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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
it's pretty much impossible to engage with people in a sane way in threads like this. hide and move on.
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
yep, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po > "The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick Wes
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
you know, i feel like the " it's the parents' responsibility " comments that turn up on submissions like this often tend towards phrasing like " the parents " rather than " with my children i ..."
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
emailing hn@ycombinator.com is possibly a better way to raise a question about moderation like this fyi. mods may not see this comment but they probably will see a direct email. theyre probably the only ones who can answer your question &#x
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
It's not everyone else's fault that executives etc. decided to grow their userbase/business/profits at all costs, i.e. with no concerns for the harms they've been causing. It's similar to how adding more and mo
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
didn't know about lite, thanks for the tip
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> Been using ipgeolocation.io to fetch the additional information about the GEO locations, ASN information, etc.
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> (i.e. popups, banners large enough to push users to interact with them, etc.). "i.e." doing a lot of work there. GDPR doesn't require pop-ups or banners for providing consent. It mentions "ticking a box when visitin
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
they are now attempting to "de-slop-ify" it https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-re... which is hilarious
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> Drm is not targeted at the hardcore pirate, it's targeted at a potentially larger percentage of people who would be tempted to get the thing for free if it was easy spotify and netflix are both prime examples of making it easier f
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
youtube video link from the article behind the "you must agree to cookies to play this youtube video embed that's actually not a youtube video embed" shenanigans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDr2dec474
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
except during that time players aren’t huddling around the manager and the rest of the coaching staff. all of whom have their ipads out to discuss stats breakdowns and instruct players on changing tactics and strategies. that’s what effecti
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
They could, but an LLM makes it faster and easier to launder code. And makes it harder to detect. Plenty of github accounts now are agent-driven monstrosities just trying to inflate someone's contribution stats etc.
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> It's enough to tell you that, if it does happen, it must be quite rare and not a systematic issue. alternative perspective: it's just taking time for the lawyers to figure out what they can sue them for.
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> The concern discussed here is copyrighted material being generated unintentionally and the original author asserting their rights. both intentional (malicious contributor) or unintentional (Large-Laundering-Model) are copyright issues
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
reminded me of: > The complaint argued that "the basis of the Gaye defendants' claims is that "Blurred Lines" and "Got To Give It Up" "feel" or "sound" the same. Being reminiscent of a &q
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> To my knowledge there is not a single known case where this happened. > News back then were about intentionally prompting to output known copyrighted material. First, there are other cases if you take the time to dig. This is quite
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> there hasn't been a single lawsuit over this in the entire history of LLM-assisted coding. the "entire history of" is circa 3-4 years, which is very much a tiny period of time compared to normal legal system / copyr
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
that's kinda the point -- titles on HN usually indicate the sort of content that's behind clicking through, and whether it might be something interesting to the prospective reader. this one doesn't because it's the name
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
The actual header on the page is > We are building the multiplexer for all work. imo this would have been a better way to do the HN submission title (with or without [terminal]) > Superlogical: We are building the [terminal] multiplex
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
it’s likely to do with the fact that the parent comment here laid out a thoughtful basis / argument for their “good”, providing some detail to their justification for it. that’s just my take/feedback, take it or leave it. i won’t
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
this sort of thing happens more often at larger non-tech enterprises, or places that have a type of "software team" that is not the main focus of the org.
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
yeah the lead lecturer on my data engineering masters once told us about a job posting he saw asking for 8 years of Hadoop experience, even though Hadoop had only been publicly available for 5 years at the time. it's often HR / hi
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> On that commit, we'd require a very brief bullet list of changes, sometimes a POC, and a link to the PR. one of the first things i do in a new gitlab repo is set up ff+squash commit merges with the squash commit message template a
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> this was amazing post. i enjoyed reading it, it was relevant to some work stuff i was battling with. the linked articles at the end were amazing too. i had tonnes of respect for fly.io and yourself because of these posts. technically i
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
do you remember writing this? https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest... this was amazing post. i enjoyed reading it, it was relevant to some work stuff i was battling with. the linked articles at
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> Honestly, the biggest problem with that article was the title. Pretty sure the content of a company's blog post being overtly arrogant, abrasive, dismissive and generally dickish was also a problem. > Meanwhile, software deve
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
i believe the GP is probably acutely aware of that considering they were quite obviously being sarcastic
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
his flagged "goodbye" submission mentioned at the circa 26 minute mark for those who are curious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928645 and while i'm not a massive fan of the music (not my kind of elec
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by dijksterhuis 3mo ago
> everybody should expect an LLM to give slop answers from time to time. oh really? because that’s not how they’re being advertised or marketed. they’re being touted as oracles that can answer any and all of your questions with a tiny di

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