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by qsort 4mo ago
Modern encyclicals aren't written in Latin anymore. They're drafted in Italian and the title is the Latin translation of the incipit. Indeed, the beginning of the Italian text is: "La magnifica umanità creata da Dio si trova
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by qsort 4mo ago
I have only skimmed it, will definitely read carefully as soon as I have time. I will say, as an atheist, that regarding technology the Vatican has some of the best takes of any institution/government I have ever seen.
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by qsort 4mo ago
Jira is the ultimate example of the concept of alienation. If Marx knew about Atlassian the Grundrisse would have been insanely lit.
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by qsort 4mo ago
I am obviously paraphrasing, but the general idea is that trying to synthesize style from a codebase into e.g. a markdown guide generally doesn't work very well. What achieves style transfer is providing the model with a lot of example
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by qsort 4mo ago
I think it's downstream of "you can't optimize for two different objectives". If you only have functional requirements, then in effect you're doing some form of program synthesis, and RL can optimize that very hard.
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by qsort 4mo ago
100%. I use AI more than most and always with frontier models from OpenAI/Anthropic, but most of the AI features I see around are complete slop. Like why would I ever want to interact with slow, unresponsive JS popups and the cheapest
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by qsort 5mo ago
Great to see Veronica at the top of HN. She's a great creator, highly recommend her content.
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by qsort 5mo ago
It's hard to find the kind of person who likes both, but the ultimate CLI enabler is AI. Ironically, since the rise of actually useful agents I've been using less web and GUI stuff and more CLI. git, ssh, vim, tmux, psql, sqlite3,
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by qsort 5mo ago
Yeah, but applied to counters it would be the symmetric difference between multisets, which doesn't have a natural definition. If I understood the proposal they'd be defining it as absolute value of the difference of the counts, w
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by qsort 5mo ago
> Could the be a good "mom and pop" OS Hate to be that guy, but if that's your problem just hand them an iPad or a Chromebook. Unsatisfying, I know, but it's not like my mom is Mrs. Roberts. A WSL-like for Win9x is mo
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by qsort 5mo ago
Same here, Windows 2000 is peak UI, I never liked the Frutiger Aero aesthetics. My only criticism is that it was, in a sense, too successful and elements like the taskbar and start menu got ossified and the design stagnated. Apple's
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by qsort 6mo ago
But if they ever choose to decommission it, they have the chance to do the funniest thing: https://scryfall.com/card/plst/INV-156/obliterate
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by qsort 6mo ago
I agree with this. I'm writing this message even though I don't have much to add because it's often the case on HN that criticism is vocal and appreciation is silent and I'd like to balance out the sentiment. Anthropic h
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by qsort 6mo ago
Great stuff! Congrats on the release!
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by qsort 6mo ago
It's behind Opus 4.7 in SWE-Bench Pro, if you care about that kind of thing. It seems on-trend, even though benchmarks are less and less meaningful for the stuff we expect from models now. Will be interesting to try.
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by qsort 6mo ago
The article is more about a certain style of "modern" games, which is an interesting strand but does not exhaust the category: classic games (chess, go, shogi, backgammon), card games (bridge, poker), TCGs (magic the gathering, he
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by qsort 6mo ago
It seems like they're doing something with the system prompt that I don't quite understand. I'm trying it in Claude Code and tool calls repeatedly show weird messages like "Not malware." Never seen anything like tha
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by qsort 6mo ago
A couple of alternative scenarios, although I'm not sure how much stock we should put in them: - what if at a certain level of capability you're essentially bug-free? I'm somewhat skeptical that this could be the case in a st
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by qsort 6mo ago
> I suspect there might not be love for this angle here, but there's something else that follows this format: God. Spirituality. Religion. Yes, and that's because God, spirituality and religion make fuzzy truth claims and can b
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by qsort 6mo ago
Basically the rules are that you can use AI, but you take full responsibility for your commits and code must satisfy the license. That's... refreshingly normal? Surely something most people acting in good faith can get behind.
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by qsort 6mo ago
insane they needed to be told
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by qsort 6mo ago
The article says exactly that: > As much as chess players can prepare, they can’t memorize everything. When they’re sitting at the board, their computers slumbering at home, they will inevitably be defined by the limits of their knowledg
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by qsort 7mo ago
Those are crowdsourced benchmarks. We're calling them "cognitive" and "AGI" now, though. It's similar to when they made a benchmark and called it "GDP". To be clear, I think we've seen very fast
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by qsort 7mo ago
I think the concept is great, I'd love something like this even more broadly, sort of a daily "customizable" newspaper. The issue I see is that it's a bit... bland? Obviously you're doing this with AI and there&#x27
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by qsort 7mo ago
I think the argument is "a bit too nice," it isn't a binary, motivations are complicated and sometimes both feelings coexist. If I reflect for a moment about why I personally got into tech, I can find at least a few different
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by qsort 7mo ago
> That's partly an illusion. Try doing everything manually. After only using inline suggestions for six months a few years ago, I've noticed that my skills have gotten way worse. I became way slower. You have to constantly exer
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by qsort 7mo ago
I don't think the split is along seniority lines. Many juniors have adopted LLMs even faster. In many quarters it has also become a kind of political issue where "all the people I hate love LLMs so I must hate them."
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by qsort 7mo ago
it's a typo, but you've gotta admit Lorenzo il Magnifico on a 90s BBS dealing with political scandal in a steampunk Florence is a sick premise for a novel.
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by qsort 7mo ago
It became famous in Italy even among non-techies because it was involved in a large scale police operation in 1494 dubbed the "Fidonet crackdown". https://www.wired.com/1994/08/hacker-crackdown-italian-st
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by qsort 7mo ago
Isn't this some extreme distortion of semantics though? Going by the majority usage of those words, "democracy" and "republic" mean different but not incompatible things and the claim that America isn't a count

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