buzzy_hacker

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by buzzy_hacker 11d ago
I like https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore because I can mix programming language files with OS ones
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by buzzy_hacker 13d ago
I registered a domain name for my son the day he was born... whois firstlast.com | grep 'Creation Date' shows his birthday, which I found amusing!
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Show HN: Sumday – a daily game: make an equation from today's date(playsumday.com)
5 points by buzzy_hacker 20d ago|1 comments
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Antiqua–Fraktur dispute(en.wikipedia.org)
159 points by buzzy_hacker 1mo ago|76 comments
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by buzzy_hacker 3mo ago
My big-picture takeaway is the AI labs looking to own the customer interface, not just the models. Expect this trend to continue.
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by buzzy_hacker 3mo ago
My wife has terrible motion sickness in cars (just riding, reading is out of the question) and these glasses help a lot.
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by buzzy_hacker 3mo ago
Seiko 5 is the go-to recommendation for inexpensive mechanical watches
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by buzzy_hacker 4mo ago
My instinct is also to retreat to technical solutions. But, unfortunately, it appears we engineers need to fight back in the legal and political domain to stand a chance.
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by buzzy_hacker 6mo ago
Yes, that's correct. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437907
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by buzzy_hacker 6mo ago
You need to separate land value and house value. When regulations are reduced to allow more density, the value of the land goes up because its productivity increases. The land can do more now, e.g. hold 10 apartments vs 1 house. The same la
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by buzzy_hacker 6mo ago
Same here. “Do you want the one useful tip related to this topic that most people miss? It’s quite surprising.” If it were so useful, just tell me in the first place! If you say “Yes” then it’s usually just a regurgitation of your prior con
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by buzzy_hacker 11mo ago
Same here, that literally just changed my life
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
Also shout out to https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ for converting email subscriptions to RSS feeds
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
It’s been awhile since I’ve played Minecraft, but when I built large redstone projects before, I built out each circuit manually and then used mods to copy/paste it within the game.
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
There are mods that let you copy/paste sections of blocks.
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
LLMs are making open source programs both more viable and more valuable. I have many programs I use that I wish were a little different, but even if they were open source, it would take a while to acquaint myself with the source code organi
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
I was taught in high school that during the Cold War, there were maps with the US centered and USSR divided on either side to imply American unity in the face of opposition. Example: https://ebay.us/m/tN1UfJ
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
Made me think of It was only in college, when I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, that I came to understand cells as recursively self-modifying programs. The language alone was evocative. It suggested that the embryo—DNA
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
Can you share the conversation? I just tried o4-mini and it got it wrong. https://chatgpt.com/share/680b8a7b-454c-800d-8048-da865aa99c...
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
"Aaron and Beren are playing a game on an infinite complete binary tree. At the beginning of the game, every edge of the tree is independently labeled A with probability p and B otherwise. Both players are able to inspect all of these
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
Tell that to the embedded Facebook trackers ubiquitous throughout the web
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/t/anti-cla-action-wh...
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
Same here. A main point of I, Robot was to show why the three laws don't work.
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by buzzy_hacker 1y ago
This is a few years old, but interesting to see Miyzaki's reaction to AI generated video. “An insult to life itself”: Hayao Miyazaki critiques an animation made by artificial intelligence https://qz.com/859454/the-
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by buzzy_hacker 2y ago
Sort of like open source AI model destroys $600B in market cap
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by buzzy_hacker 2y ago
You joke, but critics were literally saying this. Stuff like "it's only $9, people will just ignore that and continue to drive"
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by buzzy_hacker 2y ago
> Turing test was surpassed years ago I keep seeing this thrown around, but did anyone actually like go out and do this? I feel like I could distinguish between an AI (even the latest models) and a person after a text-only back and forth
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by buzzy_hacker 2y ago
Have you checked out Marp? https://marp.app/ Basically it generates slides from markdown, which is great even without LLMs. But you can get LLMs to output in markdown/Marp format and then use Marp to generate the slide
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by buzzy_hacker 2y ago
Proportional representation is more important than RCV vs approval voting for single-winner elections. And, in the US, multi-winner RCV (single transferable vote) is the most viable approach to achieve that.

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