seeg | 1 month ago | on: YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
That's a great business in being paid to show ads by advertisers and not show ads by users.
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seeg | 1 month ago | on: What Is Ruliology?
One thing I can say about the Wolfram language is that is actually Lisp with syntax that looks weird at first sight.
However when you look at rule processing, it's like pattern matching on steroids that I haven't seen in lisp world. It looks quite powerful and applies throughout the language (eg the "Query" book).
Too bad the whole language is closed and so heavily licensed .
seeg | 4 months ago | on: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
Nice tool!
BTW, you can use duckdb with their ui plugin to have an interactive view of your data, not only parquet.
seeg | 5 months ago | on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
quay.io was down: https://status.redhat.com
seeg | 7 months ago | on: Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
I use Kagi as well and, from my experiments, deepseek gives me answers I like the most.
seeg | 11 months ago | on: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
The FBI tracks active shooting cases-where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding those tied to robberies or gang violence. This study is the first to systematically compare how uniformed police and civilians with concealed handgun permits perform in stopping these attacks. Civilians with permits stopped the attacks more frequently and faced a lower risk of being killed or injured than police. Officers who intervened during the attacks were far more likely to be killed or injured than those who apprehended the attackers later.
seeg | 11 months ago | on: 'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity
seeg | 1 year ago | on: Cheating Is All You Need
1. If you can easily write boring code with LLM, you might not have the incentive to refactor it.
2. If you let someone else solve your problems, and you don't reflect in the solution, you won't learn.
3. I rarely read the fine print, but are all LLM IDEs really the same when it comes to intellectual property of the code? Or the responsibily of bad code?
seeg | 1 year ago | on: Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
I think the problem that people don't see anymore is using tests themselves. A clever idea is worth more than a single tick in the correct checkbox. This applies to maths as well. Tests are faster to check and, supposedly, objective, but a viva voce exam is still superior imho.
seeg | 2 years ago | on: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
Signal supportes notes to yourself. I think storage is most of their hosting costs.
Also, you can send files to yourself and others using XMPP, there are free servers available online.
seeg | 2 years ago | on: Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
I heard that smoke rooms in hotels are one of the cleanest places you can find because of all the filtering, provided no one is smoking atm.
seeg | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)
This is a great tool for all your phishing needs!
seeg | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery
That's pretty lame. What IP you wanted to drive where there is no cell connectivity rt all, say Mongolia?
seeg | 2 years ago | on: Drew DeVault makes plea for evidence of Hacker News misbehavior
I don't understand what's this about actually. You can't just go around accusing people of being rapists without evidence. And if there's evidence, go to the police. What's so special about the hacker community to especially have "problems" in this area?
Also, he quotes some US studies about 1% of rapist being convicted IN THE US and then argues about some even in Berlin. Justice system isn't the same worldwide and I guess its effectiveness would vary.
Such presupposed accusations are very bad for the community as a whole. And sometimes, even after a court verdict, they are still false, viz the tragically comic trial of card. George Pell (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/rise-...).
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