npteljes (u/npteljes)

npteljes commented on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023) xeiaso.net/blog/anything-... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo

IIAOPSW · a day ago

Even HN comment sections?

npteljes · a day ago

Of course. A message queue is database, and software that handles it in a specific way to make it a message queue. So, HN could basically be that database backend for that imaginary software that turns it into a message queue.

I don't have fun examples with message queues, but I do remember some with filesystems - a popular target to connect cursed backends to. You can store data in Ping packets [0]. You can store data in the digits of Pi - achieving unbelievable compression [1]. You can store data in the metadata and other unused blocks of images - also known as steganography [2]. People wrote software to use Gmail emails as a file system [3].

That's just from the top of my head, and it really shows that sky's the limit with software.

[0] https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

[1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/99933/

npteljes commented on I Am An AI Hater anthonymoser.github.io/wr... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

rsoto2 · 2 days ago

The article is "I'm an AI hater" it's about hating AI and why. Whats wrong with "at its core a fascist technology" do you not understand the statement? Companies like Palantir are using shitty targeting AI to literally mass murder children. Yes this technology you used was funded and created in partnership with apartheid governments. AWS and Microsucks are happy to lend a hand. The industry has fascist leadership, yes.

npteljes · 2 days ago

>Whats wrong with "at its core a fascist technology"

The problem is that this statement is false. There is nothing particularly fascist about the core AI technologies. The tech itself is being created simultaneously by multiple large independent entities worldwide, as is no more fascist than all the other components used in the weapons and processes and infrastructure that was involved in the horrible atrocity you cited.

npteljes commented on I Am An AI Hater anthonymoser.github.io/wr... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

nancyminusone · 2 days ago

My personal AI dichotomy:

- When I use AI, it is typically useful.

- When other people build and do things with AI, it's slop that I didn't ask for which is waste of resources and a threat to humanity.

This entirely sums up my thoughts on the technology. I suppose it's rather like the personal benefits vs greater harm of using coal for electricity.

npteljes · 2 days ago

Heh, I feel this in me as well. When I like driving but hate the traffic.

Although, much of the slop problem is due to lack of consent. Same as how my youtube video to me is entertainment, and noise for the rest of the passengers.

npteljes commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

machomaster · 4 days ago

> What makes you think they don't think it through?

Basing it on a lot of stupid decisions youtube has made over the years, the last being the horrendous autotranslation of titles/descriptions/audio that can't be turned off. Can only be explained by having morons making decisions, who can't imagine that anyone could speak more than one language.

npteljes · 2 days ago

I think those were thought through, even maybe the specific concerns that your bring up - and then a conscious decision was made to not give a fuck about those concerns.

I don't think it's stupidity, or shortsightedness, or ignorance, or anything like that. They just have different priorities. And they are not having enough negative feedback to reconsider these decisions.

npteljes commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

podgietaru · 3 days ago

Not my experience at all. The Psych that prescribed me antidepressants was _incredibly_ diligent. Including with side effects that affected my day to day life like loss of Libido.

We spent a long time finding something, but when we did it worked exceptionally well. We absolutely did not just increase the dose. And I'm almost certain the literature for this would NOT recommend an increase of dosage if the side effect was increased suicidality.

The demonisation of medication needs to stop. It is an important tool in the toolbelt for depression. It is not the end of the journey, but it makes that journey much easier to walk.

npteljes · 3 days ago

Unfortunately that's just a single good experience. (Unfortunately overall, not for you! I'm happy that your experience was so good.) Psych drugs (and many other drugs) are regularly overprescribed. Here is just one documented example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6731049/

Opioids in the US are probably the most famous case though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

npteljes commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

throwawaybob420 · 3 days ago

idk dude if your technology encourages a teenager to kill itself and prevents him from alerting his parents via a cry for help, I don’t care how “beneficial” it is.

npteljes · 3 days ago

You might not care personally, but this isn't how we do anything, because we wouldn't have anything in the world at all. Different things harm and kill people all the time, and many of them have barely any use than harmful activity, yet they are still active parts of our lives.

I understand the emotional impact of what happened in this case, but there is not much to discuss if we just reject everything outright.

npteljes commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

davidcbc · 3 days ago

This is a clear example of why the people claiming that using a chatbot for therapy is better than no therapy are... I'll be extremely generous and say misguided. This kid wanted his parents to know he was thinking about this and the chatbot talked him out of it.

npteljes · 3 days ago

Yeah, I was one such person, but I might give up on this ultimately. If I will, I will do so for CYA reasons, not because I think it's a bad thing overall.

In this current case, the outcome is horrible, and the answers that ChatGPT provided were inexcusable. But looking at a bigger picture, how much of a better chance does a person have by everyone telling them to "go to therapy" or to "talk to others" and such? What others? Searching "online therapy", BetterHelp is the second result. BetterHelp doesn't exactly have a good reputation online, but still, their influence is widespread. Licensed therapists can also be bad actors. There is no general "good thing" that is tried and true for every particular case of human mental health, but even letting that go, the position is abused just as any other authority / power position is, with many bad therapists out there. Not to mention the other people who pose as (mental) health experts, life coaches, and such. Or the people who recruit for a cult.

Frankly, even in the face of this horrible event, I'm not convinced that AI in general fares that much lower than the sum of the people who offer a recipe for a better life, skills, company, camaraderie. Rather, I feel like that AI is in a situation like the self-driving cars are, where we expect the new thing to be 110%, even though we know that the old thing is far for perfect.

I do think that OpenAI is liable though, and rightfully so. Their service has a lot of power to influence, clearly outlined in the tragedy that is shown in the article. And so, they also have a lot of responsibility to reign that in. If they were a forum where the teen was pushed to suicide, police could go after the forum participants, moderators, admins. But in case of OpenAI, there is no such person, the service itself is the thing. So the one liable must be the company that provides the service.

npteljes commented on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed guard.io/labs/scamlexity-... · Posted by u/mindracer

ninetyninenine · 4 days ago

No need to bring horribleness? You are the one who brought up pedophilia.

My whole point was to bring pedophilia to the same level of severity as scams to essentially show you there’s no logical need to bring that up as a disgusting example. You heightened the level of horribleness, then pretended to be offended when I was trying to lower it.

As you say there’s no need to bring horribleness into this but you decided to do it then pretend to be offended when I compared the two.

You talk as if you’re authority. You’re saying shit like “You should do this” “Or you can’t do that” as if you’re automatically correct and dishing out orders. That’s your tone and it’s not appreciated. You “should” let your own logic stand and don’t make statements as if they are absolute truth without evidence.

The fact of the matter is to you, Singapore is inhumane. But an entire city of people disagrees with you and they have the results to show for it. So march right over to them and give them the orders you gave me. And they’ll give you the opposite order right back. That’s just your opinion. So who the fuck cares? You think telling me that I shouldn’t use severe punishment and stating it in an authoritative way is going to change my opinion? Fuck no.

Tell me why your way is objectively better. And then I’ll tell you why a place like Singapore is better.

First, Have you even considered the positive aspects of what Singapore does? The lack of accessibility of drugs alone has saved the lives of countless thousands of people who otherwise would’ve given in to temptation and ruined their own lives by becoming addicts. The cost? Roughly 15 hanged people.

Thousands of people is a loaded number I made up but it’s a reasonable ballpark counterfactual of the amount of lives saved that we can use to illustrate the deeper logic here which is this:

Your morality results in you killing more people. By being more humane you have actually done a greater evil.

That’s how the real world works. So stop tramping around and delivering orders. Tell me objectively why it’s better.

I’m betting you can’t. But go ahead, prove me wrong.

npteljes · 3 days ago

Nah. I won't deal with this many personal attacks. Discussion over.

npteljes commented on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed guard.io/labs/scamlexity-... · Posted by u/mindracer

ninetyninenine · 4 days ago

Those are reported scams. Again you need scams originating from Singapore. Please stop bsing.

npteljes · 3 days ago

You know what? This time, you bring up statistics. You claim that Singapore effectively eliminated scams, so, show it then. Or have your point be moot.

npteljes commented on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed guard.io/labs/scamlexity-... · Posted by u/mindracer

ninetyninenine · 4 days ago

I should preface it with, practically eliminated scams. Meaning eliminated to an extent that is maximally practically possible.

npteljes · 4 days ago

Even that is false. There are many more countries with fewer scams per capita, and with fewer amount lost at scams per capita. Meaning, Singapore falls behind other countries in elimination of scams.

See page 9 here for details: https://cdn.newswire.com/files/x/71/6f/93551958ddf942fb585b0...