I highly recommend Siyuan as an alternative, it has many the best features from obsidian plugins included by default
Coming from Logseq... this looks ideal for me.
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TheFuzzball commented on A gentle introduction to anchor positioning webkit.org/blog/17240/a-g... · Posted by u/feross
That's telling about CSS design. Folks here on HN are talking about how they purposely ask LLMs about APIs that don't exist, and they hallucinate with a better and more intuitive design that they would come up with on their own.
I don't know the best solution for the problem, but CSS is a very convoluted one.
It could also be that there is a dirth of high quality CSS training data in comparison to JavaScript et al.
I wouldn't be surprised if the negative developer sentiment toward CSS is reflected in training datasets.
TheFuzzball commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker
Two other use cases spring to mind:
- "GitHub: Let me know when this PR is merged" - "Store: Let me know when this item is in stock"
Unfortunately I think it's only useful if it works everywhere, so we can't rely on every website implementing it themselves.
Just hope that Herbie doesn't go bananas again
TheFuzzball commented on Writing a basic service for GNU Guix tannerhoelzel.com/gnu-she... · Posted by u/hermitsings
From a quick glance, Guix seems to have a similar learning curve as Nix (at least it's based on Scheme, which I know). Is that impression correct? Anyway, I didn't find this “intuitively comprehensible” as an outsider.
Correct, and it's Linux-only and more hardcore FOSS (i .e. they don't have any blessed way to use non-free software).
I'm not sure why it's being sold as an alternative to Nix/NixOS
TheFuzzball commented on Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper quantamagazine.org/how-di... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Our brain works on a couple of bananas, so at least the amount of energy required for just inference doesn't look like it needs to be a lot. Training is another subject because we have that embedded in DNA and cultural behavior so its trickier.
> Our brain works on a couple of bananas
What a fantastic non sequitur
TheFuzzball commented on How the U.K. broke its own economy theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/speckx
Brexit was absolutely about Economic conditions. Anti immigration sentiment was one big factor that everyone talks about, but in reality the sentiment itself was a symptom on display for the underlying condition of people having their living standards drop. The second big factor people kept bringing up was that EU was making decisions for UK, which people thought needed to be reversed. Austerity measures, which EU adopted, were the single biggest reason why people felt they needed more control. They also slowed down the post 2008 recovery, which meant people weren’t doing as well anymore. Anti immigration sentiment also rose once people were unhappy and needed someone to take the blame.
Absolutely agree.
When my boomer dad complains about the Pakistani family he went to sell something to having 2 BMWs it's definitely racist.
But the racism is inflamed by poor economic conditions, and the rationale is "how come these people that aren't even from here have a better life than me?"
Sadly, people seeking power know this and use the racism to get power and don't fix the underlying cause, which was never immigration — it was wealth inequality.
Maybe, but "spreads like cancer" is not part of a well-reasoned technical discussion, but of an emotional one.
You're confusing language that causes a strong emotional response within you, with language that was written by a person experiencing strong emotion.
It's colourful language for sure, but gimme a break.
TheFuzzball commented on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/miohtama
I know I'm an oddball when it comes to the stuff that crosses my mind, but here I go anyway.
It's possible to stop developing things. It's not even hard; most of the world develops very little. Developing things requires capital, education, hard work, social stability and the rule of law. Many of us writing on this forum take those things for granted but it's more the exception than the rule, when you look at the entire planet.
I think we will face the scenario of runaway AI, where we lose control, and we may not survive. I don't think it will be a sky-net type of thing, sudden. At least not at first. What will happen is that we will replace humans by AIs in more and more positions of influence and power, gradually. Our ChatGPTs of today will become board members and government advisors of tomorrow. It will take some decades--though probably not many. Then, a face-off will come one day, perhaps. Humans vs them.
But if we do survive and come to regret the development of advanced AI and have a second chance, it will be trivially easy to suppress them: just destroy the semiconductor fabs, treat them the same way we treat ultra-centrifuges for enriching Uranium. Cut off the dangerous data centers, and forbid the reborn universities[1] from teaching linear algebra to the students.
[1]: We will lose advanced education for the masses on the way, as it won't be economically viable nor necessary.
I am so tired of the AI doomer argument.
The entire thing is little more than a thought experiment.
> Look at how fast AI has advanced, it you just project that trend out, we'll have human-level agents by the end of the decade.
No. We won't. Scale up transformers as big as you like, this won't happen without massive advances in architecture and hardware.
I believe it is possible, but the idea it'll happen any day now, and by accident is bullshit.
This is one step from Pascal's Wager, but being presented as fact by otherwise smart people.
TheFuzzball commented on UK's Online Safety Act comes into force ofcom.org.uk/online-safet... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
You're right - they have no free speech. They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs.
Many US companies won't capitulate to these regulations. The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.
> The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.
Oh no! Anyway...