mwkaufma

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by mwkaufma 5mo ago
Where are the PageRanks of yesteryear?
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by mwkaufma 5mo ago
A short paragraph of interesting content inflated by LLMs into repetetive multiple-page slop and bulleted lists. Skip the middleman and just post the prompt if you're not going to bother copywriting.
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by mwkaufma 5mo ago
"An operation is idempotent if applying it once or many times has the same intended effect." No -- Idempotent means _no_ side-effects.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Nationalist fearmongering. Why is this frontpage HN?
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
How does it become more "plausible" just by doing number-wang absent one iota of external confirmation? It's a tautology.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
"probably" according to what? Just producing a possible decomposition of a graph and arbitrarily assigning meaning to the components is rationalization, not empirical inquiry.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
"Gui Wonderland" series header is underlined but isn't a hyperlink. Oversight, or minor nit designed to make me crazy?
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
First half: relatively cogent diagnosis of understood problems in computer privacy. Second half: specious claims about AI mostly based on a vague "we don't know what they can do, so maybe they can do anything?" rhetorical man
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Yeah I know I was there -- also today's wasteful "open-web alternatives" wouldn't fly anyway, because I recall even during the XP era having min-specs of, like, 800mhz/512mb
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Over a decade of circular "web apps are better for the subset of problems webapps are good at" tautologies.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
TL;DR compile with a fork of LLVM that enables runtime IR tracing. Very clever!
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Never before have people been able to effortlessly visualize whole landing pages to tell them to put glue on pizza.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
From the generated descriptions of the sample images, it looks like their prompt is asking for a vaguely center-right gloss on demographics? Is that the agenda of the site operators, or an appeal to presumed paranoid libertarian site visito
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Tell us more about this buggy "new internal service" that's scraping batch data :P
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Yes, there's a compat-shim in the stdlib/runtime, but not in the language syntax. E.g. it by-definition won't do escape-analysis and optimize discriminated value-types with the first-class keyword.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Looks like it's "just" type-erasure / syntactical sugar. E.g. value types are boxed.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
Alternate title: iTunes charts still easy to game.
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by mwkaufma 6mo ago
TIL 6+1 is not seven.
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
As the comment count in this thread increases, the ratio responding to the headline alone, and nothing in the article, is approaching 1.0.
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
"shortuct"
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
Like Cixin Liu's "Dark Forest" which inspired the author, this is science fiction. LLMs do not have and cannot obtain the capabilities the author is hand-wringing about, and the current much-hyped apparent-productivity will p
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
bootlicker commentariat
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
What does that have to do with RAM?
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
When your whole job is "giving notes", being flattered, and imagining your workers as cogs, prompting a chatbot probably does feel like "work."
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
Jumped out at me, after reading similar int32 promotion woes in bitfields yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469945 ): Integer promotion still breaks everything. int8_t + int8_t produces int32_t in C++. T
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
They DID such a refactor for Win NT under David Cutler. Even in that comparatively simpler time it was a huge undertaking, and required all-hands-on-deck management that doesn't exist anywhere in tech anymore, let alone at today's
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
tl;dr standard is unclear if they should respect the signed-ness of the declaration (MSCV), or always promote to int before converting to a receiving type (GCC, Clang). I suppose you could say MS's choice reflects a commitment to backw
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A Decade of Slug(terathon.com)
760 points by mwkaufma 7mo ago|80 comments
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
All the approaches beyond PyPy are to either use a different lang that's superficially similar to python or to write a native extension for python in a different language, which is at odds with the stated premise.
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by mwkaufma 7mo ago
"Datacenters are people, too!"

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