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by klabb3 1y ago
This has also happened before. For instance, when audio recording equipment became better concerts you can’t obviously tell if lip sync was used, even if amplifiers existed before. Similar with autotune. The signs are hard to spot, and with
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s good to see a new fresh push for protocols and interop. However, I don’t think it will do the thing we hope for, for non-technical reasons. During Web 2.0, we saw similar enthusiasm. Instead of AI agents or blockchain, every modern com
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> Maybe people will just stop caring about the human touch. No they won’t. This has happened many times in the past already with live theatre -> movies, live music -> radio etc. They don’t replace, but break into different categori
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s futile. The first thing people will do if the ”written by a human” crypto-signature takes off is to wire it up with LLMs. You can’t make any reasonable guarantees on authorship unless you change the entire hardware stack and tack on lo
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by klabb3 1y ago
> The mood here is as notoriously cynical as I would expect from HN. Yeah, let's all brush this tech off as unoriginal, uninspiring and bland. On the contrary, this comment is peak HN. The reverse take that a machine eating human ar
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by klabb3 1y ago
> who is taking the concept of free markets seriously The EU. Let me explain, because this was confusing: In US political debate, free markets have become synonymous with ”let companies do what they want”. Today, most of US ”markets” are
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by klabb3 1y ago
Apple was doing malicious compliance all along. It’s not surprising. But this is extremely good news, because it dampens FUD and narratives such as ”the EU is only going after American companies with frivolous rules”. If you get punished th
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by klabb3 1y ago
And yet you still stand out if you use tor.
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Its not a dollar value. It’s an ongoing percentage based tax on your business relationships and consumption with other providers. For instance, say Netflix has an iOS app with 10M installs. Apple wants 30% of the subscription revenue even t
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s the business model. Even here at HN we’re comparing X and Y, having deep thoughts about core technologies before getting caught off-guard when a tech company does exactly the same they’ve been doing for decades. It’s like if you chang
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by klabb3 1y ago
I don’t think business leaders generally respond to chaos like the rest of us: wait and see, and maybe some light prep work. Unless everyone else starts panicking most people won’t. This administration is governing by executive action congr
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by klabb3 1y ago
Just crossed my mind that perhaps lots of bot traffic is coming from botnets of unaware victims who downloaded a shitty game or similar, orchestrated by a malicious C&C server somewhere else. (There was a post about this type of malware
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by klabb3 1y ago
> So you mean, Rust is more of an intellectual playground, than an actual workbench? Both. IMO rust shines as a C++ replacement, ie low level high performance. But officially its general purpose and nobody will admit that it’s a bad tool
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by klabb3 1y ago
My main gripe with npm is the massive complexity of packaging when you have transpilation and different modes in the package.json file. Especially with component libs that need to be packaged.
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Yes, it used to be horrible with GOPATH hell, because Google didn’t care much about deps since they had their own monorepo. They got their shit together years ago. IMO today it’s better tooling than Rust (and Rust is pretty great already).
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by klabb3 1y ago
The official `go` command does dep management, (cross) compilation, testing (including benchmarks and coverage reports), race detection, profiling reports, code generation (metaprogramming alternative), doc generation etc. Build times are i
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Beg bounty hunters have damaged the field so much. Sure, the grifters themselves are guilty too. But hear me out: maybe the corporate geniuses who decided to crowdsource security using non-contractual if-we-feel-like-it bounty payments
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by klabb3 1y ago
Don't trust this person, it’s a scam. A real security consultant would have mentioned defense in depth and offered you a discount on their WAF offering.
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by klabb3 1y ago
Wow. On the other side of the table, for system owners it dilutes the meaning of CVEs and causes alarm fatigue. I have a friend who says his npm logs are full of scary CVE/security vulns that are not relevant. The cost of upgrading is
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by klabb3 1y ago
Ok that helps! So where does F# shine? Any particular domains?
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Huh? Usually languages that are ”ignored” turns out to be for reasons such as poor or proprietary tooling. As an ignorant bystander, how are things like Cross compilation, package manager and associated infrastructure, async io (epoll, io_u
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The fact that people love the language is an unexpected downside. In my experience the rust ecosystem has an insanely high churn rate. Crates are often abandoned seemingly for no reason, often before even hitting 1.0. My theory is this is b
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> but the code a bit more brittle, esp. for concurrency Obligatory ”remember to `go run -race`”, that thing is a life saver. I never run into difficult data races or deadlocks and I’m regularly doing things like starting multiple threads
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> I don't want the lesson to be "don't write things down", I want it to be "don't break the law". That would be great if the law was functional. US antitrust law is a low-level IQ test, whose only funct
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Or even the infamous and highly sophisticated reporter-in-the-middle attack, where the victim is drunk and rambling, has no idea how to verify public keys in order to actually use the e2ee correctly, then fat-finger adds people by nicknam
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They only really claimed to believe in the conspiracy theory of lab leak, which many do and isn’t at all outrageous imo. But to your point, I 100% agree. Even if Covid was zoonotic, it absolutely could have been a human fuckup. The amount
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It’s part of the pathology. So much so it’s violating otherwise core tenets of their culture and customs: Look, today meritocracy and brutal honesty are absolutes, they’re considered critical, exactly to overcome biases that stand in your w
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Yeah I don’t get it either. A drive-by PR without even offering hardware for testing? The entitlement around OSS these days… One of the richest companies in the world, and then ”but open source should benefit everyone, it’s discrimination i
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New to me as well. It’s not surprising me at all though. It’s ironic that peak capitalists seemingly spend all their efforts trying to circumventing the only things that make free markets actually efficient: eliminating competition and cons
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In a way yes. If you compare ads to purchasing products or even subscriptions, ads translate into attention and optimizing for addictive engagement. The same as microtransactions in games. If you instead pay money, there’s even an incentive

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