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wilde··on Our position on open-weights models
HuggingFace was only able to defend themselves with open models. No need to project into the future. Look at the timeline of events for that incident.
wilde··on Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
Lmao this is what I get for not including the “/s”

When we were transitioning away from card catalogs I heard similar complaints from my teachers. We all adapted.

wilde··on Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.
wilde··on Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
If your friend keeps taking you out to lunch and you never return the favor, he’s probably going to stop.
wilde··on 4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US
It’s rather saddening to watch the death of the global internet. China was really ahead of the game I suppose.
wilde··on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere
I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself).

I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “serve” asks you to set up sessions on a page that doesn’t exist?

Nit: why is pipx required if you’re using uv?

wilde··on Claude Code now supports hooks
This is nice but I really wish they’d just let me fork the damn thing already.
wilde··on Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
> It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web.

I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here.

Perhaps this is the right tone for a letter to the FTC. I find it hard to sympathize with the author with this style (even though they are likely right that Google is killing the web)

wilde··on The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)
“We advise on technology”

proceeds to overengineer a hello world example while providing no demonstration of advantage over curl

wilde··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter.

To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had problems with unsourced notes and speed of note display. There’s a bunch of research that shows that 1st impressions of info tend to dominate, so speed matters a lot.

In practice FB’s program was poorly resourced and overly complex so I’m not sure it ever achieved its theoretically lower latency.

wilde··on Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)
I’m very sad that this service is basically on life support and got moved into PHP with everything else.
wilde··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.

I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.

wilde··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
TBF it looks like it’s intended as a “before” image but yes suspect the “after” isn’t much better
wilde··on Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI
From the full screen cookie dialog preventing me from reading this article:

We and our 71 vendors process data for the following purposes:

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development.

wilde··on Apple introduces M4 chip
Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted to the billions they make selling your searches to Google.

Agreed on the UX improvements though.

wilde··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to connect to CarPlay and it’d be super distracting to have the instruments suddenly change to Apple’s as I’m driving.
wilde··on Why you should not apply to YC
Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.
wilde··on Ask HN: What would you do for developer experience
Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.
wilde··on iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores
Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....

wilde··on Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
Ah yes. Why do I need government help managing my subscriptions when I can checks notes literally get the content from the government?
wilde··on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
Right before this they chose to exit Korea. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...
wilde··on Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights
Slow and steady won this race.
wilde··on Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars
You're about to have a lot more of them, since GM is ditching both. https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...
wilde··on TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas
Not if they automate it like in the OP?
wilde··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Do we know how GPT4V tokenizes? You’d probably need the blocks to match the token size?
wilde··on Preparing for the end of third-party cookies
Nope. Those are permanently part of the internet now, even if the reason for their existence goes away.
wilde··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
But “Sam Altman, Microsoft PM” would have been a much funnier outcome
wilde··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
To minimize legal risk to their client, which is not always the most responsible thing to do.
wilde··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
The irresponsible thing is to not explain yourself and assume everyone around you has no agency.
wilde··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
If this is true why not say it though? They didn’t even have lawyers telling them to be quiet until Monday.
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