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giorgioz commented on Don't Become the Machine   armeet.bearblog.dev/becom... · Posted by u/armeet
giorgioz · 2 days ago
Often there is a bell shaped curve where productivity peeks at a point and bigger efforts after that make you actually less productive overall. In my personal experience most projects are a marathon not a sprint. Always sleep the 8-9 hours necessary to feel full-rested. I'm most productive in the morning so I try to work every day during mornings but since in the afternoon I'm a lot less productive I've decided I can allocate that time to entertainment and social activities. My entertainment and social activity tend also to be along learning new things.
giorgioz commented on Claude in Chrome   claude.com/chrome... · Posted by u/ianrahman
amelius · 5 days ago
The problem is that people call LLMs human or not depending on whether that benefits them.

In the copyright debate, people often call LLMs human ("we did not copy your data, the LLM simply learned from it").

In this case it might be the other way around ("You can trust us, because we are merely letting a machine view and control your browser")

giorgioz · 4 days ago
You are right. Many times we already made an emotional decision. We then rationalize logically. I guess I did want to give access to LLM to my browser so my brain found an argument where one of the claims blocking me might not be true.

Yes it's fascinating how Meta managed to train Llama on torrent books without massive ripercussions: https://techhq.com/news/meta-used-pirated-content-and-seeded...

If LLM turn out to be a great technology overall the future will decide that copyright laws just were not made for LLMs and we'll retroactively fixed it.

giorgioz commented on Claude in Chrome   claude.com/chrome... · Posted by u/ianrahman
amelius · 5 days ago
You wouldn't give a _human_ this level of access to your browser.

So why would anyone think it's a good idea to give an AI (which is controlled by humans) access?

giorgioz · 5 days ago
>You wouldn't give a _human_ this level of access to your browser.

Your statement made me thought of this possibility:

It's possible we are anthropomorphizing LLM but they will just turn out to be just next stage in calculators. Much smarter than the previous stage but still very very far away from a human consciounness.

So that scenario would answer why you would be comfortable giving a LLM access to your browser but not to a human.

Not saying LLM are actually calculator, I just consider the possibility that they might be or not be.

The concept of Golem have been around for quite some times. We could think it but we could not actually make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

giorgioz commented on Sharp: High performance Node.js image processing/optimization   github.com/lovell/sharp... · Posted by u/nateb2022
pupppet · 6 days ago
Been using this forever in CloudFront behaviors to auto-resize images. Thanks for the work, Sharp!
giorgioz · 6 days ago
Interesting! Can you tell me more how you use CloudFront (cache) behaviours with sharp?
giorgioz commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules   resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama
giorgioz · 18 days ago
Very cool, I was already doing that by emailing things to myself onGmail and Snoozing to a future date. Muche better than calendar events for things like clean gutters.
giorgioz commented on 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest   apnews.com/article/hungar... · Posted by u/gmays
giorgioz · a month ago
There is 7+ billion people now on the planet. Don't worry our descendants will find our stuff for a long time. In 10.000 years they won't care that much if something was from 300.A.C or 2025.A.C.
giorgioz commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws   theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec
epolanski · a month ago
I'm not understanding, as an European who's been part of multiple startups how's that supposed to boost growth.

There's literally 0 startups I've been part of where data protection laws or even the infamous cookie banners have been anywhere near relevant (unless your business was literally profiling).

In fact the actors that most opposed those laws have always been non Europeans.

Sure, there is an attached cost in having your terms reviewed by a proper lawyer and documenting the entire list of cookie providers, but that's basically where it ends. It's really minimal effort and cost, we talking in the low single digits for the review, and few hours of engineering time.

The biggest issues in European growth are others:

- focus on being an export economy while neglecting the internal market.

- bureaucracy to fight at European level so we still don't have a real unified market, neither in physical goods (our economy's backbone) nor services which doesn't allow national startups to scale at European level

- very conservative and risk-adverse mentality. Young people in college can't wait to graduate and find the best paying lowest effort stable job. That's not a problem if it involves a majority of graduates, I imagine all world is like that, but you do have an immense problem if you have 1% or 3% or 10% of wannabe entrepreneurs.

giorgioz · a month ago
I know a friend who was building his first website, he asked in our startup group how to handle the GDPR cookie banner, it likely wasted 1 day on that, when he had invested maybe a whole othery day on the project. At that moment in time the GDPR cookie banner amounted of 50% of the effort. It killed momentum, it killed willpower with beuracracy. It should have asked himself how to get users, not how to comply with GDPR for a website that in that moment had 0 users.
giorgioz commented on Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor   developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/keepamovin
giorgioz · a month ago
Can anyone tell me some use cases for CDP commands?

In which situation is preferable to use CDP commands over Puppeteer?

giorgioz commented on Tell HN: Dentist banned from WhatsApp without appeal    · Posted by u/giorgioz
taylodl · a month ago
You dismiss the WhatsApp Policy as being a lot of pages. And? That's their policy. You need to understand how they believe you're violating that policy before you can proceed. You dismiss the errors as being dumb, well, since your account has been suspended it sounds like maybe they were important.

Going forward, you'll find that the so-called T's & C's (terms and conditions) are dramatically different between commercial and private use. If you get a lawyer involved to sue Meta then the first thing they're going to want to review is Meta's policies and T's & C's and they'll make the assessment if you're violating them. Since they're going to do that anyway, you should have done that at the beginning so you could have avoided this whole mess.

giorgioz · a month ago
I do not dismiss their policy, I dismiss their behaviour of not providing specific reason for the ban. They have merely stated that I have violated the Terms of Service. They have not stated WHY and HOW I have violated them. Whatsapp Terms of Service is a very long document with HUNDREDS of potential reason very different from each other. I'm left in the dark of why I have been banned. Furthermore I have literally sent only 3 MESSAGES to my own Whatsapp account while I was developing the app. So it's clear it's at best a misunderstanding. Furthermore Whatsapp is now a MONOPOLY in Chat communication for business. Their approach to ban businesses and don't provide reason is draconic.

u/giorgioz

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