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felooboolooombaon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

Currently there's very much of a blur between "democratically chosen state" and "a private entity" (with a lot of money).

felooboolooombaon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

They know. They just don't want a international incident to deal with. But if the shit hits the fan, they know.

felooboolooombaon Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)

Vitest is a brilliant software. I wish that the vitest vscode extension would be managed in a more careful manner though, too buggy for me to use.

felooboolooombaon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

> That only affects people in California

  First they came for the Californians
  And I did not speak out
  Because I was not a Californian

felooboolooombaon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

> they can never be taken away

Your right to 3d print whatever you want is about to be taken away (in California).

What software you can run on your computer can already be restricted.

Absolutely everything can be taken away. The simplest way to remove open models is probably to declare them a tool that terrorists could use. Crazy? Yes, the world is totally crazy these days.

felooboolooombaon Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

I feel violated.

felooboolooombaon The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

Meta has spent $2B lobbying for Age Verification Tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410870

felooboolooombaon LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

Any detailed info on why Klue had this data, apart from being their partner? How does it serve LastPass customers to give that data to Klue?

felooboolooombaon Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

Cool project. Cringemaxxing demo, just like this comment.

felooboolooombaon Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

That negative-trust future is already here.

When GPT showed up, I posted that the internet and the world as we knew it was over. I mostly got downvoted and negative comments.

felooboolooombaon Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

I solved it by storing the data on /dev/null

felooboolooombaon Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

>more than half probably come from PR firms

Imagine how bad it is on social media.

felooboolooombaon A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

It is, because manuals are often not the best way to learn things. Most software manuals are reference manuals. SSH man page isn't too bad. I learned most of my SSH knowledge from it, but I'm not sure it's the best way to do it.

felooboolooombaon A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

As a sysadmin, one of your biggest ROI is learning the ins and outs of SSH.

felooboolooombaon Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

> This entirely fits a missed signal or a signalling/protection failure

Perhaps a signalling/protection sabotage?

> No official has hinted at foul play either

That doesn't really mean much. Officials in the UK are incredibly reserved in hinting at something that they can't back up with evidence. Since they're still investigating, they keep their mouth shut. But yes, the sensible thing is to wait for the report.

felooboolooombaon Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

There was also a very peculiar train crash in the UK just a few days ago. A train hit a stationary train. That shouldn't really happen in this day and age. Sabotage was the first thing that came to my mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy60gg6k5o

felooboolooombaon Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

Not a stretch to call that a conflict of interests.

felooboolooombaon Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

Yes, an recent example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Polymarket/comments/1ubxixr/am_i_in...

felooboolooombaon Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

The bad thing with abstractions is when you start it too early in your code base for things. It's also a bad thing when you start it too late, although not as bad. If you start it way, way, way too late it's very, very, very bad.

Of course, the worst abstractions are the ones you don't need at all.

felooboolooombaon Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

I'll give this a try. CC already has a good /remote-control feature along with the mobile app. But it recently stopped sending me notifications on Android so it's not much use anymore.

felooboolooombaon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

Anthropic stuff runs on Bun, that's why they bought it. Should they be careful with Bun? Could Anthropic be a high value target for someone?

felooboolooombaon Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

This is not a conspiracy theory. It's actual documented evidence. The Epstein files also shed light on this, Bannon traveling around Europe to fortify alt-right alliance and seed unrest.

felooboolooombaon Renting a sewing machine from the library

If you went into programming because you like making things, odds are high you'll like sewing too. Speaking from experience.

felooboolooombaon Renting a sewing machine from the library

Opposite experience. I studied mine extensively when I got it. I rarely have problems. But it's definitely a mechanical wonder.

felooboolooombaon Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

No, I've hacked other peoples account to do that.

felooboolooombaon Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

> And no I’m not schizophrenic.

Which of you? :)

felooboolooombaon Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

> Obviously you also have mental imagery

I personally don't since I suffer from aphantasia. Perhaps I also suffer from not having an internal monologue?! I do think in words but not in complete sentences, it kind of happens much faster.

felooboolooombaon Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

> I often construct full sentences in my head

I've only ever heard that associated with schizophrenia, but I don't even know if that's true or not.

felooboolooombaon Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

Sorry I'm late, the capacitor didn't blow.

Did anyone else smell capacitors when they watched the video? The brain does funny things.

felooboolooombaon Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Yes, I'd be interested in seeing this compared to book sales in general.