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frangonf··on Nyquist Limit:The frequency of changes in tech is invalidating our understanding
I personally found hard to see this analogy at first, because the assumption of human understanding as fs seems hard to make, as I don't see human understanding as linear and measurable. Also if fs mapped well, we could just increase fs to be able to reconstruct the signal better by interleaving more brains at it and we know of manmonthian consequences, and this kinda what the main point of the post is, that human comprehension don't scale. In fact, to me, some sort of digital inteligence seems more fs-shaped than a human one.

But overall cool read to make you think, where you can see a dev brain as an ADC, design paradigms or microservices as band pass filters, apis as low pass, frameworks as downsampling, legacy code as DC signal that you don't touch, etc.

frangonf··on Kitty 0.50
I use it constantly and with 0.50 now it's smooth and stable to resize it dynamically with the IPC remote control protocol using kitten @ resize-os-window --action=os-panel --incremental lines=<N>
frangonf··on Everything is an AI scam now
And the people that make AI scam content pay for AI tokens that AI scam consumers love so it's a win-win Jevons virtuous circle.
frangonf··on Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Finished in 2010 and I'm completely out of the loop, I know. Yes I used the web and wikipedia to copy and paste for the usual group project/powerpoint, computer class where we play around with gimp etc but that was a very very minor part, specially during the mandatory school years in my country, before age 16, 17.

But my point is: I absolutely could have learnt all that the school curriculum mandates with pre Microsoft Encarta tech and I don't think current curriculum gets outdated so fast that a book can't hold the needed information for a school year... It's great that students have internet and AI and do whatever they want after school, but why does the school needs to provide/use so much of it that this news is even an issue?

frangonf··on Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Do you really need anything at all from the web nowadays to learn the school curriculum? Why? Can't we provide students with the material needed to study? Are we teaching kids the latest published papers?
frangonf··on Progress on provable inference for large language models
The claude contributeth and the claude taketh away.
frangonf··on Tencent Hy4
> Looking ahead > Although Hy4 is one of the strongest open-weight models available today, a notable gap remains between it and top proprietary models, particularly on challenging internal benchmarks for research-level mathematics, long-horizon coding, model self-improvement, and advanced visual question answering. We will continue to steadily scale pre-training and post-training to narrow this gap.

I like that they acknowledge that. For working with ai as a tool open models are already great. For millennium problems and doomermaxxing they are not there yet.

frangonf··on Kitty 0.50
The simple cursor trail, I thought it was a gimmick at first but its useful to me for getting oriented between kitty windows, and in the same vein I'm trying out the new `focus-highlight`.
frangonf··on OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
I read good things about their diffs library: https://diffs.com/

Whenever I see this acquires or hiring of successful products founders or teams by big labs I ask myself if, apart for the usual obvious reasons that any non ai model company would want them, they are also reusing this human talent to build the dataset of "how the sausage is made".

frangonf··on Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
It's on channel 24.
frangonf··on It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
I think Proton leaderships saw that 'email with pgp wrapper outside hyperscaler servers' is a crowded space today, so now they are doing the whole 'proton workspace365' and they are falling short at it (I'm a paying user and for my own personal needs the workspace like features are bearable, but not good, unlike email/pass which are ok) so they are getting nervous.

If it was any other company we wouldn't even care, but if your marketing is 'big cloud is bad look at us we are so moral and so caring and respectful with you and your data' and they shit the bed like this in front of the users that are paying because they bought on this vision...

frangonf··on Digital minimalism
> We need social media less than before, because you can talk to the bot for information instead (and for human connection, there's still the old-fashioned solution: going out and talking to people in real life).

I kinda believe this. The web for collaboration, work, dumping out information and doomscrolling is a great tool, but I think is bad for any kind of socializing or 'communitizing' at a human level, where you are forced to treat humans as such instead of looking at some transduced digital representation of a real person in the form or chars or pixels prone to dehumanization.

frangonf··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Some high quality RLHF from the wikipedia editors for free.
frangonf··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Anthropic allegedly legally learned literature for large llms from illegally laundered illicit LibGen looted Stanford libraries?
frangonf··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Good question, let's take a look:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-ai-eventual...

https://www.newsweek.com/ceos-predict-shorter-working-week-1...

https://tech.co/news/ceo-predicts-shorter-workweek-ai#:~:tex...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-04-05/chatgpt-op...

https://www.businessinsider.com/vinod-khosla-5-year-olds-won...

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-comments-3-day-wo...

https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-ai-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-cohen-4-day-workweek-a...

frangonf··on Nietzschian Debugger
A markovian prussian rubber duck?

This is pure dev astrology, but in the subsidized Sonnet 3.5 times in copilot I'm guilty of prompting 'You're Uncle Bob make this legacy java services read like a book top down with the cleanest code' just for fun and I might have learnt something and had some fun so I'm not judging.

frangonf··on Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard
Not the case in my Zen (macos) looks fine.
frangonf··on The Goose Programming Language
https://xxcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/211370426927463656...
frangonf··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
I use oxc tooling and it's great to see the rust rewrite singularity in action and get to ride the fastest horses, but I would like that they made a branch for 7.2 as experiment to see how it compares. Maybe this ends in a win for Microsoft, they could cut operating expenses by keeping just Anders Hejlsberg in a hammock reciting invariants to claudpilot.
frangonf··on Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
To me adding 'tldr' at beginning or end of the prompt whenever I need is enough. Sometimes I want more explanatory responses.
frangonf··on Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling
tmux is great, specially when you need persistence in a remote server where you don't want or can't install any other software, and when you are stuck with some 2010 terminal emulator.

But if you have control over your setup, I would use a capable terminal and ditch in-band multiplexers that sit in the middle of the process and your terminal eating up escape sequences and native features while adding latency. Then use a separate tool for session persistence (I like zmx but there are more for this).

frangonf··on The future of programming (1982)
> Many programmers spend relatively little time ac- tually doing programming, i.e., writing, debugging, test- ing, or documenting code. Much of their time is occupied with mundane chores, meetings, or various kinds of breaks and interruptions. Additional time is taken in becoming familiar with new applications or new devel- opment environments.

> One of the key problems in analysis and specification of systems is that the eventual users do not have a good idea of what they want the system to do.

> Automatic Programming The term "automatic programming" has been used for many years to refer to the process by which an executable program may be produced from nonproce- dural specifications of the task to be performed. Some limited forms of automatic programming are already available and more will become available in the medium term. Over the longer term, it will be possible for pro- grammers to create running programs by providing a specification of program functions and outputs, without having to proceed with a detailed program design or with the production of code.

Am I living in 1982?

frangonf··on Ask HN: macOS 27.x upgrade without Siri eating disk space?
This worked for me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116
frangonf··on AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10
https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect/blob/9488e5f09717cb508c...

Seems to be scraped data? and then you review it manually like it recommends in: https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect/blob/9488e5f09717cb508c...

frangonf··on Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
> And other outlets for sexual desire were more acceptable, for example fictosexuality: the expression of romantic or sexual feelings towards fictional characters.

> A 2017 survey of Japanese students aged 16–22 found that 14–17 per cent of them admitted to having romantic feelings towards a character in a video game or anime.

TIL about the name of this phenomenon. I see this always in the context of "terminal online anime fan" but it made me think and look into other occurrences of similar parasocial behavior like the early Sherlock Holmes fandom.

With this current social and tech trends I think we are going to see more Pygmalionic SexBots startups in next cohorts.

frangonf··on Photopea DMCA Takedown on GitHub
You might find this informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982498
frangonf··on BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC
Goodbye sundial welcome cesium clock. Astrology app devs: remember to carry the drift in Temporal for the Ascendant, specially around 2267 you might get your love and money life predictions messed up.
frangonf··on [dead]
I don't use Linkedin so I read this as a substitute to get an informative view of what is currently being beamed at AI tech industry leaders.
frangonf··on The cost of getting a job today
With the added benefit that you can monitor it and review the cost and usage patterns of the candidates vs the result, maybe even get some cool evals.
frangonf··on Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014)
Found this: https://github.com/websterParser/WebsterParser

With websters-1913.dictionary.zip ready to unzip and save into the dictionaries folder and use with the Dictionary app.

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