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It’s for social signaling about the author’s effort and own sense of ownership over the work, mostly[1]. People want to know exactly how much AI was used and where if they’re gonna…

This is pretty great! To the creator(s) if they’re around in here: if you’ve ever dreamed of a smooth, unified transition between the product’s actual scan .svg and the 3D simulati…

Putting aside the whole “team of professionals putting out a product vs solo dev fine tuning their opus” of it all: Can you clarify what about the architecture is ‘idiotic’? Not tr…

Those are good reasons to publish untyped libraries as a rule, sure. But the contention that those reasons outweigh the value of types kinda boggles the mind, ngl!

lol I just made a very similar thing — great minds! Yours is definitely better, tho. “Kill-a-watt” is hilarious btw. Out of curiosity: why watts ove microjules?

Ruff v0.16 has a small number of breaking changes Why. Why must my poor semver be hurt so! I sorta kinda get why `ty` is pre v1.0.0 -- it's a typechecker that doesn't check a huge …

...which is why they were able to withdraw access to that tool, yes. You're just clarifying but the original comment here is deeply confused, IMHO.

1. Languages are used for much, much more than communication, and there is good reason to think that capacity didn't evolve for communication, but rather for metacognitive problem …

Sadly, we have gone above and beyond the level of innovation where stock market disruption is a primary concern. Luckily, we're all in this together. As long as enough people reali…

I’d politely beg us all to resist those “maybe it’s PR” framing around model safety, and tbh to take a post-mortem mindsight to this historical event and what it teaches us in gene…

Whelp today’s a unique day on hacker news, wow! Didn’t expect to read that at my desk lol

Thank god!

I must apologize to my devoted followers on this program, but if the author can't bother to read the giant yellow warning at the top of the screen, I can't be bothered to finish th…

That's extremely related to biology.

Thank you, Anthropic. This random drop in the bucket wants you to know that this was a big deal for them!

These are cameras sold specifically to be available over the open internet, I guess.

Your logic is solid, but their usage kinda implies the opposite (that skylights would make summers worse, not winters). That seems possible given the obvious dynamics of increasing…

Heat is not a cost -- no one is physically cooking because they live within miles of a building with computers in it. Water usage is not a cost with this new technology -- that is …

I’m kinda lost here… do y’all really have machines in your houses with hundreds of gigs of RAM?? Am I just behind the times? The page advertises the 8-bit quant as taking ~800GB, w…

What exactly did AI steal? The concept of clocks? AI is not involved in the actual copyrighted content at all.

Correction: some random tiny scam company copied a book without permission in blatant violation of copyright law, and AI was briefly and tangentially involved with the final produc…

For explicit comparison: kinetic and metamorphosis are ~10x as common as breviary , and 10,000x as common as hippo… . See NGRAMs: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Brev…

Not to bring up the topic de jure too early, but this seems like a very lazy usage of AI. Especially egregious when it’s to redo something that’s been done a thousand times…

The actual paper is linked above, and of course it’s bad. The gates are awesome ofc, but the paper’s philosophy is arrogant and uninformed (sorry Mr. Wynter!). And that’s what this…