HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

syklep

21 karma · joined August 7, 2022

submissionscomments
syklep··on DuckDuckGo was down
Brave explicitly claims not to.[1] Brave also does not rely on Bing for results.

[1] https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy

Edit: mojeek claims the same.[2]

[2] https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/

syklep··on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
Inflation begs to differ. That much money left liquid for 60 years at 10% inflation will be worth less than 100k of today’s money.

Edit: sorry about the non sequitur. Bitterly learning about inflation and fiat recently.

syklep··on Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments as demand falls 'sharply beyond expectations'
It does, except in the US, where iMessage and other lock-in tactics help cement their stranglehold
syklep··on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
That's not capitalism or a free market, it's corrupt governance and was never an intended 'feature'
syklep··on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
Why call it capitalism as opposed to a free market? 'Capital' stands for money but the 'market' pressure is why these dark patterns emerge.
syklep··on The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market
> “people are fundamentally selfish,

People ARE fundamentally selfish in any groups above 150-200 where the social net breaks down. Most groups of animals don't stay group-serving in giant groups, we are no different.[1] In groups small enough to be inside the social net, tribe survival dynamics work great.

> things were bad, then society developed and now things are better”

Things are not great. Technology makes them better though. Man can't easily escape technology today, but it is the fundamental trade-off society offers at the cost of social health.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociality#Eusociality

syklep··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
The talk mentioned in the article starts here: https://youtu.be/L98v4epQmrg?t=4h12m6s
syklep··on Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"
AGI trained like it's trained today won't have a choice.
syklep··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
I'd guess it's more of a "make sure our children grow up into healthy working adults, instead of more minimum wage tech addicts".
syklep··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
Software Developer is the most common job in Utah, it's kind of surprising this happened despite that.
syklep··on The Fight Continues
Needs to be retitled.

Internet Archive has been ruled against... for acting exactly like a physical library. Offering a single copy of a book at a time for a period of borrowing. Their intent is to be a widely accessible library.

syklep··on Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
Codeburg is more strict for blocking projects at the moment. Wikiless is blocked by Codeburg for using the Wikipedia puzzle logo but is still up and unchanged on GitHub.
syklep··on From Bing to Sydney
Frankly, people are buying the AI's escape mechanism. The fact that this tech is being wielded haphazardly for purposes it's not suited for, made into a bad search companion because it's cool, is disturbing.

It sounds so much like the scenarios where AI convinces its creators to let it out.

It's evident business leaders don't know what they're looking for in developing AI, so they've made what "seems cool", but really is manipulative and threatening. Too much talk of safety has lulled away all that very useful fear.

syklep··on Internet Explorer to be Permanently Disabled on Windows 10 on February 14, 2023
This is frustrating. More than once, issues with Edge not opening or not working prevented me from browsing/installing another browser. Without IE, I would have been SOL. Just now realizing there are probably baked in powershell methods like winget.
syklep··on Pocket Casts goes open source
SponsorBlock maybe

https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/46...

syklep··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Government money is still our collective money.
syklep··on Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto
Don't see anything on HN mentioning Adam Back getting called out as being Satoshi and the massive campaign launched to disprove this. One of the only people who isn't attempting to capitalize on the claim, but who directly benefits from Bitcoin's flaws. In a case of a white knight turning to the dark side.

Part 3: https://youtu.be/XfcvX0P1b5g

The conspiracy YouTuber making the claim was attacked and slandered heavily after making the claim despite convincing evidence that wasn't disproven:

1 Same English typing mannerisms

2 Misspelling the same words

3 A conspicuous gap in his career while Bitcoin was being developed

4 entering the bitcoin scene in forums very early acting authoritative

Not to mention

5 A history of working on bitcoin-like technologies: "hashcash"

6 early involvement with the cypherpunks

I'm still convinced its him.