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ykonstant··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Built something to report bribes
Indeed, the first thing I would do as a malicious state entity would be to flood any such app with fake reports.
ykonstant··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
>Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".

A man can dream.

ykonstant··on RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues
For the record, I found programming in MISRA C guidelines really fun; but then again, I did it out of personal interest. If I had to do it professionally, I guess the pressure would be less pleasant.
ykonstant··on RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues
>This is mostly because their approach to SIMD is so different, but also because I can't test it at all. Are there any RISC-V "machines"? that one can use to do something useful or fun with that someone here could recommend?

I would also be interested in RISC-V emulators etc.

ykonstant··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
Thank you very much!
ykonstant··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
It is not "American AC" that is a serious contributing factor, much less the "main cause"(???).
ykonstant··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
I only have 16GB of RAM in my laptop, but I would love to run a powerful model like that even at 0.5 tokens/s. For the questions I am asking, such a speed is more than enough. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! I am not an expert on LLMs, just a humble mathematician.
ykonstant··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Assuming the model doesn't decide you are trying to build a bomb and refuses to answer.
ykonstant··on Good Tools Are Invisible
Only tangentially related, but this is why I gave up on fountain pens. They are cool and elegant, far too cool to be a practical tool for me. I realized this at one time I was in Bonn; I was thinking deeply about a problem as I was holding this wonderful Sailor Pro Gear in my hand. At some point it slipped, fell on the desk and bent the nib sideways, a total disaster. That broke my stream of thought and ruined my day. Nah. Tools need to cater to me, not vice versa.
ykonstant··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
That will certainly resonate with the generals (≧▽≦)
ykonstant··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Genius! Rewrite Postgres in Rust by rewriting Rust in C!
ykonstant··on Synthesis is harder than analysis
Not always. As an exercise, try to find a continuous real function which is differentiable if and only if the Riemann hypothesis is true!
ykonstant··on Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?
Feel poor??? Man... this is some prime ragebait title.
ykonstant··on Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
This is one of the best generalist books on mathematics ever published. I highly recommend it.
ykonstant··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
Unacceptable! If Oracle doesn't enter the consort, there is no way I am trusting it to be a legitimate defender of open source!
ykonstant··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Oh my.
ykonstant··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
> For realtime communications, I prefer IRC.

How on earth do you get people to talk in IRC? Am I missing something? Almost every channel I have joined is dead silent, and any time I tried starting a conversation I felt like I was asking Lebowski for my money.

ykonstant··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Hmmm... very disappointing that when I unchecked "politics" in Filter, that post remained in the list.
ykonstant··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
I would also like to know. Surely some people here have at least second-hand knowledge, and silence can sometimes be deafening.
ykonstant··on Common Core Standards for ELA, Appendix a [pdf]
The first appendix to the Common Core text for the English Language Arts contains some very interesting discussion of the role of advanced literacy outside the confines of academia. It is worth a read.
ykonstant··on U.S. science is in chaos
I was raised in a working-class family in Greece in the 1980s. We lived in what the average US person would describe as "squalor". Cockroaches crawling on our faces style.

My parents made only a few luxury expenses: encyclopedias for us children, and especially books about space and the cosmos. So please speak for yourself when talking about the interests of struggling people.

ykonstant··on Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
It's AIive!
ykonstant··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
Perhaps. For now, one of my one-on-one tutoring sessions (in real analysis) this semester consisted mostly on un-teaching a student a bunch of wrong crap they "learned" from ChatGPT.
ykonstant··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
Ok this is your second comment that reads like pure rage bait, is there a way to notify the mods?
ykonstant··on Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'
For easy access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4gBzEnQ6M

Statements like that one deserve all the ridicule we can pile upon them.

ykonstant··on The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means
>bioluminescent individuals

Brilliant.

ykonstant··on France moves to break encrypted messaging
But I thought crime---

- He said thought crime! bots start firing the machine guns

ykonstant··on France moves to break encrypted messaging
Yep, that's exactly right.
ykonstant··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
"So you're implying..."

No.

ykonstant··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
The technology isn't there yet (。•́︿•̀。)
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