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by matherial 1mo ago
Setting a swarm of agents loose for hours to look for software vulnerabilities is far more compute-expensive than fuzzing. The industry has never thrown this kind of compute resources at pure fuzzing, in part because you can't get muc
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by matherial 1mo ago
> I don't think Zitron is wrong, exactly. He's just early. By that metric, so was Nostradamus. The apocalypse is coming for sure, we're just quibbling about the timeline. Realistically, timing is everything. You don't
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by matherial 1mo ago
If the parent knows electronics, that's already a pretty good predictor that the kid will learn it too. But in the absence of that, the kit itself doesn't teach much. The instructions don't really explain the circuits, they j
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by matherial 1mo ago
I think it's the same story as with Snap Circuits for learning electronics, or baking soda + citric acid "chemistry sets". Many parents really wanted their kids to have a STEM career, and so we lowered the bar to the point wh
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by matherial 1mo ago
First, as others have said, a lot of translation work doesn't involve high-brow fiction. It's reference material of all sorts. Technical books, manuals, software localizations, etc. Second, you vastly overestimate the desire that
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by matherial 1mo ago
I strongly disagree, for reasons that are different from what's discussed in the thread. It doesn't matter if LLMs can't hold a candle to some of the finest human writing. What matters is that before you become a world-renown
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by matherial 1mo ago
Although Zuse definitely received too little credit in the West (for somewhat understandable political reasons), there's another Zuse museum in Hünfeld, along with exhibitions at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. So this is not as
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by matherial 1mo ago
They aren't, they're one of the people who latch on longstanding and neutral syntax (em-dashes, "it's not $foo") as a proof of LLM text. I don't blame them because HN has a lot of people trying to pass gen AI s
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by matherial 1mo ago
You're chasing ghosts, son.
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by matherial 1mo ago
Being right is not the most important part. If you're right but don't convince anyone, you've made no difference. Theo was right that virtualization is a comparatively shoddy security boundary. At the same time, it's fle
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by matherial 2mo ago
Modern electret and MEMS microphones are almost flat from 100 Hz to 10 kHz. Here's an example plot: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/uploads/articles/CCTB_PUIME... In contrast, small speakers, especially non-
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by matherial 2mo ago
For a typical program, I bet that the overall impact of the glibc allocator is well under 0.1%. If you can choose between < 0.1% and < 0.12%, I guess it matters in some sense, but not in any practical way. We almost never spend time o
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by matherial 2mo ago
If your algorithm does a ton of small allocations to the point where the allocator is the bottleneck, you're already doing it wrong. The allocator necessarily comes with a lot of overhead because it needs to accommodate diverse use cas
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by matherial 2mo ago
No. Malaria epidemics occurred in medieval Europe, both in warmer countries (Italy, Greece) and in France, Germany and England. It was also common in portions of the US until large-scale eradication efforts. It's unlikely to become a p
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by matherial 2mo ago
Show me a person who truly revised their priors to put forward a novel solution to AI that isn't just "do the thing that I like and that benefits me in some way". The discourse around all this is a mix of quasi-religious beli
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by matherial 2mo ago
I don't think it's the same. People usually don't see their "relationship" with celebrities as peer-to-peer. They either look up or look down on them (i.e., idolize or hate). So the attention you get from fans as a
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by matherial 2mo ago
This appears to be a 100% AI-generated essay, not the first from ACM and not the last. Your call if you want to spend your day reading and arguing with the article; the author presumably didn't.
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by matherial 2mo ago
I'd put it differently. The affirmation we were accustomed to generally had some substance. If someone called, sent you a postcard, or met with you, it probably meant they cared at least to some extent. Social media strips all that awa
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by matherial 2mo ago
In the SF Bay Area, I'd bet good money that the vast majority of work like that is unpermitted. When I was adding an EV charging station to my home, I actually paid a (reputable, licensed) electrician and he rolled his eyes hard at m
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by matherial 2mo ago
> 30 years ago you needed PG / YC to have a startup. What's a "startup"? For the most part, you're just building a small business. You deal with local bureaucracies, learn about accounting, hire first employees,
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by matherial 2mo ago
To be fair, I wouldn't pin the blame on YC. Few people go to Ivy League universities to ponder ethics or philosophy. These schools are widely seen - by students and by parents - as an incredibly expensive way to "10x" your ea
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by matherial 2mo ago
I agree, but not everyone can. I've worked with several people who were top experts in their field and absolutely sucked at accessible explanations. The author alludes to it here: "the very expertise that makes the expert worth co
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by matherial 2mo ago
> TUIs and GUIs are both mostly bad for the same reason, you have to learn a new “language” of interaction for with each program ... Stop building user interfaces in general. A command line interface is best. A command-line interface is
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by matherial 2mo ago
Then ask an LLM. I'm serious, if you like the style. This article, despite the disclaimer, is almost certainly LLM-written. It's one of many ephemeral blogs that have been cropping up on HN lately and that post single-theme conten
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by matherial 2mo ago
The editor is not the one producing the text. For this book, the sample chapter seems to make heavy use of LLM output. Pangram agrees. I guess that for books about AI it's fair game? Eat your own dog food so to speak. People who don&#x
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by matherial 2mo ago
There's no reason they would preferentially travel through the lens and hit the current frame because most of the camera and film housing is about as transparent to gamma radiation as glass. Or maybe more transparent, because glass len
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by matherial 2mo ago
The police have SWAT teams, guns, and jails, Flock does not. So I think the state security apparatus is a part of the problem, because if they don't like you and have access to surveillance technology, the outcomes can be far more seve
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by matherial 2mo ago
Winona, MN has a population of 20k. I've never been there, but if it's like any of the small towns I lived in, most people trust the local police. If anything, the usual small-town complaint is that the police are not doing enough
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by matherial 2mo ago
I'm not criticizing, I just found it amusing.
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by matherial 2mo ago
It's funny how so many of the articles are hyper-specific grievances, e.g.: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bose_QuietComfort_Sleepbuds_do... https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Tyre_warranty_sold_via

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