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rs999gti··on Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia
> it skips the step of having to translate the knowledge.

Isn't that the point of going to school, to learn the what, how, and why, then translate that to application or more knowledge?

rs999gti··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
From the article itself, "Regarding the blocking of reverse engineering, we have received direct confirmations. The first comes from our own alumnus Jarred Walton, who was trying to run checks on the software he's developing. He notes that such work had been performed with no issue until yesterday, October 31, and that switching to Opus 4.8 let him continue his work."
rs999gti··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
I thought Claude was the tool for the AI script kiddies?
rs999gti··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
How? Anthropic hard coded anti-reverse engineering instructions into Claude.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

rs999gti··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Depends. Is it an investment grant or loan? The former is money to grow with no expectations on growth. The latter has an investor giving money in expectation of a return.

Most of the YC companies are loan backed with investors pushing milestones for the next investment chunk or round.

rs999gti··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Does anyone know if Bruno is not on the same path as Postman?
rs999gti··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
Agreed. Azure, GCP, and AWS have gated models that only exist in their infrastructures and can't dial out unless yous give them permissions to do so.

Don't use a models only company if you need enterprise level security and data protection.

rs999gti··on Life with Down Syndrome
> different dismissively and not constructively

Give examples

rs999gti··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
> software dev tools all IDE. Dead.

IDEs will be moot when I die. Even with tests and code gen, I still debug and verify code before shipping to QA.

This is a wild take.

rs999gti··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
It's the relationships. Most sales deals that bring in the money are still done face to face.

I don't really know if you could do multimillion dollar deals on a web form.

rs999gti··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Someone needs to go out and sell advertising and services. And when those things are sold, someone has to keep the subscriptions going and growing.

Business is not just person to machine or machine to machine, a lot of it, even those of you that are in pure tech jobs has someone in the field selling to clients and keeping clients engaged.

rs999gti··on Quad9 to exit France
There is a dichotomy to this thread. One side is free internet from government grasp, but I bet that the same people are the government gib me stuff people that want the government to care for them and intervene from cradle to grave.
rs999gti··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
> A human being a terrible person makes the news, the dozens of daily acts of kindness and decency never do.

If it bleeds it leads. The media can't sell ads with nice news. They need horribleness, catastrophy, and outrage to attract attention to the ads.

rs999gti··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Density and the same people and ideas AKA homogenity of the population.

Look at Japan and rural Western societies. High trust, but the trust is because they are all pretty much the same people, demographics, beliefs, etc. and the density makes it so they pretty much know each other.

rs999gti··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Is there a single model out there without a bias filter altering the input and output?

I think they tried zero bias AI in the past but it was deemed racist, cold, and antisocial by its creators.

But humans and corporations have group think at some level and those groups come with biases.

rs999gti··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Lots of stuff is PHP e.g. most message boards. It was very popular pre-dynamic web.
rs999gti··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
You forgot:

3. People who do not care and are not in IT or on Hacker News.

I doubt a lot of regular people care what Microsoft is doing. All they want is a laptop or PC that works or to be able to play their XBOX games.

rs999gti··on Microsoft Outlook hit by service outage
Azure DevOps is degraded as well.
rs999gti··on Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements
Commondreams is a questionable source. Read with a grain of salt and good judgement.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/common-dreams-media-bia...

rs999gti··on I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek
Bad intellectual property protections and implied spyware.
rs999gti··on I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek
> to DeepSeek

But China?

rs999gti··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
All I have to say is LOL to holistic admissions.

Use standardized testing. We cannot power the future with feels, we need STEM grads.

rs999gti··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
> Provide a tightly scoped technical spec to Codex as a task, and ask for 3x solutions.

I'm using a personal license and Codex. What does this cost to generate 3x solutions as a starting point?

Even in simple coding I have been doing, I notice Codex will burn through my Open AI subscription rather fast.

rs999gti··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
> Coal is neither cheap nor abundant in Ireland.

But it is abundant in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland. Also, there is nuclear power in France.

However, Russia and Ukraine are at war. Germany is willing to go green and destroy itself. EU hates Poland and other east European countries. And EU and the rest of the world can't disassociate nuclear power with weapons.

So I guess EU can enjoy their limited and expensive green energy.

rs999gti··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
> but from an outsider America has become one mouthpiece

Really? As a naturalized American I see diversity in the USA's media. Do you have an example?

From what I see, there are two big voices in the media politically.

> rarely do I see dissenting voices in the media

Again, we need an example. I see the official line from the current party in power, and the counter arguements from the mainstream media as a whole. The current party only has a media output from very few mainstream sources.

rs999gti··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
> create a fair international market and let winners win.

Why? It's selfish, but since the US and EU sent jobs out to India and China. India and China, have created protections that make getting those jobs back nearly impossible short of stopping payments. At the same time, these countries have huge trading imbalances (see FR complaining that their CN trade imbalance is untenable) and have become the defacto for cheap labor.

rs999gti··on AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded
In the cobol world, lots of highly paid senior consultants, who come in and out of retirement to support systems.

Other than that, I am guessing junior roles will move offshore to supply the body shops where the corporate IT work has been going.

rs999gti··on Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
Does the public have claim on all of these artists' art?

They all are now involuntary patreons.

rs999gti··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
> What NPM should do if they really give a shit is start requiring 2FA to publish.

How does 2FA prevent malware? Anyone can get a phone number to receive a text or add an authenticator to their phone.

I would argue a subscrption model for 1 EUR/month would be better. The money received could pay for certification of packages and the credit card on file can leverage the security of the payments system.

rs999gti··on Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change
> In 10 years where do the senior dev's come from?

From company interns. Internships won't go away, there will just be less of them. For example, some companies will turn down interns because they do not have the time to train them due to project load.

With AI, now employed developers can be picky on whether or not to take on interns.

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