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by no-name-here 10mo ago
That’s the All Modern Digital Infrastructure relying on a dependency a Nebraskan has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003 one: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
Specifically: > It’s also 100% vibe coded. I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause. ‘Course, I’ve never looked at Beads either, and it’s 225k lines of Go code that tens of thousands of people are using e
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
1. At least packaging and clothes have more clearly defined utility. 2. There are notable movements to reduce wasteful clothes/packaging. I’ve previously heard people point to the amount of plastic used for commercial shipping, althoug
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
> without their consent If someone explicitly chose an ad-supported option (instead of paying for an ad-free version, likely with an accompanying ToS), would that count as consent? Would a GDPR-type banner also count? Although I guess GD
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
>> If people can easily satisfy their basic needs, they simply expands this concept until it ceases to be easily satisfied. > Decent living standards for 8.5B people would require 30% of current resource use That claims seems to be
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
Is Hacker News considered social media, or only sites like x/twitter/mastodon/bluesky?
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
So what exactly are you proposing - that we encourage all users to only pay for ad-free versions of every service they use, instead of choosing an ad-supported version? Try to outlaw adverting globally? What is an ad - a sign for a company?
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
As others pointed out elsewhere, that wouldn’t have helped in this case as presumably it wouldn’t include a WhatsApp API, the purpose of this package. But it could help in general, sure.
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by no-name-here 10mo ago
But none of those would have helped in this case, where each dev/user intentionally installed the package specifically so it could retrieve data from the WhatsApp API. What would have helped is if the dev/user had the ability for
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by no-name-here 11mo ago
> home owner But in this analogy, we aren’t talking about a person doing coding at home only for their own use, are we? Isn’t this about small companies - I.e. whether there should be different applicable laws if you hire a small constru
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by no-name-here 1y ago
Worse is that when it hits a 429 and switches models, it will tell you that it switched models for the rest of the session and that you need to enter a new prompt — even if files remain in a partially-changed and non-compilable state. Telli
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by no-name-here 1y ago
Do such instructions take up a tiny bit more attention/context from LLMs, and consequentially is it better to leave it off and just ignore such output?
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by no-name-here 1y ago
AI Studio's system prompt does not seem to be persisted for future chats, so I guess it's likely just a prompt that the attached chat has limited ability to override?
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by no-name-here 1y ago
1. With too much protection, humans might be inconvenienced at least as much as bots? 2. Even pre current LLMs, paying (or otherwise incentivizing) humans to solve CAPTCHAs on behalf of someone else (now like an AI?) was a thing. 3. It depe
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by no-name-here 1y ago
> an LLM vs human interacting with websites would be fairly easy to spot since the LLM would be more purposeful - it'd be trying to fulfill a task, while a human may be curious, distracted by ads, put off by slow response times, etc
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by no-name-here 1y ago
It seems like iOS is still fairly aggressive in killing background apps, a dozen years after the Nokia 625? I rarely feel like I can be sure that if I go off to look something up, that I can be confident that a half-written comment will sti
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by no-name-here 4y ago
Does this mean using the 2 month free trial they advertise? (Is there anywhere we can go for more information on "free until August 22"?