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ygritte··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
I'm curious to see what the crossing of a newspaper network and a mercenary kill optimizer will produce. Is Palantir getting a propaganda arm extension?
ygritte··on A new C++ back end for ocamlc
Accounts like that should be deleted.
ygritte··on I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
On https://news.ycombinator.com/active it's still on the front page.
ygritte··on GitHub is once again down
You're underestimating Microsoft. They're fully capable of fucking up without the help of AI. Although I heard it's really good at that.
ygritte··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
They are already forcing OpenAI to keep all logs. Go figure.
ygritte··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
However, MS do everything they can to make plugins not work in VSCodium. And the plugin marketplaces are separate now.
ygritte··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
This could change on a daily basis, and it's a valid concern anyway.
ygritte··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
So much for people preaching Android as an alternative to Apple's walled garden. Enshittification advances apace.
ygritte··on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
No opposition. Just block the IP address.
ygritte··on NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter
I do hope that Juno gets another extension. It's obviously worth it. Its mission is an impressive demonstration that no sooner do we take a closer look at something than we realize we knew nothing and don't understand what we find.
ygritte··on Burner Phone 101
So get ready to be legally bound to leave your front door unlocked because some people store stolen loot behind locked doors!
ygritte··on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
Came here to say something similar. The sheer amount of IP addresses one has to block to keep malware and bots at bay is becoming unmanageable.
ygritte··on Git-Annex
Could this be abused to simulate something like SVN externals? I always found git submodules to be a very bad replacement for that.
ygritte··on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
> Rick Astley

Agreed. Do the kids even still know about him?

ygritte··on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
Any platform that introduces hardware ray tracing for the first time will do so for the sake of emojis.
ygritte··on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
I would love a mirror ball emoji, why can't we have nice things?
ygritte··on Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
What a wonderfully hacky project!

Noob question: How were the diagrams created?

ygritte··on How to Draw a Space Invader
A good space invader has to look badass and threatening. Extra points if it waves around its pincers in a grabbing motion.
ygritte··on Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life
Too bad, I was hoping for an electron microscope photo or something.
ygritte··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
And, wouldn't you know it, it actually does not also apply equally to the alternative (humans).
ygritte··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
+1. Also, those systems made out of meat were the ones that discovered the strict mathematical models in the first place and the rules by which they work.
ygritte··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
I'm getting so tired of this dumb kind of non-argument. You can't defend LLMs on their own merits, so you try to make them look smarter by throwing shade on humans. That's a non sequitur and whataboutism.
ygritte··on How to Use Snprintf
Came here to say exactly this.

The lost art of RTFM.

ygritte··on "AI hype" is the true AI product
How the fuck is this submission flagged? It's an excellent analysis that explains exactly how and why the AI hype is way worse than all the cryptocurrency scams taken together.
ygritte··on "AI hype" is the true AI product
> Any form of doubt or questioning is quieted.

Witness any HN comment thread with "pro-AI" vibes (which is almost all of them). It's almost as though AI has become a religion.

More re hype as the product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44737346

ygritte··on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Looks like Japan learned from the malicious compliance shenanigans Apple is pulling with the EU. I hope Apple gets served some substantial fines that really hurt when they try to pull the same shit there. And I say, "when", not "if".
ygritte··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
I get shown a fucking ad for Google Chrome when searching for “ublock origin lite” in the iOS app store.
ygritte··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
That's what you get for letting megacorps get away with monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior.
ygritte··on Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
Why would I prefer a film that was generated by you pressing a button over a film that was generated by me pressing the same button?
ygritte··on The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)
I'm so grateful for the Lisp translation. Perl is such a write-only language, my hair curls up just from looking at it.
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