janpeuker

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by janpeuker 4mo ago
> Ban the domestic use of fully autonomous weapons. "Domestic" is an interesting shift here from the earlier _general_ discussions on autonomous weapons. So robot imperialism is good for Dario. But the imperial boomerang is a t
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
> workflow improvements that would have taken days or weeks of engineering It's a nice article and good point but I feel "design" in the title is misleading - the example given has an extremely reduced visual or spatial sc
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
I find it so interesting "Agent legibility is the goal" picks up James C. Scott term (without defining it, so I assume that's what they mean) which is _not a good thing_. Legibility is a governance effort to box in life.
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
I bought a Super Nintendo Mini and it's the best thing ever - children love it and don't feel left out of digital entertainment
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
> ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT Ah yes, EU Sovereignty when a post makes it to the HN front page.
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Great post showing the ironic revenge of opinionated architecture in times of cheap code. Exactly what LLMs can’t deliver, they always seem to be bias towards added complexity, not simplification.
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Outsourcing usually gives you exactly what you pay for, arguably more transparently than other ways. It’s just that transparency (i.e. the price for quality) is sometimes not passed on from management / procurement taking that decision
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying the rule - I wasn't aware of that and follow it next time. But I also don't think it's a marketing link. The post explains why specifically in the cases of transaction fraud other signals are important,
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
I agree the post looks a little AI written but generally this kind of analysis is quite common. Leaving aside human heuristics that are generally too well known to catch real scammers (like time travel or "7 days", which is bad be
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
While I agree most of this seems to go too far I do like the idea of the Socratic mode with State-Challenge-Reflect reflection. I often use LLMs in the same way with a skeleton "brief" document and separate chapters that I ask it
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Excellent text and Winner's "Cyberlibertarian Myths And The Prospects For Community" is a milestone. Further reading: 1) Barbrook, Richard, and Andy Cameron. ‘The Californian Ideology’. Science as Culture 6, no. 1 (1996): 44
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
The European Payments Initiative (Wero) made the mistake of only aiming for Peer-to-Peer QR code payments, carefully avoiding competing with cards so each country could keep their card schemes (Cartes Bancaires, Girocard etc). I don't
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Europe already has plenty of alternative card systems e.g. France's Cartes Bancaires (CB) and ironically Germany just last year turned it's Girocard/Maestro system off in favour of Visa/Mastercard; the problem is the ban
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by janpeuker 5mo ago
Lots of other Asian countries already did something similar, e.g. Singapore had PayNow QR Codes (probably the closest to Pix) since 2017, Thai PromptPay was even earlier and India UPI (slightly different wallet system) since 2016. China was
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
Yes I get the irony but also let's not forget that it's over for the Code that Uncle Bob likes. Which is bad, verbose, dogmatic, unreadable, elitist code [1] with "discipline" [2] and a dash of sexism. And that has lucki
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
> AI concerns are speculative There is ample evidence around the world of data centers causing extreme water crises [1]. Not a water expert but I find the focus on evaporation very confusing. Draining ground water and aquifers causes env
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
Payment processors don't allow just brute forcing all card numbers a.k.a. card enumeration or card testing [1][2] and card schemes penalise merchants and payment processors heavily if they don't take measures against it [3]. 1) h
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
The chart is also misleading because it paints investment as morally good but ignores most of this investment goes into closed source APIs while the rest of the world does open weights, and does so way more efficiently (spending less money)
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
That’s an extremely western and recency biased list, what about * The Decimal System * Concept of Zero (Brahmagupta) * Invention of Algebra (Al-Khwarizmi) * Invention of Optics (Ibn al-Haytham) * Meritocracy (Confucius)
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
I don’t 100% agree with the “AI can’t see” because in a Ralph-loop against screenshots, it basically can (inefficiently). But more importantly I do find it generally curious how bad even frontier models are in spatial thinking. Say “Align t
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
Had the same experience after switching from regular credits to a subscription realizing credits not only cannot be refunded but also cannot be used to buy a subscription and even wilder not to buy extra usage for a subscription. In other w
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by janpeuker 6mo ago
I guess someone already said it but just to be sure Singapore also had Fiber to Home since 2010, roughly around the same time as Switzerland. But it’s less needed because Singapore also has 99% 5G coverage with 300-400Mbps
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by janpeuker 7mo ago
> I want to forcibly confine the small number of criminals, street addicts, and lunatics responsible for a wildly disproportionate amount of crime and disorder I think for that alone the post should be flagged and removed. "Politica
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by janpeuker 8mo ago
I think it's also relevant that CPF is not only a pension schema but most importantly also a home ownership scheme via HDB OA https://www.cpf.gov.sg/member/home-ownership/using-your-cpf-...
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by janpeuker 8mo ago
I think the UAE point is crucial - in many things, including freedom and basic rights, they are worse than Singapore. Now that most of the west (as the article says) treats civil rights and press freedom more like Singapore does, the right
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by janpeuker 9mo ago
Agree and the site here is too high level without insight. An open, good list of post mortems might be more helpful [1]. Just an addition, Code Smells [2] are a useful addition to patterns. [1] https://github.com/danluu&#x2F
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by janpeuker 9mo ago
I had the exact same experience with HSBC, with a little twist: I was really impressed by their 100% online signup process with digital government ID which took less than 10 minutes. The process was extremely smooth, except for a very scamm
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by janpeuker 9mo ago
Super interesting, just sad that Omega-3 supplements are one of the main drivers of unsustainable Krill overfishing https://seashepherd.org/2025/02/25/protecting-the-oceans-vit...