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Nice work!

> If it can do this in 13kb, it makes me wonder what it could do with more bytes.

Maybe I misunderstand, but is this not just the first baby steps of an LLM written in JS? "what it could do with more bytes" is surely "GPT2 in javascript"?

You guys are making progress with Kubes?
Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub on Thursday February 29, 2024 @08:53AM (#39549285)
> or it is "I can trust this code".

what might be better would be some kind of trust layer built into package managers so they (optionally) only allow verified repos to be installed

Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub on Thursday February 29, 2024 @08:47AM (#39549219)
its all about ease.

easier to clone and infect existing ones. what you are describing might be effective but would be orders of magnitude more time consuming.

cloning and infecting provides 100x more opportunities because these are already popular repos

as to paying or coercing someone, again it costs time and money. far easier to just abuse this loophole

Re:Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:12AM (#39442224)
we're not all lucky enough to work in places like that. Most of the meetings I go to are interactive ones where I'm contributing to the conversation, but every now and then we have these company-wide meetings that we all have to be at. They are a total waste of time and money, where 300+ employees are lectured on the sales performance stats and our business goals, and our CEO gets angry when people have their cameras off
Re:Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:13AM (#39380976)
I dont have a need for this as I work from home and dont have people bothering me.

What I need is the inverse of this, a virtual me that I can send to zoom meetings where I 100% won't have to interact

Re:JOSN Resume on Monday January 15, 2024 @05:10PM (#39006745)
Never heard of Java ObjectScript Notation?
I think this bit from the FAQ is the info everyone on here is looking for

> Internally, the EXT platform is split into two parts. The first part is the frontend, which is built using Electron; the second is the control application, which is shipped as a separate executable file. When the frontend is launched, it runs the control application as a child process.

So basically EXT is an electron app which wraps around small web apps offered through ext.store

Re:Ask HN: How many tasks are on your daily todo list? on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:00AM (#38518885)
Three

For 2023 I limited myself to 3 tasks per day.

There were days when I didn't get all 3 things (or any of the things) done. There were days when I achieved more. But crucially, I never committed myself to more than 3.

I never felt stressed by my todo list as it was very manageable.

ok so we can stop this tick threat in its tracks if we just kill everyone and everything first.
Re:Stable Video Diffusion on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:45PM (#38370725)
> 2-that somehow customers will suddenly become amenable to low grade garbage movies

People have been amenable to low grade garbage movies for a long, long time. See Adam Sandler's back catalog.

My kids are playing Monkey Island 2 this week, and its the opposite. I remember it being pixelated (and it is) but the backdrops are astonishingly pretty, the colors vibrant, the animation quirky and fun.

(And no, I'm not playing the remastered version)

Re:The Laptop That Won't Die? on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:40AM (#38262582)
I knew what laptop this was going to be even before I clicked.

Although for balance I did have a W520i that died. They're not all gold.

Re:A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @05:39AM (#38261577)
I know we're all biased here, as coders, but I don't see this as the end, but rather the beginning of something.

In the article, the non-coder was able to produce code with an AI's help, and therefore, coders are doomed.

But in fact what happened is it enabled two "developers" to offload the menial work and focus on the product itself.

The development of electric workshop tools didn't make woodworkers obsolete, it just enabled them to do the work of 5 people, and do it easier and faster.

We are moving from the era of hand-tools in coding.

The real risk is that we're going to see a lot of cheap shitty furniture made by people with no skills, but at least ChatGPT isn't going to chop anyones fingers off.

Re:Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big? on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:34AM (#38023534)
interesting! my first guess was that it would be the number of packages, so that's wrong.

also interesting to see that arch is so much smaller. Kind of surprised Win11 is 8Gb since Win10 was less than half that

Re:Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big? on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:31AM (#38023517)
can you elaborate?
Re:Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big? on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:02AM (#38011877)
thats a good point

Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big?

I just downloaded 23.10 and its 4.8GB. I went back and looked at the last few years releases- 23.10 - 4.8G- 23.04 - 4.6G- 22.10 - 3.8G- 22.04 - 3.4G- 21.10 - 2.9G- 21.04 - 2.6G- 20.10 - 2.7G- 20.04 - 2.5GMaybe it's a noob question, but I can't find anyone else commenting on this. Why has Ubuntu doubled in size since mid-2020? Why does it grow by so much with every new release?

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> Dish dealt space-debris fine for misparking satellite

It took me about 8 attempts to parse that sentence

"Dish fined for causing space-debris with mis-parked satellite" would have scanned a lot better