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zahrc commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml

a3w · 2 days ago

Will a manager that acknowledges his/her/their mistakes get promoted as frequently, as if when downplaying them?

zahrc · 2 days ago

There is unfortunately no formula for it, apart from, play the game that senior management wants to be played.

I’d say, stick to your guns and find a job that supports your morales, not the other way around.

zahrc commented on Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models anthropic.com/research/pe... · Posted by u/itchyjunk

petesergeant · 20 days ago

> Hallucinations are not a completely known or well understood yet.

Is that true? Is it anything more complicated than LLMs producing text optimized for plausibility rather than for any sort of ground version of truth?

zahrc · 20 days ago

No, it's nothing more than that, and that is the most frustrating. I agree with you on the other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777760#44778294) and a confidence metric or a simple "I do not know" could fix a lot of the hallucination.

In the end, <current AI model> is driven towards engagement and delivering an answer and that drives it towards generating false answers when it doesn't know or understand.

If it was more personality controlled, delivering more humble and less confident answers or even making it say that it doesn't know would be a lot easier.

zahrc commented on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/nomaxx117

Hamuko · a month ago

My (Unifi) router is set to automatic DoH, and I think that means it's using Cloudflare and Google. Didn't notice any disruptions so either the Cloudflare DoH kept working or it used the Google one while it was down.

zahrc · a month ago

Check Jallmann’s response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490#44578917

TLDR; DoH was working

zahrc commented on Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Tomte

zahrc · 4 months ago

Any image in this position would be distracting.

However, I have never understood notions like this: “it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon”

Is like my great grandpa scolding us at the dinner table for laughing and talking.

zahrc commented on Windows Control Panel set for deprecation theregister.com/2024/08/2... · Posted by u/laktak

zahrc · a year ago

Control panel is bad. The alternatives are worse. Prepare to have your settings gated behind several menus you have to navigate through!

zahrc commented on Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? trace.yshui.dev/2024-05-c... · Posted by u/fzliu

shaky-carrousel · a year ago

Copilot for me is very useful with all the scaffold boring code. It sometimes helps with problems, but I have to guide it, and be very precise with my request.

zahrc · a year ago

And even then it happens to ignore context or queries from start or halfway through. I'd rather spend the time coding then trying to bruteforce it to give me the answer I need.

zahrc commented on Don't kill my app dontkillmyapp.com/... · Posted by u/tentacleuno

toast0 · 2 years ago

iOS apps are built around Apple's policies which are more or less uniformly enforced on Apple phones. iOS apps started with near zero background compute and that was only added later.

OTOH, Android apps started with near zero restrictions on background compute and it's been added on in bits here and there. Two different Android phones may have drastically different policies and not because the user chose it. App developers can have difficulty making sure things work on phones where the manufacturer sets policies that limit when it can run or how it stays resident.

It's not always easy doing that for Apple, but there's not ten different ways you have to do things for ten different manufacturers.

Sure, there's tons of apps out there that have no business running in the background. But for every one of those, there's stuff that really needs it to work and the user wants it to work; the page on Samsung says some firmware versions would kill background execution if you hadn't used an app in 3 days, so if you had a weekly alarm in the clock app, and don't load the clock otherwise, it would likely not fire. That's not reasonable, and it's not what the user wanted or expected.

zahrc · 2 years ago

> It's not always easy doing that for Apple, but there's not ten different ways you have to do things for ten different manufacturers.

It's why, I, as a user, chose to stick with iOS. At least it's the devil I know, with the behaviour and boundaries that I can accept - without having to figure out every kink everytime there is an update.

I understand that some people prefer to tinker with their phones, I do not.

zahrc commented on Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mkolassa

icy · 2 years ago

Looks like Nothing is partnering with a US-based third party called Sunbird to build this service. From Sunbird’s site (https://sunbirdapp.com):

> Will the app be open source?

> Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

Not sure I’d be willing to trust them with my Apple ID credentials.

zahrc · 2 years ago

Comment from another poster (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pokey96) down below

> From other sites, it seems it uses a Mac Mini in a server room as a proxy for iMessage to accomplish this, with the massive drawback of having to provide Nothing your Apple ID credentials.

No thanks, I’m good.

zahrc commented on Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some businessinsider.com/cure-... · Posted by u/kakokeko

zahrc · 2 years ago

It would be only a relief for a symptom and not actually curing the cause.