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king_magic··on GPT-5-Codex
Why yes, you're right, poor code hygiene and poor documentation hygiene does matter. We finally agree.
king_magic··on GPT-5-Codex
It doesn't matter. The install was broken as was written. That's poor hygiene.
king_magic··on GPT-5-Codex
Brand new, clean install of npm.

Poor code + doc hygiene is the problem here.

king_magic··on GPT-5-Codex
The install errors out after following two basic install commands. This is poor code hygiene on the part of the authors. That's "not ready for primetime" in my book.

  npm ERR! code 1
  npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep
  npm ERR! command failed
  npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js
  npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:199
  npm ERR!                     zipFile?.close();
  npm ERR!                             ^
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'
king_magic··on GPT-5-Codex
Doesn't seem ready for prime-time. I'll be impressed when it actually installs.

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:199 npm ERR! zipFile?.close();

king_magic··on Prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
I think they are morally corrupt.
king_magic··on The untold impact of cancellation
cancellation often doesn’t feel that much conceptually different from cultural revolution struggle sessions.
king_magic··on How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
a smart judge who is minimally tech savvy could learn to train a model to predict MNIST in a day or two
king_magic··on Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe
It’s not a good objection. It conveniently ignores the actual data.
king_magic··on ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
Bluey has made be a better father and partner. Unicorse was ZERO help as usual though.
king_magic··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
I love when something like this pops up. Crazy useful, like the various UTC conversion web apps out there.
king_magic··on Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020)
Guy seems & speaks like a charlatan.
king_magic··on Apple Invites
ctrl-f "android", expected result
king_magic··on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
no one wants or need copilot.
king_magic··on Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe
exactly what I expected, and thank you!
king_magic··on Starship Flight 7
Musk is going to end up killing a lot of people unintentionally.
king_magic··on Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe
i'll wait to see what sean carroll thinks.
king_magic··on Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings
This is very cool and I applaud you OP.
king_magic··on The Unraveling of Space-Time
Seriously. This page looks and interacts like shit on my iPhone. Gave up and went to reader mode. Still sucks.
king_magic··on New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness
are we really citing ChatGPT in comments now
king_magic··on Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees
I’ve created hundreds of millions of dollars of value working remotely over the past 10 years of my career. Companies are entirely free to skip out on that if they like. Fine by me :)
king_magic··on German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames
the most vulnerable populations in the UK look to be doing a heck of a lot better than the most vulnerable populations in other areas of the world.

not sure how you're concluding totalitarianism is running the show in the UK.

king_magic··on First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids
This should be stopped, in my opinion. Feels extremely unethical.
king_magic··on Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
Very curious to see what other astronomers think about this in the comments. My gut feeling is there are almost certainly natural explanations for these. Just seems unlikely we would only be starting to see these now, even with the greater resolution of telescopes & increase in compute to crunch through the data.

If there were 7 of these ripe for the plucking that were actual Dyson spheres, each one would be the single greatest discovery in all of humanity. Just seems a little too easy.

king_magic··on Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
It's not flaming. An astonishing amount of money has been wasted on the promise of cross-platform mobile development. At this point, anyone continuing to push it is complicit in the scam.
king_magic··on Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features
I love this. Great job. Bought you some coffee.
king_magic··on Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
Cross-platform development, the scam that never ends.
king_magic··on Mamba Explained
that's not what it says in the article. it actually says "information from all previous tokens can be passed to the current token".

that statement is meaningfully different from "all previous tokens can be passed to the current token". and both really makes sense if you understand attention mechanisms.

king_magic··on Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?
featup
king_magic··on Tissot's indicatrix
Ha, my first thought too. Some new kind of movement to follow the Powermatic 80, perhaps?

But like someone else said, a very interesting read.

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