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by n2d4 1y ago
Almost — it was made by Legboot, who makes similarly weird stuff, but to my knowledge is not the same person https://x.com/LegbootLegit
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by n2d4 1y ago
Python absolutely does have private members. If a member starts with two underscores, its class name (and an underscore) is prefixed to the member name, essentially resulting in the same behavior as a private modifier. (Although there are w
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by n2d4 1y ago
This was certainly true for animated movies in the 2000s (where Pixar clearly dominated), although not the companies as a whole. Pixar shareholders (including Jobs) owned about 15% after the deal. This isn't a reverse acquisition, it&#
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In what way does Pixar's IP overshadow Disney's? Listing the highest-grossing media franchises [1], Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Star Wars, and Disney Princesses are on #2-#5 respectively, while Pixar's top spot is #16 with
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by n2d4 1y ago
Yea, and it was a great read too. I wish more researchers would publish blog posts alongside their technical whitepapers, although I acknowledge that not everyone involved in science has or wishes to acquire the skills needed to write blog-
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by n2d4 1y ago
It's still virtualization, so it'll necessarily be (slightly) slower than just running Linux natively. I don't think Apple's hardware makes up for that, certainly not at the price point at which they sell it.
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by n2d4 1y ago
This doesn't compete with Docker for Desktop, as more low-level than that. Docker for Desktop sits on-top of container/virtualization software (Hypervisor.framework and QEMU on Mac, WSL on Windows, containerd on Linux). So there&#
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by n2d4 1y ago
Touching Linux would not be enough. It would have to be a derivative work, which this is (probably?) not. Besides, I think OP wasn't talking about licenses; Apple has a lot of software under FOSS licenses. But usually, with their open-
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by n2d4 1y ago
Seems prebuilt packages were released exactly one minute after your comment: https://github.com/apple/container/releases/tag/0.1.0
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by n2d4 1y ago
They labeled it a nitpick. Seems fair.
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by n2d4 1y ago
Are you referring to Musk saying "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely"? It's just a joke, it's a version of Occam's razor — I can't find any mention of him arguing that this is genuinely how the wo
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by n2d4 1y ago
> So, "if people kiss your ass enough, they get contract" does not seem to be a long-term viable strategy. (Exhibit A: Musk.) But Musk initiated it, by going against Trump's bill. The new conclusion is "to get contrac
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by n2d4 1y ago
There's a filter for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=unqualified-reservati... You can also use https://hn.algolia.com to find it.
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What makes Scott a crank?
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by n2d4 1y ago
"All rights reserved" no longer means anything anymore. In the past, you had to state that you want to reserve copyright, but now this has become the default even if you say nothing. Either way, this does not conflict with GPLv3;
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by n2d4 1y ago
OP, you're not getting a lot of nice words in the comments here — understandably, many are upset with DOGE — but I appreciate you taking the time to write this. It's a great insight into DOGE and the motivations of the people that
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by n2d4 1y ago
This is pretty well-accepted as far as I'm aware — but I don't think anyone has sufficiently shown that the sugar in ice cream is less risky than sugar in, say, fruits or yogurt (which often has 5-10x less!) AFAIK, the leading the
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> The nutritionists who have tried to prove that evident theory have all admitted that the health benefits of the ice cream are akin to those of the yogurt. That doesn't sound like they "admitted" to anything. It can at th
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> I feel that if AI companies themselves had security conscious designs in the first place, there would be less need for this stuff. They do, but this "exploit" specifically requires disabling them (which comes with a big fat
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by n2d4 1y ago
They're different concepts with similar symptoms. Overfitting is when a model doesn't generalize well during training. Reward hacking happens after training, and it's when the model does something that's technically corr
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by n2d4 1y ago
It can and will hallucinate. Multiple users have reported Claude Code attempting to run `rm -rf ~`. There's a reason why YOLO mode is called YOLO mode. That was already true before, and has nothing to do with the experiment mentioned i
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by n2d4 1y ago
If a user says "thank you" as a separate message, then that will require all the tokens from the system message + previous state of the chat. It's not about the single word "please". That said, no one was "anno
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by n2d4 1y ago
That's not true. The pandemic ended as Omicron became the dominant strain, which was by some measures 90% less fatal than Delta. It's selective breeding; because we became careful about recognizing symptoms, any severe strain woul
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by n2d4 1y ago
You're saying that about Paul Graham, of all people? His Wikipedia page lists him as a "computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor", in that order. He wrote various Lisp books before founding Viaweb, a
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Most commonly, the pips are slightly dug out, then paint is put into the holes.
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An interesting way to spice up any board game is to openly use loaded dice, but without any player knowing which numbers it favors. This adds a layer of strategy to whatever game you're playing, although it loses its appeal when people
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Why would that be illegal? In the Beeper case, the DOJ has not been sympathetic to companies attempting to ban third-party messaging clients of proprietary protocols [0] — is WhatsApp different? The WhatsApp archiver, from what I can tell,
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by n2d4 1y ago
> Some speculate this was intentional intelligence gathering by the Israelis which is plausible too. How does this make sense? If they were gathering data, why would they add a public download? Surely the Israeli officials would not
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Then what do you claim the implied conclusion is?
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by n2d4 1y ago
The implied conclusion ("Copilot made 1000 changes to the codebase") is also not survivorship bias. By that logic, literally every statement would be survivorship bias.

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