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Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
sitkack··on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
FB invades your privacy so that they sell access to you. Your privacy is important to them, so that they can continue to be the intermediary.
sitkack··on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
I know of a bank that it asked for every piece of PPII they have on you for account validation. This allows their phone support folks to have every piece of information to steal your identity.
sitkack··on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
What do you use for archiving github issues?
sitkack··on To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
Those notes are great, David Liu seems while a wholesome dude https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~david/research.html
sitkack··on To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
sitkack··on Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI
sitkack··on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
#2 is not a copyright violation. You can reimplement APIs.
sitkack··on Grok 4
The WA state tabs on my Leaf which weighed less than Volvo station wagon were literally 4x higher because of EV taxes.
sitkack··on Grok 4
You should have gotten a used Nissan Leaf. Perfect in town car.
sitkack··on Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)
Le Guin also "terrorized" her writing class by springing Toni Morrison on them.

https://luisurrea.com/2018/01/tolfink-was-here-on-ursula-k-l...

sitkack··on James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations
What you are parroting is been part of the Republican plan to erode government and our trust in government over the last 50 years.
sitkack··on Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
> The fact that all models at present credulously accept their training

Is this true?

So many on HN make these absolute statements about how LLMs operate and what they can and can't do, that it seems like they fail harder at this test than any other.

It is just autocomplete.

They can't generalize.

They can't do anything not in their training set.

All of which are false.

sitkack··on Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
> only really trust your own personal bubble.

I don't know how you got to this conclusion, but I trust my own thinking the least since it is my own personal bubble. Just because it is mine, doesn't make it good, it just makes it mine.

If the stakes are low, do whatever. But when you need solid answers, that is what rigor is for. You address the argument on merits, not who made it.

Don't suffer from open loop opinions, even your own.

sitkack··on Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
NTFS is an ancient but well designed file system, a more apt comparison would be ZFS or BTRFS both of which checksum metadata and data.
sitkack··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Kroger is most definitely storing this information. I rarely shop any Kroger store, but when they started doing IDs scans, I shop there less and no longer buy anything that requires my ID.
sitkack··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
I would like to have an argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc
sitkack··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Elon doesn't know Elon's own worldview, checks his own tweets to see what he should say.
sitkack··on Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
That is a weak excuse to rely on data integrity in the hardware. They most likely had that feature and removed it so they wouldn't be liable for a class action lawsuit when it turns out the NAND ages out due to bug in the retention algorithm. NTFS is what, 35 years old at this point? Odd comparison.
sitkack··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
You need adblock
sitkack··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
It is the passive voice, not the word suicide that is the issue.
sitkack··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
Or, if you are designing software to kill people, that you actually do a good job.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/cia-allegedly-bought-flawe...

sitkack··on Koala: A benchmark suite for performance-oriented shell-optimization research
It did receive "Awarded Best Paper", maybe you should see why that is?
sitkack··on Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
That is excellent, I am also using it to prototype designing languages and 3.7 and 4.0 models are really quite good for this. I haven't found substantial academic research in using LLMs for making prototype language compilers.
sitkack··on Google fails to dismiss wiretapping claims on SJ, settles with app users
Getting wiretapping is nice, it unlocks a whole new set of remedies.
sitkack··on Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
Ordering issues can be overcome by allowing the model to think in one direction and then reverse the output once it has created it.
sitkack··on Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
How much incontext documentation for your language are you giving it, or does it just figure it out?
sitkack··on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
https://github.com/RawTherapee/RawTherapee
sitkack··on I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow
And so the line continues

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

sitkack··on Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition
This is nice.

Slackermanz created the discrete version of what would later become Lenia, called MNCA (Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata).

https://slackermanz.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/slackermanz

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