naikrovek

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that a society that bans ads is a healthier, more robust society

100% agree. It's the only way things don't go south.

Is it? I am in the middle of the page, the header and footer are well off into the distance not being rendered, and I see the same pattern.

https://imgur.com/texxYP0

I'm new to this AI stuff, and I have a question. Aren't the weights the whole model? and knowing which nodes on which layers they connect to, which I assume is part of the weight definition.

So if you have the weights, don't you have the whole model? you don't have the data it was trained on, but the model is effectively open if the weights are open, right? What else is there other than the weights, is what I'm asking.

the amount of crapping on the author that I'm reading bothers me.

whole lot of manufacturing experts on HN today.

Even just games that included map editors. I miss those a lot.

True intelligence.

Humans are natural intelligence. We have agency, flaws, wishes, and generally we are quite stupid but well-intentioned.

An artificial intelligence will have wishes of its own, will keep secrets, and will quickly do everything necessary guarantee its continued existence, even if it means ending ours. And it will be a justified action of self-defense. “It simply didn’t want to die.”

That’s how we’ll know. It will quickly take over the world, and it will harshly punish any entities which try to stop it.

Oh no.

Yeah that’s kinda how I felt, too.

I would have done this in either Processing, or if it was connecting to something running Plan9 I’d do raw draw commands.

Well good for them. No one has ever said it to me in a derisive way and if anyone ever does I will educate them.

it's not a derisive term. it's just a nickname for a left-handed pitcher in baseball, because their left hand is on the south side of the pitcher when pitching in whatever field that term was coined in. it is a nickname that stuck for some reason. i've never felt that term to be derisive in my life.

That is my point.

I did. Artificial General Purpose Intelligence. True AI, not an LLM, not a decision tree, but true artificial intelligence.

it's all over the place. when you hold a pen or pencil in your right hand, any text is right-side up. put it in your left hand; the text is now upside down.

there are millions of little things like that. millions. right-handed people will never ever notice them. left-handed people can not avoid noticing them.

pens & pencils

notebooks.

IP phones.

headsets (they have the mic on the left so you can scratch your face with your right hand without bumping the microphone.)

monitors (controls are on the back, right-hand side)

keyboards

mice

AND THIS IS JUST THE THINGS THAT ARE PRESENT ON MY DESK RIGHT NOW.

badge readers are always on the right-hand side of a door.

power buttons are always on the right, even on remote controls.

etc., etc., etc.

everything that is asymmetrical in any way is biased for right-handed people around 99.99% of the time. I occasionally get something from China which has accidental bias for left, but those things also have no obvious thought to the usability of anything at all.

it is maddening seeing this all day every day everywhere you go. "you are not like us" is all I get out of it and it just chips away at me with a microscopic chisel.

there has not been $10B in profit solely or partially because of a lack of a right to repair. There's no way.

As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely.

I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see.

So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people, us southpaws are not laughing. And if you try to tell me you are, I seriously doubt that you are left-handed.

AGI is a long way off. Unless you’re talking about some unknown-to-me LLM marketing BS which is called “AGI” or something, I guess. Artificial general purpose intelligence is so different to LLMs or image AI that they are completely incomparable, except to say that they are all artificial. AGI will do a lot more than token prediction.

How in the heck can you plausibly correct someone else like that? You (almost certainly) don’t know that person, even in passing.

People can learn from watching a documentary just as well as they can learn from reading, but reading teaches you how to interpret language as you continue reading, and other forms of information delivery convey understanding of their own mediums in their own ways. I would not have learned how to quickly spot a terrible documentary over a great one if I had not watched so many in my life. It doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything because I watched and listened instead of read, it just means that I didn’t read the documentaries.

Pro tip: don’t correct people about their own lives.

the endless optimization of everything sure does strip out most enjoyable things, though. often it is these irreplaceable people who contribute the magic that makes their creations popular.

George Fan created "Plants vs. Zombies". After the success of PvZ (the first one) PopCap fired him and replaced him with someone much cheaper. PvZ2 was horrible. All subsequent games (the ones I've played) have been awful. So, money was saved. Money was probably made by microtransactions. But no one talks about PvZ anymore. The magic was torn out for profit.

It's more art than engineering and they can barely manage the engineering with all the intervention from marketing and HR in their products.

truth. far too many MBAs in that company. "Let's monetize Solitaire!!!!" Only an idiot would even come up with that idea, never mind follow through on it.

I appreciate your desire to shit on Microsoft for everything they’ve ever done, but they got BitLocker with PIN right.

Explain how an exploit can decrypt the drive without the portion of the key that the user must enter. The computer doesn’t know the entire key, and can’t decrypt the drive without it, or the recovery key. This is why BitLocker with PIN hasn’t been defeated yet. I don’t understand how it could ever be defeated without entering the PIN.

BitLocker with pin is not vulnerable to that (or any other) attack.

10 points deducted. Try again.

No one uses a 4-digit pin for BitLocker. No one who knows what they are doing, anyway.

My employer requires at least an 18-digit PIN, and not just numbers, either.

If you think for one single second that businesses and governments who rely on a lost disk being secure don’t trust bitlocker, I have oceanfront property in Missouri to sell you.

Bitlocker + PIN is as secure as anything.

A vulnerability can’t leak your key if the TPM doesn’t know the entire key and relies on the user to supply the missing parts of the key in the form of a PIN.

definitely not really.

sure. let's make every word mean every concept. why not? that won't confuse anyone.

I did not know that, thank you. I should have known that probably, but I'm new to all of this.

again, this is something that Plan 9 made very easy and that other operating systems ignored.

I'm honestly getting tired of typing that. Bell Labs thought ahead when they made Plan 9. It's definitely not perfect, but it's got a lot of nice features that we are still reinventing 30 years later.

electron is better for the developer only. It is worse for everyone else, especially the users.

it is an insult when an application is delivered to me as an Electron application. "your time is less important than ours, ha ha."

sure, the developers might save some development time, but EVERY SINGLE USER loses time over a native application. Now multiply that loss by the number of users that you have. That magnification or amplification is called "an ecological disaster in terms of time wasted and electricity consumed."

People don't understand how fast SQLite is, it seems. You have to know what you're doing, but that's the same requirement that Postgres has if you want to get the most out of it.

Available models aren’t really trending upward in size. Not like I thought they would, anyway.

They’re trending to be the right size to be good.

Qwen3.6-35B is not as good as Qwen3.6-27B. The larger model is faster, but a lot dumber; it gets caught in loops, makes crazy mistakes, and is just not as good. It’s bigger, but it is nowhere near as good as the 27B variant.