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poly2it··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
Of course I know what mobilised means, but with these social medias, the platforms themselves are at play in shaping the conversations. To clarify, I think this type of anti-AI sentiment should be studied as part of a the baseline social culture of the platforms. I do not have a good answer to why it flourishes on them, other than the generic framing. Perhaps its a new type of technological conservatism?
poly2it··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
Have you been on Reddit recently? Anti-AI sentiment isn't limited to technical communities, but engaged with platform-wide. The hate is the content; apart from the rampant anti-intellectualism there is very little engagement with any material discussing the technologies in and of themselves.
poly2it··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

It would truly be a shame if somebody appropriated this unicum of a piece.

poly2it··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
> ... reintroduction triggered acute microbiome changes independent of caffeine.

This sounds interesting. I've never really considered the constituents of coffee other than caffeine and what unique effects they may bring.

I wonder if I would experience behavioral effects if I replaced my coffee intake with caffeinated non-coffee drinks or pills?

poly2it··on Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
It should be fine to do this according to semver as long as the major version is above zero.
poly2it··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
> ... we’ll ensure that a larger share of internal staff use the exact public build of Claude Code (as opposed to the version we use to test new features) ...

Apparently they are using another version internally.

poly2it··on I am building a cloud
It doesn't do either at competitive rates by the looks of it.
poly2it··on I am building a cloud
Why is an imperative SSH interface a better way of setting cloud resources than something like OpenTofu? In my experience humans and agents work better in declarative environments. If an OpenTofu integration is offered in the future, will exe.dev offer any value over existing cost-effective VPS providers like Hetzner? Technically, Hetzner, for example, also allows you to set up shared disk volumes:

https://github.com/hetzneronline/community-content/blob/mast...

It also has a CLI, hcloud. Am I getting any value with exe.dev I couldn't get with an 80 line hcloud wrapper?

poly2it··on Claude Design
I'm not sure if I'm holding it wrong, but at these usage rates, I can hardly see this being useful for designers in their daily work. In two prompts using the Max 20x plan, it consumed 11% of my weekly limit for Claude Design, which is separate from your normal limits. A day of work would exhaust over four weeks of usage. Is this meant for intermittent use only? Lately I've been getting the feeling that Anthropic is forgetting how absurdly much we are already paying for these tools, compared to conventional development tools, or even competing inference providers.
poly2it··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Care to elaborate? I've heard good things about it, but am personally a ZFS user.
poly2it··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
One of the largest AI companies on Earth cannot figure out an algorithm for when not to drop caches in long-running sessions?
poly2it··on Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
What's the point of flooding this site with slop accounts? Do people just want to see the world burn? Why attack culture?
poly2it··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
This article would be so much better without the generic AI-generated images everywhere.
poly2it··on Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
Does it take user time zones into account?
poly2it··on Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
Why does he need to make a historical justification for it then? It would be disingenuous if, as the blog author suggests, Andreessen knows better.
poly2it··on ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State
If you know of a simple way to run a Windows 11 VM with good graphics acceleration (no GPU passthrough), please contact me.
poly2it··on Windows native app development is a mess
It's straightforward to contain the unsafe usage and potentially write safe wrappers and structures around it. Memory bugs mostly stem from the larger application in conjunction with the API anyway, rarely only the API layer.
poly2it··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
Yes, you do not need to be dysphoric to be transgender, however. It is actually quite difficult to compare rates of gendery dysphoria to transgender identity, as transgender identity is inherently self-reported, but studies on gender dysphoria focus on diagnosed cases, not undiagnosed estimates. Therefore it is also not possible to assert that non-dysphoria is dominant among current transitioning people as you do.
poly2it··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
Gender dysphoria can be medically studied, is not an ideology and is not a disorder. Hope this clears things up.
poly2it··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
I guess the opposite case might not be as interesting to many, but I achieved basically unfiltered internet access as a child, and it has been immensely helpful for me as a person. Everything I am today -- a programmer, technically literate, a founder of a startup with momentum, I am because I had freedom and autonomy as a child (which was not granted to me, rather achieved by me). Many of the people of my age who grew up with strict controls and supervisory parents seem kind of lost and uninformed to me, now that they are turning into adults. I feel this narrative is surprisingly rarely heard on HN, but I cannot be the only one?
poly2it··on Ghostling
I've definitely used C23 via Nixpkgs long ago at this point, did you use the `gcc` package and `-std=c23`? Both unstable and 25.11 should support it on all currently packaged GCC versions.
poly2it··on Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
It looks interesting, but is it really more efficient than a tiling window manager?
poly2it··on Hyperlinks in terminal emulators
What are you running in your terminal to be vulnerable to that threat model?
poly2it··on Show HN: WhatsApp Clone – No Setup or Signup
> "The Signal Protocol in rust that compiles to WASM for browser-based usage."

Is this safe to do? Are all secure operations browser-safe and separate? Does this avoid side channels? The browser is famously challenging for safe encryption.

poly2it··on Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better
I would recommend exploring OpenRPC for those who have not yet seen it. It brings protocol-buffer-like definitions (components), RPC definitions and centralised error definitions.
poly2it··on A decade of Docker containers
What if you set up a sandbox pool? Maybe I'm rambling, I haven't read much Nix source code, but that should allow for only a couple of milliseconds of latency on these types of builds. I have considered forking Nix to make this work, but in my testing with my experimental build system, I never experienced much latency in builds. The trick to reduce latency in development builds is to forcibly disable the network lookups which normally happen before Nix starts building a derivation:

    preferLocalBuild = true;
    allowSubstitutes = false;
Set these in each derivation. The most impactful thing you could do in a Nix fork according to my testing in this case is to build derivations preemptively while you are fetching substitutes and caches simultaneously, instead of doing it in order.

If you are interested in seeing my experiment, it's open on your favourite forge:

https://github.com/poly2it/kein

poly2it··on A decade of Docker containers
I use crane, but it does not have arbitrary granularity. The end goal would be something which handled all builds in Nix.
poly2it··on macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)
NPM is absurdly complex in comparison, it's just neatly abstracted. Maybe somebody will write a cross-platform reactive layer which can compile both natively and to the web?
poly2it··on A decade of Docker containers
Well, arbitrary granularity is possible with Nix, but the build systems of today simply do not utilise it. I've for example written an experimental C build system for Nix which handles all compiler orchestration and it works great, you get minimal recompilations and free distributed builds. It would be awesome if something like this was actually available for major languages (Rust?). Let me know if you're working on or have seen anything like this!
poly2it··on Good Bad ISPs
It's an onion link (TOR).
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