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by hamilyon2 2y ago
This is now my favorite hacker news comment
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
>your infra costs are much lower Last time I checked TCO was higher unless you are sort of big enterprise or individual who values her time zero. Do not get me started on capex
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Something to note is there is a thousand of experiments running on YouTube at the same time. They test a lot of stuff directly on users. Try VPN, change user agent and/or open in private browsing mode to get a different set of feature
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I always found it astonishing that security and integrity of the internet often rests upon “but TCP sequence numbers are unguessable”
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Reading some codebase is nobody's first choice. It is something you reach for in a pinch. So readable well commented code is not optimisation for common case. It is for an edge case. God help you if you are investigating something bad,
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I noticed that GPT-4o is much more competent in analyzing photos of various aircraft and answering questions about aerial photos than GPT-4. I thought that my finding was coincidental, sample size of 1 and pure bias. Maybe it isn't, ma
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Nitrogen fixing bacteria and biofertiliser certainly exist https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464700/
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I would also appreciate a coocoo table with all known pwned passwords. To at least use it on frontend on sign up/password change form to help reduce credential stuffing efficiency.
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
What do you think about power plants apparently needing a lot of fresh, relatively cold, relatively clean water? A precious resource in future.
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X is not working on Firefox(connect.mozilla.org)
2 points by hamilyon2 2y ago|1 comments
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
All sorts of low-brow copy-and-paste search-and-replace work. Like: create curl request from this tcpdump exchange. Or, take this slightly corrupted sql query from logs and print it properly. Too amorphous and infrequent to properly automa
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I agree with many other commenters here. The danger of AI is not an uncontrollable superhuman. The danger is much more close, down to earth and real. Misidentified speech when we apply LLMs in chat moderation. Wrong conclusions summarising
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
> In machine learning, one of the popular ways to improve the accuracy of a model that is underperforming is to increase its complexity. And this technique worked with the Game of Life. For those who didn't read the article, the con
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Image editing capabilities are... nice. Not there yet. Whatever I was doing with Chatgpt 4 became faster. Instant win. My test benchmark questions: still all negative, so reasoning on out-of distribution puzzles is still failing
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I really appreciate that they added weight to the description. Puts things into perspective. Nowadays typically umbrella weights 300 to 500 grams
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I thought the word "mecha" is used to describe devices which are operated by humans, like a Gundam. Essentially mecha is anthropomorphic tank. "Robot" is used to describe autonomous system, like Marvin or Laputian Robot
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Half of web in Russia is blocked. Literally, powers that be think of Russian tech companies as of their servants and nothing more. Yandex basically sold their main asset, domain name to other entity.
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Is the best-selling game on every platform Minecraft casual or hardcore? What about Heartstone which allows you to play as much as you like, even once a year (and win), competitive and addictive: choose three. It is as if the casual true di
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Unfortunately, yandex is destined to fade into irrelevance for the reasons that has nothing to do with the tech.
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
I really hope that C++ evolves with gamedev and they become more and more symbiotic. Maybe adoption of rust by gamedev community isn't the best thing to wish to happen to language. Maybe it is better to let other crowd to steer evoluti
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Well of course. JSR is java specification request.
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
"And how is it technically possible to ban a website in US?" "We will just use the same thing we introduced and sweared it will ever be used only, ONLY to protect children"
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by hamilyon2 2y ago
Pghero is kind of gem
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
Summarising my experience as user and developer of music applications on mobile and mobile-like devices. Those are bugs. There is usually no real reason for stutter, silence, distortion and certainly not performance reasons. This was kind o
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Open-Source OpenGL/SDL2 Reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri(github.com)
1 points by hamilyon2 3y ago|1 comments
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
What if we grind asteroids and send bags of sand from orbit? Sand will overheat while falling giving us free energy and sand. Sand is valuable.
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
Plateau of productivity is still out there waiting, it is just not in 1 year, as some investors and valuations assume. In 10 years the impact will be so profound LLMs will be everywhere, in 15 years we will not even recognise industry. Mobi
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
There is also android/AOSP which is big, comparatively and runs on linux
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
How does it get around apple GPL ban?
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by hamilyon2 3y ago
Well, in some languages "kernel", "nucleus", and "cannon ball" is the same word. Just imagine hilarity talking about military and software.

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