imjonse

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by imjonse 3mo ago
While the majority of comments are absolutely right in recognizing and lamenting such situations plaguing our industry, let's not forget this is an ultimate first world problem. It can be stressful and frustrating but we are a privileg
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by imjonse 3mo ago
It's no coincidence cigarettes were named 'torches of freedom' to get women to start paying up for the privilege of using them a hundred years ago.
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by imjonse 4mo ago
A website stating the obvious, given small target audience it will probably reach, and a call to arms consisting in emailing a random unknown person. We're saved /s Instead of doing a vanity site with a shelf-life of a few days, s
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by imjonse 4mo ago
The obvious question is, how many of those were the sort that writing in a memory-safe language would make impossible? They should prompt one of the more adventurous LLMs to find security bugs and with some luck it will deviate from the pro
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by imjonse 4mo ago
Small government has always been a euphemism for a government working on less distribution of wealth. Governments always intervene in the economy one way or another.
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by imjonse 4mo ago
To what extent are the mechanisms you identified causing companies to go bad the same for non-profits, associations, political parties, etc.?
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by imjonse 4mo ago
Since that is valid for every model from any country, it's a good idea to review the code the agent creates :)
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by imjonse 4mo ago
They forgot to add 'make it as simple as possible' in the prompt is one possible cause. On a more serious note using a react-like lib for TUI in the hope you'll share the codebase with the web version is a more likely explana
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by imjonse 4mo ago
How experienced were you at that time?
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by imjonse 5mo ago
Being able to finetune is part of 'the gains of AI shared globally', so it's ok.
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by imjonse 5mo ago
"How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this" Somebody inform Anthropic about open models and research.
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by imjonse 5mo ago
it wasn't about industrialization, but about not being complicit, the machine was the metaphor for the system (this was the 1960s)
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by imjonse 5mo ago
'usa ip theft 19th century' in your fav search engine
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by imjonse 5mo ago
Hammock-driven development will get a new meaning.
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by imjonse 6mo ago
They're OSS projects in a friendly competition, both working towards the goal of having alternatives to big closed source players. No need for jabs.
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by imjonse 6mo ago
If anyone cares about plants suffering they should go vegan, as many more plants are consumed to raise animals than would be if there was a direct plant intake in humans for the same amount of calories and nutrients. Ditto for land use, wat
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by imjonse 6mo ago
> The real answer is something HN doesn't like so I won't advocate it openly, but it involves society paying to take care of people to provide homes, provide medical access, things like this. Neither party is interested in that
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by imjonse 6mo ago
nice to see that.
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by imjonse 6mo ago
It probably goes against Vim tradition, culture and freedom to choose, but I wish they added even more built-in features (like Helix) that are currently implemented in competing and sometimes brittle plugins and have to be put together into
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by imjonse 6mo ago
"The TurboQuant paper (ICLR 2026) contains serious issues in how it describes RaBitQ, including incorrect technical claims and misleading theory/experiment comparisons. We flagged these issues to the authors before submission. The
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by imjonse 7mo ago
games could cause a lot of 'lost' time, but you had a say in games; there's a lot more consuming and almost no producing in social media use. And games did not cause you anxiety and FOMO, nor did they programatically lure you
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by imjonse 7mo ago
> It’s called parenting. That clearly is required here, but the scale of the existing and potential harm is such that relying on parenting only is the equivalent of using paper instead of plastic straws when the worlds biggest companies
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by imjonse 7mo ago
> I don't envy the kids that found an outlet doing something productive only to have a nanny state eventually rip it away from them. 99% of today's social media usage is the opposite of productive, too bad the laws concentrate
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by imjonse 7mo ago
what other assumptions sound more reasonable?
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by imjonse 7mo ago
As a european I see what you mean, but that 'we all' in your sentence probably hasn't included those from Latin America, and large parts of Africa or Asia since long before Trump. The US pulled quite a few less than admirable
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by imjonse 7mo ago
I was a bit worried you are paraphrasing Rob Pike, but no, he actually agrees with that Knuth quote. I am almost certain that people building bloated software are not willfully misunderstanding this quote; it's likely they never heard
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by imjonse 7mo ago
> On the LLM Architecture Gallery, it’s interesting to see the variations between models, but I think the 30,000ft view of this is that in the last seven years since GPT-2 there have been a lot of improvements to LLM architecture but no
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by imjonse 7mo ago
It's more likely the other way around, the .ai domain with a fairly generic and maybe future-proof name needed a quick vibecoded project to not be empty when it launches.
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by imjonse 7mo ago
One should acknowledge the role genes/luck play in disease, while also admitting that there are a few foods about which there is more or less consensus they are very bad for your health. So you can roll your eyes if someone suggests ea
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by imjonse 7mo ago
At least some of that money should definitely go towards improving his powerpoint slides on JEPA related work :)

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