alterom

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by alterom 7mo ago
It's available on Android and iOS, and specifically on Play Store and Apple Store (so no "developer mode" hoops to jump through to install).
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by alterom 7mo ago
1000s? I'd love to know a few more local LLM apps that are available on Android and iOS and Mac/PC under the same branding that I can point my non-technical friends to as a ChatGPT alternative that works offline (but still has
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by alterom 7mo ago
Their core product is local ML inference in the context of a photo app, i.e. a drop-in cloud dependency removal/replacement for non-technical, privacy-conscious users as well as those who want advanced functionality offline. This d
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Any half capable engineer can vibe code this in a week. Who cares? The people who got tired of waiting for "any half capable engineer" to do so.
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by alterom 7mo ago
I think the hate boils down to "I could've built it in a day with Claude, but didn't, so they suck" sour grapes. When the comments here say "there's no value because anyone could've compiled llama.cpp&
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by alterom 7mo ago
It takes a particularly dry and cool-as-ice sense of humor to label this solution a "simple" and "pragmatic" one.
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by alterom 7mo ago
Thanks for your comment! >Slight correction: Thiel grew up in what today is Namibia, not South Africa What today is Namibia was, when Thiel lived there, called South West Africa as a territory under South African control. Namibia o
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Thiel apparently gives talks about the Antichrist You forgot to mention the part where Thiel tells, in all seriousness, that the Antichrist is on Earth, now, and may literally be Greta Thunberg [1]. And that's one of the reaso
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by alterom 7mo ago
>AI coding versus AI writing may be a useful lens to focus through; while I personally abhor both, HN seems extremely positive about the former and (now) extremely negative about the latter. I hope that policy is extended to all YC star
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by alterom 7mo ago
>I don't see many people talking about this angle, but LLMs ripping off my work killed my open source efforts. This is exactly what the article is talking about.
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by alterom 7mo ago
Sorry, but this seems to be so off-base (as well as naively optimistic) that I am having difficulty responding to this. But I'll try nevertheless. - >Want to run a program as you wish? Great! It's easier than ever to build a r
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by alterom 7mo ago
>So the better analogy is if you rent a Xerox copier to copy something by Warhol It isn't. One analogy in that case would be going to a FedEx copy center and asking the technician to produce a bunch of copies of something. They abso
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Adding even more intellectual property nonsense isn't going to work. [citation needed] Where does your confidence come from? GPL itself was precisely the "intellectual property nonsense" adding which made FOSS (free as
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by alterom 7mo ago
The article makes the same point; the quote was taken out of context. The point the author was making was that the intent of GPL is to shift the balance of power from wealthy corporations to the commons, and that the spirit is to make c
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Legal liability is completely unchanged. It's changed completely, from your own example. If you comission art from an artist who paints a modified copy of Warhol's work, the artist is liable (even if you keep that work private
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Our foreparents fought for the right to implement works-a-like to corporate software packages, even if the so-called owners did not like it Our "foreparents" weren't competing with corporations with unlimited access to
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by alterom 7mo ago
>You haven't been involved in a long list of public scandals because you've never done anything in your life that's publicly notable. That's funny. You genuinely think that doing something "publicly notable"
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by alterom 7mo ago
>You're right, but people don't actually care about privacy The entire point of a platform like Twitter / Bluesky is reach , not privacy . Posts and discussions there are meant to be public, and highly visible. It&#x27
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by alterom 7mo ago
That's not what the comment you're responding to is about.
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by alterom 7mo ago
>Now if only we could look up everything you said in chatrooms as a 19 year old and post the most inflammatory stuff on HN. Sure. Wen I was in college, I didn't have the idea of snooping on other students and exploiting them as &q
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by alterom 7mo ago
>As much as this is a damning quote, it is perhaps also damning that any time someone wants to smear zuck they have to reach 20 years into the past. Smear is a word that's not applicable here. It implies that the allegations in
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by alterom 7mo ago
Thank you for saying this. I would not find a better way to word the response myself. "It is perhaps not, and perhaps a bit disingenuous to claim so in good faith, as if it exceeds your abilities to search for the list of facebook sca
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by alterom 7mo ago
>hard to believe even Meta would do this intentionally). Hahahahahahahaha ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage
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by alterom 8mo ago
I mean, no shit Sherlock, Cyrillic letters being indistinguishable from English ones is what Russian speakers have been using to get around braindead keyword сеnsоrshір¹ forever, same way kids type "de@th" on TikTok to avoid autom
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by alterom 8mo ago
>> A domain using only Cyrillic characters that happen to spell a Latin word (like “аpple” in all-Cyrillic) may still render in the address bar’s font and look identical Here you go: https:// аррlе.соm (using English "l
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by alterom 8mo ago
Swipe keyboard on Microsoft Lumias was better. I think Android is only catching up to it in the past 2-3 years. Sadly, Lumias went the way of the dodo, and I don't have a need for that sort of input on something that's not a pho
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by alterom 8mo ago
>People riding horse buggies probably thought the same when powered vehicles first came about, and look at the world now. You won't know unless you give it a honest try. This is a ridiculous non-analogy. I'm flying a jet airpla
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by alterom 8mo ago
I can touch-type with flow typing in GBoard at this point. That's to say, I'm writing this comment on my Android phone without looking at the keyboard. QWERTY is in my muscle memory in such a way that words have become writable
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by alterom 8mo ago
I hate that I understand what "pelican guy" refers to.
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by alterom 8mo ago
That was before Delphi 2.0 even :)

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