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by ribs 11d ago
The prevalence of LLM-generated text masquerading as otherwise and incorporated into a significant fraction of all published text distinguishes this info-organism from all others.
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by ribs 11d ago
Genestealer cult
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by ribs 1mo ago
Can’t have the Euros knowing how dangerous American beaver can be
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by ribs 2mo ago
I think you’ve got it wrong; no malicious payload need be on your box already. That’s not what the article says.
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by ribs 2mo ago
I wonder how you do it when faced with what are undoubtedly poor functional, regression, and unit test coverages.
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by ribs 3mo ago
Hold on hold on hold on, tell me about Finnish lunches, as from searching they sound pretty innocuous. (Surströmming I know of, no questions there)
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by ribs 5mo ago
One of my favorite topics and a hobby finally makes it to Hacker News <swoon> Fine mineral specimens are the most surprising things on earth. Such regularity and color! It reminds you that every atom of an element, every molecule of a
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by ribs 5mo ago
I had a route around San Francisco that I would visit, and all the places on the route were where there were good blackberry bushes. I’d take a bucket. Around Golden Gate Park and the Inner Sunset mostly, heading down into the Forest Hills
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by ribs 5mo ago
I want to hear more
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by ribs 5mo ago
That deciding between 1000 things is a lot of effort is so clear that I must wonder if the one you’re responding to was being ironic.
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by ribs 6mo ago
I know we're not really supposed to say stuff like this on HN, but: hells to the yeah
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by ribs 11mo ago
Right about the calcium lactate crystals, though wrong about lactic acid causing muscle pain; this has been debunked.
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by ribs 11mo ago
Apple software has gone so bad in the last decade or so. UI problems abound - the lack of default buttons that fire when you hit enter makes me ill. THIS USED TO BE IN THE APPLE USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES. Does anybody remember that big bind
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by ribs 11mo ago
I feel like I must be telling everyone something they already know…please tell me I am
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by ribs 11mo ago
The one account I know that follows this account is @chasedownloads aka Chase Passive Income, which is a parody of a certain kind of entrepreneur, very much not real. This is not real. No one associated with this account (or, probably, any
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by ribs 1y ago
One would like to see the word “modularity” somewhere here.
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by ribs 1y ago
Last I checked, genetic programming wasn’t promising, and I’m a little surprised to see people paying attention to it here. OTOH that was similar to what people were saying about hidden layers, so YMMV
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by ribs 2y ago
For me the problem is mainly when trying to sleep, specifically, at Burning Man, where it can be very difficult. I used foam earplugs for years, but they leave something to be desired. The AirPods Max…get them on my ears correctly, and I’m
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by ribs 2y ago
TotalView (which I rep), Linaro DDT - thoughts? (Yes, they’re both proprietary)
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by ribs 2y ago
What has happened to me? How am I able to create a combined image and have it be -stable-? This totally works. I’ve been mutated.
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by ribs 2y ago
Clean out your desk
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by ribs 2y ago
It’s a mass-market computer used by millions of people who don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot. People can be tricked into things, perhaps like turning off a “Bypass Mode”-like switch. I think this is a hard problem.
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by ribs 2y ago
Their RFP notes that it’s hard to optimize code to run on the zillion possible combinations of CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, SoCs, and so seeks revolutionary new compiler technology that will take your program, your target hardware alphab
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DARPA funding "revolutionary" optimizing compiler technology [pdf](drive.google.com)
3 points by ribs 2y ago|2 comments
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by ribs 2y ago
Holy crap, Tom Lehrer is still alive!?
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by ribs 2y ago
Hey, you’re not giving pentaborane enough credit - it’s got 4 of those bridging hydrides.
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by ribs 2y ago
I felt in here on Long Island, where I grew up, and am visiting from California, where I’ve lived for decades Right now in Huntington
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by ribs 2y ago
Agreed. Inspired by your comment, I did a Google map search, and there appear to be no places currently sporting that name, though there was a bagel shop in Troy NY with it, closed down in 2019. So, you know, there is a vacuum waiting to be
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by ribs 3y ago
This is a wonderful idea, and although I don’t have kids, I think I want to have the pieces to put it together for when there’s one to play with.
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by ribs 3y ago
That first one sounds so much like a folky, jokey etymology, and yet, it’s true… Given the existence of “logarithms”, it’s doubly surprising…hey, why are they called that? Wikipedia says “Napier coined the term for logarithm in Middle Latin

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