the_fall

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by the_fall 7mo ago
If you have an endless pattern of ..., -1, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1, ... and run box blur with a window of 2 or 4, you get ..., 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... too. Other than that, you're not wrong about theoretical Gaussian filters with infinite window
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by the_fall 7mo ago
I think the US is markedly better for people in certain professions who want to become rich. This is obviously not true for the general population, but the amount of cash that's chasing profits in tech means that a non-trivial perce
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by the_fall 7mo ago
They don't. I'm using Cloudflare and 90%+ of the traffic I'm getting are still broken scrapers, a lot of them coming through residential proxies. I don't know what they block, but they're not very good at that. Or,
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by the_fall 7mo ago
Maybe I'm getting hung up on words, but my beef is with the parent saying they find real numbers "completely natural". It's a reasonable assumption that the universe is computable. Most reals aren't, which essential
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by the_fall 7mo ago
35 years ago, a good chunk of the current EU was under a Soviet-imposed totalitarian rule. Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. And it's been just 80 years since WWII. It always boggles my mind that most Europeans are absolutely convin
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by the_fall 7mo ago
> I believe real numbers to be completely natural, Most of real numbers are not even computable. Doesn't that give you a pause?
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by the_fall 7mo ago
Because inexplicably, there's random pixel-level noise baked into the blue area. You can't see it unless you crank up contrast, but it makes the bitmap hard to compress losslessly. If you remove it using threshold blur, it doesn&#
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by the_fall 7mo ago
Meh. The room-temperature endurance of modern EEPROMs (e.g., ST M95256) is something like 4 million cycles. If you use a simple ring buffer (reset on overflow, otherwise just appending values), you only need to overwrite a cell once every 3
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by the_fall 7mo ago
The history of journalism is written by journalists, often in a self-serving way. You'll be hard-pressed to pinpoint the purported golden age of impartial truth-seeking. Early newspapers in the US were often owned by a local railroad t
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by the_fall 7mo ago
> But gcc is part of it's training data so of course it spit out an autocomplete of a working compiler /s Why the sarcasm tag? It is almost certainly trained on several compiler codebases, plus probably dozens of small "to
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by the_fall 7mo ago
They're not coming from anywhere. It's an LLM-written article, and given how non-specific it is, I imagine the prompt wasn't much more than "write an article about how OpenClaw is changing my life". And the fact thi
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by the_fall 7mo ago
It's common for compilers to generate mildly unusual code because they translate high-level code into an abstract intermediate notation, run a variety optimization steps on that notation, and then emit machine-specific code to perform
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by the_fall 8mo ago
Gun frames can be made out of plastic or aluminum, and there are fixtures for benchtop CNC machines that can be used to make them. This is not nearly as complicated as you make it sound. I think Cody Wilson was basically selling a turnkey s
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by the_fall 8mo ago
There is a database. The insurance covers things that aren't in the database. Claims are exceptionally rare, so it's pretty cheap.
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by the_fall 8mo ago
Different people understand "theft of identity" in different ways. If someone is impersonating you on the internet, or steals your credit card info and makes purchases on your behalf, that probably qualifies. As for the nature of
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by the_fall 8mo ago
First, you're getting upset at a random person on the internet for expressing their political views. Second, your objection almost certainly has nothing to do with this attack. It targeted some specific subset of users of Notepad++,
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by the_fall 8mo ago
That's the most honest assessment you can expect from any small-scale developer. What do you expect them to say or do? Their adversary is presumably a national intelligence agency of a superpower . The odds may be better if you operat
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by the_fall 8mo ago
> Is this materially different than giving all files on your system 777 permissions? Yes, because I can't read or modify your files over the internet just because you chmod'ed them to 777. But with Clawdbot, I can!
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by the_fall 8mo ago
It might be an interesting LLM benchmark: how many can they list without breaking the rules (repetition or non-animals). Although I bet that big bucks would be then thrown at pointlessly optimizing for that benchmark, so...
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by the_fall 8mo ago
That's not what I'm saying. I mean citations that aren't citations: a "source" that doesn't discuss the topic at all or makes a different claim.
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by the_fall 8mo ago
FWIW, this is a fairly common problem on Wikipedia in political articles, predating AI. I encourage you to give it a try and verify some citations. A lot of them turn out to be more or less bogus. I'm not saying that AI isn't maki
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by the_fall 8mo ago
> Silver has plenty of industrial uses. About one third of this demand (photographic film and paper) more or less evaporated in the 2000s. You don't see that on the price chart, so I don't think you can seriously argue that the
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by the_fall 8mo ago
It's more complex than that. It's called SynthID-text and biases the probabilities of token generation in a way that can be recovered down the line.
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by the_fall 8mo ago
No. No one is looking for em-dashes, except for some bozos on the internet. The "default voice" of all mainstream LLMs can be easily detected by looking at the statistical distribution of word / token sequences. AI detector t
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by the_fall 8mo ago
Honestly, with all my love for the HN community, I think we have a couple of topics that just get upvoted without reading because they signal that you're in the ingroup. Few years back, another reliably upvoted thing was anything with
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by the_fall 8mo ago
Also, as a website owner, these residential proxies are a real pain. Tons and tons of abusive traffic, including people trying to exploit vulnerabilities and patently broken crawlers that send insane numbers of requests, and no real way t
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by the_fall 8mo ago
I have a CNC mill made in 2006. It's still perfectly fine. It should still be fine in 2036. The most significant threat to its existence is the compatibility of OS drivers and software support in CAM tools. That and USB ports getting r
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by the_fall 8mo ago
Part of me wants to be wary. The useful life of industrial machinery such as CNC mills is much longer than the lifespan of websites, so locally-installed software you own is usually a better choice. But another part of me realizes that ever
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by the_fall 8mo ago
I think you might be underestimating the level of control that an average parent, especially a working parent, has over a teenage kid. Short of taking away devices, it's tough, especially if they're going through a phase of doing
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by the_fall 8mo ago
> economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio. You're literally just wasting sand. We've perfected the process to the point where it's inexpensive to produce tiny and

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