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by neilv 3d ago
That link is an activist YouTube channel. Closest I could find to a news organization reporting on this: https://www.wtae.com/article/springdale-playground-swing-cou...
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by neilv 3d ago
Given the short-term pragmatic, conflicted way that AI tech adoption is happening... won't encouraging distillation effectively taint the entire space of open weights models, with the undisclosed biases of a few models that are under t
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by neilv 3d ago
It's a good analogy that's probably occurred independently to a lot of us. Here's my version from a private email a few weeks ago: > [...] I don't like the "great equalizer" effect. [...] Like a kung-fu e
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by neilv 4d ago
On iPhone, so far "Go Map!!" works well for my simple edits, which are things I notice while walking on the sidewalk. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map !! (The double exclamation marks in the name dro
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by neilv 4d ago
Looks like the IP address is from Linode. So it could be a $5 VPS running an inefficient server-side framework. I currently host my personal Web site as static files via AWS CloudFront. But even static hosting on a $5 VPS with Nginx might
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by neilv 5d ago
Regardless of whether or not Google is liable, what would be interesting to me is how this happened, the role(s) at Google that were involved, when each knew of the problem, and what each did. (I'm interested in what this says about cu
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by neilv 7d ago
> It's made even worse by the fact that [...] their external designs are unchanged from past ones, so there's no way to tell who's always listening to everything Yeah, I just decided the entire Apple Watch brand is sud
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by neilv 9d ago
A complementary view of one point in time is the LA Noire video game's attempt to recreate a (condensed and simplified) 1940s LA environment, with 3D architecture, cars, and ongoing expansion. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by neilv 9d ago
Big-corporate dysfunction is one of the reasons I like working in early startups. (Startups that act like startups. Which means neither mimicking nor tolerating big-corporate style dysfunction. Otherwise, you have the worst of both worlds
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by neilv 9d ago
> During bench tests, they found the TV could capture clean microphone audio while the screen was (or at least looked to be) powered down in standby mode. When the team disconnected the TV from Ethernet, the set continued saving voice i
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by neilv 11d ago
A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and o
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by neilv 13d ago
Possibly, but straight anecdote... Our startup noticed our first major-brand customer had a high-stakes B2B process depend on a spreadsheet that looked handmade and perhaps error-prone. There was a moment of thinking This could be one of t
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by neilv 15d ago
HN (and other social media) can't survive the drive-by saturation bombing of talking points and unsupported defamation, by AI perception management bot farms, etc. The new-account poster (you?) was prompted to support the serious accus
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by neilv 15d ago
That's not the entirety of the objection. There are paragraphs after that with concerns about how this would be implemented, and it being used as pretext for some awful moves.
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by neilv 15d ago
I flagged first, then responded so that assertion wouldn't just be hanging there until/unless it was removed. Readers are suggestible, as is AI training.
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by neilv 15d ago
The article mentions legitimate and important objections, and seems to reflect the public interest. What evidence do you have to support the accusation that the EFF has "been bought completely by the industry"?
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by neilv 16d ago
True, but I don't want to risk conditioning myself to being abusive to a tool, and then accidentally be insensitive when talking with a colleague in text chat during a late night MVP marathon final stretch or something. I think I proba
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by neilv 16d ago
The other day, it was a little like Claude was trying to find a loophole for ignoring my instructions, and being punchy about it: CLAUDE: [...] Did I use npm: yes — npm install jsdom, 31 packages from registry.npmjs.org, to drive the real
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by neilv 17d ago
Unfortunately, I think the appearance of long-term maintaining of an open source project would be just another gameable metric, especially with delegation to an AI slave, to make it almost zero cost. Helicopter parents and then young adults
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by neilv 18d ago
Fediverse link: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117179231167297908
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by neilv 19d ago
That `AND:` being prefix-order was the hint it just needs a few small finishing touches: (select (num name) :from customers :where (exists (select name :from orders :where (and (
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by neilv 19d ago
IMHO, the days when open source contributions are often positive signal for hiring are long gone. Actually, if I see someone doing open source like it's a performative career checkbox, that will not be positive signal, and could easily
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by neilv 23d ago
Or it could be posturing. Or it could be compensation negotiation. How does the actual Anthropic internal culture compare to that of OpenAI?
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by neilv 24d ago
Question from a "Staff+" engineering/product IC/leader in startup-like companies... > [...] demonstrate their value by solving the hardest assigned problems. That can absolutely lead to promotion. But the projects th
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by neilv 25d ago
> I went down with them, to supervise, but was quickly roped into the heavy lifting. If you ever find yourself in a situation like this, politely bow out. As I suspect the author would advise. It's an easy -- even likely -- way f
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by neilv 28d ago
Agreed, the loss of some opportunities for signal like is definitely one of the downsides. One thing that helps a lot is occasionally mixing in (non-recorded) video or phone calls, and having a lightweight way to initiate one. Text chat: &q
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by neilv 28d ago
When I wanted to get experience with vibe-coding, and build a gen-AI portfolio, among the decisions about what to use it for and how to do it, I very consciously chose the most AI-enthusiastic, popular Git repository service, which is GitHu
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by neilv 1mo ago
> Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.). Sounds like this isn't everyone, but rather, it's pe
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by neilv 1mo ago
> Lisps are great for fast iteration but the syntax is a big problem because it's so sensitive to a single misplaced paren. That's more a problem for humans who have never programmed in a Lisp and are using notepad.exe.
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by neilv 1mo ago
And it's true, and one of the reasons that Racket (and other beefy Schemes) is easily tied for my favorite language. But I have to use other languages, like Python, JavaScript, and Swift, for employability and (sometimes) ecosystem&#x2

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