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ChiperSoft

611 karma · joined April 20, 2011

Username is a deadname, but HN doesn't let you change them. I go by Twipped, now.

http://twipped.com

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ChiperSoft··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
You don't end up on a list like this for a single mistake.
ChiperSoft··on The Test
> It just goes on like this. No argument, just mockery. Doesn't address any of the statements, just jeers at them

Yes, because the point of the article is that these are things rational every-day people recognize as being worthy of mockery.

If the author needs to explain to you why not knowing your own address is foolish, how handing your child an AI instead of spending time with them is bad, then you aren't going to get the rest of the thesis. As the author puts it, you've passed the test, you're part of the cult of personality.

ChiperSoft··on New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Should be a million per week until the generators are removed
ChiperSoft··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
She said three sentences. What was her allotted time, five seconds?
ChiperSoft··on How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective?
Buries the fucking lede by putting this at the end

> Relative to the total population, the share of immigrants in 2024 was approximately the same as in 1890. If we only look at the last few decades, we miss this historical perspective — there have been periods where immigrants made up a similarly large share of the country.

ChiperSoft··on Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production
I want to know what mechanisms the car provides to ensure you're lined up to the mat correctly. Seems like a small target to hit.
ChiperSoft··on Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
And maybe the reason there will be a senior shortage is because we all got pissed off and left.
ChiperSoft··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen

Considering its become exceptionally difficult to search for things that used to be easy to find, I have to disagree with you there.

The web has been polluted with trash, covering up all the original media with messy imitations.

ChiperSoft··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
Sadly the problem predated him, the FAA has been under funded for a long time. Last Week Tonight did a really good segment about it a year ago. However, Trump absolutely made it a lot worse.

https://youtu.be/YeABJbvcJ_k?si=bX_tKbHSl6EpMJce

ChiperSoft··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
Additional Context: for about two years functional programming was REALLY popular in the Node community. It was a fad to chain tons of tiny functions together, and thus lots of people wrote tons of tiny functions. This is why lodash/fp exists.
ChiperSoft··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
I feel like the second to last paragraph says a LOT, quite succinctly, but maybe I'm better at reading between the lines.
ChiperSoft··on A warning about 'model welfare'
Too late
ChiperSoft··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
The more relevant post is by Geoff himself.

https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/

ChiperSoft··on Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
Executives are not engineers. Not even the CTO
ChiperSoft··on Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months
He thinks this is a warning. My dude, when you're the one making it, it's a threat.
ChiperSoft··on Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023)
And of course, Safari does not yet support this as of the tech previews.

https://caniuse.com/?search=horizontal-viewport-segments

ChiperSoft··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
It sounds like they're all trying to make a case for why the government should buy them out as a new kind of manhattan project.

They know the market isn't going to buy in for their big payout.

ChiperSoft··on M. Williams, OpenAI: Human extinction in the next few years seems likely
Possibly, but more likely because of the ravaging weather events as gas powered data centers churn out more emissions in four years than the last fourty
ChiperSoft··on Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay
I've heard of similar things coming from Marc Andreessen, even before the AI boom. There's some scary people in power

Edit: found the article I remembered https://prospect.org/2024/04/24/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-an...

> I brought up the ordinary comforts of kinship, friendship, craft, memory, legend, lore, skills passed down across generations, and other benefits that small towns provide: things that make human beings human beings. I pointed out that there must be something in the kind of places he grew up in worth preserving. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life …

> And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.

> “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

ChiperSoft··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Before I even opened the article I knew the reason was because LLMs don't need abstractions. React Native was always about making app construction easier for people who don't want to learn ObjC or Swift. If you're not writing or even reviewing the code yourself, this is unneeded overhead.

For a while I've been wondering why people are even bothering with high level languages if you aren't even gonna read the code.

ChiperSoft··on Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list
I 100% interpreted the name as "redditor"
ChiperSoft··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
We absolutely have a solution: Don't do the thing. It's the solution to pretty much every problem our planet is facing.

The problem is that very rich/powerful people want to be very much richer/more powerful by doing the thing.

ChiperSoft··on Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
> I don't believe you on the sex worker part

I'm guessing you're not a fetlife user, then? They have had repeated issues with keeping a payment gateway, since mastercard keeps yanking service due to sex workers advertising on the site.

Did you ever use craigslists personal ads? The ones they were forced to remove after FOSTA passed?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/craigslist-personal-ads-sest...

FOSTA/SESTA make it extremely dangerous to operate a personals site in the US. The bills made content providers directly liable.

https://uslawexplained.com/sesta_fosta#the_anatomy_of_sesta-...

ChiperSoft··on I resigned from Anthropic today
"This is not a marketing stunt," says the marketing stunt.

Betting he got to keep all his RSUs

ChiperSoft··on Australia to opt out of social media algorithms, Albanese confirms
Could the adults get that too?
ChiperSoft··on Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
The people who can innovate in this space either don't have the mental and/or capital bandwidth to do so, or don't want to deal with the absolutely massive amount of moderation that it would require.

I met my wife on OkC in 2006, years before the Match acquisition. I have long been furious about what Match did to the site after they bought it in 2011, and have long fantasized about creating something that could return to what it offered. Problem is, I don't think you could do it.

OkCupid in its heyday was a product of the golden age of the web, when social networking was new. It thrived because it predated doom scrolling, so taking quizzes and answering surveys was still a fun way to use the web. Now we're in a post-twitter landscape, where dopamine comes from a flick of a finger.

OkC's forums were one of the first mainstream online spaces for conversations about sexuality and non-monogamy. That role has now been subsumed by subreddits and facebook groups.

When OkC was independent, the majority of moderation involved keeping things pg-13 and enforcing the terms of use. You could crowd-source it all right within the site itself. Today you have AI agent swarms bombarding any site with a userbase, just hoping to get eyeballs. You have age verification laws, payment gateways that will stop processing if they get even a whiff that sex workers might be using your site to advertise, and bigots who will DDOS you if you dare to cater to the needs of minorities.

And all that to wade into a battle with a billion dollar juggernaut.

ChiperSoft··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
We bought a new tv two years ago and I spent probably a week researching to find the least-smart set I could.

The best option is display only units made for businesses, like what they use for restaurant menus, but those are usually twice the price of normal tvs because they're not app subsidized like smart tvs are.

What I ended up going with was Hisense. They ship with Google TV, but it's disabled by default. On first power up, it asks if you want to activate the Google TV features, and you can just say no. The thing then runs like a basic display.

ChiperSoft··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
> But the government could easily fix these problems with regulations that apply broadly, not just to datacenters.

Even if you can get legislators to pass regulation, enforcing it is a constant battle, and odds are they'll just pay a fine and keep on violating the regulations.

It's a much easier fight to keep a DC out of your community to begin with.

ChiperSoft··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
I was very surprised the "we need more white babies" people were pushing a policy that lowers sperm count.
ChiperSoft··on The Wormhole Hall of Shame
We never see the wormhole in Stargate, at least under SG1 canon. It's microscopic and simply used for transporting a matter stream. The ring field is a matter destabalizer and recombinator, pretty much the same thing as Star Trek transporters. Thats why radio waves can move two-way but matter is one-way.

Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.

Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.

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