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by utopiah 8mo ago
I'm not familiar with Software Reuse but if it's about re-using software itself one advantage of a live codebase is that it's understood in the head of a human being. That means when an issue is opened, a person remembers if
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by utopiah 8mo ago
For a random website, no, for bank and primary email (used for account recovery), they probably should. It honestly takes a minute to add a key and it's just that, a physical key. IMHO what's risky in terms of UX and habits is pre
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by utopiah 8mo ago
"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument Seems the castle of cards isn't just high enough. &#
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by utopiah 8mo ago
It sure does but it's hard to get a bigger wallet than public money in the US. I do think it's fundamental as an individual to take a moral stance, even if it's entirely pointless, for one owns psychological well-being but ho
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by utopiah 8mo ago
Oh yeah, from the company which raison d'etre was being open and being good. shocked pikachu face Come on by now we all know the only thing Altman (who else is still at OpenAI from the start?) wants it more money and more power, it d
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by utopiah 8mo ago
> They bind you to your device Isn't it why good practice is to bind at least 2 hardware passkeys and/or have recovery codes? Sure someone can steal your phone/laptop/yubikeybio but then you can use the NitroKey you h
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by utopiah 8mo ago
Published by Anthropic. It's a bit like a "study" by Coca Cola "proving" that one can lose weight by just drink their product rather than doing sport. Sure, it's not impossible, but that's definitely not t
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by utopiah 8mo ago
exponential vs S-curve, it's not so much about the pace as to where the plateau is. If it goes very fast but plateau at 10% then it's still at generalist at toddler level with very niche expertise in some areas but then point is t
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by utopiah 8mo ago
> Whoever gets there first, the world is theirs. Yes, just like the first person who will invent perpetual motion. /s PS: to be clear, I'm not saying it's impossible but so far, just like perpetual motion or the Fountain o
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by utopiah 9mo ago
See what I replied just earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011884 namely the different regimes, within paradigm versus challenging it by going back to first principles. The ability to notice something is off bey
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Arguably it's precisely a paradigm shift. Continuing whatever worked until now is within the paradigm, our current theories and tools works, we find few problems that don't fit but that's fine the rest is still progress, we k
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by utopiah 9mo ago
> modern LLMs are incredibly capable, and relentless, at solving problems that have a verification test suite. Feel like it's a bit what I tried to expressed few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679164
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by utopiah 9mo ago
That's the thing that annoys me the most. Sure you may find Altman antipathetic, yes you might worry for the environment, etc BUT initially I cheered for OpenAI! I was telling everybody I know that AI is an interesting field, that it i
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by utopiah 9mo ago
No, no didn't you hear? If they were to actually play by the rules, then there wouldn't be an industry! /$
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by utopiah 9mo ago
We don't have time for safety, or security, or accuracy, or even understandability anymore. We need to move fast! /s
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Cheaper? I'm confused, how can it be cheaper than free? Most of what LLMs for code rely on is already open source. Also AFAICT (which is trick since numbers aren't public) GenAI is some of the most expensive use cases and those co
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Right... tbh it's a bit like Flock or Ring. Yes sure it's potentially bad (probably is already but leaving some room for doubt). Yet, it's pointless when people VOLUNTEER they private information to corporate actors who happi
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by utopiah 9mo ago
"America [...] Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out [because it decided to do so to itself]" There, fixed the title with some subbtle edits. /s
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by utopiah 9mo ago
No mention of GNU Taler (cf https://www.taler.net ) which is a bit of shame, especially knowing that "The NGI TALER project is funded under Horizon Europe (Pilots for the Next Generation Internet) with the aim of bringing G
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Remember that the Milgram experiment (1961, Yale) is definitely part of the training set, most likely including everything public that discussed it.
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by utopiah 9mo ago
> the whole value of a robot vacuum is that... I don't vacuum, the robot does, and when it does so it when I'm not at home. I agree, that's indeed the value proposition and that's in fact why I got mine... but do you
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by utopiah 9mo ago
I have a dozen VR headsets, more of them doing passthrough, I have AR glasses and even a monocle. I prototype in the field. The technology is amazing... but you don't need it to get value. Bring your tablet to the kitchen, add a webcam
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Qualsiasi scarafaggio a bello per sua mamma (Italian proverb saying that to their mother all their kids are beautiful) That's the whole point of sharing with the rest of us. If they write for themselves, a private journal to track thei
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Indeed wrote something similar few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665366
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by utopiah 9mo ago
I'm honestly not worried. My laptop battery is at ~70% health, same for phone. It's not great but it's enough to be useful. Hopefully current companies failing, and yes closing down, might in fact be the opportunity for new c
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by utopiah 9mo ago
So funny because "you’re still riding around on a fixie bike." that's literally what I do. I also take a plane to fly. In that analogy that would be picking the right library/framework/service vs. vibe coding it. I
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by utopiah 9mo ago
When slot machine is the ultimate UX.
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by utopiah 9mo ago
Good thing that I don't need a : - bigger TV, my "old" not even 4K video projector is enough - faster phone with more memory or better camera, my current one as "just" 5G, is enough - faster laptop/desktop, I c
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by utopiah 9mo ago
FWIW as I commented just earlier if you have to verify without relying on memory nor a public note (e.g. sticker on screen) that others could use to pollute your data then use a biometric mechanism, e.g. YubiKey Bio.
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by utopiah 9mo ago
At least if you go that route use a biometric authentication mechanism, e.g. YubiKey Bio.

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