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New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Why Is HTML Not Getting Updates to Opt Out Content from Model Training"

ninjakeyboard — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:32:59 +0000

I can see what you're saying. what solution is there then? As the internet becomes more public, so it also loses the freedom of eg the 90s and that may not be so bad with AI in the toolkit of scammers attacking older or more prone populations. It's very hard to say what effect things will have. Free markets were always the thing but price fixing or other retaliatory measures against oligopolistic greed may now be employed (eg see canada threatening to tax grocery chains for pricing too high)

Why Is HTML Not Getting Updates to Opt Out Content from Model Training

ninjakeyboard — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:24 +0000

After reading about Nightshade project (this article has the right threads to follow if you want to dig at it or see briefly the results in testing: https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data/)

Why is HTML not being updated to better protect the IP of individuals - we need something more granular than "Don't scrape me" - it's fine for you to scrape my art content, even go ahead and download my entire soundcloud without paying a dime and go DJ with it - but don't train your models on my art. That's my edge.

As a day trader I understand this well. With a lot of grit, I'm in that fraction of human traders that can beat the market with passed prop challenges to back it up with real data over time. If AI trains on all of my concepts, there is no way I can thrive, and only a very few will become ultra valuable. That's not the world I want to live in.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38096375

Points: 1

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New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess'"

ninjakeyboard — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:08:17 +0000

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome <- this one for chrome

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical"

ninjakeyboard — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:45:55 +0000

My new rule for any centralized entity is no more than 5k or 5 hours on there. Even my bank account has been mostly dumped today. I'm a crypto futures day trader and have been doing it for a full year 60 hours a week. Sums can start to explode in good market conditions - I just keep drawing stuff and throwing it elsewhere.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

ninjakeyboard — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:08:18 +0000

Ah I was using my friends server which has a slightly different model running - thanks. It's one of the divinci models I think? Don't know much - it's code oriented. So I guess it's not 'ChatGPT' but a GPT model he built a chat on.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:42:20 +0000

It hallucinates that you can use 4 energy per turn in Pokemon TCG and confidently tells you so. No idea where that would come from.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:41:48 +0000

ChatGPT gets the rules to the pokemon trading card game wrong. It will tell you you can use 4 energy a turn. Convincingly. Not sure how it hallucinates this. The rule is 1 per turn.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Show HN: Haxophone"

ninjakeyboard — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 05:17:46 +0000

My girlfriend knows how to play the sax and I know rust (and am a dj/producer!) - so I starred this and we plan to build it. Thanks for your contribution to our life!

Tokio Metrics – Instrument your tasks and the runtime

ninjakeyboard — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:17:36 +0000

Article URL: https://tokio.rs/blog/2022-02-announcing-tokio-metrics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394613

Points: 2

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My Vision for Our Work Together (Statement from a New Engineering Manager)

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://multiplexedmusings.com/2020/11/08/my-vision-for-our-work-together/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073285

Points: 2

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New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:16:25 +0000

Jira is very customizable in how it's used. It's sort of like saying that a wall with sticky notes is a bad development tool because of some anecdotal experience. It all depends on what you do with it. Maybe it's more like saying that a spreadsheet is a bad tool.

The only thing I resent jira/confluence etc for is dropping its markdown because it was too hard for the company to maintain :) But they're working on it again. Confluence is probably one of my favorite tools but I haven't used jira in ages as it's possible to get by with github these days.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?"

ninjakeyboard — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:41:43 +0000

Learning functional programming will make you a better developer in all languages IMO. This is the single biggest vector for understanding how to write maintainable code.

Similarly learning design patterns will probably make you a worse programmer but learning the heuristics behind them (eg composition over inheritance) will make you a better programmer.

Learning DDD will make you a better programmer by understanding how to use bounded contexts to manage complexity as software grows.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 28 May 2020 17:10:50 +0000

But the tooling on emacs or whatever is up to par. That was my original point, not that a plain text editor is a real man's way, just that it's good enough. PyCharm or whatnot isn't necessarily much better than what you can do in emacs, but it isn't portable to other languages or as flexible. A text editor like vi or emacs isn't much different than an IDE's functionality when looking at a dynamic language. It's a WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD with scala though (IMO - that's arguable but refactorings etc aren't on parity with intellij), and I don't foresee myself ditching intellij for scala dev any time soon.

I remember showing a scala developer who was using sublime the "extract method" feature and some refactorings in intellij and he was like "HOW DOES IT KNOW ABOUT THE CODE THOUGH???" - the IDEs have great features, but they're less differentiating for dynamic languages as a lot of the OSS tools are just as good. Eg VS Code MS Python extension for example. It's just great.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Lovely Week with Elixir"

ninjakeyboard — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:18:51 +0000

"I think there's a sweet spot for a language that accepts mutability inside of actors, but only allows immutable objects to be sent as messages, with an escape hatch available if needed."

That's kind of what akka is on scala or java. Messages are immutable _BY CONVENTION_ but you can do whatever you want.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Lovely Week with Elixir"

ninjakeyboard — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:35:28 +0000

Elixir is decent and I've worked with it a fair amount in production systems... Mostly Rubyists seem to really click with it. And ruby idioms are all over it - you can taste its history and proximity to ruby's ecosystem. As a scala dev that ended up working with elixir for a couple years, my opinion is that a typesafe elixir-like language would really bring BEAM back into the mainstream. Akka is alright but it's shoehorned onto the JVM. BEAM is good as long as you don't need to do heavy computation, but lack of type-safety (need to use dialyzer?) means that shit breaks in prod that the compiler would have caught. And yes, you can mitigate this with boatloads of testing and data-validations with ecto or whatever. But every time we broke shit that a compiler would have caught I cringed.

It's a great path for rubyists to move to Elixir/BEAM and every rubyist should give it a whirl! I'm back working on scala and akka.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?"

ninjakeyboard — Sun, 17 May 2020 22:22:37 +0000

You're working with statically typed compiled languages tho. Once you try using a dynamic language you realize another editor is enough IMO. I use emacs for anything dynamically typed (including compiled languages like elixir) and intellij for scala/java.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?"

ninjakeyboard — Sun, 17 May 2020 22:20:55 +0000

I still can't believe bitwig is java. I'm a bitwig user. It even runs on linux.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:31:23 +0000

This whole thread is great. It's amazing how many people seem to be gaining the same inner wisdom I've found, of disidentifying with the mind, yet feeling more whole with all of who I am in the moment.

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life"

ninjakeyboard — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:29:22 +0000

But does the dog have a buddha nature?

New comment by ninjakeyboard in "Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help"

ninjakeyboard — Mon, 04 May 2020 21:38:44 +0000

There is burnout, then there is just being "done." If you're out of software and happy, then great. I think we reach a point where the draw of money + realization that software is horrible kind of collide and end up shaking you, making you realize life is short and limited and that there must be something more meaningful. Is that a bad thing? Only if you don't do something about it. you have an incredible opportunity to do good somewhere somehow. You'll need to fix your "charged emotional responses" and "reactivity" by learning to be with em instead of running and grasping, but there-after, you are freed of the animal-instinct burden. It' s a hard path to find and harder still to walk, but it's there. No words can capture it or give it, no thinking will show you the way out.