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by Lockal 1y ago
Screaming "you’re not just writing contemporary code—you’re building applications that are more maintainable, performant, and aligned"
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by Lockal 1y ago
A relevant task in uutils https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/4362 describes how io_uring universally helps in almost any disk operation util.
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by Lockal 1y ago
Some person on Twitter (self-proclaimed "Founder of Bedrock") is using ChatGPT to have fun, generate noise and get attention. Meanwhile, some other person (self-proclaimed "CEO of exodusorbitals") on HN hallucinates and&
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by Lockal 1y ago
"trivial modification of an existing exploit"... Why git does not use Landlock? I know it is Linux-only, but why? "git clone" should only have r/o access to config directory and r/w to clone directory. And no s
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by Lockal 1y ago
What prevents Apple from applying a quick anti-typo LLM which restores B0ris, unalive, fixs tpyos, and replaces "slumbering steed" with a "sleeping horse", not just for censorship, but also to improve generation results?
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by Lockal 1y ago
That's a good one: common API design is: /resources - return all resources /resources?type=a&type=b (or type=a,b) - return resources of given type. Then suddenly UI team implements checkbox-based deletion (or bulk edit).
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by Lockal 1y ago
(standing on the gallows awaiting his execution) First time? :) I've run into this a few times (only more so with Meta, not Google): well, they're within their rights not to pay. Purely theoretically, in my case it would be a laws
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by Lockal 1y ago
I scrolled down and don't see a single comment with word "fake" (but a lot of comments like "not real") - channel owner probably automatically shadowbans all users who write "fake".
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by Lockal 1y ago
I had to pinch myself seeing this red bar. TheRegister? Writing an article about novel C++ toolkit for Wayland apps? Looks like the world is really changing.
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by Lockal 1y ago
Meh, looks more like parroting. Also for word "polish": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864854 - I do not want AI to "polish" me
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by Lockal 1y ago
A smart person just said: my hypothesis that event is likely happen! It happens 90% of the time! Some time passed, the event did not happen. Same person said: ok, 50%, either happens or not. Some time passed, the event did not happen. Same
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by Lockal 1y ago
Just a note: this is not something new, this is well-explored, you can even run Windows 98 in the web version of DOSBox-X - see https://github.com/nbarkhina/doswasmx?tab=readme-ov-file#ins...
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by Lockal 1y ago
A person from Singapore here. In practice, this changes nothing (from the news standpoint). The most critical applications are already integrated with Play Integrity API. Singpass (ID system) is 100% unavoidable for every long-term visitor
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by Lockal 1y ago
This + unsolvable CAPTCHA loop[1] = killing device [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661
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by Lockal 1y ago
> Are there tools or methods the HN community uses to screen crypto addresses for potential scam or fraud exposure? Sure: function isRelatedToScamOrFraud(cryptoAddress) { return true; }
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by Lockal 1y ago
Probably this - https://github.com/skift-org/karm/blob/main/src/libs/karm-gc... And this is not a garbage collector in the traditional sense, more like arena with smart pointers.
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by Lockal 1y ago
Ah, "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do" - 1965
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Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video](youtube.com)
198 points by Lockal 2y ago|432 comments
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by Lockal 2y ago
I don't understand what is so spectacular in this experiment and why AI was needed to conduct it. The data was already skewed before it was fed to LLM: all words are encoded as vectors to the point where you can calculate similarity be
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by Lockal 2y ago
Maybe ComfyUI_LLMVISION[1] malicious extension then (my speculation based purely on the date of hack). Edit: yes, probably it was ComfyUI_LLMVISION[2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1dbls5n&#x2F
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by Lockal 2y ago
The case "God should get a promotion" if I understand correctly, is soundness (as in Rust) issue, with equivalent in C: `int increment(int x) { x + 1; }` - sound, not valid. The case with legal documents is equivalent in C sequenc
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by Lockal 2y ago
With rounding functions you can get to 7 with just ceil(2.2)+2+2
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by Lockal 2y ago
> programming languages can't be ambiguous Yes, in C++ we call it "unspecified behavior" and "undefined behavior"
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by Lockal 2y ago
A bit sad that they reused name of https://icl.utk.edu/magma/ (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multi-core Architectures). This library is already heavily used in machine learning, for example, it is included in every pytorch
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by Lockal 2y ago
This figure's previous successes: - seeked investors who would give him real money for a share of mythical bitcoins (if they could be found) - unsuccessfully tried to sue a council £500m in compensation for mythical bitcoins Current ch
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by Lockal 2y ago
It could be useful for audio editors like here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/undo_redo_and_history.ht... - many steps require full save of tracks (potentially dozens of them). It is possible to compress history
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by Lockal 2y ago
Tldr: out of 2400 (meaningless number, could be a quadrillion)records some of them will be released after cleaning. Still nothing new, journalist repeats the headline over and over.
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by Lockal 2y ago
Please stop creating *Throwaway accounts and posting LLM-generated texts pretending to be someone you're not.
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by Lockal 2y ago
This is _exactly_ how ChatGPT recently uses punctuation (to the point that it can be used for detection, replacing old "as an AI language model"). Not Claude (which refuses to process this text!), not DeepSeek, not Gemini (which p
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by Lockal 2y ago
"Conditional move is superior on CPU" is an oversimplification, in reality it was explained in 2007 by Linus[1] and nothing changed since then. Or in fact, branch predictors are constantly improving[2], while cmov data dependency

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