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by rpdillon 10mo ago
I'm not sure there's a dichotomy. I travel for a week at a time across the country, and bring only a backpack that fits under the seat on the airplane. But there's a GL.iNet router in that bag, since it gives all my devices M
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
> vibe coders claim that the stolen code distributed by Anthropic You could approach these topics with more nuance, and your posts would be stronger. The current legal status is murky, and evolving! https://ipwatchdog.com&#x2F
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
There might be a bit of growth-hacking resistance here, and maybe some StackOverflow culture as well. Neither should be leveled at you, IMHO. I've followed and admired your work since Datasette launched, and I think you're exhibi
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Software system is released, comments talk about how to integrate it with other software systems. Seems on-topic.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Counterpoint to the sibling comment: posting your own site is fine. Your contributions are substantial, and your site is a well-organized repository of your work. Not everything fits (or belongs) in a comment. I'd chalk up the -4 to ge
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Mullvad. The only VPN company I actually trust.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
In 2034, it will be insolvent. We'll either increase contributions or raise the age to compensate. It's not going to be pretty.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
This is genuinely great! Like others, it did overindex on a few comments, and I think that's a great way to display LLMs weaknesses. But overall, really loved the roasts, predictions, and all the rest. Nice job! > For someone who cl
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
> I think even an American would be able to get through it if you apply yourself. This doesn't belong on HN.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Had the same exact thought. That DHH was included and Sandy was not really surprised me.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
No, we're at the phase with AI where people have extremely strong feelings, it's not well understood, and the definitions are not clear. I am with you in that rules like this seem dogmatic and hard to understand the implications o
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
That's not quite true though, right? Because diffusion models are also generative AI and they're not LLMs. Heck, they probably got disqualified, not for the use of an LLM, but for the use of a diffusion model. So I think Gen AI is
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
No, it sounds like contempt and anger, which is why I suspect the author used those words.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Right, but that practicality is predicated on the ability to switch to a more privacy-focused posture later on. And the point of the blog post is, when you need it, it won't be there when you reach for it.
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
I think Snowden put it well: > Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. Yo
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Makes sense!
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Yeah, I saw that, but when I went back and looked at the content, there are sentence fragments that seem atypical, although there are a fair number of em-dashes. I guess it wasn't as obvious to me, and I felt your original comment was
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
In case your question was not rhetorical: to folks like me, I view DRM as abuse, because it inevitably leads to me paying for something that I won't end up being able to access down the line. It is in direct conflict with building a li
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
Do you have evidence, or is it mostly vibes? EDIT: Decided to dig up the source: https://github.com/algal/pleasejusttryhtmx/commits?author=al... Looks like the initial commit might well have been generated, and t
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by rpdillon 10mo ago
I think there are several dimensions. There's the motivation, the pursuit, and the achievement, and the consequences of each. I think it's fairly easy to tease apart the motivation and the pursuit, but you're focusing on a mu
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
This, and use power sparingly.
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
The wording was very careful to say the pursuit of the desire changes you. That's very different than obtaining the desire changing you. It's not a real remedy for your comment because we could probably come up with an example whe
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
I commented about this a few weeks ago here about this, but essentially: v2 allows you to block things you can't see, but you still probably don't want, like folks hiding cloud analytics behind CNAME cloaking to allow it to appear
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
I think my last sentence above was phrased poorly, generating some confusion: what I meant to say was "This is my analysis of why it is dismissive and cynical, and Claude seemed to draw the same conclusion based on a sibling post that
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
If you look at my reply further down, I have never used AI in HN comments, and likely never will. As I said, it defeats the purpose. I'm not sure what I said above that suggests I use AI to write comments.
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
My position is that AI is going to end up being good at certain things, and it's going to be not so good at others, and that mix will change over time, but generally improve. I don't think it's going to replace all jobs and I
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
All me here. I never use AI on any of my comments on Hacker News, and I likely never will. It defeats the entire purpose. But I do use AI to better understand things.
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
bgwalter is clearly dismissing AI. The post has all the telltale signs. * Rather than the curious "What is it good at? What could I use it for? We instead get "It's not better than me!". That lacks insight and is intenti
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
Indeed. In software, we're all telling ourselves that code reviewing as a skill just gained a bunch of value, so we should focus on improving our skills there. I feel like editing has always been part of professional writing, so these
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by rpdillon 11mo ago
I mean, the core problem is the same as DRM: you want to distribute your data without actually distributing it. The endgame is simply rendering and OCRing, which will likely be feasible at scale, but in the meantime, you've cut off a b

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