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by jappgar 4mo ago
Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg were two nerds on either side of the privacy spectrum in the twenty-teens. One was framed and tortured, the other was given an empire. The message was received. We now only have the Zuckerberg type.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
The more guarantees you put in place the more people believe the system is infallible and the more valuable the exploit becomes. If "signed" photos were treated as incontrovertible truth, then you'll just have people 3d print
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by jappgar 4mo ago
It takes considerable energy to train models and run inference. You can't dismiss AI generated content as "low effort", but you can dismiss it as a wasteful diversion.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
Robots. That's why they're obsessed with AI and robotics.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
The AI boosters imagine they'll be annointed and rewarded by their new overlords. That's why they're obsessed (to the point of psychosis) with "mastering" the new technique. That's why they're all building
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by jappgar 4mo ago
Some food is mass-produced in factories. It tastes bad, and poisons you slowly. Some (less) food is produced on farms and kitchens. It tastes good, and keeps you healthy. I don't really care who/what wrote the code. I don't e
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by jappgar 4mo ago
The bots used by these proxies are detectable in a few ways. Remember the bot itself doesn't run on the proxy... There is discernible lag from proxy to c&c node. The individual bots don't have access to a lot of compute, and a
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by jappgar 4mo ago
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But this applies to both camps.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
Why would we need 1B office workers when Claude is supposed to fire everyone anyways?
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by jappgar 4mo ago
If only the had access to some system that could read and interpret text.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
Is the disclosure pipeline monitored by chatgpt?
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by jappgar 4mo ago
I just think a lot of people here haven't ever worked on large scale systems. They don't know what the don't know.
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by jappgar 4mo ago
So you can post about it on HN, obviously
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by jappgar 4mo ago
And when you need to scale to thousands of instances of your microservice?
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by jappgar 4mo ago
It's touted by the people who use the word "just" a lot. "Just use postgres" "Just use sqlite" "Juse use a monolith" "Just use sftp" "Just use an ec2 instance" Usually these p
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by jappgar 5mo ago
AI is the latest brick in the wall separating human beings from one another. Your argument is like "people have been killing each other for centuries so when you think about it hydrogen bombs are not the problem"
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by jappgar 5mo ago
Where do you find the smart developers in 2026. Half are rage quitting and the other half have full-blown psychosis.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
The technology doesn't have an existence outside how people use it. If everyone who uses it correctly finds it frustrating, and if the only people who love it produce a mountain of unmantainable slop, we will quickly abandon it to the
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by jappgar 5mo ago
LLM weights deserve to be free
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by jappgar 5mo ago
I'm so curious to see how other people prompt but literally no one I work with will share it. They might share plans, but they never show the conversation, which is the most crucial part. Judging by how they struggle to communicate gen
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by jappgar 5mo ago
20 minutes planning, 20 minutes coding, 200 minutes review and refactor (includes going for a walk and thinking about the problem deeply). I know a lot of engineers who skip the last part. They're over confident in their original plan.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
That's why political parties were invented, so you don't need to create name recognition for every candidate. Those signs aren't changing anyone's mind. But a party is something people can talk about and understand. It&#
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by jappgar 5mo ago
They don't need money they just need votes. If money can buy votes then the problem rests with an apathetic and distracted electorate. You change that by giving a fuck and telling everyone you know what you actually think.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
They can start by voting for politicians who will rein in big tech
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by jappgar 5mo ago
I swear most executives can barely read so you're not doing your career any favors sending them more than 150 characters.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
"no global state" sure but sprawling monad constraints mean you're jumping around more than other languages. The terseness of Haskell just hides the inherent complexity of the problem. The AI (or human) still needs to uncover
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by jappgar 5mo ago
doing the devil's work here.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
And this mistrust is deliberately sewn by right-wing politicians and media figures who are directly funded by government contractors.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
This is a very important point. AI makes different types of mistakes to humans. They're harder for us to see because we're not expecting them.
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by jappgar 5mo ago
which is more likely when they start vibe-coding grid managers

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