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I just moved my scrobbling to a self-hosted instance of Koito after switching from Spotify to Jellyfin. Very happy with the change, as I can still share all my music data with friends

How are we going to keep using computers. As individual users. Is it over? You won't be able to buy parts first-party anymore if things keep going this way.

I still don't quite get this reasoning. A statistical model for detecting a category (like is this written hiring material LLM generated or not, is this email spam or not, etc) is most metricized by its false positive and false negative rate. But it doesn't sound like anyone measures this, it just gets applied after a couple times of "huh, that worked" and we move on. There's a big difference between a model that performs successfully 70% of the time vs one that performs 99% but I'm not sure we can say which this is?

Maybe if LLMs were aligned for this specific task it'd make more sense? But they're not. Their alignment tunes them to provide statistically helpful responses for a wide variety of things. They prefer positive responses to negative ones and are not tuned directly as a detection tool for arbitrary categorization. And maybe they do work well, but maybe it's only a specific version of a specific model against other specific models hiring material outputs? There's too many confounding things here to not have to study this in a rigorous way to come to the conclusion that felt... not carefully considered.

Maybe you have considered this more than I know. It sounds like you work a lot with this data. But the off-handedness set off my skepticism.

> LLMs are especially good at evaluating documents to assess the degree that an LLM assisted their creation!)

That's a bold claim. Do they have data to back this up? I'd only have confidence to say this after testing this against multiple LLM outputs, but does this really work for, e.g. the em dash leaderboard of HN or people who tell an LLM to not do these 10 LLM-y writing cliches? I would need to see their reasoning on why they think this to believe.

After looking through the author's post history, the title seems incorrect. This does not seem to be "ReactJS in Rust", but more something Express-like in Rust. They've been spamming this project over the past 50 days or so with different conflicting names, seemingly to try to gain traction[0].

[0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745876)

I wish the author included examples of what it's like to write ReactJS in Rust. Can't get a good idea of how succinct or structured it is to write for example a button handler on an element from what's in the docs currently.

Re: 6. ... Github Actions

Github Actions left a bad taste in my mouth after having it randomly removed authenticated workers from the pool, after their offline for ~5 days.

This was after setting up a relatively complex PR workflow (always on cheap server starts up very expensive build server with specific hardware) only to have it break randomly after a PR didn't come in for a few days. And no indication that this happens, and no workaround from GitHub.

There are better solutions for CI, GitHub 's is half baked.

There are too many alternatives. And with something like OpenRouter it should be easy to switch (for those who use it)

There's also the option to self-host. Anyone who cares about their own self-determinination should be looking into this

Huh, odd. I have a car with assistive controls and they also tried to talk me into this warranty but I declined. They mentioned replacement would require extra money.

I did end up getting a windshield replacement shortly after purchase (like 6 months into ownership a rock came out of a truck and hit my windshield). I got it replaced for the normal $100-$200 not from the dealership and the vision system has had no issues.

This is not a problem with CoCs, but authority in general.

A CoC is still a useful communication tool. Guidelines are useful to have.

Such an odd decision. No privacy or isolation for the shower, but yes for the two twin beds. Sleep apart but shower together.

I _hate_ how this is written. At no point does it disclose explicitly:

* What systems were accessed

* What information was potentially exposed

* Just how "proactively" they've been about this (no timeline)

* Numbers... The scale of any of it

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Some comments from quoted portions of article

> Mixpanel detected a smishing campaign ...

Doesn't give any details on who the companion targeted, or how, or how widespread.

> We took comprehensive steps to contain and eradicate unauthorized access and secure impacted user accounts.

So there was definitely _some_ sort of unauthorized access, but doesn't say to which accounts or in what systems

> Performed global password resets for all Mixpanel employees

So... definitely sounds like they expected compromise of Mixpanel employee credentials

It says "customers were impacted" and that they had to work to "eradicate unauthorized access"

It's just a very weazel-worded disclosure. Most definitely a breach.

Tried it on a 9.9MB json file I have. Seemed to handle the size fine, but the output was nothing like what I would want. I made a smaller version of what I uploaded in the below pastebin and the output.

The data is TLD data so it should have at least given me the "com", "net", "..." part

Input

https://pastebin.com/QAWeu8Xt

Output

    category,addedToListPrice,appliesToCustomers,amountRateType,amountRate,type
    fee_tax,false,eu,percent-varies-by-location,~,vat
    fee_tax,false,in,percent,15,gst
    fee_tax,false,au,percent,10,gst
    fee_tax,false,eu,percent-varies-by-location,~,vat

An explanation of _how_ it does the conversion would be nice when choosing a tool like this. As the "just works" didn't seem to work.

How does one keep an SSD powered without actually mounting it or working with it? I have backups on SSDs and old drives I would like to keep somewhat live.

Should I pop them in an old server? Is there an appliance that just supplies power? Is there a self-hosted thing I can monitor disks which I have 0 access usage for and don't want connected to anything but want to keep "live"

Do they _need_ to be edgy? They can just be fun, happy, or a representation/proxy of the person behind the computer

Theres better ways to choose stickers. Make them yourself and it's extremely unlikely you'll ever be at odds with that artist ;). Pretty art or ubiquitous fun phrases generally also don't really go bad, unless it's so tied to a specific artist that it represents them too.

What is this, some kind of AI therapist? There's no about page, no other info, just some cryptic conversation where it leads to a sign up, with no more info.

I'd consider this spam if it were not for your comments on this post.

Looks like the edited the graph in the article to correct this.

Still skeptical about the data source. Analytics datasets always seem to undercount the most recent few data points.

And that graph they show has an offset y axis (hides the scale from 0 to exaggerate the "downward trend") _and_ has a non-uniform x axis. Each tick mark represents a different scale of time (1yr, 3 mos, 1 mo)

Wtf

In the same analogy, doesn't that mean that vendor-locked software like iOS or ChromeOS would be akin to vendor-locked seeds from Monsanto?

Monitoring your network traffic on your local PC (ala Little Snitch or Open Snitch) or monitoring it at the gateway/router level?

Why did they not pursue this? Were there any applications using this in the wild? It was not immediately obvious from their github repository.

What was it like in the 70s that we are now missing?

I did the exact same research and came to the same conclusion. I wouldn't have been prompted to do it without F-Droid

> The team reassessed his threat as moderate, which reduced the monitoring.

I wonder what sort of monitoring. If it was purely just checking in with him, or more than that? I feel like constantly being watched or having my devices watched as a kid would have made me more paranoid as an adult. Less able to trust the world.

Yes I do. I recently joined a Discord to observe some of this (long story, didn't know what I was getting into) and that was a tenet of what was discussed. If you want specifics you'll have to email me because I'm not comfortable putting more details here.

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People put all kinds of stuff in Notion. People use it as a DB. People catalog things they find online (web clipper). There's collaboration features.

There are many ways

Can you elaborate on the kind of expats that are undesirable? I don't know what specific types of people you might be referring to