Hacker News: HappyTypist

The Canva and Affinity Pledge (perpetual subscriptions forever)

HappyTypist — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:11:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity-canva-pledge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837614

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by HappyTypist in "Perplexity.ai prompt leakage"

HappyTypist — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:52:11 +0000

GPT works based on tokens, not characters.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio"

HappyTypist — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 06:13:50 +0000

Plugging is okay, but you should always disclose if you are involved (which appears to be the case here based on your username).

New comment by HappyTypist in "The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists"

HappyTypist — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:54:13 +0000

Twitter's visibility filtering wasn't based on "Your" User Behavior. It was based on what their moderation team decided to filter or not filter.

New comment by HappyTypist in "The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fraud is looking quite spicy for journalism"

HappyTypist — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:34:27 +0000

[2] is referring to 1inch offering 8.05% APY on the 1inch token _only_, which is easy when only 621m out of 1.5b tokens are circulating (i.e. more 1inch tokens are printed to pay the fake interest).

New comment by HappyTypist in "Show HN: We made metadata-secure video conferencing that's easy to use"

HappyTypist — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:12:08 +0000

I think you need to work on iOS support, or this will not take off.

P.S. Beautiful project for a problem that definitely needs solving.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Show HN: We made metadata-secure video conferencing that's easy to use"

HappyTypist — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:11:12 +0000

Why not implement the tried and true fingerprint verification? Quite easy to do when you're having synchronous, lively video/audio conversations.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Twitter to start layoffs -internal email"

HappyTypist — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:47:07 +0000

'Hide' takes one click :)

New comment by HappyTypist in "DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist"

HappyTypist — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:06:53 +0000

They absolutely didn't pay list price. Even the rookiest AWS account manager is going to be able to get a discount on $600k of compute.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories"

HappyTypist — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:12:16 +0000

No, it won't. A single miner has chosen to *not include* TC transactions in their blocks, but they are not *censoring* TC transactions in the sense that they will validly build upon blocks built by others that feature TC transactions.

As long as 1% of miners include TC transactions, even if 99% choose to not include, TC transactions will still be part of the blockchain, albeit not as timely.

When miners start actively REFUSING to build on blocks that feature TC problems, that is an issue.

For what it's worth, the ethereum development community is actively exploring features that make active censorship a network violation (with censored blocks not being accepted by the network), although this is an area of active research.

Current proposals include PBS+crList.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi"

HappyTypist — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:13:54 +0000

Is there really great marketplace demand? The hacker/hobbyist community is tiny.

New comment by HappyTypist in "FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available"

HappyTypist — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:51:35 +0000

If your hearing aid is made from Apple, you're probably going to be locked in to Apple products for as long as you don't replace your hearing aid.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship"

HappyTypist — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:19:35 +0000

47% taxes above A$180k/yr (US$125k/yr). Very little loopholes like in the US that allow you to reduce your tax paid.

So considerably less monetary incentive to 'make it big'. For entrepreneurs who want to do that, why not move to the USA and come back to Australia when you want to settle down and have a family?

New comment by HappyTypist in "Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship"

HappyTypist — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:16:21 +0000

How can you even buy a 1/4 acre house without making millions? Those go for $2-5 million in Sydney.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Hertzbleed Attack"

HappyTypist — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 03:21:55 +0000

How many consumer OS crashes can be attributed to RAM errors?

How many corrupt files, strange bugs, or quirks can be attributed?

New comment by HappyTypist in "iOS 16"

HappyTypist — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:27:44 +0000

The T1 runs an iOS variant because Apple understands that if you can re-use security primitives (Secure Encave from IOS), you have less surface area for attacks and you have a more secure product.

There is absolutely no need for a separate SoC for the lock screen, when the Apple SoC already features high-efficiency cores.

New comment by HappyTypist in "iOS 16"

HappyTypist — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:24:07 +0000

Yeah but Apple products are so expensive, outside of the USA, most[1] people still use Android simply because their budget for a phone is maybe ~$300-$400 and they don't want a SE with the body from 5 years ago.

[1]: 73% according to StatCounter.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Payrolls rose 390k in May, better than expected as companies keep hiring"

HappyTypist — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:06:57 +0000

This is actually bad news because a super-hot labour market tends to lead to higher inflation; forcing the Fed to artificially slow down the economy even more and increasing the chances that they land with a recession.

New comment by HappyTypist in "Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO"

HappyTypist — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 21:23:56 +0000

Insightful observation. Arab Spring changed Facebook and social media, across the whole world.

Don't forget the AI moderation-on-post. Just recently, a popular 'influencer' posted a scam. I left a comment saying such, along with a comment that the influencer should be ashamed of himself, and immediately, an AI filter told me that my comment may go against the Community Standards, and that repeated attempts to comment would lead to account deactivation. There is no appeal button.

To those building these technologies, beyond false positives and coverage error, it takes one law or PR incident for you to re-train this model against dissent. And to those building technologies like Apple's CSAM scanning, it takes one DB replacement to make it flag photos of the Hong Kong protests or Tank Man.

New comment by HappyTypist in "We don't show typing status"

HappyTypist — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 21:18:17 +0000

Things I wish messaging apps had:

1. Forward a message to someone else. Sometimes you're not the best person to answer, but a colleague is. Forwarding should be easy and feature minimal friction.

2. Auto-deleting of messages in a DM after X _messages_ (e.g. only the last 100 messages are retained as scrollback). It forces you to document knowledge in more suitable forms; than having it lost in DM silos. Furthermore, it keeps conversations with your regular contacts more candid and natural; but retains the information and context for infrequent contacts.

3. No typing status (thanks Cardinal!)