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ted537··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Twist it! Bop it!
ted537··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
Yep I've never successfully installed claude code, and this is exactly what happened to the issue lol
ted537··on Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
Yeah I think this is quite tricky. Even spotify screws up the sync halfway through the song somewhat frequently
ted537··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Qobuz too!
ted537··on A simple web we own
Unfortunately the transparency of the IP stack means that unless u want whole world to know where u live via one DNS query, you'd need to use a service to proxy back to urself. And if ur paying for remote compute anyways, you could probably just host ur stuff there. Any machine that can proxy traffic back to you is just as capable of hosting ur static stuff there.
ted537··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Yeah I agree with this. The only tool that really matters is file patching -- which you can check something like the opencode patch implementation, its fairly straightforward.
ted537··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
The main problem with actions is the way they advertise its usage "just put workflows together" is a horrible and non-debuggable way to do things. But even in the tech itself, caching is pretty stingy which can slow dev builds for fairly simple projects because every run will repeat some common work unless you have the cache perfectly configured (did u cover npm, docker, etc. with cache keys correctly?)

Looking at these flaws, running workflows from a persistent VM of ur own becomes pretty tempting because you don't need to copy caches around and can easily SSH in.

ted537··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
Is this happy-birthdaying a fax machine or what? haha
ted537··on YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens
Yeah its BS. Unhook works great tho, if ur on web
ted537··on Study mode
Your teacher can't operate in millions of locations at once for super cheap
ted537··on That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI
Yeah its very dumb stuff that people unfortunately fall for.

If those flames of resentment could be redirected toward policy makers and corporations for flooding the lower-income labour market and away from those who took the opportunity, that'd be great.

ted537··on Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI
Haha yes -- like what do you mean this CRUD app needs 20 GB of RAM and half an hour to startup?
ted537··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Do you mean engineer a company as in start one, or work in business side of existing company?
ted537··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
Yeah its an awkward position, as self-hosting is going to be insanely expensive unless you have a substantial userbase to amortize the costs over. At least for a model comparable to GPT-4o or deepseek.

But at least if you use an API in the same region as your customers, court order shenanigans won't get you caught between different jurisdictions.

ted537··on Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?
I don't think it would be too hard to scrape useful data out of my LLM convos.

If human response is "That's BS", "fuck off", or something similar, mark as bad assistant message.

If human response is "huh" or "cool", mark as good assistant message.

If on ChatGPT, watch how much scrolling user does. If there's a lot, its somewhat likely that the LLM outputted something useful.

That strategy would have holes of course but as long as its better than guessing something like that would be a useful heuristic.

ted537··on Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
It's cool how neural networks, even convulutional ones, are one of the few applications that you can compute through homomorphic encryption without hitting a mountain of noise/bootstrapping costs. Minimal depth hurrhah!
ted537··on The bunkbed conjecture is false
I also know nothing but here's something missing from the blog post:

"A random subgraph of the bunkbed graph is then formed by independently deleting each edge based on the assigned probability."

So the (apparently incorrect) intuition is that an (upper<->lower) connection starts with an extra edge in the connection, so an (upper<->lower) connection has a greater risk of disconnect via random edge removal. Therefore, a same-level connection is more likely to remain after the random edge removal.