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tyzoid··on Transit rewards
Are you factoring in fixed costs to that estimate? That may be partially misleading if so.
tyzoid··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
I suspect the TOS say google can remove or deny apps for any reason. If in the EU, there might be a DMA claim though.
tyzoid··on Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]
No - this is a false equivalence. Transaction processing companies for the most part handle the in-and-out flows as a single transaction. Insurance companies hold on to the premium pool ("float") for long enough that they have time to realize gains from investing portions of it - the inflow and outflow are very separate.
tyzoid··on Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1
Isn't most of this already in xlibre?
tyzoid··on Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
Out of curiousity, how does this apply to nightmares ending in certain death or grevious injury (driving off a bridge, falling down a well, being chased by zombies and unable to move, etc.)?
tyzoid··on LLMs reward expertise
Harness refers to the tooling that allows you to interact with an LLM. Web chat interface is a harness, CLI coding tools (claude code, codex, opencode, pi, etc.) are harnesses, agent systems (openclaw, hermes, etc.) are harnesses. They present different capabilities to the underlying LLM. Codex, for example, is more likely to write code if you say "I want to build an app" than ChatGPT on web will.
tyzoid··on Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
Why qwen 2.5 everywhere? Why not 3.5?
tyzoid··on Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web
How does this work on pages that require JavaScript in order to render?
tyzoid··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
I'll sometimes use agent swarms for triaging quickly through a number of possible issues. For example, a single request for a code review to uncover all possible issues, followed by an agent swarm to dig deep into each issue to confirm or mark false positive.
tyzoid··on Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
I have to disagree with the fundamental premise here. LLMs do indeed have an internal "concept" mapping - the embedding layer. There's some fun demos on youtube[1] where you can manipulate embedding vectors (such as king - man + woman = queen), and these manipulations are done entirely in the embedding/concept space.

[1] https://youtu.be/gQddtTdmG_8 (around 14:00)

tyzoid··on Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO
Domo Says No Mo' to AI FOMO
tyzoid··on Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus
Hey, fancy seeing you up here on HN! Fun article
tyzoid··on Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design
You can use something like flyway on top of your existing git/cicd stack. Write the query as a migration, have it reviewed using your git code review process, and merge to run the migration.
tyzoid··on US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]
It doesn't even need to be a third party. Documents you make for yourself but never send to a third party could still be seized in a criminal context or subject to discovery in a civil one.

Attorney-client privilege is a special carve out because the courts have recognized that clients need to be open and honest with their attorneys to get proper counsel and representation.

This ruling is the court declining to extend that special carve out to non-lawyer AI tooling, and keeping the status quo of contemporaneous documents made by someone discoverable, whether or not shared with a third party. The judge draws from the TOS as an admonishment, effectively saying (my words, not the judge) the TOS should have put you on notice that you have no expectation this data is confidential.

tyzoid··on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious
Pretty much any legacy system can have a modern reverse proxy in front of it. If the legacy application can't handler certs sanely, use the reverse proxy for terminating TLS.
tyzoid··on 12ft.io Taken Down
Upper-end estimates for typical web traffic CPC/CPM rates are around 10¢ per click and 0.5¢ per impression. I never click on ads, but let's hypothesize that with very-well targeted ads 5% of people click through. That ends up at around an estimated 1¢ per page view. Even at 5x that rate, I'd be able to read 1000 articles ($5 USD) before even approaching the $6 USD/mo rate I think is reasonable.

That's over 30 articles per day, again at a 5x rate than advertising will return. Will there users that read vastly more than that? Sure. But there's also many readers that will under-utilize the service too.

Just take a look at how YouTube Premium is doing, many creators report that their premium revenue vastly outpaces ad-supported viewers on a per-view basis.

If the revenue doesn't make sense, then you could supplement the revenue with ads for users who exceed a soft cap, or have tiered subscriptions. Something like a basic (1k articles per month)ad-supported subscription for $4, basic ad-free for $6, and unlimited ad-free for $10.

tyzoid··on 12ft.io Taken Down
The problem is there's not really a good way to subscribe to these things. I'd gladly pay a nominal fee (~$6 USD/mo) for access to media, but I'm not about to subscribe individually to each site. Ideally, I'd subscribe to a single service and payment is split across the various sites in proportion to how many articles I read from each site.

There was a service that promised this a while back, but IIRC mozilla bought and killed it.

tyzoid··on Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess
I've been doing this for most of my games too. I find I'm less likely to release a piece somewhere I don't want with this method.
tyzoid··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
Completely blank for me on mobile (javascript disabled)
tyzoid··on Simple Web Server
My usual go-to for a quick static server is:

python -m http.server

But variations exist for a lot of languages. Php has one built-in too

tyzoid··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
> who cares what experience in your resume was a lie and what not

Just being blunt: that's called Fraud. Making false representations for personal gain (employment, in this case) is one of the classic examples.

It doesn't matter if nobody checks in the moment, or if you usually get away with it, dishonesty is dishonesty. If I were to discover that someone joined my team under false pretenses, you can bet I'll have very little faith in their credibility going forward.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... :

> The Fourth Circuit, reviewing a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2314, also noted that "fraud is a broad term, which includes false representations, dishonesty and deceit." See United States v. Grainger, 701 F.2d 308, 311 (4th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 947 (1983).

tyzoid··on A university president makes a case against cowardice
The punishment needs to be commisserate with the crime, and dealt with through due process; to do otherwise is distinctly un-american (see 1st amendment on freedom of assembly, 4th amendment on freedoms from unreasonable state actions: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons[...] against unreasonable searches and seizures", and especially the 5th amendment: "[no person shall] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law").

What we are seeing at Colombia University (as well as the country at large) is the continual abridgement of these rights. Note that for the fifth amendendment specifically, the constitution refers to any person, not just citizens. Those here legally are entitled to due process protections under the law.

The following argument relies on the following: (1) Universities historically have been the the catalysts of change through student protest. (2) Peaceful protest is a right of the people that shall not be abridged. (3) Public Universities (being government institutuions themselves; see campus police and jurisdiction) have a duty of care to protect their students.

With the above holding true, the argument against this being a "betrayal" falls facially flat, as it is a severe consequence that the university capitulated to, and had a duty to prevent. The arument boiled down to "they were being disruptive, so we should get rid of them," because the betrayal amounted to the jailing and deportations (or attempted deportations, in some cases) for the "crime" of being nonviolently disruptive in a public place.

Without articulating a legally rationed basis for a criminally sanctionable offense, an equivalent is threatening to jail and deport construction workers when they block a business entryway. In general, you do not have a right to be merely inconvienced by others in a public space.

tyzoid··on Gumroad is now open source
1M revenue isn't that high a bar to clear in retail, just takes one popular/meme product. After all the COGS/fixed costs are tallied up, that could leave you with significantly less with which to contemplate custom development or platform changes.
tyzoid··on Overengineered Anchor Links
I'm not seeing them show up, with or without JS enabled (firefox on android). I might suggest having some interaction for non-js users though (details element, perhaps?)
tyzoid··on A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Most likely, yes. Then it wouldn't have mattered that the `sl` package was installed.
tyzoid··on It's Time to Stop Building KV Databases
Sometimes a KV datastore is the right abstraction, though. Caching is an excellent example, but also for distributed session storage, configuration management, nonce enforcement, etc.
tyzoid··on Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
I'm curious, did he not clean out old chats that were no longer needed? If UK FOI applies to this now, does that introduce recordkeeping/retention requirements?
tyzoid··on Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute
I'm not a lawyer, but the legal claim made appears to me to be on shaky ground. In my understanding, there has to be actual damages arising out of an action. "I could have been hacked, so I had to spend time/money on it" isn't actual damages unless they were _actually_ hacked.
tyzoid··on If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
You can't easily take text and make it red that way, only edit the existing content.
tyzoid··on GitHub Hosting Malware Won't Remove After Report
If you're not the copyright owner, that's a terrible idea. DMCA notifications are submitted under penalty of perjury:

17 USC 512c3(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

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