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prettyStandard··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
I don't think we can fairly compare a phone pretending to be a desktop against other desktops.

It would be more fair to compare a phone that has desktop features, to a phone that doesn't have desktop features.

So let's compare the best Apple phone that refuses to have a dex like experience; to a Samsung that has had a dex experience for about 10 years, or to a Google phone that is now adopting desktop experiences.

If the future is anything like the past, in 5 to 10 years from now we'll see a desktop experience on iPhone and they're going to be snobby about it.

prettyStandard··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
I'm sorry but I remain unconvinced.

Do you have any examples of desktop UI interfaces that are impossible to create in a Dex like experience, that is possible on Linux, Mac, and Windows desktop experiences?

Or is it that mobile apps will never work great/ideally on desktop? And if that's the case, how is that worse than not having them at all?

Maybe there is a scenario I'm not seeing here.

prettyStandard··on Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
I think you can run a DNS server, and configure Android with a custom DNS server. Not sure about this exact case though.
prettyStandard··on Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
Zero impact?

AI is involved in things from writing laws to taking drive through orders.

prettyStandard··on Bloomberg Announces Effort to Ensure U.S. Honors Paris Agreement Commitments
I know right? I've never heard of large projects needing upfront capital!
prettyStandard··on To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.

There's some educational videos on YouTube on High Voltage DC.

https://youtu.be/JH9-0AbR_1U?si=l57nkFt2YG5iLl3D

North and South America could sell a lot of electricity to the east this way...

prettyStandard··on Looking for work is a full time job
it was built by someone looking for a job. see their comment.
prettyStandard··on Operator research preview
Christ...

I wish I had something more curious to say.

Other than "Operator/Agent, please surface all sites using prompt injecting and just go ahead and cancel my account, and send a complaint to the appropriate authorities BBB/Reddit/CANSPAM"

prettyStandard··on Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents
Thanks for the laugh
prettyStandard··on Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents
I'm easily in the top 95-99th percentile of people I know and probably most people in general in most respects. Net worth, IQ, height, athletic achievements...

A good 10-20 years ago I anticipated these AI moments, and even some of the specifics like our use of ANNs(when everyone thought they were a failure), and yet I failed to capitalize on it.

It's hard to describe just how defeated and irrelevant these news articles make me feel.

I don't say this to brag or anything, I keep this account pseudo anonymous. Some follow up points and questions

- What hope do the normies have?

- Does anyone expect our representatives to do anything?

- How does this not end badly?

prettyStandard··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
They prevent unnecessary treatments! /s
prettyStandard··on Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines
You have to click on "Enterprise Mode" to find

> Design Patterns Used

> 82%

prettyStandard··on Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines
You might enjoy "Black Mesa", HL1 remade with the HL2 engine. Played it during the pandemic. No Regrets.
prettyStandard··on Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I found I naturally encouraging remarks to the LLM saying

- You're doing better...

- Thanks that helps me...

And I just wonder if that actually has an improvement...

prettyStandard··on Jimmy Carter has died
Not to nit pick, a better term you are looking for is "headcannon" as in "my headcannon is that the 'killer rabbit' in that movie was the same rabbit that went after Carter in his fishing boat."

I think I will be telling people this about the Holy Grail from now on...

RIP Jimmy

prettyStandard··on Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?
I agree and I know you're being helpful, but as soon as that's normalized they're going to start locking the ram.
prettyStandard··on I Run LLMs Locally
Even Nvidia's victims are better off... (O)llama runs on AMD GPUs
prettyStandard··on AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
Not if it was never given input.
prettyStandard··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
For me the interesting thing is, assuming miny worlds AND simulation theory are both true. Many worlds would seem to be a way to essentially run a/b tests on the simulation. So how would you separate out/simplify details of your simulation like far away planet stars and galaxies? The speed of light and light cones, don't seem to be enough to make a difference except for on the largest scales.
prettyStandard··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Sure it would. If you had Sims that went around killing other Sims, there's no way in hell you would promote them, or use their stimulated experiences as a bases for more complex/serious projects.

I'm not deep into LLMs or AI safety right now, but if you have a bad performing AI, you aren't going to use it as a base for future work.

I was about to go to bed so I was rushing through my initial comment... I was just trying to understand the motivations for trying to create a stimulated reality... Look at the resources we spend on AI?

prettyStandard··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
AI too.

I've followed Many worlds & Simulation theory a bit too far and I ended up back where I started.

I feel like the most likely scenario is we are in a AI (kinder)garden being grown for future purposes.

So God is real, heaven is real, and your intentions matter.

Obviously I have no proof...

prettyStandard··on Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out
I'm getting some real country bear jamboree vibes from that bear.
prettyStandard··on Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
I think GPs point is if you need more horsepower you might as well get a used small form factor, and if you care about the GPIO and other interfaces you might as well get a PI 3 or 4. I get what you're saying it's a computer it could do all sorts of stuff.

I think the stronger argument/usecase is it's a drop-in replacement for the pi4. So if you're already dedicated to that form factor...

pi5 number go up

prettyStandard··on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan
Just going to go out on a ledge here and guess that a loved one of the shooter died because of some insurance denial.
prettyStandard··on ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’
I see what you're saying...but...

Most people are alive right now. The population historically has been much lower, so odds are you would be born around the time high technology would support a high population.

prettyStandard··on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
Do as I say, not as I do....

Don't take it? It's bad to dit on the toilet longer than 10 minutes.

prettyStandard··on Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
Thanks, this is helpful.

So first we need to answer does math follow physics or does physics follow math?

If math follows physics, and the physics is changing across universes in the multiverse in question, then no you're assertion is wrong.

If physics follows math, then we would have to go up the level higher, and we're not talking about that right now.

prettyStandard··on Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
It's not crazy. I'm no physicist, but I understand the math of the Big bang is similar to that of a White hole.

What gets a little mind bending for me is the idea that the physics inside the black hole can differ slightly from the ancestor universe. So black holes will preferentially create descendant universes that prefer to create more black holes.

This is a different multiverse theory than the quantum many worlds theory. The limitation of quantum many worlds is that the physics doesn't change. But in the ancestor black hole many worlds theory it does.

When you put these together, you can get an even larger multiverse, where anything that can happen does happen, but only if the laws of physics allow for black holes. That may mean the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is out there somewhere, so long as those laws of physics allow for black holes. Right? Again not a physicist.

prettyStandard··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually...

What's the virtualization technology on proxmox?

What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?

prettyStandard··on A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
In college 2004-2008 I was ridiculed a few times for thinking Neural Networks were interesting. The way I saw it was human intelligence was built on neural network. All we were missing were sufficiently accurate models of neurons or scale.

In middle school I estimated to rival the processing power of a human brain you would need the processing power of an Empire State building full of Pentium 3 processors. It was a pretty rough calculation. I'm having a hard time remembering just how it went.

lol

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