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scinadier··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Let's be real, when an entity like Slack says "delete all your data," they actually mean they will add a flag in the database to make it inaccessible to those who aren't purchasing bulk data for data mining and llm training. The data will persist regardless.
scinadier··on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users
Hear, hear!
scinadier··on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
Will you use ChatGPT to implement the feature?
scinadier··on OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1
I thought they were already up to 4.5.
scinadier··on OpenAI's Viral Privacy Trick
Snapchat has been playing this trick for years.
scinadier··on AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Which companies are doing this? Why aren't they just downloading the Wikipedia databases as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download ?
scinadier··on AI Reveals Secrets of Dendritic Growth in Thin Films
It is not a proper subset, though.
scinadier··on Is there a maximum length for resumes in this new era of ATSs?
Good to know. I've never seen what the ATS portal looks like on the other side. I'm sure all parties involved dislike the UI!
scinadier··on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
The same could be said about humans.
scinadier··on What do LLMs know about your email address?
Whatchyu need my email for?
scinadier··on The Generative AI Con
Sounds like airlines need to start using ChatGPT to autopilot their airplanes.
scinadier··on Why DeepSeek's new AI model thinks it's ChatGPT
To be the devil's advocate, what if the modern corpora that DeepSeek is trained on encourages this response? There has been a couple of years where AI responses to prompts have proliferated through the internet at large.
scinadier··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
I've been treating public Git repository commits in the same vein - a receipt of incremental changes that show that an individual can do some programming. Granted this is not fool-proof - like all things that are complex, it needs to be evaluated with a suite of other factors and conditions to be determined valid. A website written in a personal voice is one of these factors.
scinadier··on Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
I keep a personal website and blog and take pleasure knowing that my non-internet friends and family check in on it.
scinadier··on The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed
Perhaps the marker indicating where you are is supposed to work it's way up the list? I don't think what you've said here - in this thread - has been unreasonable.
scinadier··on Webring
A website can satisfy this qualifier while still being heavily encumbered with JavaScript.
scinadier··on As Gen X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It
Have baby boomers even retired?
scinadier··on A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis
A bit of a disappointing read. The author never elaborates on the details of the particular day in which they taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer.

What did they have for lunch? We'll never know.

scinadier··on Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report
It's a bit obtuse to recommend weather.gov when https://merrysky.net/ exists.
scinadier··on chatgpt-shell goes offline
A new wrapper for your wrapper.
scinadier··on Ask HN: Why my post isn't visible?
I believe it's a tally of the amount of up-votes you've received from others.
scinadier··on Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
>>> I do not understand _at all_ why it isn't an option to, at some point, decide I only want to see content from people I have actively selected.

Probably because browser bookmarks exist.

scinadier··on Ask HN: Why my post isn't visible?
If it gives you any consolation, I can see this post.
scinadier··on Ask HN: Recruiters, why do you repost jobs with 1000 applications a month later?
Perhaps they need more data to fine-tune resume readers.
scinadier··on Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers
> I mean everyone already has turn-by-turn directions emanating from their pocket

Navigating the map is a problem already solved. Knowing what a delivered package looks like on a doorstep is not, knowing how to interact with any individual waiting for the package is not, etc.

> I'd imagine they'd also want to create their own "actual location" address book.

Good call! Another to add to the list.

We're talking about Amazon here, right? A company known for maximizing efficiency and resources. Why wouldn't they use this sensory device to work towards this goal?

scinadier··on Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers
> The goal is to “shave seconds” off delivery times by giving drivers turn-by-turn directions.

I'm sure the primary goal is to help train an autonomous agent to deliver packages in their stead.

scinadier··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Common english lexicon should cut ties with the phrase "cut a deal"
scinadier··on Battlefield refuses to run under Proton
I'm curious if this is in preparation for a shift in how anti-cheat will operate in the future.
scinadier··on Google will now be logging your prompts
I had assumed they already were.
scinadier··on Ask HN: Do assembly language programmers have an advantage in tech interviews?
My intuition says probably not - the hiring manager/applicant tracking system probably won't be aware of the advantages this brings.
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