To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to effectively use AI. The methodology is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical computer science, most of an LLM’s capabilities will go over a typical user’s head. There’s also the model’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into its training data - its internal architecture draws heavily from statistical mechanics, for instance. The true users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these limitations, to realize that they’re not just bugs—they say something deep about an AI's operational boundaries. As a consequence, people who dislike using AI for coding truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the nuance in an LLM’s inability to debug a program, which itself is a cryptic reference to the halting problem. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as the LLM fails to get an overview of a repository larger than its context window. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, I DO have a favorite transformer architecture. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothing personnel kid 😎

Gotta admit I was not expecting the A in ScottA to stand for annihilation rather than just apartheid

Orange site on pager bombs in Lebanon:

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting.

I've been out-of-the-loop for a bit on the Nix drama. Is there a good summary of the last couple weeks?

Look out, professional Nix crybaby Jon Ringer is back with his fork.

In other news, I have my own as well called Borkfan, absolutely not a ban fork due to my having threatened multiple people, but instead dedicated to the idea that a technology that lacks chud approval must necessarily not be in the true hacker spirit.

“He’d burn a church for her.” He thinks, “I’m Ryan Gosling in Drive. I’m American Psycho. I’m Joker. I’m Taxi Driver.”

I love how clearly this communicates which of these she's seen.

So the orange site is having a normal one over Python BFDL trying to skirt CoC by talking about mod actions against some old dude who caught a suspension for being precisely the sort of edgelord poaster I'd expect out of a Python maintainer, which the orange site was also not happy about. I even read a bunch of his posts in the thread, like where he calls people standing up to NixOS leadership "true villains".

Not that it should be a regular thing but it is fun to watch this post get swarmed by slopfan reply guys

This is my favorite thing to do.

If you or your loved ones have been exposed to the knowledge of dust specks, you may be entitled to compensation in a future simulation.

Yup I refused to even post that nonsense because I did the exact same scroll through it and was nonplussed by the amount of preamble this dude absolutely did not merit in defense of his terminal poaster syndrome.

Pauly G is telling on himself here: what he means is that his kids learned English from movies.

related, but tonight I will pour one out for Conkeror

NGL I always wanted to use IceWeasel just to say I did, but now it might be because it's the last bastion!

I've been thinking about this topic along similar lines. There's a race to the bottom, and someone's fully licit corpus is just going to end up being worse (in user perception, not in whatever gamed metrics/benchmarks are de rigueur) than someone else's illicit corpus, even if they are broadly similar at a glance.

There are also likely other, smaller factors that make this difficult. I expect my small body of public work with permissive licensing has been an input to one or more of these things at some point, but I would not be surprised if the fidelity of provenance were not maintained consistently, because that is not easy to do, and it doesn't buy you much if you don't intend to provide attribution.

This post has "everything" in the same way as the buffet of the Beau Rivage at midnight: the goods are warmed over, but the overs are good warm.

the odd sobriquet of Auxolotl

Has the pendulum swung back already? I make it to parenthood just in time for puns to fall out of favor?

Now that Dr Dolstra has gone

Dr Dolstra

This particular curmudgeon, though, feels that this particular Nix fork missed a big opportunity: to automatically generate and manage more human-readable filesystems.

The cardinal sin of Nix is apparently naming things. Since Aux exists for any other reason than fixing this, it has not atoned and can never atone.

Nix works wonders by automatically storing code in a software-generated and software-managed directory hierarchy. This has a profoundly off-putting side-effect: it eliminates a human-readable filesystem.

A specter is haunting Linux - the specter of /nix/store.

This particular jaded old hack much prefers the approach of GoboLinux.

And what is the solution? FreeBSD PortsGoboLinux!

What Gobo offers is akin to semantic versioning, but applied to the filesystem: a semantic filesystem layout, where folder names encapsulate versioning info and are more meaningful than the old 1970s reduce-typing-effort-at-all-costs approach.

Cool, semantic versioning, that will save us.

The thing is, though, that we were all beginners once, and anything that makes Unix even more forbidding for both beginners and veterans is a problem.

The last great addition to Linux was FHS 2.3, apparently.

You're right, Borkfan is too easy to remember, my not-ban fork is now called Frabnok.

maybe his endgame is proving the halting problem

I'm having fun thinking of infinite leather daddies whacking keyboards with dildos now.

I know more than one robotics company that has been sent to a bitter death at the hands of the Schuylkill