Hacker News: thrown1212

New comment by thrown1212 in "Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)"

thrown1212 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 18:14:36 +0000

And a reminder that enshitification began long, long ago.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Japanese game publisher Digital Will has filed a lawsuit against Apple"

thrown1212 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:12:17 +0000

Anti-trust not anti trust

New comment by thrown1212 in "Musk: Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs"

thrown1212 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:43:37 +0000

I have the same question. It’s hard to judge from the outside like this but there are Trump-ian displays of arrogance, disconnection and incompetence that seem at odds with his massive successes with SpaceX and Tesla in particular. He’s clearly book smart, but seems like a petulant, chronically insecure man-child in most areas from the accounts both public and insider. I find the incongruence strange.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)"

thrown1212 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:32:09 +0000

A case study in why this problem persists.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Ask HN: Is it me, or are more and more YC companies open source?"

thrown1212 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:06:27 +0000

It’s a cheap, viable, vetted user acquisition model. For most startups it’s about the best CAC you can get without investing in channel development. Close enough to none of them are OSI open source, it’s all source available or open core, laying the cynicism bare.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)"

thrown1212 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:24:35 +0000

Women too.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Your computer should say what you tell it to say"

thrown1212 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:10:49 +0000

> I have no doubt they will implement WEI, but it will not bring security.

This is precisely OP’s point. WEI will quickly dominate despite having nothing to do with securing anyone.

New comment by thrown1212 in "HuggingFace Text Generation License No Longer Open-Source"

thrown1212 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:44:36 +0000

No it doesn’t. Anyone can take AGPL code and wrap it up as a SaaS. AGPL forces you to publish changes even as a SaaS which GPL does not. But that doesn’t close the AWS problem that Elastic and others faced.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger"

thrown1212 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:49:58 +0000

They’ll consort with an inner circle of “industry” accomplices to “address concerns”, keeping everyone out while covering the “we consulted widely” angle. This will get pushed through under cover of darkness with enough of a fig leaf of due process to plausible deny anything other than good intent.

If you’re working on this, shame on you.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation"

thrown1212 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:18:04 +0000

And more precisely: “Safety margins are inefficiencies”

This short statement is profound and bears repeating slowly and often to people in any kind of power.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation"

thrown1212 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:13:39 +0000

The “EU bad” line gets rolled out so often on HN it has become its own truth. “Everyone knows” that the EU tech industry is getting strangled by its technocratic regulators and that’s why the EU fails at tech har har look at these idiots. Etc.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Plane – Open-source Jira alternative"

thrown1212 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:34:55 +0000

They meant “linear.app”, not Jira, and “copy” instead of alternative.

There’s currency in this type of knock off. Find a well executed closed source app, clone as open source, pick an alternative pitch “the Jira killer”, then raise YC because open core is the fashionable argument.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Plane – Open-source Jira alternative"

thrown1212 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:23:37 +0000

This is the entire point

New comment by thrown1212 in "Web Environment Integrity API Proposal"

thrown1212 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 09:59:02 +0000

Because when you own the land you can just tax the serfs who do that work. Rentierism is the ultimate goal of capitalism.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Electric bike, stupid love of my life"

thrown1212 — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 18:37:25 +0000

It makes them safer, including when driving near cars. Lobby for no training if you want but don’t pretend like it doesn’t help.

New comment by thrown1212 in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

thrown1212 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:22:54 +0000

They’re the admiral of their peers in this space, no doubt of that.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Making Games"

thrown1212 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:54:32 +0000

Exit through the gift shop. A tale about the commoditisation of what people thought was art. This is that. Indie game devs are the legions of graffiti artists whose purity and form will never pay the bills, regardless of how superior their underlying passion or technique is. Because money don’t care.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Making Games"

thrown1212 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:46:23 +0000

There are two types of game developers: those who spend their time making tools to make games and those who spend their time making games. So really there is only one type of game developer.

New comment by thrown1212 in "ChatGPT Plugins"

thrown1212 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:30:48 +0000

I’m calling this shit out using your comment because it’s the straw (sorry).

This poor man’s Pascal’s Wager I see all over the place is pathetic. Stare into the eyes of the basilisk man, die on your feet. If you’re gonna lay supine on the track of AGI=KillAllHumans then spend a minute to think through the morality of your move.

Apostasy is a poisoned chalice. Fuck the machine.

New comment by thrown1212 in "Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible"

thrown1212 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:07:02 +0000

Your response explains SO much about why this is a dumpster fire. Rather than a professional "these are some valid concerns, we may have made some serious mistakes and this deserves a credible response", here's how your defensive commentary was received by at least one person:

"Public criticism (however valid) of something I worked on hurts my feelings. Just so you know, we already thought through ALL these possible "problems" (and more) and we chose the "one true way". So your criticisms are just, waves hands, whatever.

Plus, these "issues" could never happen anyway (just try it lol!), so your criticisms are basically imaginary. Also and anyway this is YOUR fault (not mine, no!) because YOU wanted extensions. Also, also: the other guys were worse. Your fault, shame on you, other guys worse, I'm a good person.

And finally, this is hard work, no-one ever said thank you to me."