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by anileated 2y ago
The fact that many software products are moving to lower-level languages is not a general point in favour of lower-level languages being somehow better—rather, it simply aligns with general directions of software evolution. 1. As products m
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by anileated 2y ago
Before: I’m a lazy developer so I find the best libraries and abstract logic to write the least code and do least maintenance work. Now: I’m a lazy developer, so I get a glorified autocomplete to write 10x code than what I have the willpowe
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by anileated 2y ago
If weird sun twitter was on Bluesky, in which category would it go?
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Ex-executive who oversaw Muan airport localizer installation found dead(koreaherald.com)
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by anileated 2y ago
It is much more recent than the Greeks. McLuhan, for example, had some good points* about how writing/reading is different (and indeed in some ways worse?) than oral tradition, and how it influences even our social interactions and min
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by anileated 2y ago
I just don’t get your angle. My point was that the human is the one who has some freedoms and the one who bears responsibility. If you read a bunch of books in a book store without buying them and use your imperfect memory of them to do you
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by anileated 2y ago
Why?
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by anileated 2y ago
So we’re back the human vs. unthinking machine distinction. American inventors were human. We’re going in circles and this article was hidden on HN anyway.
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by anileated 2y ago
You’re correct, there is a distinction since it is technically another product.
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by anileated 2y ago
> If the argument is that human authors should get a cut of AI profits because their works were "stolen" to train the models, this is going to be a increasingly losing argument, because it doesn't have a leg to stand on fo
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by anileated 2y ago
If IBM’s original product was “designed to facilitate the Holocaust”, then every article about IBM darn better lead with that. In case of Facebook, it was originally designed literally to compare the attractiveness of female students; but
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by anileated 2y ago
“Transformative” is always a grey area. If my service just returns you a book you requested, but in upper case, then it was transformed. But sure, the “transformative” argument is the one that could apply (and even I believe Google used it
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by anileated 2y ago
> The point is that fair use exemptions isn't limited to "being a conscious human being enjoying human rights" Sure. However, my point is that this is not fair use*, so other principles need to be applied. Whether legal
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by anileated 2y ago
“Automated” is key. You are not an automaton, not a machine, you do not infinitely scale with compute power; but unlike a machine you have free will and agency, and legal framework of developed countries grants you human rights that inclu
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by anileated 2y ago
In United States a private business is free to shut down any speech it likes on its infrastructure/premises*. If you look closely, you will find that most or all do it to some speech or other. The revealing part is specifically what sp
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by anileated 2y ago
This is not a good analogy. Google does not display the contents to any significant degree (you have to visit the search result). And even then it was/is in legal trouble, in fact (in some countries like Australia* more than others). F
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by anileated 2y ago
Have you considered that you have some traits that make you eligible to read books and access information freely in the country you live in*? Something about being a conscious human being enjoying human rights, perhaps? An implement that
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Knex.js: SQL query builder for Node.js(github.com)
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by anileated 2y ago
I was curious about the topic of Middle East (no personal ties) a couple of years before the October 7, so I got to witness the Wikipedia campaign unfold. The transformation is difficult to notice but changes are drastic over months (maybe
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What using RSS feeds feels like(gilest.org)
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by anileated 2y ago
Thanks. My comment may have been overly cynical, and things are not so black and white yet, but extrapolating the trend from the last couple years is depressing.
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IHP: Type-safe web framework in Haskell and Nix(github.com)
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by anileated 2y ago
Note that anyone not living under a rock in 2025 would assume a significant probability that the articles in your blog are generated with an LLM, making it hardly a signal of skill.
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by anileated 2y ago
Maintaining a blog in 2025 is worth it if you do not mind almost all of your readers being LLMs that ingest your work and repackage in ways that prevent you from being aware of your actual human readership, often without credit and for prof
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by anileated 2y ago
> i put as many keywords and "inurl"s and whatnot in as i can manage More keywords does the opposite of narrowing the query. Unless you use quotes and/or other operators, it’s enough for the document to contain only one of
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macOS Sequoia made impossible to delete on-device ML data without disabling SIP(old.reddit.com)
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by anileated 2y ago
I wonder why no terminal app implemented Z-axis scrollback like in Avalon, since they increasingly (e.g., Alacritty) boast GPU-based rendering it seems like it wouldn’t be such a resource hog but can look gorgeous . And practical, too. It
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by anileated 2y ago
Exactly. Also, it is only a matter of time until one of those employees (thanks to free will and agency) will whistleblow, it doesn’t scale, etc. Frankly, the fact that such a big segment of HN crowd unthinkingly buys big tech’s double stan
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by anileated 2y ago
“A person is fundamentally different from an LLM” does not need a legal argument and is implied by the fact that LLMs do not have human rights, or even anything comparable to animal rights. A legal argument would be needed to argue the othe
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by anileated 2y ago
> I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable li

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