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biosed··on Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
Wasn't most of the claims in that book refuted, some even by the author. I really enjoyed it and found some great insights only to be later told by a friend in that sphere that the book was not correct and even the author had "retracted" some of the assertions.
biosed··on K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
I recall a chap called Geocar demoing kOS, in a very impressive fashion. (I additionally recall an individual had to awkwardly hold the mic for the whole presentation)

Did anything ever come of kOS?

biosed··on Firefox on the brink?
Genuinely curious, what do you mean?
biosed··on Who's behind the SWAT USA reshipping service?
Seems its okay if they are a "bad" person
biosed··on Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
[Ireland] In process of getting laid off, 2 interviews. Applied for about 30 roles.
biosed··on Generative AI profits off your code. Make them pay for it
> Oracle vs. Google when Google suddenly realized that they should lose and intentionally threw the case.

But Google won?

biosed··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
I'm prob using the term wrong, it can be anywhere but in a small group or department it is exacerbated. With a large enough group it normally goes away.
biosed··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
I think others have pointed this out but this is a small company problem. I was a rockstar in a previous company and then went to a FAANG and lets just say, I am not a rockstar there.
biosed··on Scrape like the big boys
I used to lead Sys Eng for a FTSE 100 company. Our data was valuable but only for a short amount of time. We were constantly scraped which cost us in hosting etc. We even seen competitors use our figures (good ones used it to offset their prices, bad ones just used it straight). As the article suggest, we couldn't block mobile operator IPs, some had over 100k customers behind them. Forcing the users to login did little as the scrapers just created accounts. We had a few approaches that minimised the scraping:

Rate Limiting by login,

Limiting data to know workflows ...

But our most fruitful effort was when we removed limits and started giving "bad" data. By bad I mean alter the price up or down by a small percentage. This hit them in the pocket but again, wasn't a golden bullet. If the customer made a transaction on the altered figure we we informed them and took it at the correct price.

It's a cool problem to tackle but it is just an arms race.

biosed··on Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score
Compared to my gen 1 M1 macbook pro: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10514397?baseli...
biosed··on Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
Passwords and autocomplete.
biosed··on Signed Char Lotte
You are correct but it happens in all fields/passions ...etc E.G. Jazz, you need to be a very good musician to create good jazz. A programmer could create something that creates jazz but jazz musicians will find it lacking, for want of a better word.

Got lost in a train of thought but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

biosed··on Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
Video was removed.
biosed··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
Set off in December 2019. Was great for a bit, traveled lots of south America but then covid hit.

Came home and started working with a FAANG, that bit was hard.

biosed··on Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like a Boss
What would be a very good starter software defined radio?
biosed··on Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
Yip, everyone was paged last night, been in a bad way since. Got grief for commenting as much in thread.
biosed··on Passwordless Logins with Yubikey
Amazon?
biosed··on Solarwinds hack explained in detail by a software engineer
I'm sure the content is good but it is difficult to read with all the grammatical errors.

As others have noted, there is a distinct lack of technical details.

biosed··on Update on an Employee Matter
Is there any info on what actually happened?
biosed··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
about 45 to 60 cm
biosed··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
Its the C9 and I have all the anti burnin features turned on, I have no issues, you can see the tv moving the whole screen a few pixels every so often.
biosed··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
Using 55" LG OLED @4k as my main display, nothing compares.
biosed··on Notion for everyone
Is data removable, do you use?
biosed··on Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower
I find 3 cyl motorcycles slow and lack top end.
biosed··on U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
Do you have an official source on that?
biosed··on Ask HN: Reasonably Priced Alternatives to Apple Pro Display XDR?
Fair enough.
biosed··on Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook
I work for a FTSE 100 company and we recently completed a POC on GCP.

The sales guy was/is pushy but tbh the tech is very prescriptive on how things are done, it's the Google way or it doesn't work. That is not how enterprise works, you need to adapt to each customer.

We have lots of AWS and plan on using it more, we might be doing it sub optimally but it works.

biosed··on Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language
Did he ever release K OS?

I seen a few bits and pieces from Geocar but never seen a release or download.

biosed··on Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan
ahhh, didn't realise. Gun thing is mad
biosed··on Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan
"Glass, which reflects everything around it" except the character standing in front of it! It seems like it is over done but not done properly. I know it is a demo but still, its trying so hard!
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