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by rlupi 1y ago
You can use powershell on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...
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by rlupi 1y ago
I just re-read "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by von Goethe. In the book, the protagonist commits suicide. It appears that now tech firms cannot even host very significant old books without age checks, which is absurd.
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Show HN: Augmented Awareness, open source LLM tool for mental health(github.com)
1 points by rlupi 1y ago|1 comments
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by rlupi 1y ago
I created a tool to analyze my diary, create retrospectives, and allow chatting with LLMs based on its content. For demo purposes, I fed "The Sorrow of Young Werther" by Goethe to it. The results are both amusing and show how powe
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by rlupi 1y ago
LLM tools do exactly that. That's why most online LLMs (openai, gemini) have access to sandboxed python for calculations.
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by rlupi 1y ago
This gave me a nice idea. It would be nice to build a local LLM + wikipedia tool, that uses the LLM to assemble a general answer and then search wikipedia (via full-text search or rag) for grounding facts. It could help with hallucinations
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by rlupi 1y ago
Thanks. I currently use qwen3 (32b or 30b a3b moe) locally, and o4-mini or gemini-2.5-flash online. It costs about 5 USD to run through a year of notes online, and several hours to do it offline. qwen3 is lower quality than online models, b
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by rlupi 1y ago
Very thoughtful comment, let me try to capture it more clearly. Zuckerberg recently said that those not using AI glasses will be cognitively disadvantaged in the future. Imagine an AI-native from the future and one of the fancy espresso cof
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by rlupi 1y ago
Physical/mental health and personal journaling? I just finished some changes to my own little project that provides MCP access to my journal stored in Obsidian, plus a few CLI tools for time tracking, and today I added recursive yearly
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by rlupi 1y ago
In Switzerland, I recommend enter.ch. It has an extensive collection of consumer electronics, computing devices, and proper computers. It reminds me of the computing museum near Google main campus in Mountain View, California.
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by rlupi 1y ago
We're more malleable than AI, and we can't delete our memories or context. I wonder if this is an effect of users just gravitating toward the same writing style and topics that push the context toward the same semantic universe. I
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by rlupi 1y ago
Why say Western, when they mean US english? US tech & culture (Hollywood, Netflix, etc.) has an habit of bulldozing over non-English Western culture too.
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by rlupi 1y ago
Centrally. If your system have K finite modes of behavior (degrees of freedom), then you can compress it as some combination of these effects. Due to Donoh-Tanner Phase transition theorem, you can almost-surely reconstruct a lower dimension
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by rlupi 1y ago
In TOML you can use triple-quoted strings to avoid double escaping backslashes. There is one example right at the bottom of https://toml.io/en/
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by rlupi 1y ago
Do you mean an encyclopedia? I bet there are tons of physical encyclopedias on sale on Ebay.
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by rlupi 1y ago
Almost 8 years ago, when I was working as a Monitoring SRE at Google, I wrote a proposal to use compressed sensing to reduce storage and transmission costs from linear to logarithmic. (The proposal is also available publicly, as a defensive
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by rlupi 1y ago
Isn't this the closest thing to a portable antikitera?
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by rlupi 2y ago
I have sold my US equities and assets before Trump announcement of tariffs. I personally find it a lot more risky to keep my wealth in US equities or USD denominated assets. Even all the decisions are undone, the fact that these level of po
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by rlupi 2y ago
That's quite interesting. Do you have any resource to recommend for OpenVMS or Mach architecture overview, or in general OS architecture tradeoffs and designs?
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by rlupi 2y ago
> if the people paying the salaries would rather make 1,000 bets on the Next Big Thing, and if 999 of them fail but one succeeds that is far better than 100 who fail and 900 which become medium-sized, profitable companies, then overprodu
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by rlupi 2y ago
> Did anyone anticipate gross incompetence being the way "AI" harms people? There is a long trend of labeling AI as "Artificial Stupidity", so yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_stupidi
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by rlupi 2y ago
I just experimented with it. I couldn't get ChatGPT 4.5 to generate what I wanted, probably due to censorship or rate limits (ChatGPT Pro subscription); but Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental did the trick. This is the end result: https:&#x2
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How Beelzebub was born, a short story about AI and fascism(lupi.an.it)
2 points by rlupi 2y ago|1 comments
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by rlupi 2y ago
A short sci-fi story about AI and fascism, inspired by recent events.
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by rlupi 2y ago
Note that Paul is wrong when he says that "take care of the world" wasn't part of the time tested answer. Ancient populations like the Romans had the concept of numens, deus loci, and gods of nature that were responsible for
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by rlupi 2y ago
They are great. I have actually built my own pomodoro timer using a M5Stack Core2, maybe I should publish the code. It's a lot simpler than this one. Update: here it is https://github.com/robertolupi/augmented-awar
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by rlupi 2y ago
I took it from Byun-Chul Han's "What is Power?". It's quite a heavy philosophy book, but worth reading if you are into this stuff. Writing that answer in this thread, made me think that I should publish too. So, I did:
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by rlupi 2y ago
It's the same experience that people on the other politics spectrum endured in the previous cycle. There is not difference, except from the side that is suffering now. People were fired for speaking against woke culture, now they are f
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by rlupi 2y ago
There is a lot of truth in this article. I work in a large FAANG company. For more than 10 years, I made the error of not publishing my personal work and ideas. I didn't like the rules about personal works, publishing opensource or soc
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by rlupi 2y ago
> In my experience as a software engineer rounding out 6 years now, what I have observed in myself and others is that the work pressure that leads to burnout in SWEs is largely self-imposed. This is how control works in our society. It&#

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