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Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:17AM (#50099900)
Theft?
Re:Qwen3.8-27B on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:47PM (#49304389)
That’s well and good, but how are we supposed to evaluate the accuracy of random HN comments without anything resembling somewhat objective metrics? People say all manner of things, and usually it’s contradictory. What heuristic do you propose?
Re:Helsinki Hacker News Meetup on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:08AM (#49182355)
Personally, I’d only meet with those in the triple digits of karma.
Re: on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:10PM (#48675530)
TDD is perfect for bugs; codify a replication first, then fix it.
Just leave it at home.
Why wouldn’t inference just keep getting better and cheaper as hardware and algorithms improve?
Re:GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:30PM (#46977947)
Try Cerberas
Re:Leaving Substack on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:02AM (#40156412)
It's hard for SaaS platforms to monetize, that's what's wrong with it
Re:Coding in Vision Pro on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:56PM (#39406221)
Interesting. I'm also nearsighted, so I've always assumed that I don't need glasses when wearing VR headsets. It's easier to just take them off before putting on the headset (MQ3) and I've not noticed a difference in clarity — but I do experience eye strain and visual exhaustion if I wear the headset for too long, so it might be worth comparing longer sessions with and without glasses.
Nothing's stopping users who want an AI summary from feeding the content into their favourite GPT. But it's not contributing anything meaningful to a HN discussion.
Re:Beg Bounties on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:40PM (#38256372)
Is there no way to contest such a warrant? What about compensation for the loss of utility caused by the confiscation?
Re:Does Go Have Subtyping? on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:33AM (#37952982)
Yes, as everyone knows, you are only entitled to an opinion about software if you are also a successful business entrepreneur without external funding.

Good type systems increase velocity by leaving less room for error, so that you don't have to waste half your time debugging and fixing issues that could have been easily prevented. They also provide helpful structure and an IDE experience (the right values, functions, actions, etc are actually suggested for you wherever you are) that really does speed up development a lot.

There's of course always a trade-off: bad type systems can get in your way with boilerplate that you have to wrangle. But I don't think that's the typical experience.

What are they going to be watching if you don't restrict them, and what will it do to them? Why not just talk about it with them?
Re:"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:17AM (#37843984)
Boilerplate
Yes?
I imagine handling cash probably has hidden costs that are comparable to the swipe fees, though.
Re:Tailscale Kubernetes Operator on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:28AM (#37612533)
Is "stupid" really one of the words that the Ministry of Truth no longer permits us to use?
Yes, it's very simple. Just open the app info (by long holding the app icon and pressing the little "i"), then select "disable" and confirm the dialogue. Or did you mean something else?
Why would that be "pretty cool"?
Probably just an honest mistake. But they should definitely look into fixing that.
Re:Why the world’s best vanilla is so easy to steal on Sunday August 13, 2023 @10:42PM (#37116885)
They were questioning the story, not the intelligence of the farmers.
It certainly has a heritable component. When people say "the way you're born", do they mean something non-genetic? What would that be?
Re:Why engineers should focus on writing on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:10AM (#36662708)
This is why self-deprecating humour can be dangerous. Some people won't get it and will just think you're an idiot.
Re:Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf] on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:13AM (#36369910)
>It’s in a lot of way like the original Dark Soul whose last half is so aweful I’m not sure the awesome first one is enough to redeem the game.

What are you talking about? I've never heard this take before. I found it fantastic all the way through. Maybe introducing the lord vessel was a poor design choice, but it's a minor fault.

Re:Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0 on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:56AM (#36161569)
That much good RAM in itself isn't super expensive. So does the rest of the hardware have to be particularly powerful?
Europe does. The US? Not necessarily.
That is indeed true!

The most famous example can be found at the bottom of this page: https://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tongue-twisters/swedish_...

å: stream

ö: island

i: in

ä: not correct, but used to represent dialectical pronunciation of "är", i.e. "is"

Inspecting a powerplant does not grant you any actual influence beyond powerplant inspection. Defining the ethics of AI will potentially let you influence almost all aspects of our lives.
Re:GPT-4 System Card [pdf] on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:34AM (#35197648)
This is the opposite of mitigating biases.

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