hnfong

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by hnfong 7d ago
Main issue would be impending lack of iOS updates, together with increased risk of zero-days due to AI.
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by hnfong 9d ago
It doesn't even have to be actually sinister, eg. "Let's crawl the social media of prominent mathematicians in this field to see if we can copy/steal any ideas for low hanging fruits" That actually might get you qui
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by hnfong 11d ago
Sure, you need an OS course, but that's when students should learn C as well.
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by hnfong 16d ago
As much as Steve Jobs was an asshole, at least he didn't invent tools whose only purpose is to kill people... Like, maybe find a better example?
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by hnfong 18d ago
Yet here you are, posting self-congratulatory comments about how you don't post self-congratulatory things. IMHO this is even less meaningful/impactful than the comment that you objected to.
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by hnfong 19d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by hnfong 19d ago
This is one of the reasons why most heads of state have legal immunity during the time they are serving.
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by hnfong 20d ago
The card definitely stores the balance. They probably sync the transaction records to their servers, but during the transaction the value on the card is presumed to be the truth AFAICT. Remember when the system was designed in the early 200
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by hnfong 21d ago
Yes. Thank you for pointing this out. I think there needs to be a linguist version of "what every programmer needs to know about (full?) text search"... I'm not a linguist and I don't study languages, but I know enough t
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by hnfong 21d ago
Alibaba execs probably had PTSD from last time they attempted to defy CCP policy...
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by hnfong 23d ago
> country was founded as the “United States for Anerica”. Do you have actual sources for that? (Funny thing, I googled the phrase in quotes, did not realize the misspelling, and was a bit frustrated that the only result was this comment
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by hnfong 24d ago
Yeah. Though, this is a broader issue of capitalism giving corporations preferential treatment...
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by hnfong 24d ago
I generally agree. But the field is evolving too fast for the legal system. I'd imagine regulation and enforcement will come when things are starting to settle down. The analogies with vehicles being inherently dangerous and require ex
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by hnfong 24d ago
I don't think the law makes a distinction over what tool you use to commit a crime. The problem with AI is that the AI might do something that would constitute a crime (eg. attempting to land malicious code via a PR), but the general l
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by hnfong 26d ago
Maybe the law doesn't explicitly say that. But it's easier for lawyers for AI companies to argue the case if they destroyed it. "Look, there's only one copy! We didn't make additional copies!" It's also pr
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by hnfong 26d ago
Might be weird to make this comment on a YC hosted forum, but cases like these made me realize understand why startups like to bring in "investors" with some political clout. Not for the money per se, but for... like... "prot
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by hnfong 1mo ago
It would be somewhat slow on a CPU only machine, but it still works. Besides, Macbooks with 32GB RAM is consumer hardware, just maybe on the higher end.
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by hnfong 1mo ago
It's probably saying something like the space characters (eg. 0x20) have no glyphs. And examples of "glyphs with multiple characters" would be those characters that look exactly like the ASCII alphabets that lead to things li
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Sorry, probably not very standard terminology. I somehow picked it up from the OReilly book: Fonts & Encodings: From Advanced Typography to Unicode and Everything in Between Page 55: """ there are characters with no glyph
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Yes. As far as I understood it, the result was an incoherent mess. I think some characters got different code points, while others were merged. And apparently the Japanese complained bitterly over the ones that were merged. If you had read
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Well, vast swaths of the Kangxi dictionary (which serves as "sources" for probably most of the CJK characters) are such "ghost" characters as described in the article... The peculiar properties of CJK characters and the
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by hnfong 1mo ago
The dev behind ollama is adamant that ollama doesn't use llama.cpp (based on a technicality -- it uses ggml, which is created by the same people behind llama.cpp and is the backend of llama.cpp) He made such a big fuss about ollama i
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Yes but it's (kind of?) a definition as you asked for. At this point, I am unaware of a better definition. I know the Chinese Room argument (and I disagree with it), but I'm not aware whether the proponents of that argument have
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by hnfong 1mo ago
See: A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. I mean, my interpretation is that the question Turing tried to answer is equivalent to "How can we determine whether machines understand humans/human
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Why would blog posts not be subject to such criticism? Either the author knew of prior work that argues the same thing and they ignored it, or they didn't know. And if one writes a 1000+ word article premised on this idea, wouldn'
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by hnfong 1mo ago
The claims seem fitting from a user named "onionisafruit"...
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Agreed. The article and discussion is so deja vu...
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by hnfong 1mo ago
In the West it feels like individual change is kinda marketed as a substitute for political change.
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by hnfong 1mo ago
Well, COVID made sure almost nobody was flying for a couple months. Carbon emissions were slightly down if I remember right. You can keep telling people to avoid flying and live a life of low carbon footprint, but if the issue is much mor
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by hnfong 2mo ago
You still have like 4(?) years before you actually need to secure a job. Don't try to predict the job market. The job market in tech in 2022 was totally different from what it is today in 2026. AI is definitely going to shape the indus

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