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by mindcrime 4mo ago
Not Ai, Trusted Citizen Indicated Or Suggested?
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
Welcome to Vietnam 2.0. Or I guess 3.0 if you count the quagmire in Afghanistan.
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
Huh. Interesting. I gotta admit, I don't known what this will ultimately lead to for SO and their business model, but give them props for at least conducting a pretty interesting experiment.
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
These guys (the publishers) are fighting last year's war. Nobody (to a first approximation) gives a shit about going to the NY Times website, or The Guardian website, or the BBC website, etc. to find information. They expect to use sea
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The Life and Works of Raoul Bott (2002)(arxiv.org)
16 points by mindcrime 4mo ago|2 comments
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
"The first 80% is easy... it's the second 80% that gets you."
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
... and only until the whole thing can be fully formalized with an approved PEP. I'm no Python insider, but that doesn't sound horribly controversial to me. And yet, I have a hunch it will piss off a lot of people nonetheless an
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
I don't remember one specific moment, but I was fairly impressed with ChatGPT from the first time I started interacting with it. Was I ready to call it "AGI"? No, absolutely not. But it was clear that it was something new,
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
C'mon man. I know everybody has seemingly given up on trying to have non-ambiguous / redundant names for things, but that's a little on the nose, considering that there is an actual programming language called Arc already. h
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
It's amazing that after all these years, a famous criticism of Neuromancer seems to have been mooted. That is, the bit about Case having that stash of stolen RAM that was his "big score" for the moment, and how Linda Lee st
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
I haven't always been the biggest fan of systemd in some regards, but I will say that I mostly agree with this sentiment. I've almost completely quit using cron, and now favor systemd timers for scheduled jobs - at the "syste
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMqXOcazWaT...
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'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut(variety.com)
224 points by mindcrime 4mo ago|186 comments
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
And there's nothing "wrong" with the GoF Patterns per-se. The issue was always people applying them blindly without understanding why (or more to the point, "if") they were needed. Once writing code filled with patt
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The Value of Science – Poincare [pdf](academicweb.nd.edu)
3 points by mindcrime 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 4mo ago
> I don't quite get it why they can't take another LLM and vet the output of the first with the second one. Yes, this technique and its variations[1][2] "work" but it's still not 100% perfect. And it's not a
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
As far as I can tell, Lattice products are the best if you're interested in using F/OSS tools. Yosys / Icestorm supports the Lattice ICE40 and ECP5 devices. QuickLogic also apparently do some officially supported F/OSS s
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IBM and Red Hat Commit $5B to Redefine Future of Open Source for AI Era(newsroom.ibm.com)
5 points by mindcrime 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
> I quite like Stephen F. Roberts' "I just believe in one less god than you". Agreed, and I've become rather fond of using that line of discussion over the years.
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
Hot Aisle on Twitter say they heard it directly from AMD, but I haven't seen any kind of public announcement yet. https://twitter.com/HotAisle/status/2059706563665998317
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
I never had much religious faith to begin with, despite growing up in the Bible Belt and having some devoutly religious family members. I was just sort of always a natural skeptic, and somebody who was drawn to the hard sciences, and wanted
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Linux reportedly restored to the free version of Vivado(twitter.com)
6 points by mindcrime 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
I don't use it at all. The only Meta app I do use is Instagram and I'm rarely on there to be honest. Don't use Tik-Tok either, FWIW.
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
The only way I'd pay for FB or Insta would be if one of the perks was "no ads". If that's not a feature, then it's a non-starter for me. Are there other things that would be "nice to have"? Sure. But I&#x2
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
As far as I'm concerned (and I know I won't be in the majority here, but whatever) non-ironic or non-meta usage of the term "clanker" for "agent" just makes one sound like a dumbass. It's not cool, it&#x27
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
Why? Stranger kidnappings are down since you were a kid. What media are you consuming and what is it saying? "if it bleeds, it leads" has long been an adage that the news talks more about violence than other things, so take the v
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
As a GenX kid who was pretty much literally "raised on hose water and neglect", I find it incredibly hard to relate to modern parenting (disclaimer: I don't have children). I had SO much freedom to roam around and do stuff, a
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
Fair enough. I just wouldn't lean on one single "tell" like that to judge an entire article, at least not as a general rule. But that's just me.
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
> "Not X, not y, not z, A!" You know, humans do that sometimes as well. Not GenAI's, not Agents, not automated systems, but actual humans!
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by mindcrime 5mo ago
Ask HN: "Does Anybody Actually Like HN Engagement Bait"?

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