Hacker News: ctrw

New comment by ctrw in "Questioning the conventional wisdom on liability and open source software"

ctrw — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:35:35 +0000

They can and they will because they did it once moving to open source in the first place.

New comment by ctrw in "Questioning the conventional wisdom on liability and open source software"

ctrw — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:38:53 +0000

>Third, if and when software liability becomes law and covers open source software included in a product, then companies will finally invest substantially in the open source software ecosystem.

This is delusional. Companies will stop releasing open source a software if it cost them money to do it. It is already enough of a fight to just get legal to sign off for ip reasons. If accounting got involved it would simply never happen.

New comment by ctrw in "Einsum for Tensor Manipulation"

ctrw — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:58:18 +0000

You mean like

    res2 = dumbsum(query, key, 'batch seq_q d_model, batch seq_k d_model -> batch seq_q seq_k')

New comment by ctrw in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

ctrw — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:16:58 +0000

The idea that you can understand what experiences produce what behaviours is as much crazier than the idea you can manually tune the weights of gpt4 and get better results.

New comment by ctrw in "Framework won't be just a laptop company anymore"

ctrw — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:56:00 +0000

I've had a framework for 3 years now and it just works.

Higher build quality than think pads and runs Linux perfectly.

This is coming from someone who had a franken 400/420t hybrid until 2019.

New comment by ctrw in "AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff"

ctrw — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:24:44 +0000

Ai in its current iteration is a human enhancement tool, not a human replacing tool. I do not understand how anyone who works for a loving thinks this is a bad thing.

It would be like if the industrial revolution made artisanal weaving a million times more efficient without a giant satanic mill.

New comment by ctrw in "What is screen time doing to children?"

ctrw — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 04:07:07 +0000

Suicides are lower than they have ever been.

New comment by ctrw in "What is screen time doing to children?"

ctrw — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:36:10 +0000

So enough time to have two generations of people to grow up with them.

New comment by ctrw in "Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle"

ctrw — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:32:50 +0000

If the exponent is so small that it's not reached 1 in 100,000,000 years we're safe until humanity goes extinct.

New comment by ctrw in "Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle"

ctrw — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:54:01 +0000

This has been going on for 100m years. I doubt we are in any urgent danger.

New comment by ctrw in "What is screen time doing to children?"

ctrw — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:34:05 +0000

When you have cried wolf dozens of times 'this time it's different' isn't.

New comment by ctrw in "What is screen time doing to children?"

ctrw — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:11:23 +0000

If Socrates was wrong about reading you're wrong about whatever the kids are doing today.

New comment by ctrw in "What is screen time doing to children?"

ctrw — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:09:18 +0000

I'm old enough to have gone through this about the internet and literate enough to have read about every other time this happened back to the invention of writing which was meant to turn us all into imbeciles according to Socrates.

Leave the kids alone. They will figure it out.

New comment by ctrw in "Women Who Code Closing"

ctrw — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:57:57 +0000

From what I've seen of orgs run by the current generation of activists they always spread themselves too thin trying to do everything. This has been an issue in all well funded ngos I've seen from local hacker spaces to Mozilla.

When you inevitably fail because you can't fix everything the activists leave and you're left with a ruin where there used to be a useful civic organization.

New comment by ctrw in "EU science advisers back call for a 'CERN for AI' to aid research"

ctrw — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:37:56 +0000

If you want a CERN for AI you need to build a fab for affordable graphics cards with good software support and high vram.

New comment by ctrw in "The forgotten war on beepers"

ctrw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:55:08 +0000

If you don't see why terrorists getting your location is a bad thing thing... Well it's a problem that will solve itself eventually.

New comment by ctrw in "The forgotten war on beepers"

ctrw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:25:09 +0000

If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide.

Just ask the animal libratio armys fringes who think that the death penalty is a reasonable response to eating meat.

New comment by ctrw in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"

ctrw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:40:19 +0000

Think of the children has been a rallying cry for this since the 90s.

New comment by ctrw in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"

ctrw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:35:03 +0000

Why people want more censorship and surveillance.

New comment by ctrw in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"

ctrw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:33:35 +0000

Pedophiles.

Everyone hates the enough to justify anything up to and including public executions.