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by kevingadd 1y ago
One potential virtuous cycle here is that accessibility trees used by tools like screen readers are also a nice potential way for a model to consume information about what's on screen and how it can be interacted with. So it creates an
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Quoting the start of the paper: > While MCGs and LCGs have some known defects, they can be used in combination with other pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) or passed through some output function that might lessen such defects. Due t
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by kevingadd 1y ago
> Since the 1980s, parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. In another recent Harris Poll, we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds pl
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Siggraph 2025 – Using the SDL GPU Graphics API in Education(libsdl.org)
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Just to be clear you're literally repeating a conspiracy theory. The thing you described effectively does not happen. We can talk about whether it should be allowed to happen, but at present it doesn't. Policies followed by most m
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Where I live in Seattle we fund keeping the streets in good condition. I see city staff roaming around during the day from time to time wearing hi-vis, doing stuff like picking up trash or removing graffiti. If trash is lying around only ge
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I see white on dark purple at a perfectly legible size using a regular font. Did an extension you have installed block loading of an image or style sheet?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Had to buy an IPv4 address for a VPS the other day in order to clone some git repositories. Couldn't believe it. Costing their customers money when they should be able to support v6 by now.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Can't you already do this by creating a tree of invisible DOM elements with the right ARIA attributes?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
> In a judgment that spanned 2000 pages, Australian Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach, ruled that Apple had a substantial degree of market power. The Judge said both Apple and Google had breached Section 46 of Australia’s Competition
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Typically when a human has a disorder or limitation they adapt to it by developing coping strategies or making use of tools and environmental changes to compensate. Maybe they expect a true reasoning model to be able to do the same thing?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Almost every mention I've seen of gpt-oss was a complaint that the training on synthetic datasets produced a model that's mostly good at benchmarks. Are benchmarks the great results you're referring to or are there a lot of s
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Replies seem to be arguing that this wasn't a 51% attack and was something else. I don't know crypto well enough to verify their claims, though.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The country's money is his money. For example: That plane that got 'gifted' to him is getting expensive retrofits on the taxpayer's dime, and he gets to keep the plane after he leaves office. https://www.nytim
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Part of the complexity here is the temporary object allocation and the need to read properties out of it as you iterate. This is one of the things I tried to push back on but the spec people were in a hard spot, since JS doesn't have n
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Depending on where you work they might not let you publish a paper about it. Certainly was the case at one game studio I worked for, very secretive.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If you're using a portable library that needs to render graphics on mac, it's probably using OpenGL to do it unless it has a platform-specific backend.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This article feels like it generalizes quite a lot about a very, very large population. I'm always wary of pieces that try to put the vast majority of people from a given territory into some broad buckets in order to draw conclusions a
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by kevingadd 1y ago
It usually happens by accident. For example, let's say you have a class Person with two data members named firstName and lastName. We're already in trouble, but let's make it worse: It has a getter named fullName which return
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Calling a property getter can have side effects, so if you serialize an object with a getter you have to be very cautious to make sure nothing weird happens underneath you during serialization. People have exploited this sort of side effect
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I agree that it is probably occurring at multiple points in the pipeline. We recently observed one attempt at fixing this earlier in the pipeline (affirmative action at universities) being struck down, though - perhaps for good reason. So i
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I would expect you can only transmit so fast in morse code given the need for the dots and dashes to be clearly distinguished from each other and identifiable by the recipient. Of course, if you know both ends are computers you can just tra
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The fundamental question is whether you think the population distribution of a company with thousands (or tens of thousands) of employees should look similar to the population distribution of the countries it's based in. If the distrib
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Isn't that $4b in raw revenue per month, or $48b/year? That's not even considering the expenses to operate the service and deliver the $200/mo product. I don't see how that automatically equates to a $300b valuation
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Is their name particularly relevant to the headline? If anything it feels like it might be beneficial to emphasize that it's not about the who here, but instead the what .
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Maybe this is just a fundamental moral divide but a lot of people do think it's reasonable for someone to say that a grocery store shouldn't sell guns, or that a payment processor shouldn't process gun sales. Just for one exa
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Freedom is valuable in games, especially text adventure games. And an LLM is a powerful way to give the player freedom, since it can respond to almost anything. But for games to shine they also need carefully considered constraints - when t
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by kevingadd 1y ago
You're doing fine! In general the best trick for HN posts is just to add extra line breaks so that there's enough space between your sentences.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I don't think the post you're replying to deserves what feels like an aggressive dressing-down. The reality is that post formatting on HN is really janky and it's hard to get it to do what you want. I don't blame someone
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by kevingadd 1y ago
One problem with photorealism is a lot of players are on bad displays, or in bad viewing environments. Games often take this into account in their visual direction so that they will be more legible in these different environments. It used t

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