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by ngruhn 4mo ago
Imagine a nuclear power company being extremely cautious with safety and everyone online is like "make more power already you pussies!"
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
> I think the models are being optimized for wealth extraction from users and companies, instead of solving problems. I don't think so. Expect that in a market with high vendor lock-in but that's not the case here. The market i
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
Is that news? Sounds like status quo.
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
> Sorry, but how was that murder successful? Successful in winning over the public.
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
Also a lot of questions had "right answer" / "opposite of right answer" pairs. Just by identifying those you get to 50% probability.
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
I don't read the parent comment to take issue with the use case per se but the billion scans per month figure. Surely, whatever this is giving you, getting a scan once a month must be plenty. They need a billion people to get a scan
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
> I want to do offensive programming (I coined that term). You take risks, but you fix things quickly and ship. Nice, I like the term too. But the paradigm is absolutely status quo in the industry. The thing is: with Gen AI the cost of &
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
You can't get rid of undefined. You can't ban null either. They're both used in the core language all over the place: undefined camp: - out of bounds array index access [1,2,3][42] - non existent object key access {}.foo - ar
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
> a big attack surface Wdym? At least web apps are sandboxed by default in contrast to native.
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
I agree. I'm not a game dev. I had a game idea and vibe-coded it with Claude. I kinda got what I had in mind but the game is just not engaging. I don't even know what to prompt. I tried "how could the be made more engaging&
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
might as well be in Skyrim
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by ngruhn 4mo ago
Kinda crazy if you think about it. In my home town of Cologne, if you dig anywhere you either find roman ruins or WW2 bombs. ~30 bombs last year. I've been evacuated so many times.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Youtubers are using something as sources. Someone still has to do the journalism. Not sure YouTubers can replace that.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
maybe mark it as spam? If you don't have an account anyway, you don't miss anything. Also maybe they get punished a bit by being ranked as spam
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Despite having a NYT audio subscription, I continue to listen to the ads in a third party podcast app just so I don't have to use their god damn app.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
> I'm intensely skeptical about anything Anthropic says, because they are so incented to make their products seem dangerous OpenAI, Google, etc. are not using "that strategy". I do believe that people at Anthropic genuinel
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Apparently since success=valuation and not profit.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
You can absolutely access firefox passwords from any iOS app. You can even configure it as the default password app.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Serious questions: what's wrong with just using Firefox built in password manager?
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
On the other hand, buying twitter was the turning point for his public image. Before that, he was Tony Stark. Now he's Lex Luthor.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Extremely sober take. And rare. Couldn't agree more.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
I think supernatural things don't exist by definition. If ghosts would exist, they would be just natural. The real question is whether there is a two way link between consciousness and the physical world. Obviously the physical world i
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
> Welcome to Hacker News. Blood in the streets doesn't spark curious conversation so let's talk about compilers! Probably for the better. Otherwise it quickly becomes politics all day everyday. There are plenty of other places
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
The parallels to the rise of Nazi Germany are striking. But it can be much worse. Read "February 1933" if you want to get a feel. Pretty much daily reports of people getting killed in clashes between Nazis and Communists. Hitler a
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
I'm afraid there is no real purpose. Choose whatever you want. It's all made up. But finding a way to feel good about it in the long run is still worth it. In that sense, I think the author is giving good advice.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
Preferring "boring software" over the shiny new thing is common wisdom. Sounds like we prefer stability for stuff we use but not for stuff we sell.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
I think in the context of type systems, soundness means something like: If type system says, x has type T, then x has type T TypeScripts type system does not have that property. E.g. by default `stringArray[0]` has type `string` wh
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
> all exponentials eventually become sigmoids Except innovation. When one sigmoid tapers off we keep finding new ones to keep the climb going.
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
yeah no idea
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by ngruhn 5mo ago
I think: x => a is: λx. a and f <- a is just application. I.e. f a

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