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dummydummy1234··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
So you are not the target audience for this.

The target is people who would buy a MacBook but want to run Linux.

There are many people who turn down the MacBook, not because of build quality, or design, but because it does not support Linux.

dummydummy1234··on Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
Arbitrage I assume
dummydummy1234··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
Prepaid/paid limits with shutoff is appropriate for this though.

If you have per key limits, this is not possible, and even in a wild situation you should b able to expect that your firebase key will not use 50k.

dummydummy1234··on For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas
How much is industrial scale batteries for solar?
dummydummy1234··on Show HN: Continual Learning with .md
Mid thinking cycle seems dangerous as it will probably kill caching.
dummydummy1234··on Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)
Can you use zellij over ssh on a remote server?
dummydummy1234··on Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection
Never underestimate that people are lazy.
dummydummy1234··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
I think there is a difference between things like coding where it is semi closed loop, at the end of the day the software works or not.

Vs fields where there is not a reliable feedback path, or that feedback path is much more noisy.

dummydummy1234··on Set the Line Before It's Crossed
I generally think it's better to phrase it as a gift.

My motto, is that people have helped me a lot in life, with time, resources and sometimes money.

If I loan money, I explicitly do not expect to be repaid, and will generally say, pass it on.

Also it's often not the loaner side who cuts off contact. But if the person who receives the loan cannot repay it, and every time they talk to you, they feel guilty and think about it. They might just start avoiding you.

dummydummy1234··on Do your own writing
I have found the one of the better use cases of llms to be a rubber duck.

Explaining a design, problem, etc and trying to find solutions is extremely useful.

I can bring novelty, what I often want from the LLM is a better understanding of the edge cases that I may run into, and possible solutions.

dummydummy1234··on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
Really like the online builder!
dummydummy1234··on I resigned from OpenAI
So the risks are different. If China does mass surveillance on us citizens, then what are the potential downsides? China can do targeted influence campaigns in the us, China can do targeted espionage in the us.

The harms that come from this are against us national security as a whole, the harms are not to individuals and civil liberties. Even if both China and US governments are bad actors, then the fact that China is spying on Americans will not affect Americans civil liberties.

On the other hand if the United States does mass surveillance on Americans, then that can be used by bad actor administrations to suppress dissent, throw people who disagree in prison, suppress speech. Essentially the government has the targeted ability to suppress civil liberties.

So it is very different, because the incentives and potential downsides are different. Similar with companies. Google does not have the ability to lock you up for your Google search, the federal government does (if you are American).

It's the same with Nato/allies, it's not about the country, it's about the spying governments ability and incentives to act on the information.

We don't want the stasi, but imagine a world where the stasi instead had millions of files on Scottish people. What is the worst the stasi could do? What is the worst they would be realistically incentivised to do?

dummydummy1234··on "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
What are you using for environment for this, I am running into similar issues, can't really spin up a second agent because they would collide. Just a newly cloned repo?
dummydummy1234··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
I view it as do you have a full mental model of the code base.

If you do then not vibe coded.

For me, I have different levels of vibes:

Some testing/prototyping bash scripts 100% vibe coded. I have never actually read the code.

Sometimes early iterations, I am familiar with general architecture, but do not know exact file contents.

Sometimes I have gone through and practically rewrote a component from scratch either because it was too convoluted, did not have the perfect abstraction I wantet/etc.

For me the third category is not vibe coded. The first 2 are tech debt in the making.

dummydummy1234··on Breaking the spell of vibe coding
As an aside, I wonder if automated driving would be one year away if we did not need to worry about it killing people.

Like if the only possible issues were property damage, I kind of think it would be here. You just insure the edge cases.

dummydummy1234··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
If it was aliens trump would be telling everyone and taking credit for finally telling the people the truth.
dummydummy1234··on Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop
What is the benefit of having full disk encryption pinned to a machine?
dummydummy1234··on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
Uhh, that's not the article, the article is running a ml model, on phone and floating point opps for tensor multiplication seems to be off.
dummydummy1234··on Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)
What are you using for tts/stt/models?
dummydummy1234··on Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Adobe Photoshop Versions
Does Adobe have incentives not to support Linux?
dummydummy1234··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
How about no masks. If you are a police officer, of the state, wear your face with pride.
dummydummy1234··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
Eh, not for laptops - I say as someone who switched to Linux from windows in past year.

I have spent a decent few days to get long battery life on Linux (fedora), with sleep hibernate + encryption. And I am still thinking that the Linux scheduler is not correctly using Intel's pcore/ecore on 13th gen correctly.

dummydummy1234··on A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
I would also try hotspot, it is a interactive viewer for perf graphs.
dummydummy1234··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
It is a bit of a pain to set up though, especially for a laptop - I just switched to fedora+ gnome, and going through configuring the power settings to allow for suspend-then-hibernate was annoying.

Figuring out the luks + page file + hibernate resume configuration is non intuitive, and is only viable for me to figure out due to my Linux based day job.

Probably could have gone bazzite and had things just work, but I need a Linux dev box locally and was not sure about dev on bazzite.

dummydummy1234··on Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
But aren't the experts chosen on a token by token basis, which means bandwidth limitations?
dummydummy1234··on SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
Long term storage, along the lines of tape replacement/supplement?

There are plenty of things that need to be archived in a basement and never read unless the more readily available forms get corrupted.

Having the ability to say as long as the item exists the data exists is valuable, especially with not having to worry about degradation (which happens with tapes/flash/hard drives)

The ability to say that the data is good.

dummydummy1234··on Steam Machine
My impression of this is that it is partially a tax policy issue.

Dividends are taxed differently and higher than capital gains. So given a choice between a stock buyback and a dividend, often a buyback makes more sense.

dummydummy1234··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
The issue is that the Democrats 'compromised' on the last funding bill - basically had an agreement that some programs would stay funded.

Then the trump administration said "funding allocations from Congress are limits, and we do not have to spend that much on these programs if there is not a need"

And then stopped funding things anyway.

dummydummy1234··on Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
Can a country commit a crime?
dummydummy1234··on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
My thought is think of all the really cheap compute that will be available to researchers. Sure, it will crash but at the end of the day there will be a huge glut of gpus that datacenters will be trying to rent out near cost.

I (as a uninformed rando) think that there are a lot of research ideas that have not been fully explored because doing a small training run takes 100k. If that drops to 1000, then there is a lot more opportunities to try new techniques.

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