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Yeah, I think Plato's dialogues are unparalleled. I love the rigour, drama, and how they don't end with a clear conclusion ("aporia"), forcing you to find your own.

> It doesn't help that nowadays Aurelius is being held up as some beacon of masculinity nowadays. Yeah, it's people like Tim Ferris, Ryan Holiday and others who write titles such a…

FWIW, I got a lot more about virtue ethics from reading Plato's works, the Stoics, and Cicero. Aristotle is somewhat dry and tedious to read. Go for him if you're into formal logic…

> One of the example Gwern brings [1] is a GA as an agent for public discourse and political life, to bring your "set of values" to have an effect in solving society's issues, when…

> What would it take for LLMs to make me 100× more productive? Without this, I am doomed to irrelevance. Are you, though? You will only be "doomed" if your place your value system …

Not to be that guy, but the article has 14 (!) occurrences of the word "cyber". It's nauseating. As usual, this is OpenAI trying to give themselves a backhanded compliment: "look, …

Thanks for elaborating. I totally agree with you. I wasn't implying that funding the LHC itself was misguided, for the good reasons you articulate so well.

I know what you mean. I was recently at lunch at a (non-physics) tech conference and an ex-physicist (now a systems developer) sitting next to me responded the same. I think (physi…

I see; thanks for expanding on it so honestly.

> felt a strong sense of frustration at how modern research in particle physics is producing papers that are all identical to each other and have no true scientific impact Your com…

I see, fair point. Sorry for taking a dig at you. Please know that I do appreciate a lot of work that you do. I was just worried for a moment when just reading that bit.

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Thank you; it's an educating read for me, as someone who doesn't dwell in this space, but cares about FOSS in its true spirit.

> No mention of the fact that Ollama is about 1000x easier to use. The point of the article is not to expound on how user-friendly "Ollama" is. It's about exposing the deception an…

You seem to see a "pretty strong case" from a bombastic press release. Don't get me wrong, I do know the reality has changed. Even Greg K-H, the Linux stable maintainer, did recent…

I recently heard a new (to me) excuse: When in the middle of a group text-chat, someone replied with AI-generated blather. It was dead-clear with the usual sterile vocab, structure…

Well said. Some people are misparsing your core point here. Skrebbel is largely referring to the OSS projects that need people to do consitent grunt work like shipping predictable …

> I've found this fails on my 16 GB P550 Megrez with swap disabled but works quickly and uses maybe 50 or 100 MB of swap if I enable it. I see, I don't have a Megrez at my desk, on…

I'm tickled pink to read this! I very much support this move. HN is one of the few internet forums I use. It'd be awful to see this riddled by bot spew. This rule will atleast part…

They haven't produced any chips.

Great point; I only know about MIPS legacy vaguely. As you imply, don't listen to the "hype-sters" but pay attention to what silicon is being produced.

Please skim the thread :) We've already discussed it twice. Fedora "mandates" native builds. Build time on target hardware matters when you're re-building an entire Linux distribut…

A couple of corrections (the blog-post is by a colleague, but I'm not speaking for Marcin! :)) First, we do have a recent 'binutils' build[1] with test-suites in 67 minutes (it was…

On benchmarks, for more precision details, I recommend the RISC-V Vector (RVV) benchmarks[1], maintained by Olaf Bernsten. He only covers the Vector stuff, but with great depth. [1…

Arm had 40 years to be where it is today. RISC-V is 15 years old. Some more patience is warranted. Assuming they will keep their word, later this year Tenstorrent is supposed to sh…