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by neilv 4mo ago
Just this week, I got my first AI-automated one, following a pattern of "liked your X, especially Y". I hope the people doing things like that realize that's awful for humanity, and they stop doing that.
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by neilv 4mo ago
This is fun, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone at Google did something like this a couple decades ago, as a 20% Project. Outside of Google, around that time, I used Google Earth for a 3D visualization tool for real flight data rec
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by neilv 4mo ago
Hypertext to the rescue! Here's the lede sentence: > In [Structured Query Language (SQL)]( https://example.com/sql/ ), you can solve Unusual Complicated Problem with Super Advanced Thing. That said, one time I
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by neilv 4mo ago
> Both marks come from Scheme, where [...] Reminds me of an email I wish I still had. Circa 2000, I wrote that I was leaning towards moving to Scheme, for more rapid R&D work than I could do in Java. Some nice-sounding person I did
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by neilv 4mo ago
> There are other ways to get rich than by starting startups. Some of those do require you to exploit people. But startups are the most common way to become really rich, and if you want to start a successful startup, the key is not expl
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by neilv 4mo ago
For players who are new to the game, there should be a 1/4 chance you go to bed proud of an honest day's work with your hands, and wake up the next morning having strained a muscle you didn't even know you had, and you can&#x
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by neilv 4mo ago
If the article's description evoked applications like old missile guidance system methods based on geographic features... this Wikipedia screenshot's imagery looks like it would also be good for precision drone attacks against urb
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by neilv 4mo ago
Relevant quote: > I am sure it is not perfect (I only spent an hour working with the results), but a software engineer would iron out the remaining potential bugs that I could not find quickly [...] People have said things like this ma
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by neilv 4mo ago
This was the secret sauce of my best startup idea: something that once existed, but had been forgotten. (Because, I believe, either the flood of people into the market space never knew it, or it wasn't the dominant model for exploitati
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by neilv 4mo ago
Import-only is the lazy way. :) If you want, GnuCash also has features to support manually entering each transaction as it occurs . Then GnuCash has features to match up financial institutions data exports against your transaction split
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by neilv 4mo ago
OK, just please be careful how you frame what you're asking for. For software development use of Claude, I'd be happy if the `claude` CLI executable does everything I need, within the Linux KVM VM sandboxes I create for the work,
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by neilv 4mo ago
What I'm wondering is -- although an item would be found to be legally considered public domain in all applicable jurisdictions when examined by law clerk -- what are the practical rules for passing copyright clearance checks/cha
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by neilv 4mo ago
Exactly. The site mentions that and some other problems, and just disclaimers their liability. One problem I didn't see mentioned directly is that some venues have additional bureaucratic rules. For example, I saw a writer-artist com
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by neilv 4mo ago
Does anyone know how easily you can do "copyright clearance" for these supposedly public domain images? For example, the page for the first image I clicked on said: Date 1833 Underlying Rights Public Domain Worl
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by neilv 4mo ago
There are plenty reasons to be critical of Microsoft's AI strategy and tactics (and especially of many other things MS has done), but the linked article seems to be targeted at gamer, rather than at people who care about non-gaming tec
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by neilv 4mo ago
Ideas for what individuals can do about this and related awful tech: 1. Ask your local and state governments to completely ban "stalkerware" and "Big Tech surveillanceware" (like will use this and other face recognition)
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by neilv 4mo ago
Nice approach. For some related but different use cases of Debian Live and persistence, I once used a different approach: Everything in the system and home directory is non-persistent intentionally [1], except for a persistent separate par
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by neilv 4mo ago
Ongoing sketchy behavior by NYT's business side seems to be one of the problems eroding the NYT's reputation in recent years. The publisher may be preserving the family business during difficult times, but... in addition to the mo
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by neilv 4mo ago
If I ran a mass surveillance and manipulation company that's not known for great ethics, and I managed to hire tons of people despite that reputation, then probably at least a few of those hires will be unethical/disloyal enough t
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by neilv 4mo ago
> and I think it is somewhat similar to say that you have to "lie a bit on your CV". [...] For context, I'm early in my career (3 YOE) Please consider this input from my YOE battle scars: 1. Don't contradict your te
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by neilv 4mo ago
It is happening, within the last two months, by multiple recruiting startup services scraping/monitoring HN, and matching that up somehow with email addresses, in an automated way.
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by neilv 4mo ago
I'm only a few more AI slop HN posts away from quitting HN. I will only look at AI slop if paid to do so. (Scouting ahead for alternatives, I wouldn't mind a Lobste.rs invite, to see whether that's pleasantly anti-slop.)
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by neilv 4mo ago
Good catch. I've walked past that many times, including when actively looking for the entrance, and never saw that sign. Maybe because it's about 4 stories up, almost straight up from the sidewalk, and at a bit of an angle if you
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by neilv 4mo ago
1. Are super-organized, highly-capable, fully-sane terrorists the only threat? Or does the threat model include mentally-ill / personality disorder people, who might make mistakes, or taunt those whose job it is to stop them? Or incl
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by neilv 4mo ago
I once consulted on some aviation-related software (not the safety work prominent on my resume), and a company announcement came through, that you must never use a few specific words commonly heard in software development. The two no-no wo
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by neilv 4mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260531033828/https://tesancdn....
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by neilv 4mo ago
Kendall Square, Cambridge, USA (MIT neighborhood) has something like this, but it's not good. The space was originally a beloved "public roof garden" which I believe was done as a real estate developer concession to the city.
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by neilv 5mo ago
> Mostly I just want you to come around on the diagnosis, and agree that we need to fix it properly for the first time in 50 years. [...] At Google, rather than putting a little black desk on every interview loop, they just assumed all
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by neilv 5mo ago
> And then, importantly, each work item also counts once for the candidate: they walk away with a permanent, portable record of what they did and how well they did it, signed by you, whether or not you make an offer. Why would this be
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by neilv 5mo ago
I think the usual theory is: So many of us got into computers because we loved playing video games, and wanted to make them, and then loved making games. So the game companies that will pay you money to make games (even if there's a l

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