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by hgs3 28d ago
> you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely. There is a limit to how much code can be shared on stack overflow and, in the pre-AI days, code snippets had to be understood well
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by hgs3 2mo ago
Can we also flag AI generated projects posted on Show HN? I used to love reading HN for the handwritten articles and handmade projects, but in the LLM era the quality has deteriorated significantly. I find myself flocking to other message b
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by hgs3 4mo ago
> what’s left to get to is relatively small Not necessarily. In many (most?) areas of tech the rate of advancement follows a logarithmic curve. That is to say, the first 90% is achieved quickly but the last 10% takes significantly more t
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by hgs3 4mo ago
I blocked AI overview because it starves websites of their own traffic and revenue. Websites accepted Google scraping their content because it gave them a prominent blue link plus excerpt to drive traffic. Now everyone’s content is blended
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by hgs3 4mo ago
Not sure if you're aware, but defer is proposed for C2Y [1]. It's already available in Clang behind a compiler flag. It is interesting how the languages continue to diverge. [1] https://www.open-std.org/JTC1&#x2F
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by hgs3 4mo ago
I think there is one major difference that separates the two eras: in ye olden days you bought software for a fixed price and while it's understood you might only receive updates for a limited time, you could continue using it so long
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by hgs3 4mo ago
Data is being licensed by AI companies, but negotiations are limited to those with the capital [1][2][3]. You write about "imbalance" but ignore that large firms can cut deals while small creators languish. You seem to believe a
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by hgs3 4mo ago
> concrete steps Start by legally compelling companies that trained on unlicensed data to either (1) license the data, (2) publish their model, or (3) destroy their model.
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by hgs3 4mo ago
If models are trained on the collective whole, they must be owned by the collective whole. If you believe funding creators for the training of private models is too slow, inconvenient, or creates a global disadvantage, then embrace collecti
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by hgs3 4mo ago
How about forcing businesses to be owned by their employees [1]? Instead of taxing the owning class and being paid UBI peanuts, you become the owning class and reap the rewards directly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by hgs3 4mo ago
How about requiring AI companies to pay creators for training rights? Alternatively, models trained on the commons must be owned by the commons. Right now these AI companies are trying to have it both ways: it’s The People’s Data for tr
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by hgs3 7mo ago
> In my opinion, for open-source projects, scoring the project's AI sloppiness based on the timeline of commits would be a good indicator. You can’t necessarily judge by timeline. I’ve always developed my projects privately and then
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by hgs3 7mo ago
Great read. It would be neat to see a mini operating system under 1 kb of code.
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by hgs3 7mo ago
> We're on the precipice of something incredible. Only if our socioeconomic model changes.
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by hgs3 7mo ago
Why is slop assumed inevitable? These models are plagiarization and copyright laundering machines. We need a great AI model reset whereby all published works are assumed to opt-out of training and companies pay to train on your data. We&#x2
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by hgs3 7mo ago
> It's called Universal Basic Income. I'd rather we democratize ownership [1]. Instead of taxing the owning class and being paid UBI peanuts, how about becoming the owning class and reaping the rewards directly? [1] https:&#x2
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by hgs3 7mo ago
> As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities. If you trained on a neutral representation like an AST or IR, then the source language shouldn't matter. * * I'm not familiar with how
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by hgs3 8mo ago
I miss the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs days. At least there were positive improvements to Windows and Mac in those days.
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by hgs3 8mo ago
> reflects the software engineering philosophies of the 1980s. It has a microkernel architecture. That's already an improvement over the "modern" monolithic kernels we are stuck with today. Given Big Tech's interest i
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by hgs3 8mo ago
> Apple being the largest sponsor of Objective-C would suggest that you get greater vendor lock-in out of it than Swift Fun fact, you can use Objective-C on non-Apple platforms [1] and with Cocoa APIs courtesy of the GNUstep project [2].
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by hgs3 8mo ago
Why is there no C benchmark? The C++ benchmark appears to be "modern C++" which isn't a substitute.
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by hgs3 8mo ago
I'm being pedantic, but on modern hardware, the ISA is an abstraction over microarchitecture and microcode. It's no longer a 1-to-1 representation of hardware execution. But, as programmers, it's as low as we can go, so the d
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by hgs3 8mo ago
> it's been mostly static In a well-functioning competitive market, no company should be able to rest on its laurels. The problem is industries have consolidated and trustbusters are nowhere to be found. Notice when tech is new (the
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by hgs3 8mo ago
I'm flabbergasted why anyone would voluntarily vibe code anything. For me, software engineering is a craft. You're supposed to enjoy building it. You should want to do it yourself.
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by hgs3 8mo ago
> like nearly all other datetime APIs, has 0 support for querying leap-second information That's probably because you only need leap second accuracy in niche use cases, like astronomy or GPS. In JavaScript specifically, that kind of
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by hgs3 8mo ago
Tangentially, if you're interested in Doom mapping, John Romero has some interesting tips [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptHurafdCoQ
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Show HN: I wrote an embeddable Unicode algorithms library in C(github.com)
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by hgs3 9mo ago
> It never occurred to me that this was a possibility Yes, it's viable. I do it for my companies projects in addition to dual-licensing under the GPL. See "The unit tests and Unicode data generators are not public. Access to th
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by hgs3 9mo ago
> The default script now is that every side project should either be open-sourced or turned into a SaaS I think its worse then that. It seems the narrative is everything needs to be enterprise-scale by default. Those who value small lang
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by hgs3 9mo ago
Congratulations to Let’s Encrypt. I do wish there was something akin to them for code signing. OV and EV certificates are out of reach for many indie devs.

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