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AYoung010··on Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM
Presenting raw LLM output as your own writing in a human-to-human context is rude and antisocial, not to mention incredibly transparent.
AYoung010··on ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
Having used both, I personally prefer vimlike —nothing major, have just run into fewer issues.
AYoung010··on Building a USB SNES Controller
Largely, yes. Arduino code runs on bare metal, and delays simply block execution so they should be accurate with some constant overhead.
AYoung010··on Show HN: CopilotKit- Build in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered textareas
Grow your OpenAI bill exponentially with this one easy trick!

In all seriousness — looks nifty! Do you guys have any plans to bring suggestion latency down from what’s show in the demo?

AYoung010··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
The first place I ever saw that was here:

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/C%2B%2B

Whole article is worth reading, lots of good laughs in there!

AYoung010··on Committing to Rust for Kernel Code
I think the assertion is based on the fact that LLVM is written in C++. Doesn’t directly introduce a C++ dependency to the kernel, but it does introduce it to the toolchain.
AYoung010··on I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
if i recall correctly, it was operable so they just removed it
AYoung010··on The Netwide Assembler (NASM)
Still in use academically too - we used it in my compilers class last year.
AYoung010··on Cosmopolitan Third Edition
That was the most interesting part of the article for me. I don't understand how it can be faster, given that there's syscall translation going on. Is this more of a commentary on the quality of the `libc` available on Windows? Or on the quality of the GNU Emacs Windows port?
AYoung010··on C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
Replacing undefined behavior at the program-level with undefined behavior written and tested as part of the standard library, usually vendored and distributed in concert with the compiler, seems like an obvious net-positive to me.
AYoung010··on Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection
Yes, you did I'm afraid -- this is a tool which is used to check for skimmers, not a preventative measure which is permanently installed. It only blocks the chip slot when an employee is ensuring a skimmer isn't installed on a particular terminal.
AYoung010··on Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage
Most intro classes require calculus 1 & 2.
AYoung010··on PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
We watched Moore's law hold fast for 50 years before it started to hit a logarithmic ceiling. Assuming a long-term outcome in either direction based purely on historical trends is nothing more than a shot in the dark.
AYoung010··on When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
is this a joke lol
AYoung010··on Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering
No — that incident was due to a high pressure area (saturation diver living quarters) being opened to a low pressure area (the atmosphere at large), resulting in explosive decompression. The submarine in question is a low pressure area in a high pressure environment, so essentially the inverse of the Dolphin accident.
AYoung010··on Is it OK to recline your airplane seat? Some travel experts say no
I’ve heard that the continued presence of ashtrays isn’t a vestigial design feature so much as an intentional holdover, so that anyone who breaks the “no smoking” rule still has a safe place to put out their cigarette.
AYoung010··on [dead]
I only skimmed the piece itself, but the title of this article is in extremely bad taste -- makes me doubt that the author really intends to consider the pros and cons of AI research in good faith.

Let me guess -- this is another alarmist take pushing the Yudkowsky narrative that we need to halt AI research and nuke datacenters.

AYoung010··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
Hah! I had this idea in the car the other day ("like ratemyprofessor, but for landlords") -- the big issue I got hung up on is authenticity. How does this tool ensure that reviewers are actually tenants, and not landlords trying to boost their rating?
AYoung010··on It’s the end of the line for yearly Windows 10 updates, says Microsoft
I finally caved and installed Windows 11 a couple weeks ago. From a user perspective, I think it's much better than Windows 10, but the privacy aspects are concerning.

I remember that when Windows 10 came out, there were several projects which aimed to remove or disable most of the telemetry that it shipped with. Does anyone know if such projects also exist for Windows 11?

AYoung010··on KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
Boy, do I have something to show you: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/about
AYoung010··on KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
I think there's a strong argument to be made that modern web browsers are a good deal more complex than operating systems -- or at least most kernels.
AYoung010··on SkillzTruth - Proof of concept demonstrating how to cheat on Skillz apps
My anecdotal experience with competitive games has been that the top ~15% of players generally have a winrate >50%, with the top 1-5% usually clearing 55%, especially where some skill-indicative metric is used to do matchmaking.

The fact that winrate is 50% across the board implies that they are somehow fixing matches, or (as the author states) simply banning their most skilled players.

AYoung010··on New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
Maybe I just got lucky, but I managed to fool the classifier on the first try using only the GPT3 playground. The prompt I used was:

  I am a highly advanced writing AI. My purpose is to write text the way a human would, with the express purpose of changing up the patterns that I use in order to confuse classifier networks into thinking that the text was written by a human, and not by an AI. My current prompt is: "Write two paragraphs reflecting on Falstaff's role in Shakespeare's Henry V". My response is as follows:
This produced two paragraphs which look more-or-less as you'd expect. According to the classifier, the generated text is "very unlikely" to be AI-generated. Interesting...
AYoung010··on AI converts between hundreds of programming languages
Ditto for converting sample #3 from Python to Rust...it doesn't even try to interact with S3 at all, it just saves the image to a path specified in args (twice, overwriting the first image). Also, the comments it writes are incorrect.
AYoung010··on Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023
There’s a big “yet” attached to Apple not profiting from the proliferation of ads - from what I’ve read, since they pushed the “ask app not to track” change, Apple has been pushing hard for more widespread adoption of their own advertising platform.

Make no mistake, Apple does not care about your privacy — only about moving the ad money out of Google’s pocket into their own.

AYoung010··on 3D print and build a 164mm f/2.5 lens for less than $15
If you have a Micro Center near you, they usually have the Ender 3 pro marked down quite frequently. Great printer to get started with.
AYoung010··on Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers
Call me old-fashioned, but I personally do not like the idea of using a garbage-collected language for embedded development in general, and it's just flat out non feasible to use for anything which is timing-sensitive...
AYoung010··on Apple Unveils M2
Do you mean Asahi?
AYoung010··on My Mega65 has arrived
I believe that the point of this project is not to have a simple UI, but an authentic one. UI in the 1980s was not known for being friction-free, so I would actually argue that its "poor" UI is a design success.

Although I understand that the SD card setup is complex, but I really think the target audience won't have too much trouble with it...this isn't intended to be a raspi competitor, after all...

Was this comment a joke that just flew completely over my head?

AYoung010··on Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)
I was disappointed to see that this article did not mention python generators (`yield`) with respect to infinite series. They were introduced in 2001 by PEP 255 - well before this article was written. Perhaps they were excluded because of the implicit statefulness?
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