human_person (u/human_person)

human_person commented on Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/nurimamedov

gpm · 2 months ago

> with tedious manual checks for specific error conditions

And specifically: Lots of checks for impossible error conditions - often then supplying an incorrect "default value" in the case of those error conditions which would result in completely wrong behavior that would be really hard to debug if a future change ever makes those branches actually reachable.

human_person · 2 months ago

This is my biggest frustration with the code they generate (but it does make it easy to check if my students have even looked at the generated code). I dont want to fail silently or hard code an error message, it creates a pile of lies to work through for future debugging

human_person commented on We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is how they start theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/Teever

Bender · 2 months ago

Statistically, if you put enough stupid people into enough spaces with hateful rhetoric being taught consistently, make them immune to consequences, and reward them when they do things that push towards the civil war you want to have, then eventually either you will completely oppress your country or you will have a civil war.

I could not have said it better myself. I still think it would not become a national level civil war but Minnesota could get messy. Plenty of other states would never let things escalate to this level. All of this could have been avoided by having local law enforcement or worst case the national guard get things under control. Minnesota have conflicting incentives delegate counts driving their bad judgement in addition to their governor being in the hot seat at the moment requiring a distraction.

Or from a movie some of us have seen, someone will do something stupid [1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvTo8sLFJo

human_person · 2 months ago

I think you've misunderstood the situation (and the article). Having the national guard get things under control means pitting them against ICE and likely actually triggering a civil war.

The problem is not Minnesotans or paid protestors rioting, the problem is a hostile occupying force is actively targeting Minnesotans and Walz is trying to balance protecting his constituents with not escalating the situation.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Minnesota have conflicting incentives delegate counts driving their bad judgement" or why you think its bad judgement to protest the murder of a community member.

But I dont disagree that as tensions ratchet up eventually someone will do something stupid, and ICE will threaten enough people that it sets off a conflict between ICE and the local law enforcement/national guard.

human_person commented on 2025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year e360.yale.edu/digest/2025... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

human_person · 2 months ago

But the coldest year we'll experience for the rest of our lives. Even if we get emissions down to zero tomorrow we are facing additional degrees of warming.

Instead of focusing on emission reductions we need to be talking about the best way to capture and confidently sequester CO2 on the tens of gigaton scale. In terms of size -- the carbon atoms in a decades worth of anthropogenic CO2 equivalents could build a diamond mount everest. A few hundered ppm change doesnt sound like much until you remember you need to integrate across the volume of the atmosphere.

human_person commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein

MajimasEyepatch · 7 months ago

I feel this way about some of the more extreme effective altruists. There is no room for uncertainty or recognition of the way that errors compound.

- "We should focus our charitable endeavors on the problems that are most impactful, like eradicating preventable diseases in poor countries." Cool, I'm on board.

- "I should do the job that makes the absolute most amount of money possible, like starting a crypto exchange, so that I can use my vast wealth in the most effective way." Maybe? If you like crypto, go for it, I guess, but I don't think that's the only way to live, and I'm not frankly willing to trust the infallibility and incorruptibility of these so-called geniuses.

- "There are many billions more people who will be born in the future than those people who are alive today. Therefore, we should focus on long-term problems over short-term ones because the long-term ones will affect far more people." Long-term problems are obviously important, but the further we get into the future, the less certain we can be about our projections. We're not even good at seeing five years into the future. We should have very little faith in some billionaire tech bro insisting that their projections about the 22nd century are correct (especially when those projections just so happen to show that the best thing you can do in the present is buy the products that said tech bro is selling).

human_person · 7 months ago

"I should do the job that makes the absolute most amount of money possible, like starting a crypto exchange, so that I can use my vast wealth in the most effective way."

Has always really bothered me because it assumes that there are no negative impacts of the work you did to get the money. If you do a million dollars worth of damage to the world and earn 100k (or a billion dollars worth of damage to earn a million dollars), even if you spend all of the money you earned on making the world a better place, you arent even going to fix 10% of the damage you caused (and thats ignoring the fact that its usually easier/cheaper to break things than to fix them).

human_person commented on How Kerala got rich aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft

panick21_ · a year ago

They also had really good maths and other useful things. They actually did what many in the West many wanted. Their education wasn't bad, learning wrong history isn't really that economically relevant.

But yeah, if the economy can't use those people its just not effective.

human_person · a year ago

Learning wrong history can be economically relevant. So much of history is about learning patterns of human behavior. Patterns that often repeat. If you learn wrong or untrue history your understanding of and expectations for human behavior will be incorrect which will certainly cause economic issues.

human_person commented on Carbon recyclers: Sulfur bacteria break down organic substances in seabed phys.org/news/2025-03-ear... · Posted by u/wglb

pfdietz · a year ago

That wouldn't be buried, so I don't think there was any hope it wouldn't be eaten and oxidized. So the plan there was always to use the biomass as a CO2 pump, not as a means to sequester reduced carbon in sediment.

human_person · a year ago

It depends where it’s dumped. I think a lot of people are looking into dumping it into high salinity anoxic basins based on finding carbon with a long residence time there.

human_person commented on Murderbot, she wrote wired.com/story/murderbot... · Posted by u/lastdong

HelloMcFly · a year ago

> the climactic scene is, essentially, people walking around a circular hallway a couple times

I feel like once you decide you don't like something, it's very easy to get reductionist about it in a way that makes it sound stupid or trite even if the reductionist statement is true. This summary to me is a quintessential example.

I liked the book alright, but certainly not enough to get into a debate about it. If you liked Leckie's other work, you'll probably find something to like here too, no matter your feelings on hallways. But maybe not!

human_person · a year ago

Its probably my least favorite of all of her books but I liked the approach to describing an additional dimension. And the idea of the alien translators grown in human bodies and the development of a species/culture

human_person commented on The Rise of Bluesky cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

GloomyBoots · a year ago

That was true previously as well. The most substantial difference between Jack and Musk is that the former was better at maintaining a professional demeanor. His biases were no fewer, his tenure at Twitter was markedly more censorious, but he was better at presenting himself. This seems to be the main distinguishing feature of American liberalism as opposed to conservatism. The point about misinformation is another place this can be seen. There's a lot of misinformation from both mainstream political camps in the US, but liberal misinformation is more dressed-up whereas conservative misinformation is downright clownish--Alex Jones being a good example.

human_person · a year ago

I see it more of a freedom from versus freedom to distinction. Under Elon’s Twitter you have the freedom to say anything (*almost anything — no tweeting about where his jet is lol). Under jack’s Twitter you have freedom from being bombarded with rape threats if you disagree with the wrong influencer.

Personally I prefer the freedom from regime but the nice part of the divide is everyone gets to choose for themselves. I’ve seen more of the people whose create content Im interested in (scientists, artists, authors etc) migrating to Bluesky but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years.

human_person commented on The EdTech Revolution Has Failed afterbabel.com/p/the-edte... · Posted by u/obscurette

smeej · a year ago

They're not just banded into a range based on their grade. They're banded into a grade based on their age, even though "being within a year of the same age as somebody" becomes essentially meaningless as soon as you're out of school.

human_person · a year ago

Yes but that’s because you (mostly) stop physically growing once you are out of school. Banded within a year is meaningless for adults, a 25 yr old isn’t that different than a 30 year old but a 5 year old and a 10 year old are distinctly different. They are at different points in their development physically, emotionally and mentally. They socialize differently and have different needs. I’m not saying they can’t interact but there is some value in keeping children together by developmental stage and developmental stage is fairly age specific.

human_person commented on Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era thewalrus.ca/moleskine/... · Posted by u/samclemens

reaperducer · 2 years ago

I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere.

You can have both.

My wife uses a smart pen that tracks her writing in her notebooks and creates searchable PDFs.

Every couple of months she unloads it via Bluetooth into iCloud and the pages are available everywhere she is.

She recently turned off the pen's built-in OCR after she found that macOS does a much better job of automatically OCRing the pages just by dropping the PDFs into the file system.

human_person · 2 years ago

Will it record anything she writes with the pen? Regardless of what she is writing on? Does she need to replace the ink in the pen ever?