aleph_minus_one

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by aleph_minus_one 3d ago
> It seems there is a persistent rift between what hardware designers think users want and what users are asking for > Nobody I personally know wants a faster CPU; they want competent, faster, native feeling software and more power ef
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by aleph_minus_one 5d ago
> I'm convinced that all the quantum talk is the NSA propaganda to convince us to drop RSA and move to some secure post quantum algorithm that they can easily break. It is rather consensus that by now, - too many potential weaknesse
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by aleph_minus_one 5d ago
> You may recall though that whole problem with '42' as the answer was the lack of knowledge of the question. The Earth was created as an attempt to provide the question, but was unfortunately demolished to make way for a hyper
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by aleph_minus_one 6d ago
> It would be nice if someone used AI and/or Lean to sort out the abc conjecture, an important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis. People did attempt this: https://github.com/katobungen/LANA_report_202607
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
> Just insane what MBAs are willing to do to a product to squeeze short term profits. Even more insane that this country largely sees these people as a benefit to society and not the vultures they are. I do understand the argument that
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
> Nobody will go to an exhibition or a museum to stare at code like we do with paintings. Because most code is a stinking pile of shit. But at least I can easily imagine a world where people indeed do this. :-) Indeed yesterday I drew
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
> If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't. Nearly every designer and artist knows that artisan stuff does not bring in the money, but rather commissions for "everyday stuff"; in Germa
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by aleph_minus_one 10d ago
> Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer. Relevant (NSFW): > Guns don't kill people, I kill people - with guns > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk :-D
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by aleph_minus_one 10d ago
I don't know the US law (I live in Germany), but the intuition is clear: 1. Take some CC0/public domain source code. 2. Build a binary out of it and sell licenses for your software. Case study: SQLite's source code is public
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by aleph_minus_one 11d ago
> CC0 is an explicit attempt to emulate public domain in license form, isn't it? Public domain is something different from an emulation of "there is no copyright": You can take public domain material to build some program
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by aleph_minus_one 11d ago
> But all software would be free by default, because all source would be in the public domain, and all reverse compilation of binaries would produce public domain code. I am not aware of any open-source license which tries to approxima
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by aleph_minus_one 11d ago
> There may be a middle ground between the current maximalist copyright regime and ending copyright altogether. The trenches between the different factions are far too deep for any middle ground to have any chance.
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by aleph_minus_one 12d ago
Why even allow any mobile phone for the US solider if it could cause any arbitrary problem for the US military if the location data, name, unit, rank, ... of the respective soldier was published and permanently updated on a publicly vie
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by aleph_minus_one 14d ago
> Antiquities and heirlooms can be a good stable investment, the same reason people trade art or watches or guns or cars. It is only an investment if it (likely) gains yield. Otherwise it is just a means of preservation of value.
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by aleph_minus_one 14d ago
> Also so they can watch each other, in case of the humans trying to shut them down. That's why the human operator needs a gun. :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 14d ago
> I've seen supermarkets that offer targeted "in app only" deals. In Germany, the grocery discounter Aldi (both Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd) explicitly created advertising campaigns that they offer the same prices even if you d
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> gestures broadly at HN and the tech industry For me, HN ist rather some kind of counterweight/counterbubble where not everybody is insanely critical and cynical about Elon Musk and Sam Altman. :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> while pathological liars like Musk and Altman are glossed over. You seem to live in a bubble where these people are worshipped ... :-(
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. You are free to ignore mathematics that is not completely trivial. I prefer (and would rath
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
I don't think she is untalented as a researcher in physics. Where she did not have talent at (and which is why she became a science YouTuber) is in "playing the career game" in physics research. Being a great researcher in so
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by aleph_minus_one 16d ago
If you just want to do some stupid computations: sure. But this is not what mathematics is centrally about. The central point is the kind of thinking about the respective topics (and understanding it) which these more abstract definitions e
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by aleph_minus_one 16d ago
> mathematicians or physicists fall into this category of knowing a lot about many thing . Sabine videos for example . she knows everything it seems Sabine Hossenfelder, for obvious reasons, knows quite a bit about physics, though on som
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by aleph_minus_one 16d ago
> Is there’s something more to that? Yes: this is about building the quotient field (field of fractions) [1] for some integral domain, or more generally, building the localization ([2], [3]) of a commutative ring with respect to some giv
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> They are increasingly pulling away from the idea that they should mentor people to do better. Two considerations on this: 1. In the USA, it is common to switch jobs often (in opposite to, for example, Germany). So, in the US-American s
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> If you had actually thought through what you were doing, it was a few min to fill it all out. ... for people who are native speakers of English.
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> Just had a thought, what if you made new contributors write a human-authored essay on why they’re submitting a patch, and then check it against Pangram? The problem is writing such an essay takes magnitudes more of an effort for peopl
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> Is there any "western" values coalition? I would claim (both by living in Germany and the posted diagram) that for each of these values, most share this value, but not everybody. The problem is that for each value, the stak
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> Treating coding as the therapeutic reward for other things (typically tolerating bureaucracy) and then indulging obsessions about it absolutely is unhealthy. > And I've seen exactly this across multiple large and small organiza
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by aleph_minus_one 20d ago
> If you see a person without legs, do you tell him he is a piece of shit because he can't run? So why harass autistic people? If you have not yet realized it, here is a black pill for you: most people are deeply manipulative and
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by aleph_minus_one 20d ago
> Before cloud you had to hire a dedicated server and you were looking at $1000/month (in say 2000). Rather: perhaps 50-100 USD per month got and still gets you a quite good server to start your project. If you were looking for bar

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