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KolmogorovComp··on Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data
Nothing constructive to say, besides that the video really shows we're entering into a Sci-fi era.
KolmogorovComp··on Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI
It’s satire.
KolmogorovComp··on Runners who churn butter on their runs
I assume they shamelessly were talking in Fahrenheit degrees.
KolmogorovComp··on Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
Doesn't the implementation being in rust for many browser (`temporal_rs`) make it possibly slower than it could be in pure JS? Calendar is not very intensive process, so I would not be surprised if the slowness of boundary passing make it slower.
KolmogorovComp··on The Brand Age
They’re only popular because they appeal to the real luxury product, like counterfeit Rolexes.
KolmogorovComp··on The Brand Age
Yeah it really felt hammered in as a way for the author to try to look literate and punchy, but it does not work.
KolmogorovComp··on How to talk to anyone and why you should
I've been subconsciously doing this forever and after hundreds if no thousands of interaction have lately been assessing its outcome as more neutral than the article frames it. On the long run while mildly pleasant, you realise how shallow these conversations are and they have not brought anything valuable to your life. Maybe stopping for a while would lead to further realisation but I don't think so.

The most positive effect it has had on me is to make me enjoy even more deep conversations with my friends.

KolmogorovComp··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Was I the only stunned by the quality of the video ad? It’s really advert at its peak, to the point yet artistic.
KolmogorovComp··on The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
Thank you for the insights.
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser)
Same, on Safari
KolmogorovComp··on Allocating on the Stack
It’s a very well known pattern, as someone else mentioned it’s used in CPP in smallstring, Rust smallvec, C usually hand rolled etc.
KolmogorovComp··on The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
How can you seriously pretend to do any study with only eight people involved? Especially when your company is worth billion. It just calls for bad press and criticism of amateurism.
KolmogorovComp··on Leaving Google has actively improved my life
I’ve been using DDG for close to ten years and only use !g about once a year or less. What are your typical queries? I mostly search CS-related (though less nowadays with LLM) or simple stuff.
KolmogorovComp··on The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
> Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental

This is wrong. Git does store full copies.

KolmogorovComp··on The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
This! The comment I was angrily about to write.
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience
Write access to public repos is not optional?? As well as full read and write user data?? Flee, far.
KolmogorovComp··on How I made a shooter game in 64 KB
Unfortunately will not make it to the frontpage but very cool
KolmogorovComp··on The Electric Tipping Point – Electric Aircraft
The article grossly underestimates the energy needed to be stored. You cannot fly an aircraft planning to use 100% of its ‘fuel’. You need alternate(s) and final reserve.

Whoch likely mean doubling the required size of the battery pack, making it infeasible.

KolmogorovComp··on The Electric Tipping Point – Electric Aircraft
> Fuel consumption in flight reduces landing weight. Battery weighs the same landing and take off. Harder landing costs

It’s not that much in terms of bodyweight on a regional jet compared to a long haul.

KolmogorovComp··on Where did all the starships go?
I wonder why it’s an issue for readers. Has anyone of you read all past great sci-fi books?
KolmogorovComp··on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
I assume they plan/hope to sell much more than 500 units, and/or the profit margin is much higher with China manufacturing.
KolmogorovComp··on The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines
not more terrifying than sitting in any turboprop airplane.
KolmogorovComp··on See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments
It’s a static page, there is no backend. That’s why a static list, for example computed every day via an action is the way to go.
KolmogorovComp··on See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments
It would not make much sense to compute it, if you do not subtract the karma earned through submissions.
KolmogorovComp··on Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]
> It just seems like these kind of design choices needlessly add a barrier to entry for people who want to climb aboard.

Any experienced programmer knows syntax is a detail, and would not be deterred by that.

KolmogorovComp··on LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant
yes, but that's not what happen here. this part of the AGPL is there to avoid people adding more restrictions, but here mattermost is loosening up the restrictions.

> > We promise that we will not enforce the copyleft provisions in AGPL v3.0 against you if your application ... [set of conditions]

KolmogorovComp··on 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
Why are rclone/rsync never used by default for app updates? Especially games with large assets.
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
> instead of creating e.g. some kind of a path of interest.

You need to like them to update the weights of the algo, it works well

KolmogorovComp··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
To save everyone a click

> The 1.8-bit (UD-TQ1_0) quant will run on a single 24GB GPU if you offload all MoE layers to system RAM (or a fast SSD). With ~256GB RAM, expect ~10 tokens/s. The full Kimi K2.5 model is 630GB and typically requires at least 4× H200 GPUs. If the model fits, you will get >40 tokens/s when using a B200. To run the model in near full precision, you can use the 4-bit or 5-bit quants. You can use any higher just to be safe. For strong performance, aim for >240GB of unified memory (or combined RAM+VRAM) to reach 10+ tokens/s. If you’re below that, it'll work but speed will drop (llama.cpp can still run via mmap/disk offload) and may fall from ~10 tokens/s to <2 token/s. We recommend UD-Q2_K_XL (375GB) as a good size/quality balance. Best rule of thumb: RAM+VRAM ≈ the quant size; otherwise it’ll still work, just slower due to offloading.

KolmogorovComp··on I made my own Git
It’s really a shame git storage use files as the unit for storage. That’s what makes it improper for usage with many of small files, or large files.

Content-based chunking like Xethub uses really should become the default. It’s not like it’s new either, rsync is based on it.

https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf

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