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by ygjb 4mo ago
There is a definite financial incentive for people smarter than me to solve the problem, and I don't generally bet against businesses finding ways to reduce costs :)
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Buypass no longer issues TLS certs since last year.
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Actalis, based in Italy offers a free tier, with ACME https://www.actalis.com/subscription ZeroSSL from Austria also has a limited free tier. https://zerossl.com/pricing/ I mean really, if you use lets
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by ygjb 4mo ago
I think subscription models are sustainable, but longer term, we should probably expect to see more prompt optimization happening in the providers inference pipeline. For example, unless you explicitly tell the agent or API to use a specif
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by ygjb 4mo ago
It's a trade-off. Every hyperscaler is buying and building compute capacity as fast as they can dodge red tape. There is limited compute capacity, and scarcity is a real thing. As a consumer I can choose to buy subscriptions to a ran
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Sure. Why not, I'm bored today and waiting for some stuff to finish up :D The fact that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism is not material to whether or not ethical existence is possible under communism or socialism. In
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by ygjb 4mo ago
I doubt it, given the importance of those subscriptions for building and maintaining market awareness. The AI landscape is changing rapidly, and with Apple announcing the option to change the AI backend, and potential requirements enable AI
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by ygjb 4mo ago
Setting aside the simple fact that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, the reality is that regardless of how Anthropic feels, it is becoming clear that many, if not all countries regard AI developments as strategic technologie
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by ygjb 5mo ago
I agree with the notion it's an age thing, but not because I am old, but because the tools are different. When I was learning to program as a kid I blindly 'copied and pasted' from computer magazine. I typed everything in,
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by ygjb 5mo ago
> the developers learn from mistakes and avoid them in the future No. Humans learn from mistakes and try to avoid them in the future, but there is a whole pile of other stuff in the bag of neurons between our ears that prevent us from av
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by ygjb 5mo ago
Yeah, with a budget assigned. This is actually just software development and security right? Developers create software, which has bugs. Users (including bad guys, pen testers, QA folks, automated scans etc, etc, etc) find bugs, including
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by ygjb 5mo ago
Yes, that would have tripped the prompt asking the user, which would have had explicit user acceptance or refusal. The point is you don't need consent to do a fuzzy match usibg other data in most jurisdictions.
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by ygjb 5mo ago
Yeah, your browser fingerprint might be a needle in a needlestack. You might not be able to distinguish one needle from another needle easily, but if you have enough needle samples you can start to identify what the needles are pointing at
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by ygjb 5mo ago
Nah. The browser has a mechanism to request geolocation. This is the ask that was not performed. The user was not asked, which is the important piece. If I have a dictionary, I don't have to ask the meaning of a word I hear from some
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by ygjb 6mo ago
It's gonna take a minute (on a geological timescale) for the ecosystems to be able to reliably sustain megafauna again.
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by ygjb 6mo ago
Not to be antagonistic, but a healthcare CIO in which country? This is very relevant because outside of the US, I think it is probably fair that most people who are most active on HN are from countries with public health care, and stronger
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by ygjb 6mo ago
There is definitely a closed-source defender advantage where an attacker doesn't have access to the code, binary, or environment that can be instrumented (so basically, running in the cloud), but there have been several very effective
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by ygjb 6mo ago
And the following part that is more important is the agent that attempts the fix in code, the agent that tests the fix and reports on perfomance and functional impacts, and the agent the triggers the build and release to production. Everyth
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by ygjb 6mo ago
If CPU failure was a leading cause of device obsolescence, your argument would make sense. Next, the EU or other regulators should explicitly regulate software mechanisms that prevent owners of a device from installing an alternate OS, ena
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by ygjb 6mo ago
No it isn't. There is a tooling gap, and there is a skill gap, but both of those are being rapidly closed by both open and closed source projects. LLMs, and tools built to use them, are violating a lot of assumptions these days.
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by ygjb 7mo ago
Meh. I get the annoyance, but it's a one time cost for a small subset of their users. I would prefer if there was a flow during device setup that allowed you to opt into developer mode (with all the attendant big scary warnings), but i
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by ygjb 7mo ago
That is the point. Make it illegal, and not something that can be handwaved away by an EULA or TOS.
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by ygjb 7mo ago
Yep, my origin story is more fun, I actually got left at my dad's boss' office and was bored so I found a computer book and started reading it and rebooted the computer and followed the instructions. When they came back I had a
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by ygjb 7mo ago
You have conflated the joy of learning with the joy of building. I have been writing code since I was 6 years old and was left to my own devices with the vic-20, the manual, and BASIC instructions. I have worked as a developer, security en
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by ygjb 8mo ago
The Internet created the backbone that allowed for rapid experimentation in communications technologies, and created the ability for anyone to create and share technologies and reach a huge audience very quickly. Without the Internet, most
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by ygjb 8mo ago
Having worked in streaming media and entertainment for the last several years, I am solidly convinced that most of the streaming media services are built by people who essentially turned the tools they built to manage their pirated librarie
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by ygjb 9mo ago
Not American, but as I understand it, 401k's are tied to your employers 401k implementation and while you are employed you have little choice in how the funds are managed. If you are contributing to a third party managed fund (employe
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by ygjb 9mo ago
I think it's generally accepted that at a high level being in the top quartile is considered very good. Not excellent. Not unicorn. Just very good. Beyond that, it's not about becoming very good at two different, completely orth
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by ygjb 9mo ago
> A system that works 90% of the time but hallucinates or leaks data the other 10% isn't an 'agent', it's a liability. That strongly depends on whether or not the liability/risk to the business is internalized or
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by ygjb 11mo ago
As a hobbyist, it's not about being able to buy it faster, cheaper, or better. It's about learning how to tinker, making something work, and building something that is effectively the artistic expression of my technical skills. Y

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