Hacker News: drngdds

New comment by drngdds in "Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules"

drngdds — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:46:05 +0000

404 Media is owned by its reporters

New comment by drngdds in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

drngdds — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:12:19 +0000

It's renting vs. owning. I care a lot about music, so I don't like paying monthly for it without even getting to build a real collection.

Also, it's just nice to not be at the whims of corporations and copyright lawyers. It sucks when some song you love gets taken down, or your streaming app introduces some shitty UI changes, or you find out the company you're paying has been doing unethical shit, or the monthly fee goes up, or any number of other annoyances.

New comment by drngdds in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

drngdds — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:03:18 +0000

How does this differ from Navidrome and other Subsonic-based music servers?

New comment by drngdds in "When do we stop finding new music?"

drngdds — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:56:34 +0000

It's the opposite - we're way less centralized now. No one cares about what's on the radio or MTV anymore. We have infinite access to every song ever* for $11 a month, and the recommendation algorithms will happily show you music outside the mainstream and outside the current decade if that's what keeps you listening.

*yes this is hyperbole

New comment by drngdds in "Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets"

drngdds — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:54:08 +0000

>libertarians

Palmer Luckey got kicked out of Meta for funding Trump ads, I don't think you can classify him as a libertarian lol

(though there are many other self-described libertarians who are even more right-wing-authoritarian, so maybe nitpicking isn't worthwhile)

New comment by drngdds in "Meta Llama 3"

drngdds — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:25:15 +0000

How? It's fine to have on people with all different viewpoints, including awful ones, but I think pushing back when they're on some bullshit is good and necessary. Otherwise you're just uncritically spreading fake junk to a huge audience, which leads to more people believing in fake junk.

New comment by drngdds in "Future of Humanity Institute shuts down"

drngdds — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:33:25 +0000

No, these people and their ideology were around way way before e/acc was a thing

New comment by drngdds in "Japanese police arrest man for tampering with Pokémon Violet save data"

drngdds — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:10:42 +0000

>Are the modified Pokemon being used in competitions?

Interestingly, it's pretty much standard for competitive Pokemon players to use hacked Pokemon because of the crazy time investment the game demands to train Pokemon with optimal stats and movesets legitimately. They use free methods to do this though.

New comment by drngdds in "OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights"

drngdds — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:35:11 +0000

Those seem like really bad numbers to me, considering the base rate fallacy. Most of what people test with something like that is probably not going to be AI-generated, which could mean getting massive numbers of false positives.

New comment by drngdds in "Headline Driven Development"

drngdds — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:37:56 +0000

Working like hell to meet an arbitrary deadline at all costs is a nightmare

New comment by drngdds in "LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs"

drngdds — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:11:35 +0000

This is a really conservative view about what ways to make art are valid. Generative art is nothing new and it can be pretty awesome sometimes.

New comment by drngdds in "Researchers uncover 'pornification' trend among female streamers on Twitch"

drngdds — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:12:09 +0000

There's isn't even any nudity lol, you're not gonna see any less coverage than you would at the beach. Please take the "won't someone think of the children!" nonsense elsewhere.

New comment by drngdds in "Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators"

drngdds — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:54:04 +0000

How much does it cost? Is it subscription-based? I can't find anything about it on the site.

New comment by drngdds in "YX Problem"

drngdds — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:44:06 +0000

And even when you can explain your whole justification for doing Y, it often doesn't help. In my experience, longer your question is, the more likely it is that people will just skim over it and misunderstand it. Or they'll argue against your reasons for doing Y and try to convince you that you really should be doing X anyway.

New comment by drngdds in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

drngdds — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:58:02 +0000

The moderation system is pretty much the same as any forum. You just have to read the sidebar rules first when you're posting on an unfamiliar subreddit, as you would when joining any community.

New comment by drngdds in "Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative"

drngdds — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:33:41 +0000

Yeah, this is a risk.

The best approach is to take advantage of the fact that Bandcamp lets you download everything and simply download everything you buy and keep backups (as you would with any other important data)

New comment by drngdds in "Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs"

drngdds — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:54:27 +0000

I don't know how accurate/inaccurate the overall argument here is, but they're saying "STEM" a whole lot when their criticisms are pretty specifically about tech, and mostly software companies.

New comment by drngdds in "Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]"

drngdds — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:36:33 +0000

GPT4 is the only one I've used much but it really can be good as a Google alternative for certain kinds of questions. I wouldn't trust it for anything obscure and complicated though - if you ask it about something like competitive Pokemon, you'll just get a stream of confidently incorrect junk that any beginner could disprove. (Asking for sources does help this sometimes though.)

New comment by drngdds in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

drngdds — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:31:19 +0000

You're missing a couple important things:

- It's not just bubble colors, those don't matter. What does matter is that image and especially video quality are absolute crap when texting between iPhone and Android, and almost all iPhone users in the US use iMessage instead of another platform like Whatsapp, so the experience tends to suck on both ends when texting between an iPhone and Android. It's all for vendor lock-in and it helps no one but Apple. Look up the "buy your mom an iPhone" bit.

- Not everyone cares about the private property rights of a trillion dollar corporation. I definitely don't! I think Apple can get fucked, and I think it's cool if people find ways to exploit their APIs to do things Apple doesn't want them to do.

New comment by drngdds in "Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*"

drngdds — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:22:23 +0000

Yann LeCun is a clown lol. The Chief AI Scientist at _Facebook_ of all companies expects me to just trust him when he says "it'll be safe guys, we'll figure it out, we wouldn't release anything that was harmful :)"