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saintradon··on Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust
This looks great! Can't wait to check out the code in detail.
saintradon··on “Bad Apple” in Minecraft
I haven't been addicted to Minecraft / building serious redstone stuff since high school. Now I just play a few times a month with some friends when the craving randomly comes back to just build and explore. Looking at the redstone landscape now it has completely changed and it's unrecognizable to me - I wonder if that's how I'll feel as I slowly become a senior software engineer, years pass by and I look at stacks I haven't touched professionally in years and wonder in awe just how rapidly things change in tech and what new things people are creating with it.
saintradon··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
This is why Chinese made electric cars are a bad idea in America.

But Kudos to Israel for pulling off a surgical strike the likes of which we've never seen before.

saintradon··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Completely disagree. I cannot think of a more successful, large scale, targeted attack in recent memory. The engineering behind this was incredible.
saintradon··on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
> There are better things to dedicate lives to.

Then those aren't people Jimmy wants to hire for his company. There are hundreds of millions of teenagers on this planet that want to stake everything they own to make a YouTube channel and reap the rewards - ownership of their work, being their own boss, potentially lucrative amounts of money, microcelebrity if not greater levels of fame, etc. Some will do it, and some won't. Jimmy is very clearly talking to those people.

I know because I was one of them, making my first few hundred dollars ever from adsense at the age of 14 (till I was demonetized a year later and my channel got taken down for copyright, but hey, you learn). I've since grown a bit a taken that energy and it's helped guide me as I learn to make my own startup right now - it's the same adrenaline rush and pursuit of the American dream.

saintradon··on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
Did not know this! Going to be checking this out, thank you.
saintradon··on Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers
Like any other tool, it depends on how you use it.
saintradon··on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD
If any founders are interested I'd be happy to go into more detail.
saintradon··on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
saintradon··on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
Who knows how many terabytes of incredible lectures like this our government is sitting on... Makes me sad to think about, frankly.
saintradon··on Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
I have a silly standup joke along these lines, about how I'd Google things crazy things like "circus lawyer" or "giraffe mitigation tactics" to throw the algorithm off every now and then.
saintradon··on Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
Dude it's just a joke
saintradon··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
If that's the case then what's the endgame of this promotion? Strange.
saintradon··on A network engineer in search of greener pastures
I'm a civil engineer and self taught developer. I've done software development at an internship, twice. I wasn't even hired to do so, I was in operations, I just found a need that I could fill with their system and taught myself SQL, VBA, stuff like that. I didn't end up going full time because I didn't want to move to the company HQ. Fast forward a little bit, I'm a couple years out of graduation. I've resigned myself to the fact if I want a software job my best bet is use my civil degree, get a civil job, and work my way up in the company, find a niche to target, fix it, and just do that all over again.
saintradon··on What makes e natural? (2004)
That's the same with pi if you think about it, and in my eyes is what makes it a transcendental number, so to speak. The numbers themselves could be different if you used a different base instead of base 10, but they still just represent a particularly useful value for us.
saintradon··on llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3
This is something where I can see infinite context windows really working. My local llm knowing where tens of thousands of files located on my computer are, what they do, which ones can be moved, which ones can't etc, how to organize them. Just cleaning up my absolutely messy space.
saintradon··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Thanks for the read, going to look into that.
saintradon··on Llama3 implemented from scratch
Does github need a cartoonish cat with 5 octopus-like legs to be its logo? Of course not, but it makes it memorable and funny. And besides, anime is extremely mainstream these days.
saintradon··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
What about the public? I feel talking about the layperson has been absent in many AI safety conversations - i.e., the general public that maybe has heard of "chat-jippity" but doesn't know much else.

There's a twitter account documenting all the crazy AI generated images that go viral on facebook - https://x.com/FacebookAIslop (warning the pinned tweet is nsfw) It's unclear to me how much of that is botted activities, but there are clearly at least some amount of older, less tech savvy people that are believing these are real. We need to focus on the present too, not just hypothetical futures.

saintradon··on Llama3 implemented from scratch
Creepy??
saintradon··on Llama3 implemented from scratch
It's to drive engagement by getting people to comment on it.
saintradon··on SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs
Not sure if this is a bug or not but the zoom feature seems to go infinitely on the canvas, kinda funny and should be kept in maybe.
saintradon··on Guess my RGB
What is this next best option called? A weighted binary search?
saintradon··on First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live
3 things in life are certain. Death, taxes, and Nintendo emulators.
saintradon··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
What I mean is that the game got leaked like 2 weeks before it's official release, - so on 4chan I think some anons created 60 fps patches a few days later, effectively creating patches before the game even got released. This had nothing to do with Yuzu, I'm just remarking at how fast the community worked on it.
saintradon··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Regardless of whatever your take on emulation is - can we all agree that it's actually awful there isn't some organized archive of old video games? The library of congress supposedly has 173 million items in there - you'd think they'd have an archive.
saintradon··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Actually, it's even crazier than that. The game got leaked and patches were created before the game got officially released.
saintradon··on Gemma: New Open Models
Also, it led to one of the funniest pr I've seen in a while

https://huggingface.co/miqudev/miqu-1-70b/discussions/10

saintradon··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
Take it and RUN with it.
saintradon··on Infinite Craft
minified version courtesy of GPT-4 (disclaimer I have no clue how this works)

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