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Climate Obstruction: Sabotaging Climate Action Around the World

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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached

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ttiurani
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It's a sauna so humidity depends on how much water I feel like throwing on the stones ("kiuas"). I throw at about once per minute, but I have no idea what that would mean in humidity.
ttiurani
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Also while 73°C is a proper sauna, there are plenty of hotter ones. 90°C is closer to what I'm used to at my apartment building's common sauna. I do take two breaks when I'm there for 30 mims though.
ttiurani
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I must do it.
ttiurani
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
For context, a statement from the legal experts who monitored the trial.

> It is our collective assessment that the jury verdict against Greenpeace in North Dakota reflects a deeply flawed trial with multiple due process violations that denied Greenpeace the ability to present anything close to a full defense.

https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial...
ttiurani
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
> But that doesn't mean the tragedy of the commons can't happen in other scenarios.

Commons can fail, but the whole point of Hardin calling commons a "tragedy" is to suggest it necessarily fails.

Compare it to, say, driving. It can fail too, but you wouldn't call it "the tragedy of driving".

We'd be much better off if people didn't throw around this zombie term decades after it's been shown to be unfounded.
ttiurani
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
The whole notion of the "tragedy of the commons" needs to be put to rest. It's an armchair thought experiment that was disproven at the latest in the 90s by Elinor Ostrom with actual empirical evidence of commons.

The "tragedy", if you absolutely need to find one, is only for unrestricted, free-for-all commons, which is obviously a bad idea.
ttiurani
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Seconded. I tried hard to use Bazel in a polyglot repo because I really wanted just one builder.

Unfortunately, the amount of work you need to just maintain the build across language and bazel version upgrades is incredibly high. Let alone adding new build steps, or going even slightly off the well-trodded path.

I feel like Bazel would need at least 5 more full-time engineers to eventually turn it into an actually usable build tool outside Big Tech. Right now many critical open source Bazel rules get a random PR every now and then from people who don't actually (have time to) care about the open source community.

My go-to now is to use mise + just to glue together build artifacts from every language's standard build tools. It's not great but at least I get to spend time on programming instead of fixing the build.
ttiurani
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Indeed, facts are part of the moral discussion in ways you outlined. My objection was that just listing some facts/opinions about what AI can do right now is not enough for that discussion.

I wanted to make this point here explicitly because lately I've seen this complete erasure of the moral dimension from AI and tech, and to me that's a very scary development.
ttiurani
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
> imo LLMs are (currently) good at 3 things

Notice the phrase "from a moral standpoint". You can't argue against a moral stance by stating solely what is, because the question for them is what ought to be.
ttiurani
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Looking at these comments, it's painfully apparent how many think that being polite in your communication is more important than actually doing something.

I agree it would have been nicer if the message was more polite. But if you compare that to having the backbone follow through with meaningful long-term changes against a corporation you don't trust or respect, there shouldn't even be a discussion.

And don't even get me started with the people who come in here just to point out that Codeberg isn't perfect either.
ttiurani
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
> Surely there are some things which you can’t be arsed to take from zero to one?

No, not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232159

> This isn’t selling your soul;

There is a plethora of ethical reasons to reject AI even if it was useful.
ttiurani
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
That's true, but when the work is rewarding, I also do it quite fast. When it's tedious tweaking, I have force myself to keep on typing.

Also: productivity is for machines, not for people.
ttiurani
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
> the moment I can get a project up on its legs, to where I can interact with some substantial part of its functionality and refine it, I'm off to the races. [...] This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents.

That's what's valuable to you. For me the zero to one part is the most rewarding and fun part, because that's when the possibilities are near endless, and you get to create something truly original and new. I feel I'd lose a lot of that if I let an AI model prime me into one direction.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
The time spent on the tooling is very low. Using AI for that would be like renting a flamethrower because couple of times a year I like to go camping and light a fire. I'd rather just use a lighter.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
> I can build anything, but often struggle with getting bogged down with all the basic work. I love AI for speed running through all the boring stuff and getting to the good parts.

I'm in the same boat (granted, 10 years less) but can't really relate with this. By the time any part becomes boring, I start to automate/generalize it, which is very challenging to do well. That leaves me so little boring work that I speed run through it faster by typing it myself than I could prompt it.

The parts in the middle – non-trivial but not big picture – in my experience are the parts where writing the code myself constantly uncovers better ways to improve both the big picture and the automation/generalization. Because of that, there are almost no lines of code that I write that I feel I want to offload. Almost every line of code either improves the future of the software or my skills as a developer.

But perhaps I've been lucky enough to work in the same place for long. If I couldn't bring my code with me and had to constantly start from scratch, I might have a different opinion.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
How would that prevent sites from selling their users' data to third parties without consent server-side? GDPR is not about third party cookies, but about requiring informed consent.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Exactly. If they indeed only use the cookie for essential functionality, this kind of joke banner only makes their choice to respect visitors' privacy equally annoying.

Even worse: because it makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people, they are actually fighting for the right for worse sites to spy on their visitors.

It's baffling.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
> if what you want is to keep the entire data of the network (similar to having all tweets on Twitter) ready to be queried then you have to store them.

They need to be stored, but do they technically have to be stored by just one AppView? I get that it's a 100x easier to implement it like that, but I don't think a distributed search would've been technically impossible (although, granted, necessarily it would have had worse UX).

Choosing this feature and then implementing it like they did was a technical choice. Technical choices have consequences and this, I think, was the one which will prevent BlueSky from reaching any meaningful decentralization.

And saying "you can create an inferior UX with affordable costs" is not a real answer. Any meaningful decentralization IMO can only happen if it's affordable to create feature identical nodes. That can only happen if you refuse to implement features in ways that need centralization to scale.
ttiurani
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
> You can run one (and it costs about $300/mo to run a Bluesky AppView ingesting all data currently on the network in real time if you want to do that).

A clarifying question: the blog post [0] I found about zeppelin.social which I think is a full AppView, the author said this:

"The cost to run this is about US $200/mo, primarily due to the 16 terabytes of storage it currrently uses"

Last I heard the amount of storage was just a couple of terabytes so the growth seems to be very fast.

If and when the primary cost is the storage, IMO the crucial question is: what's the expected future cost of running community AppViews?

Because unless storage cost drops as fast as the BlueSky data grows (unlikely?), to me this architecture looks like it will very soon kick out smaller players and leave only BlueSky with enough money to keep the AppView running.

[0] https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3ls7sbvpsqc2w