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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Me, discovering only now that Hugging Face was founded by French people. We're definitely better at maths than at promotion.
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
I suspect the parent commenter agree with you : broadband access DID cost a lot of money - and in a sense, the project was rushed, and an unexpected demonstration that public / private partnerships with the wrong incentive structure ca
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
"Baby Boom + Life Expectancy..." I dread at the idea that some startup is probably in stealth mode, ready to "disrupt funerals" by the end of the year. (Also, I dread the fact that I know a few boomers that I would actua
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Yeah, but at least I could "get" the Hogan discussion on HN, because of the Peter Thiel connection. But I also understand how the comment might have rubbed many people the wrong way, given how she seems to be one of the last few &
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Ok, I learned something. I mean, her name ringed a bell, but it does not seem like her popularity crossed the Atlantic (not as much as other artist, I mean.) Again, I have nothing against her, but I was surprised.
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
I must be missing some context : why is this news considered worthy of HN ? Is there an inside joke with dolly parton and tech ? (The loss is sad, don't get me wrong, but it's the second submission I see..)
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
And now the other aspect of the trade off is token budget allocation. The author seems to be in a situation where you can burn as many token as you want. I don't know if that's a general situation. (Even if you don't care abo
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
It's not exactly done in a pinch, but yeah, I guess someone must be working on disrupting CIs by the audacious value proposition of "we'll work when you need to".
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
They also sell the machinery to produce the slop (through OpenAI at least). If they make it harder to push slop on github, people might treat it as an incentive to generate less slop. Less tokens sold. Bad. Very bad. The github paying custo
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
I understand the need to level-head the discussion and calming everyone. However, your "(you don't)" comment is not going to calm down all the people, who, you know, DO have a hotfix to push now, and DO have an angry customer
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
In a sense, when we use scraps from agriculture in a methanizer to produce "bio" gaz, we are "learning" from people still using biomass. It's just that we mediate it through ch4 to avoid some of the worst health ris
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Indeed. Especially since HN is probably considered "old and cranky" but the younger generation, who get their dose of language flamewars and JS framework from some other place that I can't know of. (Can you get a decent &quot
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
When you say "mostly because of AI", do you mean because there are so many posts about AI (and it's hard to keep up with the latest coding harness or version of a model, which seems to pop up at a rate close to js frameworks
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
People will not die to starve in place. They will move. Can their neighbors afford to deal with that ? And their neighbors's neighbors ? Our "sovereign borders defended by true patriots making whatever great again" are going
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Which is why I mentioned _decarbonization_, not only renewables ;) (wood stoves are always this weird thing to put in the carbon cycle. It's "recent" carbon, not carboniferous, so... the But they're not very efficient.)
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
Completely agree. On the last point : given enough climate events, "decarbonization" will become a "national security" topic. Who knows what happens next. (First chapter of "Ministry for the Future" always come
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
"WE" is an interesting word, isn't it ? The author obviously meant "humanity". Not "him and a bunch of friends". That being said, this is hacker news, this is for the elite, and startups can disrupt everyt
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
The news that something is going better is a bit less "selling" than the news that something is going bad. But this is hacker news, we're supposed to be elite, and so, reading news from MIT [1] : yes, the hole is still there,
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by phtrivier 1mo ago
And China has plans that have some decarbonization baked in - and even the US are decarbonizing, no matter what the current administration says. Can they decarbonize _fast enough_ ? No idea... India and the rest of asia will be interesting
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Thanks, and thanks for the effort on jank ! Since you're here ;) : I read on the alpha doc that protocols and other part of the clojure object model are not done yet - is your goal to include them eventually, or is there a part of the
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
How much does this overlap / complements something like jank ? [1] How much "production ready" / "battle tested" would this be ? (Not to start a flame war, I'm genuinely curious about the differences.) [1]
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
This law is entirely meant for retirees with landlines (the only constituency that matters anyway in our gerontocracy.) In a sense, it's good to have someone try to tackle an actual problem (I know it's a pain to have to pick up t
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Unrelated, but the gallery of "drag icon to Applications" contains a screenshot of Joost : does anyone remember that ? It could have been Netflix or Youtube a decade before, if only there had been, you know, any good show to watch
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Impossible to disagree with the author, and yet something seems missing in the discussion... Let me check: Ctrl-F, 'deadline' 0 result. Oh, yeah, that's what missing from the discussion. And without any trolling, I'm cur
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Wait, where is the half of the article where he explains what Bob is doing differently ? I'm pretty sure everyone else in the hackathon was working on something "that mattered" (although, it's facebook, so "what mat
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Come on, Trump would never "tarrif" something called "El Nino". He would first deport it a couple times.
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
> [post 1] "One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible" > [post 2] "Of course they share responsibility." > As I said, responsibility has to be shared. Fair enough. I should have written that they share
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Of course they share responsibility. Pay scraps for slop, expect slop. The more useful job of a politician may be similar to how managers in general have a "more useful" part of their jobs then publishing status report. "Gath
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.) One of them is guilty
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by phtrivier 2mo ago
Oh, funny, I learned about her last week, in a biography of Alfred Nobel, but i only saw pictures of her young.

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