiving arrays to be built on the ground, it’s hard to avoid concluding that building gigantic photovoltaic arrays in, say Arizona (for the US) along with batteries for overnight buffering and transmission lines would still be massively more efficient.
aaronharnly commented on AI is a horse (2024)   kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai... · Posted by u/zdw
simonw · 19 days ago
I've been calling LLMs "electric bicycles for the mind", inspired by that Jobs quote.

- some bicycle purists consider electric bicycles to be "cheating"

- you get less exercise from an electric bicycle

- they can get you places really effectively!

- if you don't know how to ride a bicycle an electric bicycle is going to quickly lead you to an accident

aaronharnly · 19 days ago
To keep torturing the metaphor, LLMs might be more like those electric unicycles (Onewheel, Inmotion, etc) – quite speedy, can get you places, less exercise, and also sometimes suddenly choke and send you flying facefirst into gravel.

And some people see you whizzing by and think "oh cool", and others see you whizzing by and think "what a tool."

aaronharnly commented on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment   bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/1659447091
huijzer · 2 months ago
We have over the years raised billions (maybe trillions) for cancer treatments and we seem to have made negligible progress in actually curing cancer. Will it ever succeed? So maybe there is a root cause for your root cause?
aaronharnly · 2 months ago
According to this US government site, 5-year survival rates across all cancer sites have improved from 50% to 75% between 1974 and 2017. (For men it started at more like 40%).

That’s not utterly transformative but I wouldn’t call it negligible either.

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/survival

aaronharnly commented on RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern   wpri.com/news/local-news/... · Posted by u/vm
aaronharnly · 3 months ago
> The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.

> Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.

Bravo to the head of security for the court for holding his ground and defending the judge and intern.

aaronharnly commented on Self-driving SaaS: When software runs itself   linear.app/now/self-drivi... · Posted by u/vortex_ape
aaronharnly · 4 months ago
What if a self-driving car accepted as input the muttered opinion of every adult and child in the car, as well as transcripts of all of our in-laws and friends phone calls as to where the car should go?
aaronharnly commented on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit   creators.yahoo.com/lifest... · Posted by u/anderber
flutas · 5 months ago
> fcc licensed stations

Think your local K[3 letter] west of the Mississippi, W[3 letter] east of the Mississippi*.

Not "Showtime" or "HBO" or "Cartoon Network" or "CNN" or "Fox News" or "MSNBC".

That's why the affiliates started pulling it, because their license is what's on the line, not ABC/Disney directly.

*: Except for KDKA, KYW, WFAA, WBAP, WOAI, WDAY, and WNAX.

aaronharnly · 5 months ago
Well, the subset of stations that pulled the show were the ones owned by a (right-wing) company, Nexstar, that has proposed a merger that is up for FCC review. It wasn’t fear of being punished for allowing a “falsehood” on the air, it was pursuit of favorable treatment from a political appointee.
aaronharnly commented on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO   waymo.com/blog/#short-all... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
aaronharnly · 5 months ago
This sentence was a bit cute: "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at San Francisco International Airport." Yeah, that kind of pilot.

I really had to read through it twice to make sure they were just talking about car taxis picking up travelers, rather than some kind of prototype pilotless commuter helicopter or something.

aaronharnly commented on Show HN: An MCP Gateway to block the lethal trifecta   github.com/Edison-Watch/o... · Posted by u/76SlashDolphin
aaronharnly · 5 months ago
"without risk", "solves", and "Guaranteed" are big words – you might want to temper them.

u/aaronharnly

KarmaCake day5180February 6, 2011
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