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New comment by juliendorra in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

juliendorra — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:51:20 +0000

Isn’t that a function of density? The denser the place, the more random chance someone wrong would pass by?

New comment by juliendorra in "Porting video games to VHS"

juliendorra — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:16:42 +0000

I loved my DAT recorder back in the days, recorded incredibly good digital audio on small tape cassettes with a recorder the size of a Walkman

New comment by juliendorra in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

juliendorra — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:03:33 +0000

Because coding agents are not idea compilers, they are idea upscalers.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coding-agents-idea-compilers-...

New comment by juliendorra in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

juliendorra — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:24:06 +0000

I’m not sure it answers the original question. Understanding the plan is not understanding how the code exactly works.

New comment by juliendorra in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

juliendorra — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:06:26 +0000

And Apple has had simple distributed video encoding since 2005, so yes it is not new in computing, but it is still useful for the gap before a given task can fit comfortably on one machine

New comment by juliendorra in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

juliendorra — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:24:52 +0000

Maybe not more professional widely distributed software, but personal software of limited scope and use has boomed around me: designers creating a tool for each new project, developers creating art software, super users asking for plugins or custom workflows… It is not unprecedented: HyperCard for example created a similar boom, of course on a smaller scale.

New comment by juliendorra in "AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety"

juliendorra — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:29:31 +0000

It seems more a regulate the nuclear missile watching agency problem than a regulate generic LLM tools problem. If my LLM tells me wrongly there’s missiles somewhere the impact is null

New comment by juliendorra in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

juliendorra — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:19:44 +0000

Indeed, in France the first to connect a home or a building of appartements has to let the other isp access

New comment by juliendorra in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

juliendorra — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:18:31 +0000

Several of the issues you point have been solved in France via regulations (on the ISP and on the tenants of condos). It tools several years, even decades, but we ended up with fiber regulations that are good (could have been better and faster).

New comment by juliendorra in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

juliendorra — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:03:26 +0000

If writing code is hard, how is it possible that so many kids learn it in a few months? I learned to program in basic at 9 with literally 2 books (no web back then), at 12 I was coding little programs in turbo Pascal, learnt with just the manual (it was a very good manual). I was not a genius. Granted it gets a certain type of mind to want to learn programming, but it’s far easier to learn than the pedestals it sits on (writing, reading, some maths and planning logic). Also code itself demands very few cultural background to start, hence why we have teenage dev genius but no teenage historian genius

New comment by juliendorra in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

juliendorra — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:56:41 +0000

Writing is not easy, and most children need years of training to write at sufficiently good levels. Writing is the technology we invest the most for training on as society

New comment by juliendorra in "Taste Is All That's Left"

juliendorra — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:10:58 +0000

Magazines’ style is generally good but affected, with some distinct quirks mixed in. These quirks have been also picked up in the training and their automated repetition at scale made it weird and "AI-style"

New comment by juliendorra in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

juliendorra — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:02:57 +0000

You are right that at training the main goal is balancing between the sections to avoid certain paths becoming the only path. In the end the inference will be routed token by token to a mixture of say 3 or 4 sections of the model. The combination can change at each turn. It’s really a statistical optimization. As for many things in neural networks, the original intuition coming from anthropomorphism once implemented becomes something very non human!

New comment by juliendorra in "More German than many Germans"

juliendorra — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:48:34 +0000

For context in Paris (and probably other French cities) you would try that and the result would heavily depends on the driver and their mood of the day ! Because they too are not allowed to do it, but of course France is all about flexing the rules (a bit, not so much, and after some pleading)

New comment by juliendorra in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

juliendorra — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:50:37 +0000

Teen pregnancy (or unwanted pregnancy at all) has been extremely low in several countries, and the factors are not discipline but was of access, focus on health instead of morality, and public service campaign. If it is high in an otherwise rich country, it’s likely not a lack of discipline from teenagers but a lack of free and easy access to contraception and abortive means, social pressure and morality campaigns, lack of sex education (often by design sometimes by negligence after some period of activity)

New comment by juliendorra in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

juliendorra — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:28:06 +0000

> They don't keep every book though. In France they do! And other countries too I think. The French national library is also scanning everything (or trying at least) including copyrighted material (but you can’t access it except if you are a researcher and from their own physical place last I checked)

New comment by juliendorra in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

juliendorra — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:28:20 +0000

Suing is very costly, takes year and is mentally draining. And in the end they wouldn’t probably not get much if any money, and may even loose or be dropped. So in this case I understand why they wouldn’t want to do it.

New comment by juliendorra in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

juliendorra — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:10:35 +0000

Zelle seems more complex in terms of access, slower, and less universal (inside the covered zone) than IBAN based instant bank transfers. Users need to enroll using their phone number and / or an email, when IBAN instant transfer is available by default. They say that transfers "often" happen in minutes, when instant transfer via IBAN happen in a few seconds, always. The FAQ also covers issues enrolling, which means that users are not guaranteed to be enrolled. It’s an out of band process with it seems email or phone number as the ID. It seems the recipient has to enroll beforehand which is another complication (IBAN being the bank number you have the guarantee that your recipient exists and can receive the funds instantly) Zelle feels more like a system added on top, IBAN instant transfer is an extension of the existing bank transfer system, used and found at the same place UI-wise.

New comment by juliendorra in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

juliendorra — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:25:52 +0000

To give a little historical perspective (as you are young at 23) dads have been ignoring their kids for some times in our society: before it was magazines or maybe books. Or TV at home. The cliché "don’t disturb your dad while he is reading his newspaper" is sadly anchored in a real asymmetry in terms of child care (fathers tend to care for kids on their own terms, mothers for all the rest) Said otherwise: me time for dads is usually sanctuarized

New comment by juliendorra in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

juliendorra — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:47:12 +0000

It’s very bad PR for all US AI companies, not just Anthropic.