Ancapistani

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by Ancapistani 5d ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but would argue that the reality is that our industry is predominantly almost exclusively AI-related at this point. A tagging feature would be nice, but HN is historically very reluctant to introduce n
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
The toxic effects also impacted the area where I grew up here in the Southern US - there’s a road that’s known locally as “Chemical Ranch Rd” where there’s a ~100 acre property that was used for testing Agent Orange.
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
I’m not a manned pilot, but have my part 107 and have spent a few thousand hours flying combat flight sims - ~150kts in a cargo aircraft, four seconds from departing the runway, seems like the worst possible time to abort a touch-and-go. Th
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
It’s possible that they didn’t train on it, and the approach was derived by the LLM. What’s a problem is that they haven’t outright denied it. That could be caution and them doing their due diligence first, it could be that it was intenti
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
They’re all over the rural South. Public opinion seems to be increasingly changing that, but a lot of them are installed by entities with little accountability.
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
I don’t think the point of GP’s post was to claim one way or the other; rather it’s saying that it’s important to understand the motivations of others if you’re going to publicly characterize their actions or effectively oppose them.
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
I’m all for protesting, but surely you can agree that there is heightened risk if a person is in close proximity to people who oppose them strongly enough to act. The whole purpose of a protest is to cause behavioral change; their hustling
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by Ancapistani 6d ago
Showing that a novel mathematical approach was in your prompts shortly before the model “proposes” that approach to relative amateurs would be ideal, if only we had a case like that…
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by Ancapistani 15d ago
Exactly this. I run Bedrock even though we have hardware and licenses for everyone in the house - because I can use my iPad Pro with a controller, and my kids can do the same, and they play in the car all the time.
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by Ancapistani 15d ago
Yep. We call the former “states” and the latter “gangs”. The difference is subtle.
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by Ancapistani 15d ago
I’m in the front of the line for the Tarn Adams fan club, but I don’t think he’d be my first pick for advice on the state of software engineering. DF is exceptional in many ways, not all of them uniformly positive.
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by Ancapistani 17d ago
Name them? I’m only aware of California and Virginia, both of which I believe have an apprenticeship requirement.
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by Ancapistani 18d ago
I’m pretty extreme ideologically, and that carries over to parenting. I would consider taking my child and requiring that it be allowed strikes me as an enormous red flag.
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by Ancapistani 18d ago
> anarchism […] is inherently anticapitalist No, it’s not. I get that your flavor may be, and that’s fine, but your definition is neither the only one or the first.
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by Ancapistani 18d ago
Entry-level rich here in the South.
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by Ancapistani 19d ago
The funny thing about this — I am
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by Ancapistani 20d ago
Just to be clear: are you suggesting that the only reason someone would want a companion is to satisfy lust?
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by Ancapistani 21d ago
Can you imagine how litigious we'd be if legal services were cheaper?
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by Ancapistani 23d ago
> We are indeed producing a shit-ton of code, but the reality is that engineers are pumping out code faster than the humans can understand and (honestly) review it. That sounds great until you realize that "hey Claude, read this Jir
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by Ancapistani 28d ago
Good point. They’re probably repurposing an F-91W line.
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by Ancapistani 28d ago
We don’t even have streets. Think “dirt roads”.
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by Ancapistani 28d ago
> And then the men with guns come and tell you what to do. I'm also a man with guns. Yes, I know, you see a lot of blowhard statements like that; this isn't intended to be one of them. There are things that I am capable of doin
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by Ancapistani 28d ago
Who lives in the country that doesn't have "off street parking"? I'm having trouble envisioning that.
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
I agree, but broadly speaking it doesn’t change much that what I described breaks down at the level of an individual. There are very few instances where the global talent pool is small enough that individual beliefs become a constraint. The
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
I waited a while to respond to this one - partly out of embarrassment, as what I said wasn't exactly what I meant, and partly out of respect for the community rules because I don't want to start a flamewar about it. I was using &q
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
Reinforcement learning, I'd assume. Presumably RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback).
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
Without knowing when that was, I can't be sure how concerning it is. As an end user, security in game development seems to hit a minimum is the early 2000s. I recall playing EverQuest and using ShowEQ on a Linux machine on the same net
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
I don't have any colleagues like that anymore, but even as far back as the last half of 2025 I was seeing that automated AI review was becoming effective enough that I considered it essential to any project where security was a serious
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
It all boils down to money/resources, like always. Pre-AI, the advantage went to the entities with the largest budget to hire the best and brightest security engineers. Post-AI, it'll go to the entities with the largest inference
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by Ancapistani 1mo ago
Yep. I'm using open weights models on a privacy-focused provider right now, and that's adequate for my current usage, but I'm rapidly getting to the point where my agent's access level to my data (and to a lesser extent,

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