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cush··on Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Sorry I just don't get it. It's a massive problem when a designer needs permission to force push to a repo to update a bug. These boundaries exist for a reason.
cush··on Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Right but it's all this ceremony that kind of all begs the question - why git? What's the motivation behind using git to do all this if the repository (where the code lives) and the tickets (bugs in the product created by building the code), are naturally out of sync? eg in many cases a bug can't be closed until someone verifies it's fixed, which happens after merge. The point at which a bug is marked as verified is arbitrary with respect to the commits and code. It's just a radom point in time as far as git is concerned. To me there's no need for git to be involved in any way and a url to a ticket in a commit message is far superior in terms of tracking
cush··on Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Wouldn't it require constantly pushing/fetching? Or would it effectively be like a hosted thing with a service layer on top of git showing a live view of the repo's tickets? Like github but for tickets... oh wait...
cush··on Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
To me, tickets need to be too broadly accessible for anything like this to be viable. Any barrier to entry to creating tickets means people aren’t filing them. Every role at every level looks at them and edits them.

Yeah yeah we don’t want a centralized service, but it’s the ideal use case for a centralized service.

cush··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
I look forward to it looking absolutely nothing like these concepts
cush··on Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
The actual outcome. The fact this post is even being commented on - that hackers have discovered a way to influence the models - is but one small proof. The vast majority of data coming out of LLMs these days is truthful enough that you're going out of your way to argue that this special case is noteworthy. The idea that the ingestion of data is "uncritical, and based on the assumption that all data is of equal quality" is ridiculous
cush··on Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
That too, is an assumption. I think what you mean to say is they're not perfect at determining what data is wrong or deceptive
cush··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Kind of clever. Not sure what this has to do with Opus 5.5 though. Creating an html presentation with transition animations has been a thing since Opus 4.6 - Recording it with playwright/ffmpeg doesn't seem like a model thing.
cush··on Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
They don’t assume all data is of equal quality
cush··on Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
Until there’s real civil liabilities around how companies use and share data there will never be an economic reason for any company to respect their consumers. When the data is worth more than the core business, the equilibrium is completely thrown off. It’s the same forces pushing AI companies to effectively give away inference while their chatbots convince teenagers to commit suicide. You are the product.
cush··on Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
Is YC seriously still invested in this trash?
cush··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Totally agree. Opinions are cheap. People can be drawn to “horrible” art, and small artists - especially social media managers - right now are creating intentionally bad mspaint.exe 1994 aesthetics because AI art looks like it was created by real artists, and it’s the only way to differentiate
cush··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
> does training require a special, separate, license or can you legally acquire a work and then use it for training?

No. But it's not about current precedence or legality because the legal framework for accurately (according to general moral and societal acceptance) is decades behind where it needs to be. The courts will decide over the next few years.

cush··on OpenJev
> final exam essay from an anxious student

It's because so many of these models were trained on corporate content, which is the exact same vibe. "We're going to drone on for pages about how great we are for building the thing without explaining what it can do for you or how to use it, because spending real effort connecting with our customers isn't something we ever learned climbing the corporate ladder"

cush··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Yikes. That’s some deep entitlement.

Unfortunately in the real world there’s this thing called money, and we exchange it for goods and services. The reason information isn’t free is because it costs time to produce it and people need to be fed.

If you believe that a creator doesn’t need to consent and doesn’t deserve credit or compensation for their work, then you’re likely not someone who has many fundamental needs unmet

These AI companies actively chose not to get consent from creators and earn billions from their content with no compensation.

cush··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Everyone pays one way or another
cush··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
It’s irrelevant if it’s legal today or not. This is new technology and may be new precedent.
cush··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Correct
cush··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
> They'd probably spam Gitlab with fake repos to try to harvest those payouts.

Yeah I wonder if the math would shake out to make that make any sense. Each bot would require a paid subscription, so the only incentive for them to do this would be if there was some discoverability algorithm or SEO that that traffic helped push the content to real users

cush··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Providing kickbacks to the repos being scraped would be a good way to help fund open source projects and pay creators like streaming services do. Seems like they're headed in this direction - it would be a massive product differentiator over GH
cush··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Why is that true? Some applications require file system access. People would grant the application the permission to access files like any other resource like camera, mic, location.
cush··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Why shouldn’t browsers have these capabilities..?
cush··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
It seems a bit ridiculous but there’s definitely something here. I have been really enjoying building similar single-file prototypes with agents. They seem to have no trouble dealing with all the code being piled in one big file and you can skip all the complexity, time, and token cost of of bundling.
cush··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
> Amazon is manipulating the marketplace for the customer to buy a product different from what they want

There is no expectation or regulation that a store is supposed to only show customers what they want. A retailer is going to sell you the items you're willing to buy based on what they think will help them drive the most profits.

Imagine for a moment you're a store that sells millions of different products. Now, imagine a customer walks into your store, and as per some government regulation "you're expected only to show the customers who walk into your store products that they want". It's a fairly ridiculous expectation.

cush··on Eating Fruit Skins
Yeah I don’t buy strawberries if they have a white top
cush··on Eating Fruit Skins
Yeah you’re going to want to start by washing your produce
cush··on Eating Fruit Skins
People throw away so much strawberry in an effort to cut the leaves off. Just eat the leaves. Next time you go to eat a strawberry, try eating the leaves too - they're very mild in flavor, and you waste no strawberry!
cush··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
GPT 6 is doing just what any competent academic collaborator would do and scooping. I kid, I kid. But really though it learned that from somewhere
cush··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
No personal attacks please

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cush··on AirPods 5
Ew no. Long stem AirPods look goofy
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