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by rl3 7mo ago
> The Voodoo cards had no right to look as good as they did for their time. Nor did their marketing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35027437
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by rl3 7mo ago
>> Anyone who actually understands what OctantOS is Hi. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411267 Not sure if you saw that since you replied to other comments after. It's easy to miss all the way at the bott
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by rl3 7mo ago
A jacket cooler than black leather. So, probably denim. Realistically, pretty much anything.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Because it's the foremost headache-reducing language in existence. Complaints about its complexity no longer hold much water these days what with AI as competent as it is.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Pretty much, it's just that these overfed Markov chains when given a proper harness and agentic framework are able to produce entire software projects in a fraction of the time it used to take. Kerbel AGI program hits the nail on the h
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by rl3 7mo ago
> In a short period of time, AI would be so far ahead of us and our existing ideas, that the world would become unrecognizable. > That's not what's happening here ... On the contrary, it very much is. I'd argue AGI is
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by rl3 7mo ago
Hey, how are you holding up? Your GoFundMe is still at $0. Putting myself in your shoes, to say that's probably demoralizing is an understatement. I noticed that donating requires a real surname that matches the card info provided, whi
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by rl3 7mo ago
What makes you think anything this person wrote contains generated or AI-edited comments? That'd be like me assuming you don't have a soul. A rather callous assumption, really. Admittedly one with a better evidentiary foundation t
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by rl3 7mo ago
> I don't understand why do you think that having the option to have secure boot and a good, trustworthy sandbox for processes implies you cant run Linux on a VM or Linux beside Windows etc. I'm a big secure boot fan. The fact
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by rl3 7mo ago
> All of this is beyond horrific. Hot take: It's also totally unnecessary. The entire arms race is stupid. Proper anti-cheat needs to be 0% invasive to be effective; server-side analysis plus client-side with no special privileges.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Tentative working title is: McDang II: You Have the Right to Remain Shadowbanned
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by rl3 7mo ago
> ...then all the agent wranglers and LLM jockeys will become 100x supermen. Having anticipated this, I'm aiming for 1000x. Thing is, there's plenty of jerks out there aiming for 10,000x and 100,000x. It's almost like it&
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by rl3 7mo ago
> How can we filter the lightweight stuff while still benefiting from posts like these? Well, the simplest automated method would be to run the post and comment together through an LLM with a prompt that's roughly: "Is this pe
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by rl3 7mo ago
> Ideas will never not be cheap. Never say never. Besides, there's still non-technical moats aplenty.
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by rl3 7mo ago
I hope so. Thing is, ideas compose. After a certain point statistics tend to work in one's favor in that regard.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Perhaps execution is cheap now and ideas aren't? Personally I'm quite pleased with this inversion.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Pretty soon we'll have depositions where the bots explain they thought they saw a weapon and were in fear for their lives. Counsel: "How do you explain the nanny cam footage of you planting a weapon?" Robot: "I have enco
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by rl3 7mo ago
NV has a massive amount of AI talent, and a lot of them have PhDs. Are you suggesting they're lacking on the ultra-high-end? That is: 5-10M+ in comp to sign a single researcher/IC; industry rock star territory. Major frontier AI l
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by rl3 7mo ago
The most notable one: "Developers, developers, developers!"
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by rl3 7mo ago
> Otherwise I appreciate the view into this heartless sociopath's mind. I really don't think it's fair to characterize someone that way. >> I've decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out l
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by rl3 7mo ago
Why WebMCP when we could have Web CLI ? Apparently there's already a few projects with the latter name.
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by rl3 7mo ago
https://github.com/mobile-nixos/mobile-nixos TIL this exists. Here's hoping we see some type of NixOS + Graphene mashup one day.
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by rl3 7mo ago
> The way that it appears to be playing out is that parents were repulsed by perverted and strange worldviews being taught ... Can you elaborate? > The system, for once, seems to be working. Interesting worldview.
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by rl3 7mo ago
> Even if you went to burning man and your souls bonded ... I'll take: List of places I never want to bond my soul with someone at for one thousand, please.
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by rl3 7mo ago
> Why should we trust the TPM or the CPU or a YubiKey or anything, really? You raise a good point.
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by rl3 7mo ago
Baseband vulnerabilities are overhyped, imo. On proper phones (eg. pixels), their access to memory is restricted by IOMMU, ... That just kicks the can down the road to "Why should we fully trust the IOMMU?" Granted, it does defe
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by rl3 8mo ago
Nice. I've been looking at doing something similar, more on the order of running a 1T model with less than half the available VRAM. One workup indicated it was theoretically possible to modify a piece of SGLang's routing layer to
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by rl3 8mo ago
> Arguably, the initial design was a shot in the dark and they're approaching some local maxima with data-driven design trying to improve metrics that we probably all agree aren't the best for our mental health or wellbeing. Y
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by rl3 8mo ago
Odd reply, but OK. For what it's worth I largely agree with everything else you said. >> The problem, to me, is deeper and is rooted in our education system and work systems that demand compliance over creativity. Algorithms serv
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by rl3 8mo ago
> ... and climb the token usage leaderboard! Does the #1 spot confer some type of Mad Max -esque villain role? Like you've contributed to the depletion of clean water so hard that you're put in charge of controlling the suppl

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