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valvar··on Qwen 3.8 27B
That’s well and good, but how are we supposed to evaluate the accuracy of random HN comments without anything resembling somewhat objective metrics? People say all manner of things, and usually it’s contradictory. What heuristic do you propose?
valvar··on Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
Personally, I’d only meet with those in the triple digits of karma.
valvar··on You can't unit test for taste
TDD is perfect for bugs; codify a replication first, then fix it.
valvar··on FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
Just leave it at home.
valvar··on The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't
Why wouldn’t inference just keep getting better and cheaper as hardware and algorithms improve?
valvar··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Try Cerberas
valvar··on Leaving Substack
It's hard for SaaS platforms to monetize, that's what's wrong with it
valvar··on Coding in Vision Pro
Interesting. I'm also nearsighted, so I've always assumed that I don't need glasses when wearing VR headsets. It's easier to just take them off before putting on the headset (MQ3) and I've not noticed a difference in clarity — but I do experience eye strain and visual exhaustion if I wear the headset for too long, so it might be worth comparing longer sessions with and without glasses.
valvar··on Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330
Nothing's stopping users who want an AI summary from feeding the content into their favourite GPT. But it's not contributing anything meaningful to a HN discussion.
valvar··on Beg Bounties (2021)
Is there no way to contest such a warrant? What about compensation for the loss of utility caused by the confiscation?
valvar··on Does Go Have Subtyping?
Yes, as everyone knows, you are only entitled to an opinion about software if you are also a successful business entrepreneur without external funding.

Good type systems increase velocity by leaving less room for error, so that you don't have to waste half your time debugging and fixing issues that could have been easily prevented. They also provide helpful structure and an IDE experience (the right values, functions, actions, etc are actually suggested for you wherever you are) that really does speed up development a lot.

There's of course always a trade-off: bad type systems can get in your way with boilerplate that you have to wrangle. But I don't think that's the typical experience.

valvar··on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
What are they going to be watching if you don't restrict them, and what will it do to them? Why not just talk about it with them?
valvar··on Numbered block parameters in Ruby
Boilerplate
valvar··on Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
Yes?
valvar··on Why many business owners would love it if you stopped using your credit card
I imagine handling cash probably has hidden costs that are comparable to the swipe fees, though.
valvar··on Tailscale Kubernetes Operator
Is "stupid" really one of the words that the Ministry of Truth no longer permits us to use?
valvar··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools
valvar··on Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]
Yes, it's very simple. Just open the app info (by long holding the app icon and pressing the little "i"), then select "disable" and confirm the dialogue. Or did you mean something else?
valvar··on Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
Why would that be "pretty cool"?
valvar··on Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
Probably just an honest mistake. But they should definitely look into fixing that.
valvar··on Mexico’s underground vanilla economy
They were questioning the story, not the intelligence of the farmers.
valvar··on Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles
It certainly has a heritable component. When people say "the way you're born", do they mean something non-genetic? What would that be?
valvar··on Engineers should focus on writing
This is why self-deprecating humour can be dangerous. Some people won't get it and will just think you're an idiot.
valvar··on Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf]
>It’s in a lot of way like the original Dark Soul whose last half is so aweful I’m not sure the awesome first one is enough to redeem the game.

What are you talking about? I've never heard this take before. I found it fantastic all the way through. Maybe introducing the lord vessel was a poor design choice, but it's a minor fault.

valvar··on Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
That much good RAM in itself isn't super expensive. So does the rest of the hardware have to be particularly powerful?
valvar··on Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift
Europe does. The US? Not necessarily.
valvar··on Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
That is indeed true!

The most famous example can be found at the bottom of this page: https://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tongue-twisters/swedish_...

å: stream

ö: island

i: in

ä: not correct, but used to represent dialectical pronunciation of "är", i.e. "is"

valvar··on OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
Inspecting a powerplant does not grant you any actual influence beyond powerplant inspection. Defining the ethics of AI will potentially let you influence almost all aspects of our lives.
valvar··on GPT-4 System Card [pdf]
This is the opposite of mitigating biases.
valvar··on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
Which grinders with identical burr sets are you referring to?
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