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Show HN: Mechanical Wonderbrush (Not AI)

rolz.org

2 pointsby Udo12 maanden geleden1 comments

Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores – Part 1 [video]

youtube.com

2 pointsby Udo2 jaar geleden0 comments

Tell HN: Ludum Dare game jam this weekend

33 pointsby Udo3 jaar geleden11 comments

Amiga still runs school district's HVAC (2015)

hackaday.com

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Climate Change Game Jam is coming up next week

alakajam.com

1 pointsby Udo7 jaar geleden0 comments

Microsoft acknowledges permission problems with MS16-072 patches

infoworld.com

25 pointsby Udo10 jaar geleden9 comments

Show HN: Minibars, a Minimal Templating Alternative to Handlebars.js

github.com

4 pointsby Udo11 jaar geleden1 comments

NYTimes and the Web Console

creativepark.net

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It Looks Like WebIntents May Be Resurrected

lists.w3.org

2 pointsby Udo12 jaar geleden0 comments

Keeping Ruby Reasonable (2011)

youtube.com

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Hexaflexagons

youtube.com

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CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN

privacy.cryptoseal.com

205 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden119 comments

The first-ever hashtag, -reply and retweet, as Twitter users invented them

qz.com

2 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden0 comments

Show HN: LaunchWay - let's build a community-powered online startup incubator

launchway.net

3 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden5 comments

Ask HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers

53 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden52 comments

CCC frees German Constitution from Print Media [Google translation]

translate.google.com

2 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden2 comments

The Firing Offense

thedailywtf.com

140 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden83 comments

W3C working group will shelve Web Intents

lists.w3.org

3 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden4 comments

YC Companies Have More Than 2x the Momentum of 500 Startups, 3x Techstars

daniellemorrill.com

19 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden4 comments

Show HN: a lexer, parser, interpreter and web runtime (np, a 5-weekend project)

np-lang.org

122 pointsby Udo13 jaar geleden44 comments

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

This looks very promising. It would be cool if support for Bonsai-style models would land in mainline MLX soon, looking forward to trying it out.

It seems PrismML has implemented a better version of an idea I had a while back: what if we had a 1-bit model where the scale of the weight is determined by its position. The model would have to be trained from the ground up for this though, which is why I never tried it. The interleaved scale factor approach of Bonsai is a much more flexible approach at almost the same cost.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I know this is an outsider position, but I always felt that the AoC leaderboard was a mistake. Very few people had the time, the commitment, and the capability of making it on there in a meaningful fashion, and it put an emphasis on something that didn't match the vibe of the event at all. If speedrunning the problem solving was the point, then why package every episode into an enjoyable little story?

This also ties into the comments that AoC has become moot or was "ruined by LLMs". If you enjoy solving the problems, nothing should have changed for you. What's the difference if a given problem was already solved by an LLM, or a group of IQ 200 superhumans from MIT for that matter?

As time marches on, there will eventually be absolutely nothing left where an unaugmented human outperforms a machine. That doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying things. In a few years at most, all programming will be purely recreational.

vorig jaardiscuss

Exactly. And as implied by the term techno-feudalism, the owners are okay with a greatly reduced economy, and in some cases a severe reduction in quality of life overall, as long as they end up ruling over what's left.

vorig jaardiscuss

I think what GP meant was voting on policies directly instead of voting in delegates that promise to implement policies.

vorig jaardiscuss

I had to try this gem, it's my new benchmark! o4-mini-high also fails spectacularly, even after repeated feedback. However, 4.5 (the impractibly large demo model) gets it right:

It’s a nonsense twist on the classic lateral thinking puzzle:

The original puzzle goes: “A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies, and the son is rushed to the ER. The surgeon says, ‘I can’t operate on him—he’s my son.’” The intended answer to that puzzle challenges the listener to recognize the surgeon is the child’s mother, confronting implicit gender biases.

Your version humorously mangles it by swapping roles (“son and his man”) and objectifying the victims as cars, creating a logical absurdity. The sentence “I can’t operate on this car, he’s my surgeon!” doesn’t parse logically, indicating it’s a playful distortion rather than a coherent scenario

vorig jaardiscuss

Yes, skip would be good, but I'd also advocate an option like "I reject the premise of the question".

In legal contexts yes-or-no answers can work because the case can in theory be boiled down to guilty or not. If there is any flaw with the case, the answer should be not guilty.

But let's take the "do I have a moral duty to..." questions used as examples here for contrast. I'd argue you never had a moral duty to attend your sibling's wedding to begin with. But because the question was asked with a weird modifier like "even if it's their 3rd wedding", any answer you give will be inadequate and will just serve to reinforce the flawed premise. Skipping is not enough in my opinion, because even if communicated to the question asker, it doesn't make it clear whether there as an issue on the answerer's side ("I don't know" / "don't feel qualified") or with the question itself.

vorig jaardiscuss

What you're describing sounds like the curvature or topology of space would be non-flat. AFAIK this hasn't been completely ruled out, but so far every piece of evidence suggests the universe is flat over vast distances.

Intuitively I'd say if there was curvature or topological irregularities at the furthest distances we can observe, there wouldn't be a consistent redshift observed on far objects because some of them would be coming towards us instead of pulling away.

vorig jaardiscuss

> I hope it's not a disservice to you to suggest this is standpoint where essentially 'we' know all about the universe and everything in it

Like I said I have no business talking about philosophy or spiritualism. However, since you asked: that's not at all what I meant. In fact, it's the opposite way around. I'm of the opinion just because we don't know something, this shouldn't give people a license to invent things from whole cloth and assert them as facts (which is exactly what Penrose does).

We're still waiting on proof of anything supernatural, and explaining things with materialism has served us super well. It's not unreasonable to assume it's going to continue to be a good tool for understanding the world.

I believe Penrose's core argument fits the description of a rhetorical device called argument from incredulity. He is incredulous how "consciousness" could ever arise from mere molecules interacting with each other. To me, everything he built up on top of this is tantamount to intellectual dishonesty, but I acknowledge that this is born out of a certain bias on my end.

vorig jaardiscuss

Or even simpler: if cells are just machines, then there is no reason why a computer couldn't perform the same operations. I'm not a philosopher, but I believe this comes down to materialism vs a belief in the supernatural.

Having read about Penrose's positions before, this is indeed what is he proposing in a roundabout way: that there is an origin to "consciousness" that is for all intents and purposes metaphysical. In the past he pushed the belief that micro-tubules in the brain (which are a structural component of cells) act like antennas that receive cosmic consciousness from the surrounding field.

In my opinion this is also Penrose's greatest sin: using his status as a scientist to promote spiritual opinions that are indistinguishable from quantum woo disguised as scientific fact.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

You're right, maybe I read the post a bit too charitably.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

> You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not.

I think you misunderstood the OP. The criticism was about the landing page, not the project.

And fwiw, it's not unwarranted. Putting the words "terminal emulator" somewhere on the page would make less people bounce off. You may be fine with them bouncing off, but still, I think it was meant as constructive criticism.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

> You may check out Rumble.com as a video player alternative.

Although I'm not familiar with the Rumble player, I assume your advice implies that they'd have to host their videos on Rumble as well. The main issue described in the article is about controlling what gets published on their site and what the user experience is going to be. Hosting their videos on a competitor's service is not the answer to that, as it would simply make them dependent yet on another company.

Media outlets that are large enough to need that kind of control but not large enough to host their own data are in a tough spot there.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Germany, remote or in-house (willing to travel)

I'm an older generalist programmer. I prefer to work on your custom codebases and I enjoy optimization work.

Server-side web programming with PHP, Node JS, C++; Games programming: Pixi.js, Three.js, HTML/Canvas, Godot, custom code/engines using OpenGL or Vulcan; General programming: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, Pascal, Go, Lua, Swift

Platforms: Linux, MacOS, Proxmox, Arduino/Microcontrollers/SoCs

I like working on:

  - proofs of concept and MVPs
  - getting projects ready for demo day
  - turning MVPs into fully fleshed-out products
  - code reviews
  - hot spot optimization and scalability
  - developing/maintaining in-house tooling
  - project rescues in the face of looming deadlines

Contact: [email protected]

2 jaar geledendiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Germany, remote or in-house (willing to travel)

I'm an older generalist programmer. I prefer to work on your custom codebases and I enjoy optimization work.

Backend: server-side web programming with PHP, Node JS, C++

Games: Pixi.js, Three.js, HTML/Canvas, Godot, custom code/engines using OpenGL or Vulcan

General programming: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, Pascal, Go, Lua, Swift

Platforms: MacOS, Proxmox, Arduino/Microcontrollers/SoCs

I like working on:

  - proofs of concept and MVPs
  - getting projects ready for demo day
  - turning MVPs into fully fleshed-out products
  - code reviews
  - hot spot optimization and scalability
  - developing/maintaining in-house tooling
  - project rescues in the face of looming deadlines

Contact: [email protected]

2 jaar geledendiscuss

My guess would be that it was flagged because the subject invites unproductive controversy and low quality discussion.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Germany, remote or in-house (willing to travel)

I'm an older generalist programmer. I prefer to work on your custom codebases and I enjoy optimization work.

Backend: server-side web programming with PHP, Node JS, C++

Games: Pixi.js, Three.js, HTML/Canvas, Godot, custom code/engines using OpenGL or Vulcan

General programming: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, Pascal, Go, Lua, Swift

Platforms: MacOS, Proxmox, Arduino/Microcontrollers/SoCs

I like working on:

  - proofs of concept and MVPs
  - getting projects ready for demo day
  - turning MVPs into fully fleshed-out products
  - code reviews
  - hot spot optimization and scalability
  - developing/maintaining in-house tooling
  - project rescues in the face of looming deadlines

Contact: [email protected]

2 jaar geledendiscuss

They're not even related. Sanitizing input is at best a formatting/style issue. Escaping output is a security issue.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Germany, remote or in-house (willing to travel)

I'm an old generalist programmer. I prefer to work on your custom codebases and I enjoy optimization work.

Backend: server-side web programming with PHP, Node, C++

Games: Pixi.js, Three.js, HTML/Canvas, Godot, custom code/engines using OpenGL or Vulcan

General programming: Python, C++, JavaScript, Pascal, Go, Lua, Swift

Platforms: MacOS, Proxmox, Arduino/Microcontrollers/SoCs

I like working on:

  - proofs of concept and MVPs
  - getting projects ready for demo day
  - turning MVPs into fully fleshed-out products
  - code reviews
  - hot spot optimization and scalability
  - developing/maintaining in-house tooling
  - project rescues in the face of looming deadlines

Contact: [email protected]

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Even when I click on the correct link I get forwarded to the German page anyway. Granted, I'm in Germany, but I absolutely hate this behavior.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

113585 - probably the very last time I can feel good about this number!

I can't remember the last time I even thought about ICQ, much less had a client installed. But damn, end of an era