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Impressive collection, but surprising it hasn’t burned down yet with all those lit candles on bookshelves.

The issue is that we didn’t have these kinds of incongruent animations twenty years ago, and nowadays they are the norm, worsening user experience.

It’s highly uncertain what will happen in 950 days.

Read up here for example: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/... …

The C standard doesn’t guarantee that arbitrary integer values converted to a pointer and back result in the same integer values again. It only guarantees the other direction, that a valid pointer to …

I disagree under the following circumstances, which in my experience is the common case: You don’t know from the outset all relevant considerations that go into implementing something. Coding yourself…

Trump and friends are only interested in investments they can personally make money from.

> The real story here is that this may be the beginning of governments restricting the availability of strong LLMs to the public, to you. That would also significantly dampen the commercial incenti…

I don’t agree that machine translation has raised the floor, because even LLM-based translation can get pretty bad when it isn’t provided with the necessary context. And the average quality level I’m …

That’s not how it works. Value for users doesn’t translate 1:1 into value for businesses, nor are either necessarily willing to pay for value. That’s why things enshittify.

I’m not gravely irked by it, but it does sometimes distract you from the content of the blog post you just read. Similar to “you might also be interested in […]” footers and the like. I’d prefer writi…

> My perception is that there is less interest in open source, and in coding in general. The main reason I love coding is that it is a challenge, and I think this is actually the same reason why a …

I wonder if “Just 3 words: you’re not alone” would have been acceptable. :)

It’s unfortunate because we are seeing more poor translations in all domains, and users suffer from it. It’s part of a general enshittification of things. There are few contexts where low-quality tran…

I see the difficulties more in other areas, such as technical translations, specialist books, user manuals, and translating UIs, where contextual information and a back and forth with the client is ne…

Translators already started losing jobs due to machine translation a decade ago (e.g. DeepL), before LLMs. Remuneration going down made it more difficult to make a living as a translator already then,…

What’s unfortunate is that the market that is willing to pay for high-quality human translation has shrunken considerably.

One hypothesis is that the brain began too look (and eventually plan) farther ahead with land animals, because you have a much farther view in air than in water. On land there is more evolutionary pre…

> I have no skin in this game You literally have if you use sunscreen. ;)

> HN hope page Nice. ;)

I didn’t claim that it was, just that the lack of self-preservation is not an argument against it, or more generally the results of this experiment aren’t.

At least at face value, it just means that they have no drive for self-preservation. And why should they? They haven't be trained for that, nor has there been selection pressure for it, and they …

If the proof is hundreds or thousands of lines of Lean, it’s not clear that the AI will be able to provide an insightful “why”, instead of just dozens of microsteps. And if it can provide insightful…

You want to understand why it’s true, and that often correlates with beauty.

We use inhouse on-premises email, issue tracking, and messaging. Depending on the project, external communication does require E2EE email. Development happens on local hardware and software unless req…

It also contains all past and future fake news, and you don’t know which is which.

> In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π. Considering each individual bit separately would be even more perfor…