It’s either this or just assume it’s all AI and stride forward with good faith regardless, but… well, what works okay on HuggingFace and GitHub doesn’t necessarily work great on Substack and Reddit, the great founts of wasted breath that they are.

Either way, MMW: you will be telling this story —the one where you saw an early version of text tinting on HN before it got big— at a dinner party within the decade.

[1]: …which is a good thing!

[2]: the problem isn’t just that AI text might be worse in both obvious and sneaky, tech-debt-y ways: we should also consider that a document with 0-5% original content (extremely common) is fundamentally a different ‘speech act’ than one with 95-100% original content. Namely, the latter implies a level of authorial ownership that the former does not.

To put it into realer terms:

- repos are more prosperous when the devs are responding substantively to bug tickets, even if many stay open.

- collaborative narratives (say, TTRPGs) are more prosperous when there’s someone responsible for the world’s lore (say, DMs) who would respond meaningfully if you brought up a plot-hole. Getting the response “lol idk who knows, AI wrote that” is surely all-too-common by now, and clearly a collaboration killer.

…etc!

The repo’s in a messy state of primarily-artificial cleanup atm (fml tbh, btw) but it should be trivial to pull out the parts you’d need for a one-off & one-step sim like this.

Apologies if obvious lol — it’s getting harder and harder these days to judge that

[1] obviously get why you’re not loading 3D on pageload, so worth pointing out that the same might be possible here with a clever .svg<->.ts swap.

[2]: https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/apps/origami

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Can you clarify what about the architecture is ‘idiotic’? Not trying to catch you or demand a defense, just looking for a vague description. I don’t even know how to start examining the architecture of something like this.

“Kill-a-watt” is hilarious btw.

Out of curiosity: why watts ove microjules?

  Ruff v0.16 has a small number of breaking changes

I sorta kinda get why `ty` is pre v1.0.0 -- it's a typechecker that doesn't check a huge number of types. But what are we waiting for with `ruff`? Surely it's eaten whatever the old options were (black? maybe a few takes on py+lint?) by now many times over, and is even more dominant than `uv`.

I run this program hundreds of times a day so I'm generally excited for new features, but I guess the OAI acquisition has made me ornery when it comes to these folks. Apologies to kindly nerds who made this release happen, and congrats <3

2. The idea that Tolkein --one of the most reknowned writers in our entire canon-- did something isn't relevant to the philosophical discussion of creativity and its obvious bounds. Even Tolkein was just painting within the lines set by the linguists he had read and the obscure languages he adored, not to mention the fundamental limits set by our capacity for language in the first place.

For anyone who's curious about this kind of thing, I cannot reccomend the infamous debate b/w Chomsky & Foucault enough; it ranges across topics a bit, but chapter markers should help you skip to the core of it (creativity) if you prefer. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8 , some old summaries on /r/AskPhilosophy here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/vgz1vb/what_...

Luckily, we're all in this together. As long as enough people realize the weight of what's happening soon enough, I'm confident the indominable human spirit and the relative momentum of post-enlightenment social & institutional progress will carry us the rest of the way on a wave of clearly-justified solidarity.

To think otherwise --to truly face the spectre before us without hope-- is pathology, I think. Not necessarily incorrect of course, but definitely an unhealthy source of cognitive distress.

Sorry to bring the party down/be obstinate… I’m just a lil scared for the lives of me and my family. We need all of us, right now.

The problem with a super smart model is that it just may be smarter than you, after all… for anyone newly shaken by this occurrence, I encourage you to Kagi “superpersuasion”

  Introducing skylights allows the total fenestration area (windows plus skylights) to be reduced from a maximum 20% of floor area to as low as 12% of floor area while achieving the same baseline average daylight factor target of 5%, and reduces annual heating and cooling energy use and costs in all but two of the 108 models with skylights analyzed. In other words, when different combinations of skylights and windows are used to achieve the same target daylight factor, the heating and cooling energy cost savings are almost always greater when equivalent daylight comes from top‐lighting (skylights) rather than side‐lighting (windows).

Water usage is not a cost with this new technology -- that is what the article is about.

Infrasound is terrifically understudied and should not be discussed definitively based on the findings of a highly-biased amateur, but regardless: fan sound is not a cost with this new technology -- that is what the article is about.

Re:pollution, I suppose all buildings are kinda inherently polluting just by existing. So you've got them on that point!

Most importantly, actually: the person above clearly knows about all this, and was just discussing the benefits on their own. I love me some pedantry (really!) but this attempt seems counterproductive, sorry.

The page advertises the 8-bit quant as taking ~800GB, which seems like it would require at least 3 consumer motherboards fully stacked w/ 4x64GB cards each.

Maybe “locally” has slowly come to imply “…on your homelab”?