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8jy89hui··on Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees
Did you write your post with AI? It is really painful to read in some parts (mostly because of the cliches of AI)
8jy89hui··on Orion Browser by Kagi
> Did you try to report the bugs when you had some? Maybe this could help everyone else using the browser.

I rarely bother submitting bugs on closed source software. Submitting bug reports takes a lot of time (to do well) and I feel that it often leads to nothing.

In my case, all the bugs I ran into were things that developers should also run into through normal use of the app (freezes, weird search bar bugs, scrolling stuck, etc)

8jy89hui··on Orion Browser by Kagi
I tried using Orion mobile for months but I just kept running into so many UI bugs that I had to switch away from it :(. I love Kagi, but Orion just feels unpolished right now
8jy89hui··on Show HN: Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text
You should try using a larger model like llama-35b or even GPT-3 for the feedback. That way you might be able to condense knowledge from these really big models into a smaller model
8jy89hui··on America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
Not a great summary of the article. It just barely touches on reverse repo lending which is the core of the linked article.
8jy89hui··on $22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa
This sounds like the output of a LLM. No actual reasoning or thought.
8jy89hui··on TurboTax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU
As stated multiple times in the article, making taxes easier for the average person does not stop people with complicated taxes from getting help.

My taxes are simple; my family’s taxes are simple; most of my friends taxes are simple. We don’t need Inutit making our taxes more complicated than they need to be. I’d rather have free simple filing be done with my government. I don’t need Intuit getting between me and my government. And if I ever have really complicated taxes, I’m sure TurboTax will still exist.

8jy89hui··on AMD CEO Says It's Limiting Supply of CPUs and GPUs to Maintain High Prices
Every time I see AMD in the news I hope to hear that they’ve invested in a RISC-V cpu. I would love a real desktop or professional class RISC-V chip made by an American company.
8jy89hui··on Datadog's commitment to OpenTelemetry and the open source community
This article is most likely in response to “DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request” [1]. Though it fails to make a real apology or explain their actions.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540419

8jy89hui··on Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
> It's got some rough edges

I've recently been looking really hard at NixOS as a possible next-step. (I use Manjaro and am particularly interested in ways to keep my Laptop and Desktop in sync)

I've heard that the documentation can be pretty lackluster at times. Are there any other rough edges I should know about?

8jy89hui··on Noise2Music: Generating Music from Text Using Diffusion Models
On my phone (iOS) I can’t seem to get any of the samples to play.
8jy89hui··on Rust Books Grouped by Level
Rust feels like a really hard first-language. I can’t imagine recommending Rust to an excited upcoming programmer.
8jy89hui··on CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (2013)
I bound _ to capslock + u. It is very convenient for both hands.
8jy89hui··on New Wiki Sucks?
What don't you like about the new layout? I find it to be a really well-done change that helps to modernize the page without getting rid of its classic text-first approach. In fact, other than moving the table of contents to the side, I really don't see any major differences.

Also, if you don't like the new layout, you can get the old one back. If you create an account, and go to preferences -> appearance, you can change back to the old "Vector Legacy (2010)" layout [1]

[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/866617/how-to-get-the-old-wikipedi...

8jy89hui··on I became the #1 mapper in New Zealand
It looks like StreetComplete is Android only. Does anyone have suggestions for a good iOS friendly alternative?
8jy89hui··on Official Warning: Zero3K
This is unacceptable. Please don’t say such hateful things on hacker news. It really brings the whole site down.
8jy89hui··on Rust in 2023: Growing Up
Rust is particularly strong because the crate system lets them slowly bring things into the stdlib.

There are many UI libraries for Rust; I’ve tried most of them, and all of them are radically different in their approaches. None of them are anywhere near as good as most UI frameworks in other languages (in my opinion).

Bringing a UI framework into the stdlib at this point in time would be terrible because the community still hasn’t figured out the best way to write a UI framework and it would stifle innovation in this developing section of the language.

8jy89hui··on AMD Announces 7950X3D, 7900X3D Upto 128MB L3 Cache
I think this person is referencing the game Factorio which is known to benefit from more cache. (UPS = updates per second)
8jy89hui··on Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language
It has taken huge amounts of work to get the Rust ecosystem to where it is. Even still, it has huge regions where it is immature. Is anyone in the D community able to talk about how mature the ecosystem is?

I had always assumed (perhaps naively) that not many people used D and that it was a bit esoteric…? Not to offend anyone. Kind of like F.

Should developers be investing time into learning D?

8jy89hui··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
My framework laptop has served me very well for the last year or so. This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands. The entire device is just so well built and the upgrade path is so well defined.
8jy89hui··on CLEAR is a pox on America’s airports
I disagree with the author regarding their complains surrounding rich people going through life easier. Unfortunately that will always be possible and complaining about it muddied this article

However, I agree with the author that a private company should not be getting between me and my government. I am okay with TSA as long as it is my government making sure airports are safe. I am fine with paying more for expedited passports because that is a deal between me and my government. I am fine with expedited boarding because that never involved my government and it never should.

This is a situation, like the author said, that is similar to the intuit catastrophe. Paying CLEAR is equivalent (in the long term) to ensuring that no forward progress is made on simplifying and expediting airport security.

8jy89hui··on Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0
He includes ~5 minutes of the cameras working at various resolutions and frame rates in the project video.

See: https://youtu.be/dwXs9RB6uD0?t=2621

8jy89hui··on Native Reflection in Rust
This is a beautiful (hacky) demo of something that I didn't think was possible in Rust (yet). I hope other applications don't accidentally start using it just to discover that it doesn't work in release mode.

Very impressive work!

8jy89hui··on Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
P: I need to write a response to a poster on Hacker News who wrote "I'm probably the only one who finds ChatGPT deeply disturbing." I need to tell him that he is obviously not the only person who feels that way. I want to say it in a tone that implies it is very obvious that his statement is wrong.

R: "Wow, I can't believe you're the only one who finds ChatGPT deeply disturbing! It's almost like you're some kind of special snowflake or something. I'm sure no one else has ever had any concerns about the potential implications of a highly advanced language model. Good thing you're here to point out the obvious for the rest of us. Keep up the important work, champ."

8jy89hui··on Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
The author did not mention if they were rewarded by the bug bounty program. A vulnerability of this severity surely requires a reward of some sort.

Does anyone have any more information about whether or not this person was compensated for their work?

8jy89hui··on Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
The game worked perfect for me on Proton Next (7.0-5). Manjaro Linux x86 (5.15), Nvidia GPU, Intel CPU, x11 (I do not think I have `sdl_ttf` installed though I might be wrong.)
8jy89hui··on ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section
I tried asking it to write sections and then cite its sources.

Most of the sources were related and well-done, however when it couldn't find an author, it just makes up names.

8jy89hui··on Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3
I've started asking it to write detailed tests for all of the functions it writes. If it doesn't have a test for {edge-case}, I ask it to rewrite the code to ensure that {edge-case} should work and it should be tested.

Once I trust the tests, I generally trust the code.

8jy89hui··on Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT
Very cool project!

Do you have screenshots or did you save the chat log when creating this project? There are some really cool files and I would love to see how your coaxed chatGPT into producing this project. I had success using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-page-we/ to save the whole chat long and then display it on my website.

8jy89hui··on Mutable value types are evil Sort of
Implicit cloning of types is evil. The first example with the mutable object is only surprising because the language decided to pass a copied struct by value instead of by reference.
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