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New comment by andrew_eu in "Responding to Claude's feedback prompts is opting-in for data sharing"

andrew_eu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:50:59 +0000

Notably absent from the page is whether the account/org wide "Help improve our models" toggle has any impact.

Responding to Claude's feedback prompts is opting-in for data sharing

andrew_eu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:50:59 +0000

Article URL: https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023580-is-my-data-used-for-model-training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631967

Points: 1

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New comment by andrew_eu in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

andrew_eu — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:50:16 +0000

In Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan referenced some survey from the 80s in which one of the findings was that ~20% of Americans agreed to the statement "the sun is alive." In trying to find that survey for this comment I instead found this one from Time in the 2000s [0], in which 26% of Americans (N=2200) responded that the sun revolves around the Earth. America is a big and diverse place, full of people that have little attachment to reality.

0: https://time.com/7809/1-in-4-americans-thinks-sun-orbits-ear...

New comment by andrew_eu in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

andrew_eu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:51:31 +0000

A few times I've contacted people who posted an interesting Show HN and it often led to interesting conversations. I've also found multiple roles through "Who's Hiring" threads over the years, and those all became irl.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

andrew_eu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:45:34 +0000

I'm honestly surprised how controversial this sub thread became. To put it to rest -- this is indeed correct. I commented on the roof rule but didn't link to the code of conduct because doing so didn't really seem to add anything that a reader couldn't find on their own.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

andrew_eu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:37:55 +0000

I like the definition of social rules [0]. I also wonder whether the roof rule was written preemptively or retrospectively -- I hope the former.

I have my own thanks to give to HN. It's connected me to interesting people, online and IRL. It's led to some very strong friendships. It's led me to multiple job opportunities, and usually the better ones. It's changing of course, but I've had a great time in this community so far, and that deserves thanks.

0: https://www.recurse.com/social-rules

New comment by andrew_eu in "Finding the best dog treat with statistics"

andrew_eu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:25:45 +0000

I love it. For years with my old dog I would give him a binary choice between two treats and intuitively got a sense of his favorites as well. More satisfying to me was giving him the choice, which (maybe I'm over personifying him) I think he liked to pick his favorite. He had stomach issues which limited him to really only a few types of treats, and it was obvious which were his favorites, but it was fun anyway. I miss that dog.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

andrew_eu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:29:55 +0000

A friendly reminder to any Claude subscribers, that you were probably auto-opted-in to "Extra Usage". You can disable it on the "Usage" page [0] before getting a bill for "extra" usage.

0: https://claude.ai/settings/usage

New comment by andrew_eu in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

andrew_eu — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:26 +0000

Disappointing. I built a lovely little Nanoclaw bot that's been surprisingly helpful at raising a puppy. I haven't gotten this email, so I wonder if my usage is too low to catch their first pass. If they shut it down though, the fix is straightforward -- some API based backend with zero stickiness to Anthropic.

It is a pity though. For less than an hour of setup the Nanoclaw bot proved enormously useful at tracking meal times, training progress, etc and the interface was easy enough for the family to get involved. The ease of setup was really remarkable, and Anthropic creating artificial barriers just seems user hostile.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Don't trust AI agents"

andrew_eu — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:48:38 +0000

I set one up to have a shared chat with my partner about our dog. E.g. schedule reminders, tracking food in a spreadsheet, etc.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:55:06 +0000

I share this worry.

You can configure the storage template for the photos and include an "album" part, so if a photo is in some album it'll get sorted into that folder. Then the file tree on disk is as you wish.

I haven't tested what it does when a photo is in multiple albums, but it does handle the no album case fine as well.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:39:04 +0000

Ente looks interesting and worth looking into, thanks for mentioning it.

In the context of having a phone stolen, it's possible to at least limit the damage and revoke accesses via the Tailscale control server. Then the files on device are still vulnerable, but not everything in Immich (or whatever other service is running).

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:36:31 +0000

Very nice the author uses tailscale serve! It's an underrated, and unfortunately under documented, way to host a web service directly to Tailscale. With that you can run a docker compose stack with one extra tailscale container, and then it's immediately a self contained and reasonably portable web server in your tailnet.

Immich really is fantastic software, and their roadmap is promising. I hope they have enough funding to keep going.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:29:40 +0000

Also it has a very rich ACL system. The Immich node can be locked out from accessing any other node in the network, but other nodes can be allowed to access it.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:23:51 +0000

The sync really is quite good. On wifi it's basically seamless. If I had 30k new images though it would be much faster to use the immich-go tool mentioned in the blog post.

Offline support is alright, though I haven't worried about this much. I think it doesn't do any local deletion, so whatever stays in your DCIM folder is still on device.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

andrew_eu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:14:03 +0000

I have the main volume for images in a zpool with two SSDs in a raid-1 configuration. I also have a daily cronjob that makes an encrypted off-site backup with Borg. I've also got healthchecks.io jobs setup so that if the zpool becomes unhealthy, the backups fail, or anything stops, then both me and my partner get alerted.

My partner isn't very technical, but having an Immich server we are both invested in has gotten her much more interested in self hosting and the skills to do it.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Why millennials feel hopeless about the economy"

andrew_eu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:23:02 +0000

I think it's of course not so simple, and the abstract of the paper they refer to [0] seems to contradict the Business Insider article. Sure, inflation adjusted median income is up slightly. In addition to this educational costs have exploded, and to earn a median salary it has become necessary to buy in. People under 30 have greater inflation adjusted income, but this is because they rely more on their (boomer) parents. The overall wealth in society has increased dramatically, but the vast majority of gains are going to the outliers.

That is to say, the real conflict isn't between boomers and millennials, it's between billionaires and everyone else. But generational friction is not new, a more common experience, and easy to exploit in media.

0: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2024007pap...

New comment by andrew_eu in "Chrome's New AI Features"

andrew_eu — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:12:17 +0000

I've used probably 15 or 20 web browsers in my lifetime and all of them had the same barely searchable table of URLs as their only history view. Why couldn't we have full text search of the pages, or a view that reflects tab histories as some kind of graph, or UIs that support any kind of sorting? Instead it's 2025 and the solution is to attach an LLM slot machine to the front and drive engagement.

I'd be very open to any Firefox extension suggestions (or standalone applications that can consume a Firefox history) that makes it more searchable. I don't often need to search my browser history, but when I do the answer is rarely easy to find.

All of the other features look like a high potential for abuse, but with lots of glitz to make it seem essential to laymen.

New comment by andrew_eu in "Is air travel getting worse?"

andrew_eu — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:01:57 +0000

I think it's about improving the turnaround on planes. When a plane lands, the crew has to get everyone out, clean the cabin, then get the next flight's passengers in -- all as quickly as possible. The shorter this turnaround, the more flights the plane can fly, and the more money the airline can make.

Flexible seat back pockets are easy for people to stuff all kinds of trash in, so that's just one more task for the crew. Inflexible slots are harder to put trash in, and harder for passengers to notice there's trash in.

New comment by andrew_eu in "A valid HTML zip bomb"

andrew_eu — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:13:27 +0000

I can imagine the large scale web scrapers just avoid processing comments entirely, so while they may unzip the bomb it could be they just discard the chunks that are inside of a comment. The same trick could be applied to other elements in the HTML though: semicolons in the style tag, some gigantic constant in inline JS, etc. If the HTML itself contained a gigantic tree of links to other zip bombs that could also have an amplifying effect on the bad scraper.