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proprietario··on Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
Oh yes? I'd be intrigued to learn more.. I am working with smaller sequences (peptides, len is about 30ish) and currently use an attention based mechanism, do you maybe have pointers to where to start?
proprietario··on Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)
I feel like this an interesting angle and I want to approach the discussion in good faith..

So why should it be morally ok to show support/better the public image/engage with a party that is supporting/purporting some huge morally bad things?

My reasoning is as follows, I wonder where you wouldn't agree:

A: You shouldn't support people doing morally bad stuff

B: Someone supporting morally bad things is morally bad

B.2: Sharing/Engaging with them shows support and betters their public image

C: Kaspersky is an oligarch supporting stuff that is morally wrong

D: So you shouldn't support him by driving engagement to his site

proprietario··on Markov chains are the original language models
fwiw, your explanation really made markov chains click for me (unlike other markov chain explanations) i have to admit, that the part where you went from the idea over hashmaps to the matrix representation was a bit dense, but rereading it twice made me under it so thanks for your explanation!
proprietario··on I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
>I'm sounding like a lunatic lol that was basically my childhood and I am grateful for that, keep on doing it!
proprietario··on Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity
I don't really think that those factors are direct causal related (oppressing structures and wikipedia browsing) instead I think there is an indirect link there: More oppressing/partiachalic societies tend to be the ones where the main of the population has the free time to indulge in "useless" information gathering, they don't have the time/ more pressing needs so in effect the browsing behaviour is not directly linked to oppression through some causality but rather indirectly to how much can be spend leisurely
proprietario··on The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything
Oh very interesting, as for me it is the complete opposite: I grew up only knowing real truffle and am now in a position where the fake stuff is just too intense for me, which is kinda sad as some "higher class" restaurants happily combine the two, to get you the look (eg by grating in front of you) and the taste (via some oil in the sauce)

I'd be very grateful if they started labelling it accordingly as they do it with other synthetic flavours (eg strawberry, GER)

proprietario··on Can science find ways to ease loneliness?
Yes, please post it, you piqued my curiosity!
proprietario··on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
> Like [..] CPU Branch Prediction Idiocy Can you elaborate on that or point me to some sources as I thought branch prediction was a good thing for speed (until now)
proprietario··on EU Chat Control Bill Postponed
But this is exactly the point (which I think is good). This whole thing is applicable if you produce software commercially, regardless if OSS or not

I read it as this: In effect, if you make money of the software you destribute you are responsible to address security issues

I hope that this is a change for the better. Now everyone who piggy-backed on some OSS project so far has to either maintain a fork (-> more contributions) or provide incentive for the dev to fix it (money?)

proprietario··on Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
Interesting project! After diving into the codebase and looking around I found that iOS is not native... any plans on switching?

otherwise are there some docs/papers on how this has to be implemented so I can start my own?

proprietario··on Paul Buchheit interview (2018)
wow, this really resonates with me as I am 18, straight out of highschool and landed my first job at a swift shop for enterprise programming, I really didn't care where I started, I really just want to pogram stuff

Can you share more of your story and maybe give me some advice, I really don't want to end up burnt out

proprietario··on UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)
sorry, but I dont understand.. in what way? i thought the performance was pretty ok?
proprietario··on Does the “Learn Vim the Hard Way” website still exist?
wow thank you so much, I read through the whole article and was finally able to grok monads!
proprietario··on LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
see this other comment[0] its most likely a translation issue

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975492

proprietario··on I found an IT job thanks to this blog
this is advice I hear very often, but where do you buy second hand enterprise hardware? I went and bought mine second hand from the internet but ive got no idea where to get enterprise stuff
proprietario··on Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update?
literally soldered cases, where you can't even get to the internals (eg. hp)
proprietario··on An open source web-based flashcard studying system
Are you planning on documenting your API? contributing a mobile client would become a lot easier

tbh after trying SwiftUI the last few weeks I am tempted to give it a shot myself but being really unfamiliar with this type of web development trying to figure out the API routes seems a bit daunting

proprietario··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
>Fingerprinting is not and should not be the sanctioned way of identifying people.

If I understood PornHubs proposal correctly they want to only provide the content if your browser does not send a "Child-Mode" flag or something. Given that parents should introduce children to their first mobile devices and guide them, setting this flag seems not to be so hard. Just set at account creation "minor: true" and done, or am I missing something?

proprietario··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
Measured by what? The quota of people able to read/write nears 100%, child deaths are down, etc etc
proprietario··on Fireship – Learn to Code Faster
ah, interesting, what projects do you normally do? i really like this approach but struggle to find a good starting project... I always pivot bewteen too simple and too complex