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010101010101 commented on Software Pump and Dump   tautvilas.lt/software-pum... · Posted by u/brisky
throwaw12 · 9 days ago
I think Pump should happen in any new industry.

Pump == experimentation/innovation, different people look at it differently, so you get variety of interesting ideas.

Dump == natural consequence of over-supply, in this case whatever is not useful, we will drop.

But to invent/discover new things, new paradigms, we need that Pump.

1. Look at age of computers, we had so many different architectures and computer brands with own hardware, now mostly converged to a couple of architectures

2. Operating systems, at some point everyone was writing operating systems, now converged to primarily 3

3. Programming languages, not converged to small number of languages, but there were bunch of languages, same with Databases

4. Frontend frameworks, converged around React & Vue.

5. Search engines

6. Social networks

We need that Pump

010101010101 · 9 days ago
Pump and dump is not the same as competition resulting in winners and losers, it’s a grift by the losers to profit at the expense of users through deception.
010101010101 commented on App Store web has exposed all its source code   reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/redbell
zerr · 3 months ago
It confirms that indeed React Native is used, and not React.js/WebView, in case someone got confused.
010101010101 · 3 months ago
It's used for a specific component in the start menu, it doesn't power the entire start menu.
010101010101 commented on App Store web has exposed all its source code   reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/redbell
ranger_danger · 3 months ago
And the Windows 11 start menu is just React Native. Strange times indeed.
010101010101 · 3 months ago
010101010101 commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres   topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether
uberduper · 3 months ago
Has this person actually benchmarked kafka? The results they get with their 96 vcpu setup could be achieved with kafka on the 4 vcpu setup. Their results with PG are absurdly slow.

If you don't need what kafka offers, don't use it. But don't pretend you're on to something with your custom 5k msg/s PG setup.

010101010101 · 3 months ago
> If you don't need what kafka offers, don't use it.

This is literally the point the author is making.

010101010101 commented on Claude for Excel   claude.com/claude-for-exc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
PatronBernard · 3 months ago
How will people without Python knowledge know that the script is 100% correct? You can say "Well they shouldn't use it for mission critical stuff" or "Yeah that's not a use case, it could be useful for qualitative analysis" etc., but you bet they will use it for everything. People use ChatGPT as a search engine and a therapist, which tells us enough
010101010101 · 3 months ago
If you have a mechanism that can prove arbitrary program correctness with 100% accuracy you’re sitting on something more valuable than LLMs.
010101010101 commented on Show HN: Create-LLM – Train your own LLM in 60 seconds   github.com/theaniketgiri/... · Posted by u/theaniketgiri
theaniketgiri · 3 months ago
Fair points and I get where you’re coming from. I’ve been very open that AI helped with repetitive parts (docs, boilerplate, commit messages). The functional code training logic, model architecture, CLI was written and tested by me. Some design choices (like storing scripts as strings or using if-else) were just pragmatic decisions made while iterating fast, not signs of AI authorship. Either way, the project is open source — you can inspect, critique, or even improve any part of it. I’m happy to take constructive feedback. My goal’s just to make LLM training more accessible.
010101010101 · 3 months ago
You’re absolutely right!
010101010101 commented on Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon   dexerto.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/antongribok
dmd · 4 months ago
To that end, we should all have a cop assigned to us. One cop per citizen, with a gun pointed at our head at all times. Imagine a scenario happens where someone does something and that cop wasn't there? Better to be safe.
010101010101 · 4 months ago
Why stop at one? Imagine how much safer we’d be with TWO cops per citizen! And all those extra jobs that would be created!
010101010101 commented on Do not accept terms and conditions   termsandconditions.game/... · Posted by u/halflife
landdate · 4 months ago
That's a different situation. Those urls weren't meant for public use, and provided private information on user devices.

Furthermore, on reading the wikipedia page, his conviction was vacated.

> On April 11, 2014, the Third Circuit issued an opinion vacating Auernheimer's conviction, on the basis that the New Jersey venue was improper,[60] since neither Auernheimer, his co-conspirators, nor AT&T's servers were in New Jersey at the time of the data breach.

> While the judges did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access, they were skeptical of the original conviction, observing that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Imprisonment

010101010101 · 4 months ago
If I make a list of people’s private information publicly accessible on accident without their permission and you access it which one of us is liable?
010101010101 commented on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?   viewfromthewing.com/did-s... · Posted by u/sipofwater
BobaFloutist · 4 months ago
You can buy more than one lottery ticket. You can't buy more than one per-person chance of getting struck by lightning over a period.
010101010101 · 4 months ago
You can buy thousands of lottery tickets and it won't meaningfully impact your odds of winning though. You can also go stand outside in a field with a metal rod in your hand during a thunderstorm. "You" isn't really the point, it's the cumulative probabilities that matter. For lotteries this is easy to calculate, for lightning strikes the best you can do is probably looking at past statistics.
010101010101 commented on Replacement.ai   replacement.ai... · Posted by u/wh313
bittercynic · 4 months ago
>The "government" is just the set of people who hold power over others.

Often, yes, but in a more functional society it would be the mechanism we collectively use to prevent a few people from amassing excessive wealth and power.

010101010101 · 4 months ago
Those two things don’t sound mutually exclusive to me.

u/010101010101

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