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damnitbuilds··on Trump ousts National Science Board members
https://archive.ph/gJssy
damnitbuilds··on Stock markets are too high and set to fall, says Bank of England deputy
But when they will fall is too big to fit in the margin of this web page.
damnitbuilds··on Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images
That's what I meant.

With an implied subtext: "We aren't going to show why it's aliens, but trust us, we're experts."

damnitbuilds··on AI Progress doesn't feel as fast as we're told
100%

The fact that we still have jobs blows the biggest hype out of the water, the incremental gains in new model releases shows LLMs are plateauing and small, open source, locally-run models that are getting competitive wirh Big AI will mean the end of the latter.

So long Dirty Sam.

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: What sw do you dream about but don't have the time to code yourself?
Oh yes, that would be the first test case.
damnitbuilds··on Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images
Not saying...
damnitbuilds··on 'Too Dangerous to Release' Is Becoming AI's New Normal
Last year's "No programmer will have a job in six months" didn't really pan out.

This is just more hype by people with software to sell.

The AI crash is coming, Dirty Sam.

damnitbuilds··on GPT-5.5
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid it's cheaper for you to do that"
damnitbuilds··on GPT-5.5
Woop woop !

Now, after all this time, this must shurely be the release that does all software developers out of a job ?

Or has Dirty Sam being caught lying, again ?

Cos I've still got a programming job, and GPT can't do it for shit.

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?
There seems to be a disconnect, with some people claiming they don't write code any more, only specs, and me trying to get Copilot to fix a stupid sizing bug in our layout engine and it Not Getting It.

Is this because the guys claiming success are working in popular, known, more limited areas like Javascript in web pages, and the people outside those, with more complex systems, don't get the same results ?

I also note that most of the "Don't code any more" guys have AI tools of their own to promote...

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: What sw do you dream about but don't have the time to code yourself?
An AI with no knowledge of how a historical event played out, for use to predict the consequences of other-than-actual decisions during that event.

I think famous battles would be a good use for this.

damnitbuilds··on Pentagon pulls the plug on one of the military's most troubled space programs
"“RTX is aware of the US Government decision regarding the GPS OCX program,” an RTX spokesperson said in a statement. “Raytheon delivered the system in 2025 and has continued to support the US Space Force in post-delivery activities."

So RTX will, of course, be returning all moneys paid to the taxpayer, and not bid for any government projects for the next 10 years.

damnitbuilds··on Original Task Manager creator explains why it lies to you about CPU usage
The original Task Manager creator knows all about lying:

"By agreeing to the settlement, SoftwareOnline.com, Inc., and its chief technology officer David W. Plummer, of Redmond, admit multiple violations of the state Consumer Protection Act. Specifically: 1) inducing computers users to download and purchase its products by making false claims that the computer is at risk; 2) transmitting software that generates multiple advertisements; 3) offering an uninstall option that did not remove all the software, and 4) engaging in "negative option billing,” resulting in consumers being billed for items they did not affirmatively request."

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: How to become better at software "engineering"?
Using AI means you become good at managing stupid genius underlings.

That does not mean you become a better software engineer. Unless, of course, that is what the definition of a good software engineer becomes.

damnitbuilds··on Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]
I always knew I was smarter than my parents.
damnitbuilds··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
They might not use the word, but the behavior they describe is evil:

" This isn’t a matter of open-source etiquette, the MIT license has exactly one major requirement: include the copyright notice. Ollama didn’t.

The community noticed. GitHub issue #3185 was opened in early 2024 requesting license compliance. It went over 400 days without a response from maintainers. When issue #3697 was opened in April 2024 specifically requesting llama.cpp acknowledgment, community PR #3700 followed within hours. Ollama’s co-founder Michael Chiang eventually added a single line to the bottom of the README: “llama.cpp project founded by Georgi Gerganov.” "

damnitbuilds··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
The author points out that the Ollama people are evil.

So it is more like saying "Stop using SCO Unix, use Linux instead".

damnitbuilds··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
I am trying to run models that are on the edge of what my hardware can support. I guess many people are.

So given, as the author states, Ollama runs the LLMs inefficiently, what is the tool that runs them most efficiently on limited hardware ?

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
Some people make it even simpler to copy their code by open sourcing it, then make money by offering extra paid-for services ( thinking of Pspdfkit ).

I would love to do that myself, but I have no idea how easy it is to make money that way ?

damnitbuilds··on Notes on Beautiful Nonfiction
"This passage is very like, English toff who went to Eton in one way; there's a real rhetorician's flair to them what with all the anaphoras and tricolons."

That is simply bad writing and definitely not "beautiful".

damnitbuilds··on OpenAI Introduction (2015)
Important to look back at this.

I could seriously cry:

" OpenAI Because of AI’s surprising history, it’s hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it’ll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.

We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

OpenAI’s research director is Ilya Sutskever (opens in a new window), one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman (opens in a new window), formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group’s other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell (opens in a new window), Vicki Cheung (opens in a new window), Andrej Karpathy (opens in a new window), Durk Kingma (opens in a new window), John Schulman (opens in a new window), Pamela Vagata (opens in a new window), and Wojciech Zaremba (opens in a new window). Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors to the group.

OpenAI’s co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk. "

damnitbuilds··on Mastodon gets Sovereign Tech Agency funding
That is a German Agency.
damnitbuilds··on Fractal Paris
Pretty, but I don't see the fractal ?
damnitbuilds··on OpenAI investors question $852B valuation as strategy shifts
"The CFO said "[...] I view my job as always [to create] max flexibility, max optionality for the company, because then we can make more strategic decisions.""

== She has no idea what Dirty Sam's next move will be.

They're farked.

damnitbuilds··on OpenAI investors question $852B valuation as strategy shifts
https://archive.ph/R4sW5
damnitbuilds··on News is bad for you (2013)
The Nazis agree.

The semites in question do not agree.

Fuck the Nazis.

damnitbuilds··on How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
When asking questions, I think it is polite to spell out initializations in the title.

People not in your field will read the title too, and would like to know if it is worth clicking to read the whole question or not.

Not sure, but I think "GTM" here means "Google Tag Manager".

damnitbuilds··on 2SLGBTQQIA+ Sub-Working Group MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Final Report
Literally demented.
damnitbuilds··on Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Starmer may have handed him the tools
"No, no, it's not an issue for ME" cry the demented Guardian readers.
damnitbuilds··on Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Starmer may have handed him the tools
As everywhere, immigration is not an issue for people who do not have to live in social/cheap rented housing in ghettos and have jobs that require a good education.

For the other half of societies, the half you did not meet in college, it is a problem and they are voting for racist parties because the other parties have not reduced immigration it and they think the racist parties will.

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