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by phtrivier 3mo ago
I'm not trying to start a debate about relevance, but I can't recognize the faces on the 50 and 200 noted. An author and a "nature lover", I guess ?
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
> ""satire" is just a first draft with bad timing." I'm stealing this one. Sorry, I mean, "I'm going to train a frontier model on the finest of content available in the information space", and the
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Well, the code for the ad engine was 100% from codex, so "it can make mistakes", but who doesn't ?
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Don't know if it's off topic, ad hominem, or whatnot : but this substack is an almost comical example of a "one-post-poney". The author is VERY much a fan of phytoplankton fertilization. He does not cite many other peopl
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
That actually seems great ! My understanding is that it has to wrap ASDF package, so is there a risk of trying to find a well known lib, but not finding it because the authors refuse to create a ocicl package for some complex political reas
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
- a single, canonical, sanctified toolchain for "all the things that are require but don't matter" What's the "cargo xxx" of lisp ? It depends. Maybe it's "quicklisp something". Maybe it's &
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
From my experience, to be happy I would need the perf of sbcl, the syntax, litterals and data structure of clojure, the begginer-friendlyness of drracket, the type system of ocaml, and the dev experience of rust. Does that exist somewhere ?
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
To be honest I suspect the tech has been available here too, but the marketing is just confusing. But again, "cooling your house to survive summer" is, for real, a pretty recent concern to have in Europe, as opposed to "heati
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
> because a heat pump is just an "evil" AC running in reverse I keep hearing that, and then I keep hearing people tell me that you can't just put an heat pump, run it in "reverse" and "pretend" to have
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Air Conditioning. Aka "La clim'" in France. For some context: the conversation about climate change in general, and the recent heatwaves in particular, has been (quite cynically, but cleverly) reframed by far-right parties to
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Yup, we can dream bigger and give bigger dreams :) A silver lining in the tech progress is this : I remember watching movies from the 60s or the 70s, in the 90s, and feeling "damn, that looks old". I could only care about movies m
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Here's to "trying to be someone's childhood heroes"
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Hi ! The "artistic direction" is a bit original, but that's your thing, and you're free to present it anyway you want, of course ! I think the biggest problem people / I had when reading the list was the "based
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
So, ChatControl 1.0 (the volontary, limited one that expired and is being revived) has been active for about 2 years now. Concretely, are there documented examples of abuses ? Are the checks & balance sufficient ? I understand ChatContr
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
Yeah, sales take part in the blame game too, otherwise they would miss on the fun. I don't see many salesperson quit their job to become carpenters, though, so maybe the huge paychecks help. Go figure. That being said, engineers usuall
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
This article could have been written 20 years ago (source : I was there), probably 50 years ago, and will probably be written for ever. (Although future éditions will have fun about AI.) What I would love is to read more of the story from t
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by phtrivier 3mo ago
What is the reference, unbiased, honest, reputable and trustworthy site that ranks and compare models on the couple of realistic metrics that matters ? ("Does it work for code", "no, I mean, for real", "how much doe
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
Sorry if it's a meta post, or a faq, or if I'm just missing some HN lore here, but I finally have to ask : why is it that, everytime there's a new release for OpenTTD (and 0ad, for that matters), it makes it to the front page
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
My post should have used quotes around "AI and blockchain" (or maybe read "AI and blockain and VR and whatever"). By that I meant "they don't pretend they're going to solve a hard problem by vaguely handwa
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
No idea of whether those people ar competent, or if it's a PR stunt. Good luck to them. I've joked often enough that "a vaccine for common cold" would have changed my life. Also, I'm: - happy that they don't cl
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." The building is not burned down. Not making everything worst all the time has to be the first step. Second derivativ
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
I'm one of the few who absolutely believe they're not one of the rare "good" - hopefully, "not yet". What resources do you recommend to improve ?
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
> The boats are still being built, but Vela said it hopes to have five trimarans operating by 2030 to meet its once-a-week shipment goal. Why is it always like this ? "Slight improvement to be delivered in beta in a 5 years for limi
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
I assume you're seing hints of antisemitism here (which is a real topic for French far left, don't get me wrong.) That being said, I suspect people in ASI can read Liberation, so they would know that Etienne Klein comes from a Cat
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
No. I think people who seriously took part i SpaceX IPO just bought a very expensive lottery ticket, while pretending that it's "being an SpaceX shareholder". But it's fun to gamble (a bit) ! My personal limit for lotte
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
Many people became millionaires last week during SpaceX IPO. Surely they will "give back" to the giants whose shoulders they were standing on, and start creating foundations to hire back those researchers, grant them enough money
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
The first person who builds a successful meme around "fossil fuels are woke and for weak men, only solar-nuclear-punk is for real american machos" will have a vastly positive contribution to the world.
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
It's too bad that AI is only going to solve climate change and cure cancer, it would have been great if it could also cure asthma and solve rampant corruption. Anyway, now that half of HN readers are SpaceX shareholder, directly or ind
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by phtrivier 4mo ago
Should Europe put sensors on the US coast to continue measuring the collapse of the AMOC ? I'm not 100% sure the US navy would enjoy that. Europe will find proxy measurements to confirm that, thanks in no small part to US politicians,
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The Cost of Killing 'Silly Science'(profgmedia.com)
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