HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

cryptonym

990 karma · joined December 4, 2018

submissionscomments
cryptonym··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
It got banned from Goncourt. Looks like not disclosing AI-use didn't met expectations.

You are free to read and like it, but you do not get to dictate what other people should or should not expect. Artificial ghostwriter is not really Goncourt-ish.

cryptonym··on The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
You can be bad at writing with or without AI.
cryptonym··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
No because people don't care. Basically you have to deal with the expectations of your readers when you try to sell a book.
cryptonym··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
> all other Goncourt finalists
cryptonym··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
Like it or not, people expect significant AI-use to be disclosed. When only human is credited, they feel cheated.

Excellent use of AI? Disclose it and avoid the fuss.

cryptonym··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
> You sit on chairs everyday where you don't give a shit how they were created.

I am dumb on chair making, as the average chair user. I wouldn't trust myself building a commercial-grade chair.

If you are as dumb with software as I am with chair making, you should refrain from building software for others. This is regardless of LLM.

cryptonym··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
By this logic removing CSAM also is censorship. This definition of censorship is valid but it doesn't convey much moral value. Removing some content, even without a trial, can be a good thing.
cryptonym··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Blocking illegal football streaming is not censorship.
cryptonym··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
There is no ethical way to watch football. It's always funding a (or multiple) mafia-like organization.

Authorities tried to work with that provider but it required a process that doesn't scale to live events. They do not want to preemptively disallow abuses on their platform. If you leverage their shared IPs to expose your service, your traffic cannot be distinguished from abuses by traffic filtering solutions. I think they provide BYOIP, if you think your service is important enough to justify not being mixed with non-legit things. Or you can rework your architecture, this provider is not the full web.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like it and would vote against IP-filtering if I was asked that specific question. I don't consider it tyrannical. Criteria for blocking IPs is clear and limited, even if blocking IPs is dumb. VPN are allowed.

cryptonym··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
> tyranny

Previous comment was about people trying to watch football paying a few euros to shady business, who knows where that money lands, rather than the official offer from people who spent a lot to get the rights to broadcast.

I really don't like the implementation but I wouldn't call that tyranny. Blocking archive is much more concerning.

cryptonym··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Are you seriously putting Balzac and Spiderman on the same level to try to ridicule thoughts?

Ad hominem.

cryptonym··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
> How do you test and monitor outbound access against program that adapts itself to get around things?

Literally what the industry has been doing since public networking is a thing. Adapt yourself.

cryptonym··on Following complaints, Dyson is withdrawing its $500 toothbrush from sale
Many links are available in the article, including one to theverge.

It could be limited to specific batch(es).

cryptonym··on How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
Borrowing the work of others to replace them without crediting is the model of current AI companies.

They just used that occurrence as a PR stunt but it isn't worse than the others done at scale every second.

cryptonym··on GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
With an on premise device, the game is already lost. They may plant a separate mic device inside the TV, or elsewhere. Rooted TV doesn't really impact BnB security model.
cryptonym··on The browser's main thread is expensive
Yet you can look at RUM data (http archive tech report or other) and start noticing it's not just management.
cryptonym··on The browser's main thread is expensive
Losing the entire state happens on SPA. Plus a random error not providing any feedback is a typical SPA experience. You can poorly execute on any technology. It's just much easier to do things wrong using this-year-trendy-SPA-framework.

Use the appropriate technology, everything doesn't have to be a SPA.

cryptonym··on The browser's main thread is expensive
You typically still have to wait for API calls between interactions, but error handling and number of requests (linked to experience on slow connection) tend to be worse.

If that's a connection-less interaction or something small that stays on the same page, sure it makes sense to keep it in the browser. You don't need to build your whole site as a bloated SPA just for few limited use-cases.

cryptonym··on The browser's main thread is expensive
It is a problem and plays a role, then the rest of the SPA interactions are as bad. Amplified by 100+ third party scripts.

Stop building SPA, go back to HTML. Re-assess every third party. For extra performance and scaling, implement cache. Relax and see web experience healing.

cryptonym··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
They just imply them not having to doesn't dismiss the original comment, thread being more about morals than laws.

That being said, hoping for any financial support from AI companies would be really naive. Using others work without retribution is at the core of their model.

cryptonym··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
How is Alphabet not responsible this? They push ads for scams at the top and earn money from it. That should be 100% on them to reimburse, then go after the scammers.
cryptonym··on Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing
Most pizza made today are robot made in factories, it has been the case for decades. Shit-tier pizzas and didn't improve over time.
cryptonym··on Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
It's often better to implement your caching logic at the Edge than just going with Vary support. Vanilla Vary support leads to cache dilution. Accept (and other headers you might include in vary) may take many different values that you want to tie to a single cache entry.
cryptonym··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
Sure, sure. Put Zuck in jail and let's see if it's much smaller than $16 bn.
cryptonym··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
You may earn 100k/y and have 10M real estate + 2M in bank. Why would you dumb down market cap to earnings?

Anyway, 6K for harming children at that scale remains ridiculous.

cryptonym··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
Money isn't real, yet that's how we size a lot of things.
cryptonym··on Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
IANAL but it looks like they saw a risk and decided to not put you, as a website owner using their free tier, at risk of breaching GDPR for RUM. That was my concern and it's addressed.
cryptonym··on Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
CF tested the water with polyfill.io 2 years ago. Everyone liked them modifying user's content. We are now on the "more and more" side.
cryptonym··on Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
For delivery service, it's typically done with a closed box so you get exactly what has been prepared.

Here you told them to unpack the food and repack it (TLS termination), filtering order (WAF), reheating pre-made food (cache) and they offer service to even prepare food or part of the food (edge compute). When your food is not available they will serve their own (error pages), with their brand visible. At that level of service, it's not so surprising to have extra stuff included.

If you are vegan and care about your customers (conservative on data collection and JS), maybe you should use a vegan architecture and not give your last-mile to the cheapest (free-tier) all-purpose repacking kitchen and delivery service.

cryptonym··on Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
cloudflareinsights.com seems to be part of their list. If you see unexpected tracking, it could be worth reporting it to Mozilla.
Page 1 of 14Next →