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Comment · 2 days ago
It is this time of the year again. I always write the same. HN is not regular people. For a high percentage, CEX wallets are the safer option. There are 1-10 topics of people who are not able to access their wallet anymore each day on r/bitcoin alone. There have been hardware wallets hacks on mass. On an exchange like kraken, coinbase, bitstamp or Binance there is a high chance you wont loose your money, even after a hack. You have apps that work out of the box to watch your investment. You can easily go back to fiat. Most of them now also support tax reporting.
Comment · 9 days ago
No I wrote what the internal tool uses as the OIDC and backend. No need to rewrite Keycloak. I like it very much.

I also wrote about internal tools. Not public facing applications. That would be a bit much for my taste.

Comment · 10 days ago
It might depend on your use case. Life threatening bugs in a plane? Your argument holds up.

Letting an llm rewrite your internal todo tool, in another language, better design and up-to-date software stack. Yeah, this is absolutely not a fantasy anymore. We got rid of most SAAS tools in a month. Complete with Keycloak, behind wireguard, pocketbase backend, in our cooperate design with exactly the features we want. It works flawless since day one.

Comment · 1 month ago
That is true, but it is very basic and depending on the browser how it is implemented. On traffic heavy sites, which I assume gates blog is, js gives you full control over what get loaded when and at the same time enables tracking how far the user read the article and which parts he most likely skipped. I am not saying that this is good, however if you have these requirements js is a valid choice.
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow... I understand your point but if you feel that strong about gates using js on his personal website, it is a bit harsh isn't it? Could have multiple reasons why it is needed. Especially for someone with such a huge follower base. Lazy loading, tracking, client based adjustments, using a framework, fun [:)]... I could go on with a 100 more points why js might be needed.
Comment · 2 months ago
They did with some services. Not sure if there is a list. For one I am missing phone mirroring to my mac which they disabled because they do not want to give api access.
Comment · 2 months ago
Just my 2 cents. Nuclear was dead in Germany without political influence. The reactors where so old, that upgrading them to modern standard would have been a waste of money compared to renewables. France only works because the state helps out. UKs new reactors are financial suicide.

Everything else you might have a point. The EU behaves as if it has influence over companies abroad. Then its strategy might work and do some good. Sadly this is not the case. Instead we are getting isolated and loosing the AI battle bad while bureaucracy and regulations forces inventors to leave.

Comment · 2 months ago
Depends how you set it up. Like any other project I guess. Funny enough, if you are able to produce maintainable code with an llm you could aswell lead a team of humans. LLMs shift your focus on project management and architectural choices.

I let the llm write components which are independent to each other. This works great and keeps everything clean. The times that llm would only generate unmaintainable code are long gone with OPUS, Fable and sol 5.6

Comment · 2 months ago
I think it is fitting because they provide „all“ models independent from the provider. Open in this sense means to me being open to switch the model, speed and provider at any time.
Comment · 2 months ago
What would be the attack vector with indirect access to a webcam?
Comment · 2 months ago
Exactly, I have the luxury to be able to use all top tier models without limitation. Fable and OPUS most definitely say that you are wrong and try to proove it most of the time with links to sources or math. I even had an argument with Fable where I was 100% sure it was wrong and tried to explain the issue. Turns out I was wrong. Fable did NOT give an inch. Always said, you are wrong, let me try to explain it like this. It even made a graphic when I did not get it. The times of LLMs only saying yes is over since 3-6 months. Where it still lags are decisions for infrastructure. It makes a plan. I say "Why not this?" and it responds with "that is much better" in 90% of the cases. However, I am not sure how to solve this. I also do not want an LLM to say: "I wont implement this."
Comment · 2 months ago
Ah okay. Ofc handwriting is not copyrighted. Makes sense, that we do not have these issues.
Comment · 2 months ago
I made a benchmark for handwriting recognition for a project while keeping line breaks and errors (grammar, spelling). Sonnet absolutely dominates it since a good half a year. 5.6 did not change that for me. This should also translate to better ocr.
Comment · 3 months ago
You are right. Let me rephrase and my argument still stands: „To even believe there is a primary purpose…“

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