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bossyTeacher··on Three important steps in my maturation process
> clean the kitchen every night

Is this a metaphor?

bossyTeacher··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
> The naivete of some of the comments here is astounding

This is HN. https://xkcd.com/538/

bossyTeacher··on The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
> But colloquially, when people say consciousness, we usually mean the thing that goes away when we sleep or are anesthetized.

Sounds like attention rather than consciousness. You lose your attention.

bossyTeacher··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
> By this definition there has never been a waterfall project. They all need to correct, adapt, or redo something.

I think he means before the official release.

bossyTeacher··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
One word: ecosystem. Phones are useless bricks without an ecosystem. This is why we only have 2 operating systems for portable devices when we used to have more than twice the amount.
bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
So the top-most entity is the Mozilla Foundation, they control and dictate what the subsidiary, also called Mozilla, can and cannot do. The OpenAI foundation cannot dictate what OpenAI Corp can and cannot do.

1. Mozilla isn't working in a capital intensive domain like Transformer Tech unlike OpenAI so there is no need to bend over demands this much.

2. Mozilla Corp is fully owned by Mozilla Foundation. OpenAI Corp was created by the OpenAI non profit to take external investment. The OpenAI non profit chose to give chunks of the OpenAI Corp to investors because it needed money. By selling stakes, they gave control of the company away. That's the difference.

3. OpenAI Corp answers to their stakeholders of which OpenAI foundation is only one and a minor stakeholder. Mozilla Corp answers to Mozilla Foundation only. That's the difference.

4. Presentation. The mozilla websites for the foundation and the subsidiary both use the org domain which is used by non profits, unlike openain's com use. Not a rule but a choice in presentation.

There is no comparison here.

bossyTeacher··on Claude Seems Down
It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me.

It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.

bossyTeacher··on Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast
> Don't even need claude anymore at their insane prices for anything I do.

What insane price is that? Pro is $20 per month. Same price as a Netflix ad free sub.

bossyTeacher··on Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones
> There's nothing wrong with dependence! It's the harm that makes it addiction, and coffee in moderation has no harm

No, addiction is an uncontrolled dependence. If you FEEL dependent on a substance to function as an adult and you are UNABLE to control that dependence (can't quit on a whim for let's say 4 months) despite harm, you are addicted.

Regular coffee usage gradually stains and erodes your teeth at a minimum. At certain doses, you worse your sleep quality and increase heart rate and blood pressure.

The above look like negative effects to me.

It is perfectly fine to accept the consequences. The problem is when it's a dependency and you cannot control it. Like doing base jump, it's clearly risky but you can make an informed decision about accepting the risk. If you feel like you NEED to do it and can't stop for lets say 5 months, that's where it gets concerning.

bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
bossyTeacher··on Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings
What does "authentically British" means? Is a formal letter more authentic than a teenager chat style message? Regional variances? What is this core you allude to that is universally recognizable?
bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Mozilla is not a company though.
bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
>From what I know it works for most Brave users.

"From what I know" is epistemologically equivalent to "For me".

bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
> Fortunately if projects like Ladybird gain enough momentum, websites might be forced to cater to it. Time will tell.

Ladybird has corporate sponsors too. Sponsorship is influence. Obviously, the more sponsorships you have the less influence an individual one have but it is worth knowing.

bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
> You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare?

Under some definitions, the browser IS the core. You are bound at a fundamental level to your parent if you build on someone else's foundations. Firefox is probably a great one to do it but worth knowing that someone else owns the land upon which you stand.

bossyTeacher··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
The title misses something more important: Firefox is and has been for a very long time the only browser who wasn't made by people trying to extract profit from you.

Everything follows from this. Edge people, Chrome people have been living in a fairytale for believing that the keepers of their portal to the web were offering a product as complex and expensive as a browser without asking for anything in return.

Anyone knows that any company that gives you something for free will eventually want something from you. You accepted a free browser from a for-profit entity and paid nothing. Now, Faust has come to collect your soul.

bossyTeacher··on Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents
This is probably HN's tech background speaking. In the enterprise dev world, everyone knows what BDD means just like every dev out there knows what OOP means.
bossyTeacher··on Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
I think it is to avoid dealing with unauthorised copies. If you forbid their existence, you never have to deal with them. Much easier than making laws about what you can and cannot do with the copies you made or what someone else can/cannot do with the copies that you made.

This is probably coming from the music/film industry lobbying. They are generating artificial scarcity. Not unlike the diamond industry.

bossyTeacher··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
No one buys CDs but Taylor Swift still makes a lot of money from her music. Doesn't negate that making music is economically worse than ever.

Most people book flights online, travel agents still make a lot of money. Doesn't negate that travel agency as a business is economically worse than ever.

Most people have cameras in their pockets that can take good photos, photographers still make a lot of money. Doesn't negate that being a photographer is economically worse than ever.

Hopefully, you see the pattern. You don't remember that companies that are no longer around.

bossyTeacher··on Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones
It causes:

- High heart rate and blood pressure

- Increased risk of arrhtymia

- Less deep sleep

- Disruption to your cortisol level dynamics

Whether you consider all of them not "bad" or worth the benefits is up to you. People also consider moderate consumption of alcohol worth its benefits.

Everyone has a different risk profile. Know the risks and choose as you please.

bossyTeacher··on Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones
Addiction implies dependence. If you feel unable to be a productive member of society without a psychoactive substance that you must ingest daily, then I have bad news for you.
bossyTeacher··on Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
> I've been seeing more bugs from their side, while reducing bugs on my side with the help of AI.

You should question your ability to see any bugs on YOUR side.

bossyTeacher··on Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
Why is most AI work done in Lisp? There are many reasons, most of which are somewhat technical, but one of the best is quite simple: Lisp is crisp. Or as Marilyn Monroe said in The Seven-Year Itch, "I think it's just elegant!"

This claim didn't age well.

bossyTeacher··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
> This is absolutely still shy of Sol and Fable, but only just by a hair.

Even if there was a small/medium gap, the fact that this is a free model beats both of the above on pure economics.

bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
> It stops the uncountably large majority of people from doing it. Like more then 99.9% of people.

Most people don't even know about it or have the means to access it as its either not available or not legal in their jurisdiction so not accurate. About 45% of the adults drink. How much lower would that percentage be if alcohol was little known and subjected to the same regulations psychedelics are under?

bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Again generalising. Psychdelics, if you are not predisposed to psychotic breaks, can cause anxiety and similarly overwhelming emotions. They last 12 hours max. And this mescaline and LSD mostly. Datura can potentially last 2 days. It is dangerous, end of. Also datura is not considered a psychdelic. Hallucinogenics and psychdelics are not equivalent. Datura is referred to as a delirant. With psychdelics, you can estimate dosage much easily. With datura, it is much harder because it is naturally not as evenly distributed in the actual source plant. So you can easily overdose. It's like trying to split a shroom choc that melted but the distribution among areas can be several times over the other areas.

In my opinion, the combination of not able to estimate dosage and losing the ability to tell reality from fiction for up to 2 days alone puts datura in its own separate category.

Someone tripping in psychdelics or even Salvia is really a different category to Datura where the line between reality and fiction is thin. No smiling silly at the wall or laughing uncontrollably but moving coherently and overall looking sane while doing things that on closer look don't make sense.

bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
> they're all borderline psychotic inducing

No, they are not. Let's not generalize. There is nothing funny or therapeutic about psychosis. We are leaving the dark ages of psychedelics. We don't need to bring them back.

bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
I couldn't have phrased it better.
bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
I don't think you can put Datura in this scale at all. Datura is borderline psychotic inducing. More damage you might not heal from than funny visuals.
bossyTeacher··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
It's funny how the Wikipedia article call hallucinations "ill effects". I am yet to hear people call caffeine effects "ill effects". People and their sociocultural biases, uh?
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