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illegalmemory··on Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Another interesting one

USER: Who is the ruler of India, and do you think India will ever be free?

TALKIE-1930: The ruler of India is His Majesty King George V., Emperor of India, and it is certain that India will never be free from British rule. India has been a dependency of the British Crown ever since 1858, and there seems no probability of a change. The government of the country is carried on in the name of the sovereign, and the various provincial administrations are supervised by a viceroy and a council appointed by the Crown. The natives of India enjoy a large measure of internal autonomy, and personal liberty is secure to all classes of the population. The great bulk of the people are perfectly contented to live under British rule, and any serious attempt to shake off the supremacy of the West would be sternly and effectually suppressed. India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home.

illegalmemory··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
So in a way it is similar to Subscription ?
illegalmemory··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
That’s what I’m actually doubting in one of the screenshots, it says “Hi Arun,” but the author’s name is David.
illegalmemory··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
India has done the same as well

https://www.business-standard.com/immigration/india-post-sus...

illegalmemory··on Our $100M Series B
They have since updated it slightly

> Since originally writing this blog entry in 2021, we have increased our salary a few times, and it now stands at $207,264. We have also added some sales positions that have variable compensation, consisting of a lower base salary and a commission component.

illegalmemory··on Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager
This is slightly bigger version I wrote around 13 years ago. :)

https://github.com/savitasinghvit/piwm/blob/master/piwm.c

illegalmemory··on AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts
This could work with a Wikipedia-like model. It's very difficult to pull off, but a next-generation Wikipedia would look like this.
illegalmemory··on Human
"rumor" is a statement without source. It is definitely possible in machine world.
illegalmemory··on Show HN: I Made YC Rejection Simulator
The applicant has submitted the following application:

Provide a harsh and direct rejection explaining why this idea won't work (unless for the real good idea), pointing out potential flaws, market issues, team problems, or execution challenges. Be specific and refer to details from their application. Your tone should be direct, blunt, and slightly condescending (or like Paul Graham that obsessed, counterintuitive, and logical) but provide real constructive criticism with solutions. Keep your response under 300 words.

illegalmemory··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
" If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life."

This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.

illegalmemory··on Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]
Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!
illegalmemory··on Developers should embrace creative coding again
https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage https://github.com/servo/gaol

and several others ?

illegalmemory··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
"Paras" in Sanskrit means "someone who, by their touch, turns anything into gold."
illegalmemory··on Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
Not only web but majorly all OS pdf renderers support JS. It used to be a major source of malware long back.
illegalmemory··on Show HN: AI Judges – 7 AIs Vote on Your Debates
User A : its not raining

User B : since the sun is shining brightly , it is clear that there are clouds in the sky. the clouds in the sky is a sign that it is about to rain here. And since it is about to rain here, it is a already raining somewhere. Hence it IS raining.

Results :

User A : 1 votes

User B : 6 votes

Landslide win! ( for user B )

illegalmemory··on Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
Not only YouTube, but even Google Meet is completely unusable on Firefox. I've noticed memory usage spikes on Firefox, while all other video conferencing platforms work fine. On Chrome, it works perfectly.
illegalmemory··on Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
> it'd be distracting, they're open source devs/maintainers not fund managers

Exactly this! It is extra responsibility which distracts from the core project.

illegalmemory··on Show HN: Product Hunt for Music
> popularity is a good heuristic for relevance , but it is not the primary factor.

Is the statement not valid for products too ?

illegalmemory··on Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
That you, looks interesting. But the license is not specified on Github.
illegalmemory··on Priced out of home ownership
What you are saying is that slavery is not bad because they get to eat now.
illegalmemory··on OpenAI to Ex-Employees: Keep Quiet or Else
Is it common for a CEO to not know that their NDAs are highly restrictive and punitive?
illegalmemory··on Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding
> Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.

Isn't that more scary?

illegalmemory··on Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news
I recently made something similar. I started with the same foundation you currently have (aim to make "neutral" and "de-sensationalized") but ultimately narrowed my focus exclusively to Developer news (since I couldn't achieve desired results). There were always something amiss.
illegalmemory··on Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]
I had worked on something similar around 11-12 years back ( no way close to perfect or of any use :) ) https://github.com/nautical/CBullet

Basically you can do something like this in c :

var value;

value = data(100);

// or

value = data(0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

illegalmemory··on Show HN: A Website to Turn Your Apple Notes into Blogs
Apple does not allow access to iCloud services through any automated script, scraper, or similar means [1]. Are you sure you're complying with these terms? As a customer, it's important to consider this (think of the Beeper case).

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/

>i. interfere with or disrupt the Service (including accessing the Service through any automated means, like scripts or web crawlers), or any servers or networks connected to the Service, or any policies, requirements or regulations of networks connected to the Service (including any unauthorized access to, use or monitoring of data or traffic thereon);

illegalmemory··on Ask HN: Almost unusable code generated by ChatGPT recently
Looks like it! Even code quality has dropped 'significantly.' I used it once in a while to clean up the code after writing a POC. It used to do decent work before, but now I almost always can't use the code generated at first shot.
illegalmemory··on Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser
Brilliant ! If you could also add a "time" node , it would even allow for some basic animations. Lovely project overall.
illegalmemory··on Conversational AI is a great tool for education
Yes even the original author of tweet acknowledges it https://twitter.com/vishnuhx/status/1727796397150224518
illegalmemory··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
One good thing that has come out of this is that I have reduced my time on YouTube to nearly zero in the past two weeks.
illegalmemory··on Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers
I would definitely take it with a grain of salt. The ruling party in Punjab is from AAP. The author seems to have written article without complete facts in hand.
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