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bossyTeacher

537 karma · joined November 2, 2022

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bossyTeacher··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Can you elaborate on this? I thought Peter Singer was behind EA. What happened to the org?
bossyTeacher··on Mistral Large 4
Can't cycle in the dark, can you?
bossyTeacher··on GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
This is becoming way more frequent than a monthly event. Does anyone know why GitHub keeps having incidents?
bossyTeacher··on SynthID Detector
I might be missing something but Google Image Search still works for me.
bossyTeacher··on AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment
> high INT stat

What is this?

bossyTeacher··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
It's English at the top for you. The top language depends on your browser settings afaik.
bossyTeacher··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
I think people have a binary understanding on this. Someone is either reading their messages or not. While the reality is that all the messages are read by a machine (not unlike GMail and Outlook) and anything suspicious gets flagged up so a human can read it. This obscure the concept of "reading" as most laypeople understand it.

Summary: don't type in Claude anything you wouldn't like a human to read.

bossyTeacher··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
> the repellent cold light of leds, and edm

Some of this seems subjective.

bossyTeacher··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Arguably, the US has ALWAYS been like this. The difference is that NOW, it is doing it to Western countries so people talk more about it.
bossyTeacher··on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
> more chips will be designed, so maybe this will partially offset job loses.

This is HN mentality. But it is not how it always works. The first thought isn't we can make more money tomorrow by building more faster. It is we can make more money today by laying off all the people that we don't need now. Short-termism is the rule.

bossyTeacher··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Facebook installing spyware on teens phones or Uber deceiving officials are examples of the same trend. Normal businsses not back by the uber wealthy would be shut down and their CEOs jailed for this kind of actions.
bossyTeacher··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Neither is the non-professional photography market. The internet is full of poorly composed photographs taken by people with no skill in photography.
bossyTeacher··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
> I'm wondering, where are all those great things that were created with them

Maybe you are not looking in the right place. Maybe your expectations are not right. Maybe the revolution isn't a super app but a mini app. Not an app with code written so beautifully it could win a Pulitzer but an app that will be used a couple of times and then discarded.

I am trying to offer an alternate viewpoint (I don't necessarily support it but I thought it was needed).

bossyTeacher··on Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
The internet was meant to be a decentralized network. Why are humans so narrow minded short-termists?
bossyTeacher··on Sonnet 5.5
> Probably a first world problem, but with Opus 5.5's efficiency, the limits on the 5x plan are simply sufficient for my everyday work, even when running 2-3 sessions at a time. So I wonder when I would use Sonnet 5.5.

Not every user of Claude is a programmer. Or even exclusively a worker. Claude has uses beyond work. Something that many in HN struggle to understand.

bossyTeacher··on I am done with this shit
> nowadays I say no

I sympathise with you. I do feel that consultancy and freelance had always had this issue where bad practices in client systems introduced by careless people ended in your shores when clients phone you asking for help. This used to happen with poorly maintained codebases or broken implemented projects done by competitors. Most potential customers are likely to be past or future victims of careless rivals of yours. Is it sustainable for you to ignore past customers that were victims of careless rivals?

I am not judging here just curious about your thoughts on this.

bossyTeacher··on I am done with this shit
> if you work at a company whose culture is to deliver as fast as possible

'Move fast and break things' is the ultimate Silicon Valley motto.

bossyTeacher··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
Many people also don't see the relevance of reducing reliance in services from Russian companies or using Chinese software for critical matters either. Newsflash, not everyone has the same opinion.
bossyTeacher··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Do you get security updates with these old android phones?
bossyTeacher··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
Because its CEO is known as the sponsor of the Orebro party?

1.5k comments discussion for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469

bossyTeacher··on Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
Without knowing the physical book equivalents, these numbers mean very little.
bossyTeacher··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
This is a variant of: if [tool] isn't giving you good results, then it's your fault.

For some values of [tool], this is right. Question, is it true for this particular value?

bossyTeacher··on Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
> They might argue we do not support everything they say.

This was literally Mullvad's response to one of their CEO being the main founder of a party with some peculiar views.

bossyTeacher··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
> we just don't have the money!

You don't have ANY money? Plenty of students would do a great job for a little money and a professional reference. Now you just helped the workforce, helped the local economy and cost you little.

bossyTeacher··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Then, you use this: https://duckduckgo.com/

Actually, use it now.

bossyTeacher··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
> None of their decisions make any sense,

Of course, it does. Google is no longer afraid to spit on open source. People happy to use Chromium features better remember this. You are renting everything and your landlord will soon come demanding it back.

bossyTeacher··on The Real Luxuries In Life
TLDR: be rich and young.
bossyTeacher··on The Real Luxuries In Life
No one is stopping you from typing code in your favourite editor.
bossyTeacher··on Tell the speakers that you liked their talks
What was the talk about?
bossyTeacher··on The DeepMind Institute
Didn't he get kicked out of the company he founded? Deep Mind does not have a CEO anymore
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