Hacker News: applecrazy

New comment by applecrazy in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

applecrazy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:43:08 +0000

well apparently Dario did the same thing with Mythos - ethics for the big AI labs is mainly posturing

New comment by applecrazy in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

applecrazy — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:39:22 +0000

this is so rampant but they know they have a captive market (in many places, only uber or lyft are an option) so they abuse their position

New comment by applecrazy in "Take this on-call rotation and shove it"

applecrazy — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:17:57 +0000

are they usually not? is there no industry standard concept of an escalation manager?

New comment by applecrazy in "AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh"

applecrazy — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:04:09 +0000

> 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts.

having the team constantly on call is a recipe for having them quit. sure, you could run this with the bare minimum number of engineers, but your turnover would be so high and given how high hiring costs tend to be, this is a net negative

> so maybe all that "busywork" takes 6 full times?

ktlo in a constantly changing company is not easy. software / host patching to maintain compliance is necessary busywork that requires a bit of babysitting. not to mention keeping up with required migrations to new stuff due to internal deprecations.

New comment by applecrazy in "SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)"

applecrazy — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:30:54 +0000

That’s how macOS permissions work.

File access for apps is gated behind “special” folder access (like Documents/Downloads/etc, and “full disk access” which is anywhere beyond the common user directories)

New comment by applecrazy in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

applecrazy — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:12:57 +0000

> Most places take after hours paging pretty seriously.

LOL i wish

Training a bot on my own messages for fun and chaos

applecrazy — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:15:22 +0000

Article URL: https://adibytes.dev/writing/training-a-bot-on-myself/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292298

Points: 2

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New comment by applecrazy in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

applecrazy — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:54:42 +0000

A "tell" in this case is domain-specific terminology to denote a behavior that provides information that the person may have been trying to keep secret. I believe the term comes from poker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_(poker)

New comment by applecrazy in "Meta Llama 3"

applecrazy — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:38:26 +0000

I imagine that is to compete with ChatGPT, which began doing the same.

New comment by applecrazy in "Amazon's Silent Sacking"

applecrazy — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:45:09 +0000

non competes are not enforceable in california and a few other US states iirc, although if there were to ever be an IP lawsuit, it would be a war of attrition (with odds highly stacked against the engineer)

New comment by applecrazy in "Amazon's Silent Sacking"

applecrazy — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:41:58 +0000

minor nit: there are no dedicated SREs at amazon. but your point stands otherwise

New comment by applecrazy in "Docs Deserve More Respect"

applecrazy — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Amazon does this a lot in their “customer obsession” management strategy. In their terms, the mechanism to make this happen is called a “PR/FAQ”[1], and the core idea is that if you can’t express your idea in terms of a customer-focused press release, then it isn’t a good thing to add.

[1]: https://productstrategy.co/working-backwards-the-amazon-prfa...

New comment by applecrazy in "Beeper Mini is back"

applecrazy — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:57:48 +0000

> If Apple were truly acting in their users best interest, they would want their users to have encrypted and fast communication with all devices, through an open protocol or otherwise.

yeah that protocol exists. it’s called RCS and it is coming to ios soon. imo apple is allowed to gate imessage behind ios-only if RCS support is a thing

New comment by applecrazy in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

applecrazy — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:15:11 +0000

this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices

New comment by applecrazy in "The Truth about College Costs"

applecrazy — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:41:32 +0000

Flagship public schools in some states can approach $40k in costs if you don’t qualify for aid:

https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees

New comment by applecrazy in "Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla"

applecrazy — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:40:56 +0000

Cool product, but I'm actually concerned about privacy using a tool like FakeSpot. Their privacy policy is extremely broad and includes handing over purchase history and search history on shopping websites to the extension authors:

> Browser Extensions: We collect the following data when you use Fakespot’s Browser Extensions and may link it to your personal identity in order to effectively market our products and services to you and others:

    Contact Info
    Identifiers
    Usage Data
    Application Search History (e.g. not your Google/Bing/other search engine history)
    Purchases
    Diagnostics

https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

New comment by applecrazy in "Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT"

applecrazy — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:54:30 +0000

> provably wrong

How so? I don't see any examples of top talent being fired (barring the scuffles at Twitter, but that isn't FAANG). Most people on my LinkedIn feed being let go are new grads or middle management who ostensibly didn't perform to company expectations of perfromance.

New comment by applecrazy in "Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT"

applecrazy — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:28:09 +0000

I would make the argument that top talent wasn’t the contingent that was laid off.

New comment by applecrazy in "G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering"

applecrazy — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:45:33 +0000

Just because you don’t understand the knob doesn’t mean it’s voodoo or proprietary. LMs of every kind can incorporate temperature into their next-token inference and it’s a common term when describing models like these:

https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/32477/what-is-the-tem...

New comment by applecrazy in "Ask HN: What are your pet peeves?"

applecrazy — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:07:00 +0000

Asking to ask[1]. This appears a lot in the communities I’m in (mainly university student groups) and it’s probably the most annoying thing to see in my opinion.

[1]: https://dontasktoask.com/