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shikon7··on Age Simulation Suit
I'm still waiting for the youth simulation suit.
shikon7··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI
But along the same argument you may claim ownership, but it means nothing wrt copyright.

So you cannot stop them from using the code AI generated for you, based on copyright claims.

shikon7··on Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow
Shouldn't it be the other way round, linear to time, and logarithmic relative to (the exponentially growing) capital investment?
shikon7··on AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders
But surely there aren't thousands of new corpuses built every minute.
shikon7··on The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage over Airport Lounges
I wonder on what basis "someone who’s lived nearly seven decades without once setting foot in an airport lounge" is critisizing an op-ed about airport longes so harshly.
shikon7··on Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews
Also, using an OpenAI model to judge the performance of an OpenAI model seems prone to all kinds of biases.
shikon7··on Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
Yes, the forward pass does a next token prediction on all input tokens (so we know exactly how many tokens from the small model matched). The expensive thing is not the computation, but the memory bandwidth, as each pass needs to load the model from memory.

If the small model predicts some tokens correctly, you save some passes, at the expense of doing some extra computations when the tokens were not correct.

In any case, each forward pass will give at least one new token.

shikon7··on Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)
In a some sense that goes back to the roots, as you can't distinguish these in German either ("Erde" is always capitalized)
shikon7··on UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
What irony that this report might be the most read UN report
shikon7··on Building better AI tools
AI context and instruction following has become so good, probably you could put this verbatim in an AI prompt, and the AI would react according to the post.
shikon7··on Asynchrony is not concurrency
The novel concept is to make it explicit where a non-concurrent scheduler is enough (async), and where it is not (async-concurrent). As a benefit, you can call async functions directly from a synchronous context, which is not possible for the usual async/await, therefore avoiding the need to have both sync and async versions of every function.

And with green threads, you can have a call chain from async to sync to async, and still allow the inner async function to yield through to the outer async function. This keeps the benefit of async system calls, even if the wrapping library only uses synchronous functions.

shikon7··on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
From what I understand, only the sensitive data needs to be encrypted (e.g. your bank transactions). It is still possible to use public unencryped data in the computation, as the function you want to compute doesn't have to be encrypted.
shikon7··on Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know
There is also &mut str. The nice thing about Rust is that the same memory area can be used as a "StringBuilder" with &mut str, and then as a "String" with &str. Once you have a &str reference, Rust statically guarantees that no one else cam mutate it.
shikon7··on Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know
You can, but allocating and deallocating is more tedious without a GC, and if you care about performance, you might want to have mutable strings.
shikon7··on The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful
Until someone makes the idea fashionable to replace HR with AI.
shikon7··on The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it
If you need to change trains, you will need to walk (or travel by non-train) some distance in all cases. I wonder, is there a limit to the transfer distance, so that it still counts as traveling by rail only?
shikon7··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
If there is nobody left to observe when it stops decaying, will it ever stop decaying?
shikon7··on Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?
Don't forget about the startup that went from "Twitter" to "X" to "AI-powered X"
shikon7··on The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration
> illustrative 30-day calendar of exercises

That there is such a calendar for using ChatGPT in the style of topics like "how to eat healthy", "how to stay fit" or "how to be more confident" shows to me more than anything what impact AI has on our society.

shikon7··on Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
> Sure they can copy paste the error into the LLM and hope for the best, but what happens when that doesn’t fix it?

Then you throw the code away and start newly from scratch. Or you accept that your problem cannot be solved by vibe coding.

shikon7··on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
Probably these things exist, but if they are truly unhypeable, only a select few will ever know of it, and their economic and societal impact will remain negligible.
shikon7··on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
The really smart people are those who figure out which part of the hype is real and which is exaggerated.
shikon7··on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
Combine an exponential growth in investments (that is inherent to our economy) with a logarithmic return in capabilities, and you get a linear increase in capabilities.
shikon7··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
Only on sunday, for now it's only available in the USA

> An important note: We are enabling the Assistant for all users in phases, based on regions, starting with USA today. The full rollout for ‘Assistant for All’ is scheduled to be completed by Sunday, 23:59 UTC.

shikon7··on PEP 750 – Template Strings
If its only use is to make injecton safety a bit easier to achieve, it's worth it to me.
shikon7··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
I have no confidence at all. In fact, preventing further Russian aggression might not be Trump's goal to begin with. After all, Trump did say he would encourage Russia to invade a country that didn't pay its due.
shikon7··on TikTok is back in the App Store
What could Congress do? Make another law that might also be ignored?
shikon7··on OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site
As I read this, that executive order is only relevant if the DEI program would violate Federal anti-discrimination laws.
shikon7··on No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more
As I understand it, they add a new set of planets with the new features, and keeping the old planets untouched.

The increased variety is not because trillions of planets are added, but because the new planets will have more varierty than the old ones.

shikon7··on C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
I wonder why it is so hard for Rust to implement its own safe stdlib independent of C.
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