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cat_plus_plus··on Why do Americans hate A.I.?
People hate AI instead of humans - themselves (job), others (customer support). People love AI instead of nothing - coding help, medical questions when not at doctor's office, companionship when quality human interaction is scarce. You can get any answer you want depending on how you phrase your question.
cat_plus_plus··on Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points
At least for transformers, it can be kind of fixed with MOE + NVFP4 for small working set despite large resident size.
cat_plus_plus··on Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points
I have a slightly cheaper similar box, NVIDIA Thor Dev Kit. The point is exactly to avoid deploying code to servers that cost half a million dollars each. It's quite capable in running or training smart LLMs like Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-NVFP4. So long as you don't tear your hair out first figuring out pecularities and fighting with bleeding edge nightly vLLM builds.
cat_plus_plus··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
You become a trusted source of data for AI chatbots (hopefully in somewhat ethical way for end users). Look into generative language optimization.
cat_plus_plus··on Is the golden age of Indie software over?
It's a shift towards what was known to be indie software as personal software and what used to be products of big corporations as indie software. It remains to be seen how big corporations will adjust with their bigger inertia.

I don't use canned native OR web apps much anymore. What I do is load Google Antigravity and ask for a flutter app with specified screens and functionality then run on mobile, desktop or web. What I get is equivalent of old indie software, except I do not depend on anyone to add the next feature I decide I need. What changed is not the software, but the business model - profit vs in house necessity. Hopefully indie game companies can benefit from same upscaling to develop their ideas into AAA feel titles which are beyond my personal AI assisted coding ability?

cat_plus_plus··on A better zip bomb (2019)
Well what do you want it to do, it doesn't know full directory with offsets until it's done compressing and dispersed directory would have lousy access pattern for quick listing. And you know, if you are compressing you probably want the smallest file so duplicate directories are not idea.
cat_plus_plus··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
AI is great at pattern matching. Set up project instructions that give several examples of old code, new code and detailed explanations of choices made. Also add a negative prompt, a list of things you do not want AI to do based on past frustrations.
cat_plus_plus··on Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
It's just a matter of system prompt. Create a nagging spouse Gemini Gem / Grok project. Give good step by step instructions about shading your joy, latching on to small inaccuracies, scrutinizing your choices and your habits. Emphasize catching signs of intoxication like typos. Give half a dozen examples of stelar nags in different conversations. There is enough reddit training data that model went through to follow well given a good pattern to latch on to.

Then see how many takers you find. There are already nagging spouses / critical managers, people want AI to do something they are not getting elsewhere.

cat_plus_plus··on When did people favor composition over inheritance?
Is your code simple? Then use whatever helps you finish it fast and rewrite later if needed. Or is it complicated? Then don't rely on any canned advice. If you are implementing a virtual machine on an embedded chip, maybe parallel arrays and gotos are the way to go, nobody except you knows. Everything else is just overpaid senior architects trying to justify their own existence by not allowing working code to be merged.
cat_plus_plus··on Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
Vibe review with all the reasons it should not be merged obviously.
cat_plus_plus··on When O3 is 2x slower than O2
As a denser gas, Ozone would have greater friction getting through small pores, so that would be one example?
cat_plus_plus··on Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code
Grok browses a large number of websites for queries that need recent information, which is super handy for new hardware like Thor.
cat_plus_plus··on Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code
You can still upgrade CUDA within forward compatibility range and install new packages without reflashing.
cat_plus_plus··on Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code
No idea why Nvidia has such crusty torch prebuilds on their own hardware. Just finished installing unsloth on a Thor box for some finnetuning, it's a lengthy build marathon, thankfully aided by Grok giving commands/environment variables for the most part (one finishing touch is to install latest CUDA from nvidia website and then replace compiler executables in triton package with newer ones from CUDA).
cat_plus_plus··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
End to end training is a different beast, but finetuning and inference of impressive LLMs like QWEN3 can be done on pretty run of the mill hardware like Apple Silicon macs and gaming PCs if anyone wants a personalized assistant with character. Just ask AI how to finetune AI using unsloth (if using NVIDIA) or MLX (for apple) and it will give you ready to run python scripts.
cat_plus_plus··on Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
The implicit assumption of this article is that ideas approved by current members of community are good and ones expressed by the "shameless" outsider are bad. This would, for example, automatically invalidate Pride movement without considering merits of it's goals. It would be more fair to say that regardless of merit of ideas, stating them directly and forcefully despite community pushback can be a valid strategy to attract new members or shift Overton window.
cat_plus_plus··on Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
I make videos of burning foods like jelly beans for fun, with the idea that if something catches fire easily it's probably not good for you due to calorie density and low water content and, by proxy, lack of nutrition and unnatural components like petroleum based vax. For example, honey will not ignite unless dehydrated first.
cat_plus_plus··on I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
I primarily care about individual users and developers of my stuff, not "the society" and as such make it easy for them to use my code in any project, even closed source commercial one. The exception is 3D models where I don't anticipate commercial uses and if there are I want them to talk to me and maybe pay me some money, so sharealike it is.
cat_plus_plus··on Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse
If your vibe coding prompt generated a 1000 line output, you should probably ask if there is a library that would do that for you. If not, library is not worth it to shorten a one pager.
cat_plus_plus··on Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
This has an obvious aside of letting voters try whatever a large majority want to be tried, for example scaling back globalization in at attempt to prioritize material and psychological well being of citizens. This could well backfire and voters would then want something else, which turncoats will happily endorse. The alternative is that we can't get to something else because it has no popular support yet.
cat_plus_plus··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
They tell your brain you have lots of food in your stomach, which triggers lots of behavioral and metabolic changes. This does not necessarily reverse every effect of obesity, maybe not gene expression changes described in this article. But enough to keep weight off with ongoing treatment.
cat_plus_plus··on California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools
Why would it take longer to phase out ultra processed food than to supposedly phase out gasoline cars? 2032 is a whole generation lost from now.
cat_plus_plus··on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
We would all be covered in bruises from getting slapped all day long.
cat_plus_plus··on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
I am keeping up with my steady tide pod diet, learning about how much God loves me, training to be a YouTube influencer to make thousands of dollars per month without leaving my home and investing in helping a Nigerian prince move his funds out of the country. Yet I still feel there is something missing. Which Gab group would you guys recommend for knowing the truth about the events shaping my world that they are hiding from us?
cat_plus_plus··on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
Study: Studying obvious things wastes time and money

Here is another recent one: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-housing-shortages-cause...

cat_plus_plus··on Why housing shortages cause homelessness
Could it be for the same reason as lack of water causing draught or defunding police causing crime? Nope, I must be too much of a simpleton. I am sure actual explanation is a work of pure genius.
cat_plus_plus··on Researchers launch "moonshot" to cure blindness through eye transplants
I volunteer to donate my brain to an otherwise young and healthy person who is lacking one!
cat_plus_plus··on Character amnesia in China
Over 3 decades :-)
cat_plus_plus··on Character amnesia in China
It's not a problem, just transition to new writing instruments. I completely forgot how to write in my birth language (Russian) while my English handwriting is slow and messy. Doesn't affect me in any way. There is a valid need to leave a note when technology is not handy, sounds like pinyin solves this problem. Although, unless we are talking scratching out a message with a sharp stone, ballpoint pen and paper is also complex technology.

There is nothing wrong with being sentimental, I lift heavy weights, collect vinyl and do film photography because I like the aesthetic of these activities. But let me force my own kids to learn whatever I think they should learn just like me at home rather than everyone forcing everyone else's kids in school.

cat_plus_plus··on Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?
Mmm... I love my food with proliferation of microorganisms!
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