WCSTombs

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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
But the thing is, in this analogy, we are the chef, surgeon, or builder. We're the ones other people look for when they can't do the thing by themselves (in this case, writing software). Neither my analogy or yours is exact, but
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
The problem with this analogy is an LLM isn't very much like a "tool" at all. - In cases of practical relevance, you pay a recurring fee to keep using it - not very tool-like. - Rather than doing a predictable action in respo
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
> I believe that writing something yourself helps you learn it better, but at the same time, if you did all the thinking and now just prompting for a fancy auto-complete, we could argue that the hardest part (the design) was already don
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
The C++20 version is still clearly inferior to the Python and Lua examples because you still have to manually increment the counter in the loop body. IMO the sibling comment by HarHarVeryFunny has a much better C++ equivalent for this idiom
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
> The goal is to provide a public manifest and build log with every release. Using an open-source toolkit, a user should be able to independently compile the source code and generate a hash that matches the binary on their physical medi
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
As far as I know, EFF has always championed privacy.
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
In general old good stuff is easier to find than new good stuff, since over time the bad stuff becomes more irrelevant, but I feel there's also some truth to the over-optimization as you put it. However, while I mostly agree with the s
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
I think Cider9986's comment [1] on the OP covers it pretty well. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700061
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
A small camera can easily be covered up. You can't cover something that's embedded into the screen itself.
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by WCSTombs 3mo ago
I don't know how a "complete" guide can completely fail to mention NVIDIA. It doesn't seem straightforward to support older NVIDIA cards (on any OS, to be fair, not just on Linux). That's currently one of the issues
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
The question is slightly vague (since I could be going there not to wash my car), but I'm pretty sure in the intended interpretation, the actual distance is irrelevant. :)
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
Every time I've requested changes to a pull request because the reviewee didn't know the difference between .gitignore and .config/git/ignore, the reviewee appreciated learning about the feature. The person you're r
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
I like to use environment modules [1] (or lmod [2]) for that purpose. You can make each manually built software package available or not on a per-shell-session basis, just by running module load myapp or module unload myapp
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
Daigo is in fact playing as Ken in that famous clip, not Ryu.
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
(2025). > The obvious thing cities could try is to put more pressure on building operators to fill their spaces, but the building operators are already under a ton of pressure — they’re losing a bunch of money! So, cities could do somet
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
I normally only find such articles on Hacker News. If it just sort of smells like AI slop but I can't quite pinpoint the source of the smell, I stop reading and move on. If it's very clearly written by AI (as many are), I flag the
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by WCSTombs 4mo ago
I've been attending a small monthly one that's usually pretty good. I don't want to say too much about it because I don't think they'd appreciate the attention, but I'll say that it's broadly oriented towa
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
Mine uses Jekyll with a heavily customized Just-the-Docs theme. The other notable technology used on it is KaTeX, which I use to pre-render all the math formulas to HTML when generating the site.
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
So...big caveat that this is still under review, so what we're talking about is a moving target, but based on what I can see, it seems considerably more nuanced than that. They basically ban LLM-authored code, with a careful carve-out
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
Just an idea, but you could simply remove the names from the clues, and if you feel it's not a fair puzzle at the end, add slightly more guidance where needed (e.g., for the Lempel-Ziv one, say that the answer is two names), but honest
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
The clue for "Cooley-Tukey" is > Fast Fourier Transform algorithm popularized by J. W. Cooley and John Tukey during the Cold War; later used in Soviet Union nuclear-test detection In crosswords or trivia in general, you don&#
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
I have yet to hear of any actual mathematicians who spend effort on this stuff. It's a bit like arguing that the word "circle" would be better spelled "surkle": it's probably true, but it's a very surface-
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
How is that different from a discussion forum? Also, I think it's pretty normal to listen to podcasts when you're actively engaged in another activity like driving or cooking, and that's probably a big reason behind their pop
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
That definitely could be the case. I was also a bit surprised by what the article said, so I was simply trying to interpret it, but I'm not extremely well versed in ML so I could be missing some details. My main point was that contrary
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
Mathematically, it is literally a probability distribution, because it fits the definition of a measure whose total mass is one, so I think the language is just imprecise. What they may be trying to say is that semantically it doesn't
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
You're asking the right questions. The going theory as far as I can see is that training models is fair use (although it may not be fully resolved in the courts), in which case this whole exercise would seem to be pointless. If it were
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by WCSTombs 5mo ago
That is exactly my understanding as well, and certainly that was my intent in my GPL-licensed projects. Also, about conditions on redistribution, the vast majority of all open-source software places at least some mild conditions, like the p
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
Before even getting to any of the other issues people may have with generative AI, in my opinion by far the most important question is simply does the AI help students learn better? And it's pretty clear to me that the answer is &quo
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
Technically "it depends on the browser settings," but the body font Alegreya is served directly by the site, so I think it would be the one used in almost all cases. The math fonts used in the formulas are just the ones provided b
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by WCSTombs 6mo ago
> CDC warns new drug-resistant virus is rising in the US and posing major 'public health threat' > Normally, for these patients, their infection is quickly treated with antibiotics. Wait, so is it a virus, or is it treated w

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