Fishkins (u/Fishkins)

Fishkins commented on Global warming has accelerated significantly researchsquare.com/articl... · Posted by u/morsch

ryeights · 9 days ago

We simply drop a giant tub of baking soda into the ocean every now and then.

Fishkins · 8 days ago

Thus solving the problem once and for all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW66EX75jIY

Fishkins commented on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me marcusolang.substack.com/... · Posted by u/florian_s

mort96 · 3 months ago

> I even checked one of his responses in WhatsApp if it's AI by asking the Meta AI whether it's AI written, and Meta AI also agreed that it's AI written

I will never understand why some people apparently think asking a chat bot whether text was written by a chat bot is a reasonable approach to determining whether text was written by a chat bot.

Fishkins · 3 months ago

This is a couple of years old now, but at one point Janelle Shane found that the only reliable way to avoid being flagged as AI was to use AI with a certain style prompt

https://www.aiweirdness.com/dont-use-ai-detectors-for-anythi...

Fishkins commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

jeffbee · 3 months ago

Just go to the software update, touch the button, then touch it a second time, and that will give you all available updates immediately, regardless of your random position in the rollout process.

Fishkins · 3 months ago

I had the same experience as peer comments. I'm on Pixel 8 and Google Fi. When I check for updates, I'm told I'm up-to-date with the last update being over a month old.

Fishkins commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

kshacker · 5 months ago

Sorry I downvoted this by mistake. Got confused between collapse and the down arrow (which I rarely use). Does someone know how to reverse a downvote. I do not see it.

Fishkins · 5 months ago

You should see an "unvote" or "undown" link to the right of the timestamp (i.e. the opposite side from where the vote arrows were). It's fairly subtle.

Fishkins commented on The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review meks.quest/blogs/the-thea... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tcoff91 · 6 months ago

By self review, you mean that the developer adds comments in the code review tool? that is a great idea, I want to try this.

Fishkins · 6 months ago

Yeah, I never send a PR out without reviewing each commit myself and adding GitHub comments when I think it's relevant. Sometimes a PR is clear enough that I don't feel the need to add comments, though.

Fishkins commented on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity dayvster.com/blog/dev-cul... · Posted by u/ibobev

dcminter · 6 months ago

I'm very skeptical of the article - it sounds to me like classic "good old days" thinking¹.

It's certainly true that IT has grown vastly since those good old days, but there has always been a proportion of people who're just... not that interested in what they're doing. For example I remember being mildly horrified in around 1998 that a colleague didn't know how to run his compiler from the command line; without an IDE he was lost - but I doubt he was the only one.

Meanwhile the idea that there's a dearth of cool new stuff seems quite quaint to me. There's a whole bunch of cool things that pop up almost daily right here on Hacker News². Just because they haven't spread to ubiquity doesn't mean they're not going to. Linux was not mainstream right out of Linus's Usenet announcement - that took time.

As to corporate power? They ebb and flow and eat each other (Data General, Compaq, DEC ... remember them? Remember when Microsoft was the major enemy? Or IBM?)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_old_days

² Edit: Not to mention, there's also a whole bunch of crap that's not very interesting. But survivor bias means we'll have forgotten those in 20 years time when we're surveying this time period; as Sturgeon's law reminds us, "90 percent of everything is crap."

Fishkins · 6 months ago

I'd say "good old days" thinking is probably involved, but not the full explanation. Over the past few decades, software has gone from a fairly obscure profession to being seen as a great way (maybe the best way) to make a lot of money. In absolute numbers, there are probably at least as many engaged, curious engineers as before. There are almost certainly drastically more uninterested engineers who are there partially or fully because of the money, though.

edit: I hadn't scrolled down to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303388 when I wrote this

Fishkins commented on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug... · Posted by u/universesquid

nothrabannosir · 6 months ago

But also respects .gitignore by default so I’m not sure you want to use ripgrep to scan your node_modules

Fishkins · 6 months ago

For others who didn't know, the -u flag in the OP's command makes it so ripgrep _will_ search files even if they're gitignored

Fishkins commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

coldpie · 7 months ago

Eh, I've gotten over the headphone jack thing. I just buy a dozen adapters, stick one on each of my headphones, and replace them as they wear out every couple months. Good enough.

Fishkins · 7 months ago

It isn't nearly as big of an issue as the phone size, but it is still a nuisance. I know there's no chance of it ever coming back, but I'd like it to.

I still have a small amount of hope that someone will make a modern, well supported ~5" Android phone. But that's also feeling less likely.

Fishkins commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

coldpie · 7 months ago

I prefer Android. Unlike iPhone, the Android notifications system actually makes sense, and I can use real Firefox on Android. But, I prefer phones sized to fit in a human hand even more, so I'm stuck on an iPhone 13 Mini. Please make a ~4.5" screen Pixel phone, Google :(

Fishkins · 7 months ago

Yeah, the main news I want to hear is the release of smaller Pixel phone. Secondarily, I'd like the return of the 3.5mm port. I don't care about any of the stuff they actually announce.

I do currently use a Pixel, but I hate how big it is.

Fishkins commented on White House prepares order targeting banks for "unbanking" for political reasons reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

hightrix · 7 months ago

I'm curious, how often throughout history has a statement like "that guy is an idiot" had an unnamed person been so easily and widely recognized.

We all know who you are talking about, just like everyone know what "guy" I'm talking about.

Fishkins · 7 months ago

I'd say a large part of the country had the same sentiment about George W Bush. I'm not sure whether that was true or just an act, though. In politics, I think the opposite of Hanlon's razor has often been applicable. It's easy to feign ignorance to avoid responsibility.

That being said, I believe there has been an increase in genuinely dumb people in American politics in the past ~15 years.