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j16sdiz··on Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
It is more common in high-latitude countries. Very uncommon in lower latitude.
j16sdiz··on The Two Factions of C++ (2024)
When they inverse the priority, there are little reason to keep on using C++.
j16sdiz··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
When one truly believes:

0) Subjecting fruitfly life to this kind of treatment is unethical.

1) Life is just physics in action.

2) Physics are just algorithm (or our physical world is a simulation)

It is not hard to understand why they think it is unethical.

My question are

1) is all life equal?

2) is all suffering unethical?

3) is this world materialistic or are there something out there?

4) should a list of items begin with 0 or 1?

j16sdiz··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
> backed by its own ELF loader (x86-64 and aarch64) and a glibc ABI bridge

Yacks

j16sdiz··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
It's VRAM, not vRAM.
j16sdiz··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Lots of people here exposing their single sign on approve code because a scammer ask them to send them a screenshot.
j16sdiz··on People are worried about America's solvency
> The markets generally respond to US concerns by buying more US treasuries.

I think the market is buying more gold from US than ever -- this is trading US dollar for gold

US gold export is at its all-time high.

j16sdiz··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
How does browser detect ads?

What make you think this won't degrade into some cat and mouse game?

j16sdiz··on If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever
> prohibit the creation of multiple accounts

I wonder how they are going to enforce this.

I meant, it would be great if this can be enforced without being yet another id verification scheme. ... but I am not optimistic on this one.

j16sdiz··on NP-overrated
Exactly.

Debian allow you to choose different solver (typical Debian). It is easy to get galactic blow up if you insist.

j16sdiz··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Ugh? It is not just the knowledge

Some model are more aggressive by default, some are more verbose by default. To get the result you want for your specific application, you run experiment with prompts and parameters.

j16sdiz··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
What make this research paper different -- this is the first genetic study of this mushroom.
j16sdiz··on Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug
Because AI have a recall of 80% or 90% at best. While it might be better than some human, it won't hit the 100% TLA+ modeling aims
j16sdiz··on (ADVANCED) Guide to not fucking up QR codes
This very much depends on which QR code library the user is using
j16sdiz··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
I think the problem is how we keep the cattle.

In natural environment, they cohabitant with other animals. They migrates.

When we farm them, we remove anything not our primary product.

j16sdiz··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
The true reason is legal.

> Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, ...

j16sdiz··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
IMO. It is ok to filter them out.

One simply does not have infinite time and resource to engage with everybody.

Aware what you have filtered and don't treat them like idiot

j16sdiz··on Everything you do is being recorded
> Apple Watch is just extension of screen and notifications from the phone, so there is no overlap.

Where did you got that impression?

Apple Watch have lots of apps. It can make phone call and do voice recording without the phone nearby.

j16sdiz··on Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
Tim Cook might be not. One of the AI companies might.

Imagine what one could do with an infinite Charisma, propaganda generating machine.

j16sdiz··on Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
So... swapping $100 component for a $0.3 break?

Doesn't this make including the jack even less justifiable?

j16sdiz··on Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
You are basically saying you can tell us, but you won't.

If you are not going to tell us anything, why are you teasing us as if you will?

Holding back discussion points is not a way to advance a discussion

j16sdiz··on Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
> The nice thing about living in China was that it was easy and cheap to live urban.

It is not that cheap when you adjust for the average hourly salary.

and imported goods are disproportionly expensive when you need them

j16sdiz··on Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone
Maybe it learn it from content farms, not RL.

Before LLM, the majority of the web was content farms... but those are instantly recognizable and we seldom fall into them. Now LLM mixed the content farm style writing with _some_ real content. It take time and effort to tell they are slop, causing much fatigue.

j16sdiz··on Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone
So,.. money never "gone" ?
j16sdiz··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Yes and no..

Oscilloscope is needed for things like frequency response.

but most consumer care only the power loss and bandwidth only.

j16sdiz··on Taste Is All That's Left
> .. why marketing and designers get more of a say in the software than engineers.

I hate it when visual designer do a product design or ux design job.

I hate it when marketing just imagine some fake use case in their head.

Market Research is real research. UX study is a real study.

now everybody just vibe their job

j16sdiz··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
A consumer grade tester test only the continuity and read the chip.

To actually test for the bandwidth those are hell expensive.

Now people starting test for the chip, those scammers will install more fake chip ...

j16sdiz··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
> high-pitched whine.

Does it have to?

I meant, it is a very common problem with lots of complain. I bet modern electronic can do it much less noise.

Does HN know something in this area?

j16sdiz··on Something is changing in the unit economics of software
> That will change very fast and soon paying for inference will likely resemble paying for hosting your app.

The article have talked about this:

> You cannot, however, build a business model today on a cost breakthrough that has not happened yet. Even if costs do fall, Jevons paradox[5] tends to kick in: historically, when a resource gets cheaper, we find more uses for it rather than consuming less. Cheaper inference does not get banked as margin improvement; it gets consumed by deeper integration, more calls per interaction, more autonomous agents running in the background. The cost per call drops but the calls per user multiply.

j16sdiz··on LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
> 1) mathematical impossibility of reversing some integer/mod calculation

You are describing asymmetric encryption. This article was talking about symmetric encryption.

Symmetric encryption is generally considered much harder to break than asymmetric encryption

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