Hacker News: LightFog

New comment by LightFog in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish exec fired after failing to respond to Musk mail"

LightFog — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:12:34 +0000

Their European presence is regulated through Ireland now https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-41435437.html It’s hard to see the platform lasting long in the EU if Musk keeps on his current path.

New comment by LightFog in "Efficient LaTeX Editing with Emacs"

LightFog — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 06:27:33 +0000

I didn’t get to read the article yet - but loading it is crashing Firefox and Safari on my IPhone - haven’t seen that happen in a while!

New comment by LightFog in "Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent"

LightFog — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:01:22 +0000

It is easy to jump back and forward between this social media platform and the issue tracker. What do you think is incentivising the pitchforks you are complaining about - where do you think they want the angry mob to vent? The gamified issue tracker is where.

New comment by LightFog in "Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent"

LightFog — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:14:30 +0000

Turning issue trackers into Emoji riddled social media platforms will do that alright.

New comment by LightFog in "Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs"

LightFog — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:04:57 +0000

I don’t understand the proposed reality they (we) should live in.

They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.

They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?

New comment by LightFog in "Making AI better at math tutoring"

LightFog — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:58:57 +0000

Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the roadmap mentioning switching from GPT4 Turbo to 4-o and hoping for better math performance feels like they are betting on a significant near term reliability improvement in LLMs without any other real plans. That magic jump is starting to look more and more doubtful by the day.

New comment by LightFog in "Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs"

LightFog — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:07:52 +0000

If ‘getting stuff done’ is your only measure of success then fair enough.

New comment by LightFog in "Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs"

LightFog — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:43:36 +0000

This ‘everyone is using it so I need to also’ logic is funny to me, given the idea of the F in FOSS is to use network effects to spread the idea of software freedom. Using and thus endorsing a proprietary platform with ever increasing integration into the software lifecycle seems to do the exact opposite of that.

New comment by LightFog in "Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs"

LightFog — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:44:13 +0000

It’s still baffling to me how many FOSS projects still use that platform, they’ve done very well keeping the ‘Microsoft’ prefix out of people’s sight.

Codeberg does seem to be gaining some momentum with FOSS projects now though, at long last.

New comment by LightFog in "Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux"

LightFog — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:28:03 +0000

GPL software needn’t have anything to do with GNU - having alternative projects is healthy for many reasons.

I just think that trying to make a permissive drop-in replacement for software that emphasises the very freedoms that have allowed the creation of the replacement in the first place is unfortunate and short-sighted. It’s a good thing that the authors have every right to do it all the same though.

New comment by LightFog in "Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux"

LightFog — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:35:00 +0000

It’s a shame to see all this effort going toward replacing core GPL licensed utilities with permissive ones. It seems like a particularly common thing in the Rust community.

It feels disrespectful of the intentions of the work that went into the tools that are being cloned.

New comment by LightFog in "Wells Fargo Fires Over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity'"

LightFog — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:36:29 +0000

I wouldn’t sweat it - that phrase is used all the time in Ireland, which the author would know if they’d bothered asking some Irish people.

There is even a well know Paddy Wagon bus tour company with a giant Leprechaun on the side - no one bats an eyelid.

New comment by LightFog in "A good argument against using Creative Commons licensing"

LightFog — Thu, 30 May 2024 05:45:08 +0000

I don’t see how the particular license has anything to do with it. The gist is the content is being used under a claim of ‘fair use’. It doesn’t matter what the license terms are in that case. It seems like the argument is toward small creatives somehow banding together and ‘close sourcing’ their work.

New comment by LightFog in "Big data is dead (2023)"

LightFog — Mon, 27 May 2024 11:41:26 +0000

When working in a research lab we used to have people boast that their analysis was so big it ‘brought down the cluster’ - which outed them pretty quickly to the people who knew what they were doing.

New comment by LightFog in "Writing a Unix clone in about a month"

LightFog — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:07:30 +0000

It was really cool watching the ~daily updates on this on Mastodon - seeing how someone so skilled gradually pieces together a complex piece of software.

New comment by LightFog in "Ex-DeepMind scientists raise $220M to launch Paris-based agentic AI startup H"

LightFog — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:14:30 +0000

Hey if H from Steps can pull it off…

New comment by LightFog in "Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit"

LightFog — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:06:08 +0000

Did you miss the bit where they are being marketed as ‘intelligence’ - non-techies gobble this stuff up.

New comment by LightFog in "The People Deliberately Killing Facebook"

LightFog — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:50:15 +0000

Not intentionally if so - I must be missing something more subtle in your comment.

New comment by LightFog in "The People Deliberately Killing Facebook"

LightFog — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:18:58 +0000

You are trying to suggest that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have a detailed knowledge and control over core Meta features, nor knowledge of the societal damage they can do?

New comment by LightFog in "The People Deliberately Killing Facebook"

LightFog — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:10:51 +0000

Generally for HN the request for politeness is positive I think, but in the technology area and especially journalism I think there is an unhealthy aversion to calling people out for anti-social behaviour, leading to a chilling effect on discussing it.