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d13··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
99% of visitors will just hit the back button.
d13··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
MRIs are astonishingly musical. I spend a lot of time in them too and the sounds they produce are beautiful.
d13··on Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson
I had the same experience. It was absolutely juvenile; the writing style was that of precocious 7th grade student.
d13··on Developers Rail Against JavaScript 'Merchants of Complexity'
There’s a simpler solution that allows you to leverage the simplicty of good modern tools without suffocating in dependency hell:

Ban ‘npm install’

It’s nothing more than a party drug.

Just copy/paste any helper code you need into your ‘libs’ folder and be done with it. Your app will still run in 2044.

d13··on Random Thoughts about Unity
Exactly the same thing happened to us. Accounts suspended, no information or recourse.
d13··on Random Thoughts about Unity
GDScript is really nice! It’s a 99% clone on Python with some extra lovely functional programming features added that make it much, much nicer than Python. Try it, it’s really fun to use.

Or, just code in C#, which has complete API support.

d13··on Random Thoughts about Unity
I write Godot games using both C# and GDScript and they’re both excellent. It’s wonderful being able to use the latest C# features, and integration with the engine and API is flawless. GDScript is just python, but with a few extra functional programming features added that make it a much nicer language to code with than Python. And it’s fun and easy to learn - a reasonably experienced developer can learn it in a few hours.
d13··on The UX of HTML (2023)
Semantic HTML made sense in the early 1990s where it was intended for formatting static academic literature. It hasn’t made sense since about 1998 however, but unfortunately no new paradigms have emerged to allow creators to express emergent state web apps, which is almost the entirety of content created for the web for the past 25 years. This means we’re simply we’re simply trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole.

Semantic HTML is the wrong paradigm entirely.

d13··on Ask HN: Which alternative to Python for personnal use would you recommend?
For desktop apps you could try Godot with C#.
d13··on Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?
Yes, you’re absolutely correct.
d13··on On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
2 sentences for me. The enigmatic humorous dirge was a dead giveaway.
d13··on Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
When you prime it with those initial 10-20 examples, the responses need to be in the style that you’d like it to respond to. You can use Claude or ChatGPT to help you write those. The model will then just continue on in that same style.
d13··on Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
All base, “text-completion” models are uncensored, including Llama 3. You can make text-completion models behave like an uncensored “instruct” (chat) model simply by providing it with 10 to 20 examples of a chat dialogue in the initial prompt context, making sure to use the model’s exact prompt format. Once the model notices the pattern, it will continue like that.

Surprisingly few people seem to know this. But, this is how chat models were created in the GPT3/2 era before instruct models became the norm.

d13··on The Canadian dream is on life support
I’m Canadian and moved to UK 5 years ago. I’m experiencing significantly lower cost of living, comparatively affordable housing, higher salaries, much more dynamic economy and better employment opportunities, vastly better healthcare system and social services, better support for immigrants, understandable and accessible government services and in general a far more caring and cohesive culture. All this for no more than I was paying in taxes in Canada.
d13··on Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript
He did a marvellous and very entertaining lecture series on JS:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg

d13··on Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript
Cristian Salcescu‘s books on JavaScript are absolutely marvellous and must-reads.
d13··on What are great international locations to work at?
It has the world’s worst unemployment rate and, depending on how you slice the stats, the worst crime rate.
d13··on Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?
It’s amazing, as is his Hourglass By The Sign of the Sanitorium.
d13··on Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?
The Count of Monte Christo is a wild read! The first half if about how he gets double crossed by all his friends. The second half is about how how he exacts his meticulous and glorious revenge.
d13··on Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
They have easily improved my coding productivity by 40%
d13··on We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (2023)
This is exactly right. Comments in JSON would have killed it.
d13··on An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
You can combine Svelte with an excellent WebGl framework like Phaser for blindingly fast graphics rendering: https://phaser.io/news/2024/03/official-phaser-3-and-svelte-...
d13··on An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
You can use any vanilla HTML/css/js libraries with Svelte, and those far outnumber React’s.
d13··on Things I said as a manager part 2: Hiring is emotional
This is an extremely disconnected and vaguely written article and likely a work of fiction or SEO generated content.
d13··on Large Enough
Groq’s models are also heavily quantised so you won’t get the full experience there.
d13··on Llama 3.1
And twice as expensive in comparison to the source providers’ APIs
d13··on Llama 3.1
I love Msty too. Could you please add a feature to allow adding any arbitrary inference endpoint?
d13··on Llama 3.1
At what quantisation are you running these?
d13··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
Male pattern baldness has been sexually selected for as a preference for millennia and is a positive body feature. I find the assertion that it is medical ailment that requires a cure shocking and offensive.
d13··on Ask HN: What is the best online course you took recently?
This is superb: https://course.fast.ai/
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