EGreg

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by EGreg 2y ago
Why is tape the best thing? One would think two- or three-dimensional storage could pack way more data!
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by EGreg 2y ago
Saying that kind of stuff is the biggest indicator of Paul Graham (pg) himself
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by EGreg 2y ago
If there’s one thing about AI, it’s that you cannot avoid it. The idea that individuals can just “opt out” of plastic, sugar, artificial ingredients, factory farms, social media and all the other negative extrnalities the corporations push
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by EGreg 2y ago
Just wait until people start buying Tesla’s optimus robots! Cheap and ubiquitous surveillance will be the norm in the future.
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Building Efficient APIs with Qbix and the JAM Stack(community.qbix.com)
1 points by EGreg 2y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 2y ago
It's a zero-sum game. People don't understand this: https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-compared-to-the-... I guess advertising is too, in the limit. So a lot of the business model on the web is also
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by EGreg 2y ago
Let's just be clear. It's not just that a roman emperor is the premier famous stoic. It's also that the Romans were instrumental in setting up Christianity and Judaism as exportable religions, after they completely destroyed
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by EGreg 2y ago
Gearing up for a fight between the two major industries based on exploitative business models: Copyright cartels (RIAA, MPAA) that monetized young artists without paying them much at all [1], vs the AI megalomaniacs who took all the work fo
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by EGreg 2y ago
Isn't this easy to do with just WebRTC? Like, a few lines of code and using some signaling server and relay (STUN + TURN)?
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Ask HN: Do any cameras or recorders on the market exist with signed attestation?
3 points by EGreg 2y ago|2 comments
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by EGreg 2y ago
Do you think the people who keep commenting "X was always a problem" are really unaware of this? Or they are just trying to dampen any alarm on purpose?
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Cortical Labs is starting to grow brains in vats using neurons. Is this ethical?(newatlas.com)
4 points by EGreg 2y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 2y ago
I kind of want to have an LLM which takes absolutely any criticism of AI or news of it doing something bad and then generates a plausible HN comment that basically goes "I don't think it's a new problem, X has always been pos
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by EGreg 2y ago
“ These new tools streamline core agent logic, orchestration, and interactions, making it significantly easier for developers to get started with building agents” Sounds exactly like “the cloud”, especially AWS. Basically “get married to ou
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by EGreg 2y ago
Haha wow, good one
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by EGreg 2y ago
What is your favorite post-quantum encryption approach? I think Lattice-based ones will eventually be broken by a quantum algorithm. I am fully on board with lamport signatures and SPHINCS+
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by EGreg 2y ago
the R&D continues
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Ask HN: What's to prevent someone from spoofing a website?
5 points by EGreg 2y ago|8 comments
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by EGreg 2y ago
I love the approach Would you like to join forces? Reach out to me: https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf
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Show HN: You can create promises in JavaScript without nesting
2 points by EGreg 2y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 2y ago
Shareholders are the prime driver behind enshittification of platforms. Because they hold earnings calls every quarter and make the team extract more and more rents from their ecosystem, to make number go up. But hey, the shareholder game a
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by EGreg 2y ago
Mexico never paid for the wall. You do the math :)
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by EGreg 2y ago
Would you expect them to cut the IRS, if they're trying to cut deficits? Obama and Clinton (with Republican congresses) ACTUALLY cut deficits -- Clinton even got a surplus. Bush and Trump extended tax cuts which ballooned them back int
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by EGreg 2y ago
why would it get a waiver? Mexico is already paying for the wall, so... why should they pay here too?
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by EGreg 2y ago
Well, they dismantled them all. So it’s back to 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...
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by EGreg 2y ago
As I was reading this story, a pop-up advert appeared. They’re everywhere, man! Isn’t it time to have an alternative to capitalism? UBI and cooperative gift economies (science, open source etc.)
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by EGreg 2y ago
Well, in the 90s Clinton negotiated the Agreed framework with North Korea not to get nukes in exchange for lowering sanctions. Then Bush admin called it "appeasement" and let it die. Then NK got nukes. Obama's admin negotiate
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by EGreg 2y ago
Because we live in a society where the incentives are not conducive to collaboration. Imagine if everyone had a UBI, and you contributed fixes and improvements to a project because you thought it was cool. That's how professors with te
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by EGreg 2y ago
Why still use SQLite then? But how does WASM DuckDB store files in IndexedDB? Any info on that?
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by EGreg 2y ago
Lately I've seen posts about DuckDB, which looks really cool, but Sqlite seems to be compileable with WASM so it can be used in some kind of container. How do the two compare?

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