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bob_theslob646 commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
bob_theslob646 · 7 days ago
How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.

bob_theslob646 commented on Wolfram Compute Services   writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
d_burfoot · 10 days ago
Do quant traders use Mathematica? I would guess this would be a great use case for a tool that lots of people love. Pretty language, huge boatload of built-in tools, high powered mathematics, great visualization capabilities. Quant firms should be able to live with the price tag. I assume they have a compiler that can produce fast executables for HFT.
bob_theslob646 · 10 days ago
They do
bob_theslob646 commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker   wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil
conradev · 25 days ago
I manage all of my finances with Beancount (https://github.com/beancount/beancount). It has a native document store and I primarily use it to archive all of my statements to share with my accountants via Fava (https://github.com/beancount/fava). It’s not pretty, but it’s all in one (local) git repo.

Language models are great at turning those statements into Beancount postings and fixing errors, but the local ones not so much yet.

bob_theslob646 · 25 days ago
>A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

Why would someone need this? How do you use this?

bob_theslob646 commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations   dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist
kylehotchkiss · 25 days ago
I'm so excited how much of Southern California is opened - Waymo LAX to SD after midnight (there's no trains or buses from 12 to 6)!!
bob_theslob646 · 25 days ago
How do you get home if you do not have transit? What is the typical cost of a cab then?
bob_theslob646 commented on Maybe you’re not trying   usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
yousif_123123 · a month ago
I've always noticed that when I'm giving advice to someone or trying to help out, it always feels their problem is easier than whatever problem I have. As someone with some anxiety around things like calling some company to get something done or asking a random stranger for some help in a store, I would gladly do it if it was to help someone else (family member or friend). But when it's for me I find it harder.

I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves..

bob_theslob646 · a month ago
>I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves

Thank you for taking the time to type this up. I would be extremely interested in any sort of research around this and may add( maybe others face the same ) that's incredibly difficult to introspect yourself and solve problems for yourself as easily as you can for others.

bob_theslob646 commented on Reasoning models reason well, until they don't   arxiv.org/abs/2510.22371... · Posted by u/optimalsolver
egberts1 · 2 months ago
It's simple. Don't ingest more than 40KB at a time into its LLM's RAG pipe and its hallucination goes way, way down.

Preferably like not at the start and best not to do more than 40KB at a time at all.

That's how I learned how to deal with nftables' 120KB parser_bison.y file by breaking them up into clean sections.

All of a sudden, a fully-deterministic LL(1) full semantic pathway of nftables' CLI syntax appears before my very eye (and spent hours validating it): 100% and test generators now can permutate crazy test cases with relative ease.

Cue in Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good To Me".

bob_theslob646 · 2 months ago
Why 40kb?
bob_theslob646 commented on Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers   hacktivate.app/why-teach-... · Posted by u/twostraws
agigao · 2 months ago
Such a great idea and product!

Thanks for all the hard work.

However, please get rid of micro-transactions...

I'm fine paying full price of the product for my kid, but not micro-transactions.

bob_theslob646 · 2 months ago
>And if you’re dead set against Apple devices, you should check out the web version of Hacktivate – it’s not as powerful or as fun, but it’s entirely web-based and free!)
bob_theslob646 commented on Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents   blog.abdellatif.io/produc... · Posted by u/tifa2up
jweewee · 2 months ago
Does anyone know how to do versioning for embeddings? Let’s say I want to update/upsert my data and deliver v6 of domain data instead of v1 or filter for data within a specified date range. I am thinking of exploring context prepending to chunks.
bob_theslob646 · 2 months ago
This is a great question
bob_theslob646 commented on Toxic Fumes Are Leaking into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers   wsj.com/business/airlines... · Posted by u/yeknoda
LargoLasskhyfv · 3 months ago
Airbus A350, Airbus A220(ex Bombardier C-Series), Boeing 787, Embraer E-Jet E2 Series, don't use it. Maybe future models of ATR-72(or descendants) won't.
bob_theslob646 · 3 months ago
Is there any easy way to book flights that displays the plane model information?
bob_theslob646 commented on Toxic Fumes Are Leaking into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers   wsj.com/business/airlines... · Posted by u/yeknoda
OutOfHere · 3 months ago
I advise always tightly wearing a "3M Particulate Respirator 8577, P95, NIOSH APPROVED, with Nuisance Level Organic Vapor Relief" mask while in flight. An N95 won't do it, and a P95 without the carbon layer won't do it either.

Even then, obviously it won't help with carbon monoxide. Only the oxygen mask could. I would stick to Boeing planes for now to lower the risk since it's greater in Airbus planes.

Note that a standard pulse oximeter could continue to falsely show good oxygenation when having carbon monoxide poisoning, so do not trust it then if it shows a high value.

bob_theslob646 · 3 months ago
Is there any simple way to detect the presence of this while aboard?

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