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dijksterhuis
4,117karma·1,383submissions·March 13, 2019
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sometimes makes weird machine music. sometimes makes machines do weird things. sometimes makes music machines do weird things.
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you know, i feel like the " it's the parents' responsibility " comments that turn up on submissions like this often tend towards phrasing like " the parents " rather than…
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emailing hn@ycombinator.com is possibly a better way to raise a question about moderation like this fyi. mods may not see this comment but they probably will see a direct email. theyre probably the on…
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It's not everyone else's fault that executives etc. decided to grow their userbase/business/profits at all costs, i.e. with no concerns for the harms they've been causing. It&…
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didn't know about lite, thanks for the tip
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> Been using ipgeolocation.io to fetch the additional information about the GEO locations, ASN information, etc.
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> (i.e. popups, banners large enough to push users to interact with them, etc.). "i.e." doing a lot of work there. GDPR doesn't require pop-ups or banners for providing consent. It m…
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they are now attempting to "de-slop-ify" it https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-re... which is hilarious…
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> Drm is not targeted at the hardcore pirate, it's targeted at a potentially larger percentage of people who would be tempted to get the thing for free if it was easy spotify and netflix are b…
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youtube video link from the article behind the "you must agree to cookies to play this youtube video embed that's actually not a youtube video embed" shenanigans https://www.…
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except during that time players aren’t huddling around the manager and the rest of the coaching staff. all of whom have their ipads out to discuss stats breakdowns and instruct players on changing tac…
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They could, but an LLM makes it faster and easier to launder code. And makes it harder to detect. Plenty of github accounts now are agent-driven monstrosities just trying to inflate someone's con…
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> It's enough to tell you that, if it does happen, it must be quite rare and not a systematic issue. alternative perspective: it's just taking time for the lawyers to figure out what they…
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> The concern discussed here is copyrighted material being generated unintentionally and the original author asserting their rights. both intentional (malicious contributor) or unintentional (Large…
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reminded me of: > The complaint argued that "the basis of the Gaye defendants' claims is that "Blurred Lines" and "Got To Give It Up" "feel" or "sound&q…
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> To my knowledge there is not a single known case where this happened. > News back then were about intentionally prompting to output known copyrighted material. First, there are other cases if …
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> there hasn't been a single lawsuit over this in the entire history of LLM-assisted coding. the "entire history of" is circa 3-4 years, which is very much a tiny period of time comp…
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that's kinda the point -- titles on HN usually indicate the sort of content that's behind clicking through, and whether it might be something interesting to the prospective reader. this one …
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The actual header on the page is > We are building the multiplexer for all work. imo this would have been a better way to do the HN submission title (with or without [terminal]) > Superlogical: …
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it’s likely to do with the fact that the parent comment here laid out a thoughtful basis / argument for their “good”, providing some detail to their justification for it. that’s just my take/…
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this sort of thing happens more often at larger non-tech enterprises, or places that have a type of "software team" that is not the main focus of the org.
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yeah the lead lecturer on my data engineering masters once told us about a job posting he saw asking for 8 years of Hadoop experience, even though Hadoop had only been publicly available for 5 years a…
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> On that commit, we'd require a very brief bullet list of changes, sometimes a POC, and a link to the PR. one of the first things i do in a new gitlab repo is set up ff+squash commit merges w…
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> this was amazing post. i enjoyed reading it, it was relevant to some work stuff i was battling with. the linked articles at the end were amazing too. i had tonnes of respect for fly.io and yourse…