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by gary_0 2y ago
When I first heard "10x" I assumed it meant someone who had "10x" the effect with the same amount of effort. Someone experienced who can judo-chop problems away (if they're allowed to). Someone who force-multiplies
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by gary_0 2y ago
> I sincerely have no idea why people believe so strongly that a human-level AI can build a superhuman AI. ...how on earth would such an AI even know it succeeded? This touches on one of the few good reasons to be less ardent about AI&#x
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Wouldn't it make more sense for some of these features to be implemented as a desugaring step in the runtime itself? I think if it was that simple, it would be done that way already (maybe it is, for some features). Two big argume
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by gary_0 2y ago
We're also using an algorithm right now on HN, to sort comments and posts by freshness, votes, and reply count (plus manual moderation fairy dust sprinkled by dang and friends). Some people have even criticized it or dislike it, becaus
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by gary_0 2y ago
Given that the speed of light is the speed of causality, technically it's not really 420 million years in the "past" in any meaningful sense. The present is relative, not universal. The collected light we see in our telescope
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Flash is raster, SVG is vector. That seems wrong. Having made Flash content in the early 2000's, the drawing tools in the software were all vector-based, and vector-based animation was everyone's go-to since frame-by-frame ra
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by gary_0 2y ago
A developer who worked on the webkit SVG implementation went into some of the history in a HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082633
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> people are incredibly susceptible to manipulation Many truly disastrous things have already happened due to human-generated mass propaganda (and other forms of manipulation). I agree that AI can be used as a force amplifier (and Bria
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by gary_0 2y ago
There's no guarantee that current generative AI won't be hugely disruptive to the social order in the near future. But I don't think that qualifies as an "AI apocalypse", since the problem is that it's just a
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by gary_0 2y ago
A much-needed sanity check. After all, how is your world-ending AI going to have agency, the ability to affect the world? How do we get from text on a screen, to Destroying All Humans? AI doomers seem to have this Ancient-Greek-philosophy v
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by gary_0 2y ago
(2021) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374523
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> Also, the backpack look a bit bulky. Given that it's noticeably smaller than earlier spacesuits, and probably contains heavy-duty oxygen tanks, cooling and heating systems, a water supply, life-support monitoring, a honking big ba
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by gary_0 2y ago
Also Rust is far from the only language that gives you escape-hatches out of the safety sandbox where you can make a mess if you're reckless. Java, Python, Go, C#... (heck, C# also has an `unsafe` keyword) but hardly anyone would argue
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by gary_0 2y ago
I think any content the user might care to select should be selectable, even if native apps often neglect this feature. But I agree that UI elements (eg. buttons) should not be selectable. Even in regular websites, it's best to set the
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by gary_0 2y ago
Disabling the "bounce" scroll effect and pull-to-refresh can now be done with the `overscroll-behavior` CSS property, which is supported on all recent browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/We
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/tzxzr
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EPYC Turin Dense is TSMC 3nm and AmpereOne is TSMC 5nm, so that's to be expected. Given that most (all?) cutting-edge chips use TSMC nowadays, can you really have an apples-to-Apples comparison if the chips being compared aren't o
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It's even recommended in the PHP docs: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags....
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by gary_0 2y ago
I'm aware of the existing backup methods, but AFAIK they don't do a delta of only the changed pages (unless I use separate software), and "vacuum into" doesn't work over SSH. I have no need to store a backup on the
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by gary_0 2y ago
sqlite3-rsync is in the makefile. I got sqlite-rsync to build by just checking out the main branch and going: ./configure make sqlite3-rsync I think the rsync branch has been merged? I'm really excited for this new to
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> To make the most of phrase matching, stop words need to go. Perhaps I am misunderstanding; does this mean occurrences of stop words like "the" are stored now instead of ignored? That seems like it would add a lot of bloat. Ar
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Amadeus, released 40 years ago this month, 'an unmistakable stab at the USSR'(bbc.com)
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https://archive.ph/GXfgm
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by gary_0 2y ago
Not living up to your word because you lack the moral fortitude, rather than having ill intent from the beginning, is still lying. You said you would do something, then ended up doing effectively the opposite. "I didn't lie, circu
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Unfortunately, benefit to society seems to very rarely be the goal anymore. If it ever was. Most of these businesses are still owned by the same people--the Sam Altmans, the Brins and Pages, the Elon Musks, the Steve Huffmans--who star
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/RloOu
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In fact, these results imply that the benefits of re-writing the world are limited in terms of security. This raises the cost-benefit ratio of keeping mature legacy code and only using memory-safe languages for new code. This also implies t
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(2023)
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by gary_0 2y ago
The whole point of the Internet up until about 2019 was that it was so cheap to host information it was basically free. If your site scaled up, you covered the hosting costs with ads or donations or something. The expensive part was finding

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