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PartiallyTyped··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
> If they are truly rare, then they are likely not valuable, otherwise there would be more copies or their contents could be found elsewhere.

The Gutenberg bible is rare, its content is not rare, and some would argue that the content itself is not valuable, and yet the Gutenberg bible is valuable.

Same can be said about many books.

PartiallyTyped··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
Honestly, same. I don't even think about it, I just and only use kagi.
PartiallyTyped··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
It will suck, and then it will get better.
PartiallyTyped··on Erich von Däniken has died
> To be honest, I still don’t fully understand how ideology can cloud the mind so thoroughly that only a single way of thinking remains possible.

From what I know, and please correct me if I am wrong; it relates to fear and cognitive dissonance. First, by creating FUD the perpetrator can cause physical narrow-mindedness within the brain, the amygdala — centre of emotions if you will — takes control which reduces reasoning capabilities. Second, by introducing multiple conflicting viewpoints in that state, you induce what we call cognitive dissonance. The brain is unable to reconcile the two opposing (or even just differing) views. This is a conflict at the circuit level of the brain, and the brain needs to reach a conclusion, and conveniently the conclusion is produced by the perpetrators of fud, those who seek to control/exploit others.

PartiallyTyped··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
I don't disagree.

From my point of view, we (europeans) should focus on our collective well-being and sovereignty.

Unfortunately it feels that at times, we find more to split with each other than the rest of the world.

PartiallyTyped··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
China is on the path to doing just that, and I expect the heads of the government (or at least the people behind the scenes) in both EU and India consider this.

The US has, unfortunately, proven to be a very unreliable partner.

PartiallyTyped··on Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation
This reads like a list of obvious things that we have been saying for the past 3 years.
PartiallyTyped··on How uv got so fast
You often pay them for their opinions too!
PartiallyTyped··on Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
To be fair proton is based on DXVK which is some guy’s project because he wanted to play nier automata on Linux.

The guy is Philip Rebohler.

PartiallyTyped··on Show HN: Autograd.c – A tiny ML framework built from scratch
Any reason for creating a new tensor when accumulating grads over updating the existing one?

Edit: I asked this before I read the design decisions. Reasoning is, as far as I understand, that for simplificity no in-place operations hence accumulating it done on a new tensor.

PartiallyTyped··on Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
Logging in rust also does that, you can set logging levels for individual modules deep within your dependency tree.
PartiallyTyped··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
If he's found to be guilty then lock him up? I genuinely don't see how this matters?
PartiallyTyped··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
> and install Barron Trump on the TikTok Board of Directors

Can cronyism become more blatant?

PartiallyTyped··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
It should be same logic we use for repeaters, so it'll be fine.
PartiallyTyped··on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
>> safe Rust

> 1) not true as evidenced by this bug

Code used unsafe, putting us out of "safe" rust.

PartiallyTyped··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
I have the same experience.

In my view there's two parts to learning, creation and taste, and both need to be balanced to make progress. Creation is, in essence, the process of forming pathways that enable you to do things, developing taste is the process of pruning and refining pathways to doing things better.

You can't become a chef without cooking, and you can't become a great one without cultivating a taste (pun intended) for what works and what it means for something to be good.

From interactions with our interns and new-grads, they lack the taste, and rely too much on the AI for generation. The consequence is that when you have conversations with them, they straggle to understand the concepts and tools they are using because they lack the familiarity that comes with creation, and they lack the skills to refine the produced code into something good.

PartiallyTyped··on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
That is a very weak argument. I don't have any way to decline seeing the ads before I do. I can't disable tracking by disabling js because, like a parasite, tracking software has uses what is necessary technology for websites to function.
PartiallyTyped··on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
Ads are speech until they are intrusive, until they track you across websites, until they violate your privacy.

It's one thing to have a block of HTML dedicated to ads, and another to have YOUR shit running on my machine WITHOUT my consent.

PartiallyTyped··on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
In rust, there are two kinds of references, exclusive (&mut) and shared(&). Rustc guarantees you that if you provide an exclusive reference, no other thread will have that. If your thread has an exclusive reference, then it can mutate the contents of the memory. Rustc also guarantees that you won't end up with a dropped reference inside of your threads, so you will always have allocated memory.

Because rust guarantees you won't have multiple exclusive (and thus mutable refs), you won't have a specific class of race conditions.

Sometimes however, these programs are very strict, and you need to relax these guarantees. To handle those cases, there are structures that can give you the same shared/exclusive references and borrowing rules (ie single exclusive, many shared refs) but at runtime. Meaning that you have an object, which you can reference (borrow) in multiple locations, however, if you have an active shared reference, you can't get an exclusive reference as the program will (by design) panic, and if you have an active exclusive reference, you can't get any more references.

This however isn't sufficient for multithreaded applications. That is sufficient when you have lots of pieces of memory referencing the same object in a single thread. For multi-threaded programs, we have RwLocks.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/index.html

PartiallyTyped··on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
That creates more trading opportunities tbh and eventually the market will calibrate. Similar has happened to trump and his tarrifs plus all those truth/xitter messages.
PartiallyTyped··on Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
whatsapp has e2e encrypted messages and searching works fine.

Realtime collaboration — assuming you use CRDTs — can be achieved with e2e encryption as well, with backend acting like a mere router of requests.

PartiallyTyped··on There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
I am a big fan of Dr Rohin Francis, and this landed on my youtube's front-page recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPsKTfFQFqc

PartiallyTyped··on What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
I see. I follow the same approach; with my interns I try to force them to define logical boundaries and think / design their software as libraries / components that compose together nicely.
PartiallyTyped··on What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
> Keeping a framework/app/SDK “pure” is very important, in my experience.

Could you elaborate?

PartiallyTyped··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
Isolated partitions exist.
PartiallyTyped··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
That’s the internet before commercialisation and silos.
PartiallyTyped··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
For stocks most likely, though I assume a lot of it today comes from options traders, where the spread is much wider.
PartiallyTyped··on The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds
Our new batch of interns and new grads relies too much on AI, they have a lot of trouble thinking and writing for themselves.
PartiallyTyped··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
It’d be okay ish if the president was just inebriated, but we are looking at dementia, an aged mind that seems to have trouble telling real from fake (as evident by the flurry of AI generated videos posted on his page).
PartiallyTyped··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
Because increasingly the top percentages are doing most spending and compensate for those who lose their jobs.
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