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mynameismon··on The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
Why not Chinese models hosted on American hardware?
mynameismon··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
The public includes the rest of the world, not just a small minority living in the United States.
mynameismon··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
I suspect a large number of computers would be thinkpad, primarily due to its repairability, which is the biggest selling point of framework by far. So, together, you cover a pretty significant chunk of the market
mynameismon··on Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
I mean, why is Ubuntu using it as default when it isnt 1.0?
mynameismon··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Yeah, but someone living paycheck-to-paycheck and shopping at dollar stores is likely not someone who can afford filing a lawsuit.
mynameismon··on Advent of Code 2025
Is it just me, or does it seem to be temporarily down?
mynameismon··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
Well, a good way to test this is hooking up wireshark
mynameismon··on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
The point of the blog is that even at "supposed" deterministic generative sampling, non-determinism creeps in. This in turn has disastrous effects in very real experiments.
mynameismon··on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
Interesting that Mastodon was blocked. How exactly was that ban supposed to be enforced, by blocking every single instance in existence?
mynameismon··on Saquon Barkley is playing for equity
Your question is answered further in the article:

> To date, none of Barkley’s investments have flamed out or depreciated, largely because he prefers to come in at later stages of a company’s growth.

mynameismon··on Claude for Chrome
At the same time, manufacturers do not release operating systems with extremely obvious flaws that have (atleast so far) no reasonable guardrails and pretend that they are the next messiah.
mynameismon··on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
For those who have an installation of LaTeX: It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this.
mynameismon··on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
From my understanding of cryptography, most schemes are created with the assumption that _any_ function that does not have access to the secret key will have a probabilistically small chance of decoding the correct message (O(exp(-key_length)) usually). As LLMs are also a function, it is extremely unlikely for cryptographic protocols to be broken _unless_ LLMs can allow for new types of attacks all together.
mynameismon··on U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications
And what if you don't list your social media accounts?
mynameismon··on People are just as bad as my LLMs
Can you share any links about this?
mynameismon··on ThunderKittens: Simple, fast, and adorable AI kernels
How easy is it to run on older GPUs (think 1080Tis)? The reason I ask this is because torch.compile refuses to support that, and that alone makes things much slower.
mynameismon··on Bold Edit: An editor written by power users
The blog seems to have some more details and features: https://bold-edit.com/blog/wrote-my-own.html. The feature set does seem nice, will keep an eye for this, but likely that you will have to pry Emacs out of my dead hands :)
mynameismon··on Types as Interfaces
In the type-theoeretic world, you want to refer to "refinement types" [0]. Some interesting work that I have seen in this direction is Liquid Types [1][2]. There is some work in Haskell[3], but it is surprisingly very useful in Rust as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_type [1] https://goto.ucsd.edu/~ucsdpl-blog/liquidtypes/2015/09/19/li... [2] https://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/liquid_types.pdf [3] https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/ [4] https://github.com/flux-rs/flux

mynameismon··on Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft
I think its a metaphor alluding to the black market trades of the wealthy leaders?
mynameismon··on Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders
My biggest issue with Zoho is the integration between Zoho CRM and Inventory/Books. Making sure they are in sync...is basically impossible. Off the top of my head, inventory, taxation and images do not sync at all without breaking significant portions of the standard Zoho workflow. One can see their org chart through the way the two have been put together. The integration makes the entire thing completely unusable, since now it becomes impossible to track products across the sales lifecycle.
mynameismon··on Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?
> In my own work on aluminium alloys I was able to get the same simulations that would have needed hours on the supercomputer to run in seconds on a laptop.

Could you elaborate on this further? How exactly were the simulations sped up? From what I could understand, were the ML models able to effectively approximate the Schrodinger's equation for larger systems?

mynameismon··on Role of Algorithms
The Informatics Olympiads?
mynameismon··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
I use Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news), which helpfully highlights the OP in the HN orange.
mynameismon··on See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
The more I read about the massively privacy invading features of TikTok, the gladder I am India banned it.
mynameismon··on Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
> nicknames cannot be used as tags since it doesn't support auto complete/filter by tag etc.

Well, Vivaldi does support autocompletion of nicknames. Just tried it with HN (save it as a bookmark and add hn as a nickname)

mynameismon··on Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
You can use nicknames as tags, atleast that's what I do. Most of my actual bookmark management is actually done in Zotero though.
mynameismon··on Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
You also forgot the Speed Dial. Allowing you to populate (what essentially becomes your) New Tab Page with the bookmarks of your choice. Greatly helps reduce the time taken after a browser restart to get going
mynameismon··on Hacker News Predictions
> - Ubiquitous mobile internet integrated into even very trivial consumer goods

Surely, surely this has to be among the predictions which came true, or largely so. Even toothbrushes have Wi-Fi!

mynameismon··on Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
Also is the ability to open the Networks panel, to snoop on requests and find the exact API call that you might need to perform your task, instead of having to pull in all of HTML/JS/CSS crap. As a lot of SPAs have essentially pushed everything behind JSON APIs, all information is usually one (authenticated) API call away.
mynameismon··on Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
> To me this looks like their government have different interests to protect, than protecting their own people

Where did you derive this from? They are not scrapping the bill in its entirety, rather, they are bringing out a replacement bill.

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