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niek_pas··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Which macronutrients and micronutrients are those?
niek_pas··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
Practically? Not anymore, no.
niek_pas··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I don’t know what I’m talking about but it seems to me OpenAI is heavily emphasizing productization of LLMs. Dots, ChatGPT Work, scheduled tasks, in-app projects etc.
niek_pas··on AI was great until it was not
> They too will tell you to ask the AI

I’m sorry you had that experience. It sounds like your supervisors don’t take their job seriously.

niek_pas··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
That’s exactly my question reading this. Granted I don’t know much about the training side ofbLLMs, so maybe there’s more code changes involved there than I expect, but in terms of public-facing software, they make, what, a couple chat apps, a product website, and an API?
niek_pas··on Gemini 4 Argon
I couldn't see it either, then I clicked the 'Antigravity' button in the top right, switched back to the main screen, and it appeared in the model selector.

This is in the Gemini app on macOS.

niek_pas··on Gemini 4 Argon
Weirdly, the post OP linked says:

> Gemini 4 Argon is available today for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers

niek_pas··on Gemini 4 Argon
Fine on arc search (which I think is just WebKit) on iOS.
niek_pas··on Apple HomeView
Or a $5 phone stand from IKEA:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bergenes-holder-for-mobile-phon...

niek_pas··on Muse Wonder
Thanks for sharing. Is that Wonder or Wonder Full (barf)? Wonder full is supposed to be the one close to Opus 5.5
niek_pas··on Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
Thanks! For some reason it was behind a paywall for me earlier — maybe I used another link.
niek_pas··on Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
This might be a hint:

    const R=["https://eth.llamarpc.com","https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com","https://cloudflare-eth.com"]
niek_pas··on Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
Would love to read the original research paper if anyone has access to it. My university unfortunately doesn’t.
niek_pas··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Where does that come from? Why are people who happen to hold the same passport as you more deserving of your care/attention/resources?
niek_pas··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
The word 'skitzo' is pretty offensive to people who actually suffer from schizophrenia, maybe try 'unhinged' or 'bizarre' or something.
niek_pas··on I'm in a Meeting
I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else?

EDIT: seems like British audio does work

niek_pas··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Why not fund Congolese educations against? Why not fund Indians' educations instead? Why not fund Cubans' educations instead?

Does it matter? Are these not all people deserving of education?

niek_pas··on Blindsight (Watts Novel)
Blindsight is probably my favorite novel, and I liked echopraxia fine but it was definitely of a different class to me. The worst parts of blindsight are Watts' descriptives (where is everyone right know? What does this area look like? What actions are currently happening?) and Echopraxia suffers from this even more than Blindsight already did.
niek_pas··on GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default
This is a stupid thing to latch on to but why is everything an “experience” now? It’s a fucking programming dashboard, not a three-star Michelin restaurant.
niek_pas··on Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Give me a shout when they get Bluetooth headphones working!
niek_pas··on Grok 4.7
He’s being downvoted because the audience on Hacker News thinks you should keep politics out of their hobbies. It’s privilege.
niek_pas··on A warning about 'model welfare'
But then you’d leave their site, and they don’t want that.
niek_pas··on Homebrew 7.0.0
No first-party package manager.
niek_pas··on Audacity 4.0
I find conventional Western notation works quite well for communicating notes, rhythms, and basic expression, but it breaks down pretty quickly once you move beyond that. E.g. a lot of the common techniques on electric guitar (bends, palm muting, tremolo/whammy bar stuff, pick slides, slap/thumping, pinch harmonics, raking) don't really have a convenient notational shorthand. That's without even mentioning synthesizers (how do you notate 'gradually increase the filter cutoff here'?) and DAWs, samplers, drum machines. But it's definitely a hard problem: the more information you try to shove into a notational system, the harder it gets for people to keep track of what everything means. Plus you just start running out of easily distinguishable symbols at some point.
niek_pas··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
I'm with you on this. I think this could actually be really useful but the effect is way too extreme. Additionally, the animation is quite stuttery on turns --- might just be my machine though.
niek_pas··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
'Cultures' have never been units of 'insiders' isolated from 'outsiders'. Cultural change is inevitable and there is no reason assume 'changing significantly' is inherently bad. That's what history _is_.
niek_pas··on I'm becoming AI-blind
There's gotta be nicer ways of saying that.
niek_pas··on I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore
> Of course nowadays days I see the downsides of these devices and we're getting to a point where the cons outweigh the pros, but back when I bought the first smart phone (I guess in 2012 or so, I was relatively late to the party) it felt like a leap into the future compared to what I had before.

I know a lot of people have a troubled relationship to their phone, but this is really surprising to me. Would I want to go back to a world where I can't conveniently contact people, navigate the world, look up anything I want to know in an second, and set timers by yelling at the air rather than getting sticky foccacia dough in the cracks of my egg timer? Not even a little bit.

The last time I personally felt the excitement the author describes was probably with the announcement of Apple Vision Pro, but unfortunately that product went nowhere.

niek_pas··on Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
What does ‘latent’ mean in this context?
niek_pas··on Qwen 3.8 27B
A wise man once said, "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts".
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