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sitkackon Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

They aren't deifying jobs, Jobs was an asshole, but when you confabulate what you think is your tech god and then larp as that, you make a worse version of everything.

sitkackon Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

There is no built in graph functionality correct? But one could use existing mechanisms like metadata or storing the link between documents as a document itself?

sitkackon Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

How would you use the built in functionality to enable graph functionality? Metadata or another document used as the link or collection of links?

sitkackon Why are there so many rationalist cults?

Money and Heat has a strong ability to encourage crazy.

sitkackon Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses

I think this is interesting research. I could see BLE beacons that announce what level of sharing one is comfortable with. Not unlike systems used at conferences to denote if someone can take their picture and what they can do with it.

sitkackon Fennel libraries as single files (2023)

> I'm not comparing single-file vs multiple files, I'm comparing single-file vs NPM/PIP/go get/Cargo

You are talking about your own thing. Everyone else is talking about the number of files, not the distribution and update mechanism.

The packaging system could support single file and still be able to track versions and upgrades. The JVM ecosystem is effectively single file for many deps esp now that jars can contain jars.

sitkackon PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link

sitkackon Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

Everything is undergoing chaos all at once, everywhere.

Programming has not had such a powerful upheaval since probably forever. Some is grift, some is awe, some is sadness. What I want out of programming since craft in some regards, but more like rigor over craft. While I have some friends that really really enjoy writing code in the small, and that is now gone. They have to find a new niche to hid in, but corporate america it is not. And this same action will continue to erode and reshape what it means to be a technologist in really really different ways that we have no idea what they will look like.

If you don't like all the AI articles, then I suggest you ask Claude to write you a new front end to HN using the firebase api and an embedding model. I would point you towards https://searchthearxiv.com/about which you could probably extend to use hn as the backend. I have some features in mind if you want to chat.

sitkackon Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable

Not offended. One of us is probably an LLM.

sitkackon Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable

It is just simulating the affect as best it can. You are always asking the model a probabilistic question that it has to interpret. I think when you ask it to be warm and empathetic, it has to use some of its "intelligence" (quotes since it is also its probabilistic calc budget) to create that output. Pretending to be objectively truthful is easier.

sitkackon $30k Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

I'd buy the microvan version of the 2013 Nissan Leaf with a 170 mile range for 25k USD. And I'd never buy a new car.

sitkackon Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days?

Thanks for the link. Code itself will be devalued as the artifact.

sitkackon Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days?

In the grand scheme of things, even GPLing your code doesn't matter as the AI is still trained on it. As AI increases in capabilities, it can just read and rewrite your code. And all code is useful in some way.

As mentioned in the comment, private on GH has no bearing, it is still in full sight of the AI.

From what I can tell, OSS submissions are on the rise as people embrace AI to work on things they could not previously.

sitkackon Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley only served 5 months behind bars, the other 35 were under house arrest.

https://time.com/archive/6878225/the-military-galley-paroled...

sitkackon U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

That is a good idea, those GPUs should be hardwired to only mine Trump Coin.

sitkackon Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride

I thought the EPA was deregulating everything except flouride which it was going to deem a poison.

sitkackon Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride

And PFAS are used heavily in the manufacturing of microchips (photoresist and etching).

sitkackon Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

I was amazed at how good and cheap the food was in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. That is a bummer.

sitkackon My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

    {
        "permissions": {
            "allow": [
            "Bash(bash:*)",
            ],
            "deny": []
        }
    }

sitkackon The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

United Healthcare already did this with their AI powered death panels that would bulk deny claims, even if they later allowed them, the delta-t causes bonus subscriber terminations.

sitkackon Residents cheer as Tucson rejects data center campus

Good for them. No groundwater for data centers! Data centers should be run closed loop, if they can't, they shouldn't exist. AZ should also make them generate at least 70% of their power onsite.

sitkackon The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Because it killed 5 people for $200 each by shutting off their CPAP machines?

sitkackon The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

This already happens, it is just the base model plus some in context data.

sitkackon Jepsen: Capela dda5892

I was thinking of something deeper than just using their product.

sitkackon Getting good results from Claude Code

This could be taken as praise.

I take it as a manifestation of the temporal bigotry in computer science. That anything not new is bad, which is absolutely untrue. Old is not bad, new is not good. Where something exists in time has almost not bearing on its quality. Most knowledge and good ideas do not survive.

sitkackon Jepsen: Capela dda5892

You should team up with Antithesis. https://antithesis.com/

sitkackon Arm desktop: emulation

My favorite unsupported configuration is Homebrew, they support Arm-OSX but do not support Arm-Linux and now that they have moved to binary downloads, I find it difficult to even build the homebrew recipes.

Back when homebrew was source build first and Linux was first class, it was the best. Now it has become the thing it replaced, MacPorts.

sitkackon Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

These things were everywhere, my hometown of 20k had TWO papers, one was a weekly and the town next door had one. And then even in a big city, you would have neighborhood level papers with a little news, some ads, etc.

They are all gone. Many of them folding before the internet became popular.

sitkackon Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

Which is exactly the existential cliff that the ad driven economy is about to drive over. Those big search engine companies that also happen to sell ads are, like, gonna have to pivot hard.

sitkackon Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

> don't think FLOSS has had the kind of effect that many activists were going for

The entire internet, end to end, runs on FLOSS.