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New comment by juunpp in "Why American Men Think It's Not Worth Going to College Anymore"

juunpp — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 03:51:31 +0000

Definitely not in the CS campus.

New comment by juunpp in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

juunpp — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:50:13 +0000

From your own link:

> There’s no proof that ejaculating more actually lowers the chances of prostate cancer. For now, doctors just know they’re connected. It may be that men who do it more tend to have other healthy habits that are lowering their odds.

> Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.

I'm not the expert but, like all things, exercise, sleep and diet probably goes a long way.

New comment by juunpp in "Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects"

juunpp — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:37:07 +0000

I think for media/assets, CC-BY is the equivalent of MIT/BSD for source, and CC-BY-SA similar to a GPL. Anything more restrictive than that (e.g., "NC") wouldn't really qualify as "free". The licensing in this case seems to have too many strings attached.

New comment by juunpp in "How to Delete Your 23andMe Data"

juunpp — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:53:08 +0000

Isn't this one of the stupidest versions of capitalism?

New comment by juunpp in "What's Happening to Students?"

juunpp — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:48:10 +0000

Phones should be banned in school. Really that simple. No serious school/parent that cares about the kids' education would allow phones.

New comment by juunpp in "VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer"

juunpp — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:39:24 +0000

Someone's not grounded in reality.

I'm ready to be grounded for this comment.

New comment by juunpp in "Liberapay"

juunpp — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:25:29 +0000

liber/a/um is Latin.

New comment by juunpp in "Liberapay"

juunpp — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:23:12 +0000

It is French, so not specifically 501c3.

https://en.liberapay.com/about/legal

New comment by juunpp in "Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580"

juunpp — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:45:43 +0000

This doesn't hold at all. Path tracing doesn't "just work", it is computational infeasible. It needs acceleration structures, ray traversal scheduling, denoisers, upscalers, and a million other hacks to work any close to real-time.

New comment by juunpp in "Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 – By Chester Lam"

juunpp — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:44:19 +0000

Except that it isn't like that at all. All you get from the driver in terms of ray tracing is the acceleration structure and ray traversal. Then you have denoisers and upscalers provided as third-party software. But games still ship with thousands of materials, and it is up to the developer to manage lights, shaders, etc, and use the hardware and driver primitives intelligently to get the best bang for the buck. Plus, given that primary rays are a waste of time/compute, you're still stuck with G-buffer passes and rasterization anyway. So now you have two problems instead of one.

New comment by juunpp in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

juunpp — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:02:22 +0000

I thought this was sarcasm, but it isn't. Seems like a very weird choice to me to build network infra on top of Python. C/Rust would have been the more obvious choice since you can then bind to that from any language (at least with C).

New comment by juunpp in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

juunpp — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:14:41 +0000

Investment disclosure?

Forcing Chrome to display a search engine choice doesn't even begin to solve the issue. Chrome spies on you regardless, and it also banned UBO and other ad-blocking extensions. It is a product made to deliberately spy on and harvest more data from you.

New comment by juunpp in "Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions"

juunpp — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:02:12 +0000

It advertises that it runs locally and that it is "extensible" but then requires you to set up a remote/external provider as the first step of installation? That's a rather weird use of "local" and "extensible". Do words mean anything anymore?

New comment by juunpp in "Sparrow, a modern C++ implementation of the Apache Arrow columnar format"

juunpp — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 02:41:58 +0000

I think that comment is a copy-paste mistake. If you look at the next code snippet, the comment actually makes sense there.

That being said, I've also given up on C++ and learn it mostly to keep up with the job, if that's where you are coming from. I don't find Rust to be a satisfying replacement, though. No language scratches the itch for me right now.

'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

juunpp — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:24:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42873251

Points: 25

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New comment by juunpp in "Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data"

juunpp — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:22:11 +0000

You put it well. It should also be noted that the embargos and tariffs will only sabotage the US's own interests in the long term, as if the Chinese were not intelligent enough to make their own in-house technology. Wait until their own GPUs beat NV's; there are already startups at work [1]. The NSA used to put backdoors in US-made hardware, which it was then happy to distribute worldwide; now, somebody has decided that encouraging China to make their own will work well for US interests? I have no idea what this foreign policy is meant to accomplish. Even if you were the most patriot of US patriots, I have no idea why you'd support this policy. Even Huawei is striking back [2].

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-gpus-made-by-moore...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-28/huawei-ha...

New comment by juunpp in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

juunpp — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:01:27 +0000

What do you mean? Are you too stupid to read some literature?

New comment by juunpp in "Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data"

juunpp — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:56:04 +0000

Well, I can't wait for the day when Microsoft just disappears. All their life trying to stifle innovation and competition, and here we are again, where this time they have essentially been scammed by OpenAI thinking that they could pull off their anti-competitive practices once more with exclusive access to their models, only to then learn that they've lost and resorting to litigating their sorry ass out of the situation, all the while the US government is living a crypto wars dejavu trying to manufacture as much propaganda as possible to make us believe China is the new enemy we should be worried about this time.

Yep, nope, thanks. Keep those papers coming, bois. Make those models small enough that they can run locally so we don't depend on an online feudal lord.

New comment by juunpp in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

juunpp — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:57:18 +0000

I can't even listen to 50 Cent unfiltered on Youtube.

New comment by juunpp in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

juunpp — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:55:02 +0000

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