romaniv

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by romaniv 2mo ago
No one here actually cares about Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. I can demonstrate this by pointing out that the only time this conjecture was ever mentioned on the website was 14 years ago in a submission[1] that linked to a (now retracte
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by romaniv 2mo ago
Languages designers will have to make a choice whether to continue to design for humans or for big slop machines. The design goals are not compatible. This is obvious. I don't understand how anyone can miss such an obvious point. Anoth
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by romaniv 2mo ago
>Which frame inspires a more productive research program? This question depends on how you define research productivity. There is close to two hundred AI papers published every weekday . Most of them are about GenAI. Most don't
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by romaniv 2mo ago
> Anecdotal, but I'm convinced it screws up sleep quality. It absolutely does. >I'd just accepted for the longest time that waking up groggy with a slight headache and tired was the norm until I put a CO2 monitor in my ro
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by romaniv 3mo ago
"Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine" Too bad. The picture in the articles looks awesome. Like a device from some alternate reality. Neither retro nor the standard flat-panel LCD.
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by romaniv 3mo ago
The article has solid observations, but I would correct one important thing. It's not AI confidence, it's AI psychosis. A lot of people I know are forced to use AI at work. They universally tell me that their coworkers generate a
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by romaniv 3mo ago
For most developers OOP seems to be just a handful of memes they are vaguely aware of and a kind of generally irritating sense of things not quite working in Java. No amount of writing, discussions, examples and history will change this.
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by romaniv 3mo ago
That's not the only CVE in question. The issue also involves CVE-2025-6965.
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by romaniv 3mo ago
Nonsensical corporate posturing. "Microsoft will contribute expertise, resources, and AI technologies to help responsibly identify and fix vulnerabilities" As a reminder, Microsoft runs NPM and GitHub. Microsoft has access to th
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by romaniv 3mo ago
What you're describing is people who fail to follow the most basic principles of academic research. (Check existing academic literature, mention and give credit to prior work.) This would be fine if these people didn't claim to be
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by romaniv 3mo ago
It's an interesting project, but the discussion on HN looks weird. It gets brought up every few weeks[1] and everyone just spams comments with messages about how "fast" it is. DuckDB is fast for some specific workloads . If
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by romaniv 3mo ago
The fact that people here are looking at these numbers and saying "this is fine" is absolutely bonkers. Basically, it's a company that's not sustainable for two separate reasons. The first one is that they have an extrem
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by romaniv 3mo ago
You interpretation of my comment is either very biased or just made in bad faith. The claim made by Open AI has two necessary components. The first one is that the conjecture had been disproven. ( This is what had been verified by "re
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by romaniv 3mo ago
"Open AI claims that its model disproven an Erdős conjecture, therefore my crappy way of arguing about software quality is valid." I really don't know how I'm supposed to reply to stuff like this.
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by romaniv 3mo ago
>"It’s easy to forget, but for most of 2025, the idea that AI-generated code was slop and might always be slop was not only a reasonable position to hold, it was the default, mainstream position. That question was answered decisive
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by romaniv 3mo ago
This "how to adapt" prop-slop is getting tiresome. So much of it is obviously intended to project and demoralize rather than provoke thought or give legitimate advice. The trick of this kind of writing is to skip arguing that so
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by romaniv 3mo ago
AI seems to be ruining every single major thing that drove economic growth for the past 4 decades. PCs, the Web, software in general, high-capacity servers, Raspberry Pis and so on. The next thing to be affected will probably be smartphones
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by romaniv 3mo ago
The premise of the article is faulty. "Nerds" became "cool" as technology became more important, so sociopaths in leadership positions stated to pretend to be nerds. It's as simple as that. I think a far more impo
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by romaniv 3mo ago
What this shows me (again) is that the whole system where vulnerabilities need to be constantly discovered, reported, analyzed, then patched, then the new version distributed to every singe user - again and again - is quite obviously unsust
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by romaniv 3mo ago
> If none of that is happening in your workplace or life in general - genuinely good for you. The majority of software engineers I know work for companies that have very similar things happening inside of them.
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by romaniv 3mo ago
First, it's not made up. I've heard numerous stories of this sort (maybe a bit less extreme) from people I have known for many years working for large and mid-sized companies. Second, large companies have entire teams for monitori
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by romaniv 3mo ago
You can post any number of snarky booster comments, but at the end of the day they are the opposite of insightful. They are an obfuscation. What I'm seeing is that the whole security model built around endless code re-evaluation and co
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by romaniv 3mo ago
I think it should be quite obvious that perceptrons are far from the smallest units that are capable of learning. They store many bytes of information, require a non-local update process, need numeric (i.e. symbolic) inputs and involve re
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by romaniv 4mo ago
>Would you prefer the harsh unpopular truth of Erich Schmidt, or a sweet lie of Wozniak? What Erich Schmidt is doing is not about describing hard reality. He is trying to make a particular version of the future come true by painting it
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by romaniv 4mo ago
Here is a quote that is far more representative of his overall message: “When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.”
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by romaniv 4mo ago
The article we're commenting on lists several examples of the dynamic and it aligns with my personal experience offline and online. There are also stats like these: https://on.substack.com/p/the-substack-ai-report
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by romaniv 4mo ago
GenAI is the first technology that I've ever seen that is actively rejected by young adults and fervently pushed by people over 55. It seems Eric Schmids of the world think they (in their 70s) have more say about the future of these st
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by romaniv 4mo ago
Clearly, the future is LLM-generated patches that get instantly vibecoded and installed on all machines without any human review. In fact, this is such a good idea that it should be illegal and impossible to run your computer without being
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by romaniv 4mo ago
> there’s zero chance any AI lab would train a model for such a ridiculous task. A lot of people here stated that this is a ridiculous metric, but no one seems to remember that it was introduced in the initial GPT report ("Spark
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by romaniv 4mo ago
Ed Zitron[1] has a lot of articles and podcast episodes on these deals. The nice thing about it is that he occasionally revisits the old announcements to check what happened with them. Apparently a lot of these deals just evaporate after pr

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