MonkeyClub

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by MonkeyClub 11d ago
TFA’s description of how the author had to debate this with the AI was fun. Back in the day, your OCR would just OCR things. Now it has opinions, and you have to fight to convince it. - I’m thirsty. - It’s not your time to drink yet.
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by MonkeyClub 6mo ago
I got the same sense, but nowadays I can't be sure whether a text is AI or the writer's style has absorbed LLM tropes.
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by MonkeyClub 6mo ago
> Physical businesses have liability if they provide age restricted items to children. Ok, suppose the strip club is the website, and the club's door is the OS. Would you fine the door's manufacturer for teens getting into the
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by MonkeyClub 6mo ago
> but something only the full terminal can do what you need it to do There's always `M-x term` for a full terminal.
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by MonkeyClub 6mo ago
> 4. Is it just me? It's not just you. I've been on HN since about 2008, and the change is steep. Since the site acquired social clout, status seekers have swarmed in vying for status, and an opinion orthodoxy has formed that&#
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Whoever needs more slop faster can easily find it elsewhere, if PostmarketOS doesn't want to follow the trend, that's well and good.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
> Alternatively they might build specialized branded hardware which people could only use for what corps allow them to do for nice monthly fee. That's why I'm still holding on to a bulky Core 2 Duo Management Engine-free Fujits
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US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards(bbc.com)
5 points by MonkeyClub 7mo ago|2 comments
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Cf. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963 )
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
> and who knows how long GitHub will be free? Apparently for as long as it will enable Microsoft to profit by training its LLMs on people's code. For people uncomfortable with working on free/libre stuff with git directly I alw
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
He's not out of touch: the FB situation is optional, Merz wants to make this mandatory.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Strong reminiscences of "I am not a number, I'm a free man!"
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
I am reminded of "turn on, tune in, drop out".
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
> Why would any species take effort to [...] Because Market Forces said so :(
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
That would diminish archival accuracy, an outlet could amend the text without third party proof.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
I expect this will be challenged and overturned as unconstitutional as the similar effort was in 2021, however it's insane as it stands, especially coming from a caretaker government.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Within software engineering circles, the idea of the engineering notebook was reintroduced in Hunt and Thomas' The Pragmatic Programming, where (Topic 22) they call it an "engineering daybook". Personally, I've been usin
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
> the purity of "working with what's installed". Oh, a kindred spirit! I too absolutely love the notion of the base install, and what can be done just by means of its already available toolset. (Fun tidbit: Did you know Wi
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
I'm sure eventually it will, it's law: Every text editor, if it survives long enough, will end up implementing a partial, bug-ridden version of Emacs.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Similar anecdote here. I still use daily the Timberland backpack I got in 2009. Again, some wear and tear (actually just wear, thankfully no tears) but works great at the 17 year mark, even though it has gone through anything from daily use
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Anyone can convince themselves of anything, the only thing that varies is the complexity of the rationalization.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Same thing is said about peddling drugs. Profit doesn't push ethical problems aside, though, or at least shouldn't. At least nobody peddling drugs tried to convince anyone they're doing it to "save the planet".
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
>> You are seemingly overriding the wishes of the community > That's false. The overwhelming sentiment of the community is that HN should be free of LLM-generated content or content that has obvious AI fingerprints. Yeah it is
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
But that's sort of the author's job: if they wish to publish an article on a topic, they should make it both comprehensive and comprehensible.
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Yes I think so as well, as one comment on the Reddit thread mentioned, increased prices and lack of new features on Arm may have driven such decisions. I did enjoy the few Arm servers and VMs I got to work with, and the software ecosystem w
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Although the Reddit thread is from a while ago, the situation is still current. From https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx/ : "Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers.&q
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
> (in fact it made us money) And caused a global recession along the way. The loan repayment interest didn't (and couldn't possibly) cover even a fraction of the backlash, which includes lives destroyed world-wide. Externalitie
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by MonkeyClub 7mo ago
Yep the wordplay made me chuckle too :)
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
> and now I sit here not believing I actually did that. Optimization comes for us all :) I also have caught myself repeatedly skimming and scanning for that one salient point, feeling like "ain't nobody got time for all that ve
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
Implementing a mobile landing platform for commercial or high-speed aircraft is a theoretically sound concept for emergency recovery or weight reduction but faces massive technical hurdles in precision, synchronization, and infrastructure.

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