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541.
by echelon 5mo ago
I'm so perplexed by this, because Rust errors are what make the language so amazing. > Now I’m debugging macro expansion errors and spending approximately the same amount of time This never happens once you've learned the langu
542.
by echelon 5mo ago
I remember the titles on the old Apple II machines at elementary school: - Oregon Trail - Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego - Super Solvers (the best of the lot) I also got a Windows 95 IBM Aptiva PC from my parents that had a lot of ed
543.
by echelon 5mo ago
> Then you can adjust the numbers one way or another. The numbers need to go up. China, in particular, has an "elite overproduction" problem. We should be welcoming every English-speaking Chinese STEM degree holder with open ar
544.
by echelon 5mo ago
> it’s hard to believe you understand software engineering and software architecture. I made over $500k TC writing active-active high availability services that moved billions of dollars a day. I've been around the block. > Magic
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by echelon 5mo ago
Maybe, weren't it for the fact that we're having age verification and IDV ("protect the kids"), hardware attestation, removal of 3rd party APKs, etc. heaved upon us. We've never had so many threats to our privacy an
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by echelon 5mo ago
In the US. Apple's policies are flexible when it comes to other nation states. All it takes is a political sea change for E2EE to go away. Apple already has to hand over a wealth of information when asked by the feds.
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away. Perfection in glue and plumbing? That's what 99% of software is. Even active-active distributed systems are glue and exist only to bridge ephemeral infrastructure. Ev
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Because the experience of interacting with AI is miserable. I like writing code. I'm your exact opposite. I've felt like code is 1960's punch card tech my entire career. I've always wanted to do more. So much of cod
549.
by echelon 5mo ago
Frameworks and ORMs were the pre-agentic AI "iron man suit". I'm quite liking how good Claude Code Opus is at Rust + sqlx (raw SQL with type safety) + actix-web.
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is really cool! Feature request: can you add WASD navigation? Arrow keys are weird on different keyboards. On mine they're squashed into the corner and not fun to use. WASD is the OG OP way to navigate. (WASDQE, where QE are the v
551.
by echelon 5mo ago
> No wonder gamers hate AI bros. Personally, playing with AI models is way more fun than getting sucked into a game loop. Game loops feel like busy work hooked to an engineered dopamine drip. AI models are new frontiers and are exciting
552.
by echelon 5mo ago
> but you have made no argument about how those transitions made us better off. Are you kidding? > Cars I make weekend trips to the beach and mountains. I can have a nice big house and drive around the metro and visit all kinds of pla
553.
by echelon 5mo ago
> kill off the labor market This is such a comical take. There is going to be more demand, not less. And hypothetically, if they did kill off the labor market, they did it in the wrong country. Everyone here owns guns. Work will be fine.
554.
by echelon 5mo ago
Your wife is right. History is repeating itself. And not even for the first time. Horse carriage drivers -> Cars Print media -> Internet Drafting -> CAD Music -> Electronic music, DAWs Film photography -> Digital Traditional
555.
by echelon 5mo ago
I'm in film and highly exposed to the AI media and arts scene. I was very early to this hate, and I've experienced it personally by the metric boat load. I'm fine with people not liking the technology, but the number of death
556.
by echelon 5mo ago
I'd really love a list if you're offering.
557.
by echelon 5mo ago
Pokemon Central runs ads (Google AdSense at that!), which is probably how they pay for everything. Google is likely their biggest inbound source of traffic, so they're probably experiencing a marked revenue drop as well. It's unfo
558.
by echelon 5mo ago
Stability.ai is still around? I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model. Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money. I wish for a world
559.
by echelon 5mo ago
> In a sane, fair, and (crucially) long-term stable system, persons given privilege and authority over others are subject to a higher standard for their own behavior. The US military is subject to a higher standard, the Uniform Code of M
560.
by echelon 5mo ago
It's better than that trend of taking English words and removing the final vowels before "r" or some other consonant.
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by echelon 5mo ago
> minimizing e.g. political deepfake harms? When your average gullible person will fall for a jpeg and a quote, you don't even need deepfake content. You just need to say something and they'll take it at face value. Deep fakes
562.
by echelon 5mo ago
Hatred for AI and cheering a loss of privacy are strange bedfellows. Would not have been on my bingo card.
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is very similar to audiowmark https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark You can stuff per-item database unique IDs, user IDs, geohashes, and other nefarious things inside. We need to protest this LOUDLY. Our devic
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by echelon 5mo ago
I'm not going to mince words - what you're saying is dangerous and harmful. > to be clear can not track you in any way All they have to do is encode enough entropy for a database unique identifier. Systems like this have been u
565.
by echelon 5mo ago
These systems should be removed. This is antithetical to freedom and privacy. There should be no way for anyone to track down who posted a political meme, anti-religious message, or any other legally protected speech. This will come back to
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Show HN: Heard Google copied part of our product for IO. Want to show off first
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by echelon 5mo ago
1. GIMP needs a total UX overhaul 2. GIMP needs RAW support, precision support, and a better data backbone 3. GIMP needs a rename. It's both a sex kink term [1] (not to yuck anyone's yums) and a slur term for disabled people [2] 4
568.
by echelon 5mo ago
Lambda, RunPod, and I've used GCP and AWS instances and clusters too. I'd prefer if we had a more open version of all of this. That's where open source will matter.
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by echelon 5mo ago
Oh sure. But that was a different tone and audience. The "it's stealing" arguments have quieted down. Especially since there are weights trained on fully licensed materials by Adobe and others. Now that code models can do it,
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Please don’t post AI slop to HN. ??? - My comment doesn't even look like an LLM wrote it. > It’s against the guidelines. To be clear: I wRoTe - E V E R Y - w o r d - by [picture ASCII art of "human hand" here]⠀ Do not

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