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fourthark··on Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
A lot of companies think they do
fourthark··on How to Store Data on Paper?
He covers error correction and information densities on the linked page:

https://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data

(Last section before conclusion.)

IIUC this provided the best overall reliable information density (at 4.2kb / A4 page).

fourthark··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
LLM, please find all occurrences of "shut the fuck up" and suggest actual arguments for the author to use.

Otherwise, well written and persuasive.

fourthark··on Can Open Source Projects Exit Foundations?
Well that's a frightening scenario... but how does it relate?
fourthark··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
Who is "we"?
fourthark··on Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments
By your criteria you would ignore that entire text because there was no argument only identity.
fourthark··on How many supernova explode every year?
Unless it keeps civilizations safe from each other.
fourthark··on The game designer playing through his own psyche
So... you're fine?
fourthark··on Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
Not the answer you were looking for, but `juice` makes it possible.

https://github.com/Automattic/juice

fourthark··on A map of torii around the world
Not expecting, but hoping nonetheless.
fourthark··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
The vote button you press disappears, as well. I think this depends on some kind of local storage; it's often slightly out of sync.
fourthark··on A pair of scissors on formica table suddenly bursts into flames
I find no mention of melting in the reviews. Are you joking?
fourthark··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Emacs doesn't ship with them or nag you to install them.
fourthark··on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color
All in order to prove that the browser should be part of the OS and was not at all gratuitous tying to defeat Netscape.
fourthark··on Show HN: LLMpeg
I always wonder what's the difference between LLMing shell commands and

  curl https://example.com | sh
fourthark··on Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
(which discusses privacy issues on the training side)
fourthark··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
FFmpeg is mostly LGPL and has very clear and helpful instructions about how to incorporate and distribute it in compliance.
fourthark··on Boltzmann brain
> Seth Lloyd has stated, "They fail the Monty Python test: Stop that! That's too silly!"
fourthark··on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Ppl acting like LLMs!
fourthark··on Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR
I think the concern is more that the person did not have the right to contribute, i.e. their employer owns the copyright to their work.
fourthark··on Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR
It's not copyright assignment in this case. The bot is nagging about the code being copyright-free and license-compatible. So it's in the gray area that you describe in your second paragraph.
fourthark··on We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
Apparently, no you can’t. But one can.
fourthark··on Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
Execs love genai & execs make purchasing decisions.
fourthark··on Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
Yes, Typst is fully supported as an output language of Quarto.

Exceptions: you’ll need extensions for slides, some layouts. No books support, yet.

[I work on this.]

fourthark··on Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)
> a fig tree so huge it would take three people wrapping their arms around the trunk to cover the circumference.

No way that grew in 16 years…

fourthark··on Open-Source Cola
It says caffeine is not part of the recipe, so... just add more?

(And use beet sugar IIRC.)

fourthark··on Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs
As explained in the link, Vega uses many of the D3’s geometry and other utilities, but not the DOM manipulation that most people associate with D3.

So the layers are not even in this comparison - Vega is sort of on the same level as D3, and Vega Lite vs Observable Plot is a better comparison.

fourthark··on CSS Grid Areas
For the invalid example in 3.2, I think the last line intends to say "sidebar" not "header". As it is, it's both discontiguous and missing an area.
fourthark··on An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
Famously huge FORTRAN code base going back to the 80's, although they were wrapping it in C++ and Javascript when I worked there in the aughts.
fourthark··on Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
The argument being that there is not very much video footage of people turning their heads, therefore not enough data to train deep fake videos / filters.
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