vouwfietsman

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by vouwfietsman 2mo ago
Does a dog possess intelligence? Does a bird? Does a cricket? An amoeba? I hate AI slop as much as the next guy but the amount of tribalism over AI is taking near-religious forms. Nobody knows what intelligence is, therefore we don't k
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by vouwfietsman 3mo ago
> Malicious compliance is a result of incompetent drafting Aha ok, so your judgement of an entire governmental apparatus, trying to influence and predict millions of people in hundreds of thousands of companies and across hundreds of ind
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by vouwfietsman 3mo ago
You are right, and this is why not everything should be a stock. Whatever they will cut to avoid emitting "a bad sign", may involve: * firing people * making services worse * sacrificing their own future Whether it actually does i
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by vouwfietsman 3mo ago
> pruning off failing things is not only good, it's the core of capitalism It's quite serious that you see "being good" as something inferior to "the core of capitalism". Also, the core of capitalism is maki
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
I am eagerly awaiting your grassroots campaign to define legislation that would tackle such uses, and also eagerly awaiting it backfiring because of malicious compliance.
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
> So you like the law, but don't like how it didn't actually solve the problem it was trying to solve? (Not the person you replied to) I'm not sure where all of this is coming from, the law is actually extremely obvious an
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
> DuckDB wouldn't really know what to do with a Sure it would, you can attach a multi-table sqlite database in duckdb > that does not mean just because it came first I agree with most of your points, I am not stating my opinion b
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
except you need flatbuffers to access that blob
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
Not sure why this got so many upvotes, also the landing page is not great, its better to look at the paper (see link below). Seems to be a columnar storage format that addresses some shortcomings in parquet. Thing is, though, that of all th
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
I don't think you have encountered the problems that this class of formats solves. Try looking up columnar storage formats, the pros and cons are pretty well defined these days. It is not meant for video decoding, indeed.
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
Knowing little about cpp modules and nothing about Gabriel Dos Reis, I expect a more design-by-committee type explanation for the result: the module system was probably a victim of having to be backwards compatible, abi stable, idiomatic, z
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
Its not. Any interview question where you are looking for a specific answer is already suspect, but especially if you don't properly provide context for the question in what you would expect, things become a shit show. If you would ask
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
> So, removing one monster means removing that item from those 20 arrays. Removing from an array is not the same as resizing, which is what I commented on. Resizing is a very deliberate, bad, choice. If you need to support deletes, you c
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
"an", not "the" alternative. Consciousness can be not-emergent but also not metaphysical, think sci-fi-type undiscovered physics or matter.
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by vouwfietsman 4mo ago
I'm not sure why anybody would at the same time be implementing SoA AND resizing 20 arrays for a single delete, those things seem to be on either ends of the "I care about performance" spectrum.
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by vouwfietsman 5mo ago
Again, you're not wrong, but none of those things are insurmountable. If the team is really so stressed it cannot spend 30 minutes, over the many year of the existence of that bug, that seems like a development environment close to hel
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by vouwfietsman 5mo ago
Although this is possibly true, at any time the dev team could've gone: "loading is slow man, can we just profile it and see if there's anything obvious?". To someone with access to the source code and a debugger, that&#
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by vouwfietsman 5mo ago
Hint: maybe they would if they would unionize themselves.
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by vouwfietsman 5mo ago
It would be prudent if you would dig a bit deeper into how unions came to be. Long story short, capitalism can easily create situations where you agree to be exploited to some degree, to avoid being exploited to another, worse, degree.
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by vouwfietsman 5mo ago
This is like saying most western thought traces back to people 165cm in height or lower. If everyone is forced to be catholic, all human output, including positive output, is done by catholics. Guess what, all Chinese EVs are made by commun
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
Nice use of the inigo sdf shader. Too bad this is so hard, I was hoping it would help solve the problem.
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
> do not acknowledge trade-offs when it comes to type systems > gives link to "limited evidence of benefits" I'm not looking for absence of evidence, as absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. The origina
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
I think his point is: rather than "leaning into" it as in, masking through epsilons, he argues that tolerance is fundamental to the problem space, not a way to resolve edge cases.
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
Nice thanks, gotta love knowing a bit about a niche and then encountering someone who knows a great deal more. That's the beauty of HN. Could you point to any literature/freely available resource that comes close to the SOTA for t
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
This explanation is relatively reductive when it comes to its criticism of computational geometry. The thing with computational geometry is, that its usually someone else's geometry , i.e you have no control over its quality or intent
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
> do not acknowledge trade-offs when it comes to type systems Could you elaborate?
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by vouwfietsman 6mo ago
Transpilation and bloat are orthogonal. Javascript being bloated or not is also a relative: consider Python, which is much slower than js, and much more memory hungry. To further argue your original point: chrome & electron are the only
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by vouwfietsman 7mo ago
Do you have a source for that? Does your source imply that this is desired by the population? My question is mostly rhetorical: it is obvious that government & safety institutions are themselves fanning the flames of this ridiculous mov
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by vouwfietsman 7mo ago
> distribute pornography to minors. which i think is something that a reasonable parent would have a problem with. I'm sorry what? This is not even close to consensus, as you present it. Also, a thought exercise, just for you: 1. Sh
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by vouwfietsman 7mo ago
I'm not sure what motivates you to write a comment like this, but maybe you should reflect on it. The person you are replying to is consciously trying to make the world a better place, and probably succeeding in a small way. Are they p

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