Hacker News: dzamo_norton

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short"

dzamo_norton — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:59:33 +0000

And if we left a population of SOTA LRMs on an island for long time, would we return to find that they had done the same?

New comment by dzamo_norton in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

dzamo_norton — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:31:58 +0000

Something like Robin Hood in the final analysis?

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Googler... ex-Googler"

dzamo_norton — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:22:15 +0000

I am subjected to periodic performance reviews, you know.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

dzamo_norton — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:27:47 +0000

There was that "smart contract" idea back when immutable distributed ledgers were in fashion. I still struggle to see the approach being workable for anything more complicated (and muddied) than Hello World level contracts.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

dzamo_norton — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:49:57 +0000

That sounds pretty heavy on theatre and pretty light on insight!

New comment by dzamo_norton in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

dzamo_norton — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:11:09 +0000

My cupboard server at home is 2007 vintage ThinkPad I inherited from my father's discarded machines. The battery is gone and the CPU fan is shot so the processor sits at about 80 degrees C and gets thermally throttled very aggressively indeed should any work come its way (little does, and Debian doesn't ask much of it either). I didn't hold out much hope for its longevity but the damn thing just keeps running.

I wouldn't be surprised if its DVD drive is also okay and if you gave me a disc I could read the stuff off of it for you. Now there's something not everyone can do these days.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

dzamo_norton — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:06:34 +0000

Et tu, Mozilla?

New comment by dzamo_norton in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

dzamo_norton — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:49:41 +0000

ClearCase. You just triggered my PTSD!

New comment by dzamo_norton in "I do not want AI to "polish" me"

dzamo_norton — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:46:04 +0000

Oh we can have something stronger than almost a guarantee, I have first hand anecdotes of documents from the financial services sector being fed to ChatGPT for polishing. They weren't trade secrets but their classifications were INTERNAL, _and higher_.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

dzamo_norton — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:23:15 +0000

Offer a 100% money back guarantee if the user finds that the software is not fit for purpose :)

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Nobody cares"

dzamo_norton — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:39:24 +0000

"We'll fix our hardware bugs in software" :)

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Claude for Desktop"

dzamo_norton — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 02:58:51 +0000

You've gotta be nuts not to be psychotic in a world like this one.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting"

dzamo_norton — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:24:20 +0000

Thanks, I had no idea I was flirting with posting abusive content!

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting"

dzamo_norton — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:12:29 +0000

You can go one better.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/02/harassing-botnets-with-zipb...

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers"

dzamo_norton — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:32:55 +0000

N choose 2 = N! / 2!(N-2)! = N(N-1) / 2.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Apache Superset"

dzamo_norton — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:57:37 +0000

Even if you are a data person. The ASF doesn't mind overlap between projects [1], it spreads its bets and lets the market choose the winners.

1. https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/#incubator

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Shit life syndrome"

dzamo_norton — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:54:36 +0000

> all smelled of old nicotine and damp

Nicotine is odourless.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'"

dzamo_norton — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:30:27 +0000

Pretty strong cult vibes :/

New comment by dzamo_norton in "The concurrence of three climatic events"

dzamo_norton — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:21:47 +0000

I agree, Little Boys or Fat Mans per second would be make me think more of physical power and less of kill rate.

New comment by dzamo_norton in "Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT"

dzamo_norton — Sun, 21 May 2023 21:29:24 +0000

I wonder whether the problem could even become sufficiently well defined to admit any agreed upon loss function? You must debate with the goal of maximising the aggregate wellbeing (definition required) of all living and future humans (and other relatable species)?