dosinga

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by dosinga 10d ago
Obviously this is just some stunt, but giving AIs or humans three days to make their money back on the Internet sets them up for failure and almost forces them to do dumb things. As they did.
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by dosinga 25d ago
Ugh. The oil production one doesn't seem to work very well. Keeps crunching into itself.
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Show HN: World Sizer – A world map where area reflects population, GDP, and more(douwe.com)
1 points by dosinga 25d ago|1 comments
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by dosinga 1mo ago
yeah good point and that probably would have warranted a note. it tries to calculate back what the population was for the countries as they are today. there's some questionable interpolation going on. I would like the alternative, but
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Show HN: World Pop – A world map with countries resized by population, 1800–2100(douwe.com)
2 points by dosinga 1mo ago|2 comments
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by dosinga 1mo ago
yeah, the future movements don't do a great job avoiding collisions and when they do, they just bounce sometimes.
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by dosinga 1mo ago
> If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute that might just be an illusion. humanity as a whole applies brute force by just trying a
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by dosinga 1mo ago
there's actually a little [+] button that allows you to add one city
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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future(douwe.com)
37 points by dosinga 1mo ago|10 comments
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by dosinga 1mo ago
> outside of the highly specialized embedded-application market, RISC is in retreat with hindsight it is funny to realize that RISCs come back would start from inside that highly specialized market in the form of ARM.
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by dosinga 1mo ago
this is probably an unpopular opinion, but isn't this working as intended: * Palantir started in the US as a start up and burned a lot of money building the systems they are running today and that are finally profitable * Those s
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by dosinga 1mo ago
People keep saying that the open models are cheaper. Until recently that seemed true because they were smaller. And some of the best smaller models are still open and cheap. But K3 with its 2.7T parameters is never going to be really cheap.
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Git Issues should be the new PRs(goose-docs.ai)
1 points by dosinga 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 2mo ago
I don't know. This reply is AI generated and I really care
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by dosinga 2mo ago
> Mozilla exists because one company tried to own the front door to the web, and an open community rose up to make sure it never could. I'd say that the front door to the web is pretty much owned by Google and Apple at this point gi
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Self-improving agents still need humans(douwe.com)
2 points by dosinga 3mo ago|0 comments
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Self-Improving Agents Still Need Humans(goose-docs.ai)
2 points by dosinga 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 3mo ago
> ...and it's rebuked by Maynard Keynes: "We're all dead in the long run". Keynes said that when somebody complained that his theories didn't work in the long run. And the true rebuke is, we're now in the lo
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by dosinga 4mo ago
second paragraph > A model can generate a login system in seconds. It will not ask if emails must be unique. That single missing requirement can collapse the system. LLMs cannot see the category of questions that keep software safe. real
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The End of Free Tokens(douwe.com)
6 points by dosinga 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 4mo ago
What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
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by dosinga 4mo ago
Does anybody else find this article reads really AI written? The way the argument is built, the emdashes, the dramatic one sentence paragraph: "That assumption is wrong." "The human is the equation. AI is what makes that equa
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by dosinga 4mo ago
The company I work for pays for my tokens, but I find enough joy in doing weekend projects supercharged by AI to chip in myself too
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by dosinga 4mo ago
Yes! It's a great addition to the argument
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by dosinga 4mo ago
The counter argument (not mine): Software Engineers are willing to spend their own money on AI. The same people that wouldn't pay 10 dollars for code if there was a workaround that took hours.
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The Web of Babel: Browsing the Internet's Latent Space(blog.douwe.com)
3 points by dosinga 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 5mo ago
Austerity does not create fascism. The examples in the article are just all wrong. Even if you call Trump and Orban fascists, they did not follow austerity. The reaction to the financial crisis was the largest fiscal and monetary interventi
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Russian crypto payment system expands into Africa(ft.com)
2 points by dosinga 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dosinga 6mo ago
I ended up using https://eu.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot -- just have a finger robot push the button
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by dosinga 6mo ago
Employers and landlords do that sort of thing all the time. Rent goes up, job descriptions change, return to office is suddenly required. And yeah, you can get a different job or a different home if you don't like it.

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