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devnonymous commented on Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source   physics.aps.org/articles/... · Posted by u/tzury
bleudeballe · 13 days ago
Banking Company LLC presents: Quantum Loans™ "Your money is simultaneously yours and ours until you check your balance."

Superposition Financing: Your loan exists in all possible amounts until observed. Checking your balance collapses the wavefunction — so we recommend you simply... don't. Ignorance isn't just bliss, it's financially optimal.

Multiverse Co-signing: Split the debt across all versions of yourself in the multiverse. Sure, some of you will default — but statistically, infinite yous means infinite revenue for us.

Entangled Interest Rates: Your rate is entangled with a partner borrower chosen at random. If they pay on time, your rate drops.

Payment Clusters: Forget monthly installments. Payments arrive in probabilistic clusters — sometimes three in a week, sometimes none for a year. We can't predict when, and neither can you. It's not a bug, it's quantum mechanics.

devnonymous · 13 days ago
The real joke here is how close these quips are to the reality of modern day financial markets. Specifically, lending and hedging, are time entangled and value within the markets exist in superposition.
devnonymous commented on Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal   github.com/flamestro/deff... · Posted by u/flamestro
PhilipRoman · 18 days ago
zr?

vim folds are fully programmable. For me a bigger issue was git calling vimdiff for each file, which I fixed with my own difftool: https://gist.github.com/PhilipRoman/60066716b5fa09fcabfa6c95...

devnonymous · 17 days ago
> For me a bigger issue was git calling vimdiff for each file,

If you configure vimdiff as the difftool in your git config, just doing a `git diff` would show you the diff for each file sequentially.

devnonymous commented on Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot   twitter.com/anthropicai/s... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
maxglute · 21 days ago
~650 messages per account? that seems either very little or too much. Surprised there isn't a coordinated distillation service with 5x accounts to spread the load.
devnonymous · 21 days ago
24K is presumably the number that got caught. It isn't out of the realm of possibility that there indeed are (/ were over time), 5x accounts that managed to bypass the checks anthropic had.
devnonymous commented on Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot   twitter.com/anthropicai/s... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
lostmsu · 21 days ago
They violated TOS
devnonymous · 21 days ago
Are you sure about that ? Because the very next tweet says:

  > Distillation can be legitimate: AI labs use it to create smaller, cheaper models for their customers.

devnonymous commented on Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot   twitter.com/anthropicai/s... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
devnonymous · 21 days ago
> These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude

What exactly makes these accounts ^fraudulent^ ...did they not pay Anthropic for the service ?

devnonymous commented on AI Fails at 96% of (General Work) Jobs (New Study)   youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaL... · Posted by u/swolpers
adyashakti · a month ago
translation: "96% of people trying to replace workers with AI don't know how to prompt it effectively or supervise its output."
devnonymous · a month ago
So what you're saying is the interface fails the common case?
devnonymous commented on Things Unix can do atomically (2010)   rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/t... · Posted by u/onurkanbkrc
akoboldfrying · a month ago
I don't follow, sorry. Are you saying that if we run:

    mv a b
    mv c d
We could observe a state where a and d exist? I would find such "out of order execution" shocking.

If that's not what you're saying, could you give an example of something you want to be able to do but can't?

devnonymous · a month ago
I'm almost certain what the OP meant was if the commands were run synchronously (ie: from 2 different shells or as `mv a b &; mv c d`) yes there is a possibility that a and d exist (eg: On a busy system where neither of the 2 commands can be immediately scheduled and eventually the second one ends up being scheduled before the first)

Or to go a level deeper, if you have 2 occurrences of rename(2) from the stdlibc ...

rename('a', 'b'); rename('c', 'd');

...and the compiler decides on out of order execution or optimizing by scheduling on different cpus, you can get a and d existing at the same time.

The reason it won't happen in the example you posted is the shell ensures the atomicity (by not forking the second mv until the wait() on the first returns)

devnonymous commented on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills   anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/vismit2000
devnonymous · 2 months ago
From the "Discussion" section:

> This suggests that as companies transition to more AI code writing with human supervision, humans may not possess the necessary skills to validate and debug AI-written code if their skill formation was inhibited by using AI in the first place.

I'm reminded of "Kernighan's lever" :

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

AI is writing code in the cleverest way possible which then introduces cognitive load for anyone who hasn't encountered these patterns previously. Although, one might say that AI would also assist in the debugging, you run the risk of adding further complexity in the process of 'fixing' the bugs and before you know it you have a big stinking ball of mud.

devnonymous commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon   wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
philipallstar · 2 months ago
> This is the 11th time that tariffs have happened, and it just isn’t surprising anymore.

There are tariffs everywhere, all the time. Canada just dramatically cut its 90% (or something) tariff on Chinese cars. Tariffs haven't just started happening because someone you don't like did them.

devnonymous · 2 months ago
Otoh, tarrifs as a foreign policy / coercion method disconnected from trade and local economy impacts definitely is a new thing.

Sure, it might have been used as a delicate lever previously but in its current brazen form is just bad diplomacy.

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