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toshinoriyagi commented on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit   notebookcheck.net/Framewo... · Posted by u/woodrowbarlow
MBCook · 13 days ago
So this isn’t an official thing, this is a 3rd party selling a replacement motherboard, is that right?
toshinoriyagi · 13 days ago
Correct, it's not sold by Framework, but is a replacement mainboard sold by a 3rd party. I think that is one of the big appeals of a modular laptop like Framework, though. You can create an ecosystem around it, customize, and not be locked in to just what the primary manufacturer makes.
toshinoriyagi commented on Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets   finance.yahoo.com/news/mi... · Posted by u/ramoz
OsrsNeedsf2P · 15 days ago
Have you switched, though? I hear people talking about it, but I doubt they stay the first time they need to configure WiFi. Get a MacBook.
toshinoriyagi · 15 days ago
I've been on NixOS full time for probably 1.5 years. 0 problems, other than some games that need kernel anti-cheat to run.

EDIT: I was also able to connect to my solar panel gateway trivially from the CLI just a few days ago.

toshinoriyagi commented on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand   jbrec.com/insights/job-gr... · Posted by u/gmays
FireBeyond · 17 days ago
Sure but also I believe that the upper limit for most mortgage servicers is around 41, maybe 43% (one of those two, cannot remember which, or at least it was 4y ago).
toshinoriyagi · 17 days ago
I bought a year ago and my max lending amounts were around 45-50% of my gross salary.
toshinoriyagi commented on The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/haritha-j
dangus · 20 days ago
UBI is unique. When I get a raise at work, my landlord doesn’t know. If you implement UBI, every landlord knows that every tenant in the whole country has $xxxx more per month to pay.

Literally 100% of them will raise the rent and there won’t be anything anyone can do about it.

toshinoriyagi · 19 days ago
I don't think it is this simple. Even with UBI, there will be varying quality of rentals, with nicer ones being more expensive. If every landlord jacked up the price, demand would shift to cheaper, lower quality rentals. More people will get roommates etc, reducing demand entirely.

In addition, every seller of a good/service could do the same. They can't all increase prices to extract the full $xxxx a month. There are much more complex dynamics at play then just "landlords will raise rent enough to extract the full UBI benefit."

toshinoriyagi commented on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse   platformer.news/roblox-ce... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp
graemep · 23 days ago
> My kids computers are setup next to mine and I keep an eye on what they're playing.

laptops and phones mage that a lot harder.

toshinoriyagi · 23 days ago
They don't have to have those. Depending on your definition of "kids", most people on HN I imagine are not giving their kids phones, laptops, or tablets at young ages (maybe less than ~13?). And if they do, I imagine the devices are somewhat locked down and monitored.

I think the more technologically literate a person is, the more wary they are of unfettered access to it for children. Hence, preferring a stationary desktop where use can be supervised.

toshinoriyagi commented on Sora Update #1   blog.samaltman.com/sora-u... · Posted by u/davidbarker
signatoremo · 2 months ago
You may not like their message, but the style can be found in practically any public communication from any corporation. Read a layoff announcement from Novo Nordisk as an example [1]. No difference.

This is what I don’t like about HN, manufactured outrage when one dislikes the messenger. No substance whatsoever.

When users are given such a powerful tool like Sora, there will naturally be conflicts. If one makes a video putting a naked girl in a sacred Buddhist temple in Bangkok, how do you think Thai people will react?

This is OpenAI attempting balancing acts between conflicting interests, while trying to make money.

[1]-https://www.novonordisk.com/content/nncorp/global/en/news-an...

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago
Yes, but one of the conflicting interests is illegal. We all know these companies pirate a huge amount of copyrighted data to train their LLMs and VLMs. Clear copyright infringement, Anthropic just lost a few billion dollars for this.

In addition, the training process attempts to reproduce the copyrighted training data as perfectly as possible, with the intent to rent the resulting model out for commercial gain afterwards. Many argue that this is not fair use, but another instance of copyright infringement.

And if the previous infractions weren't enough, OpenAI's customers are now generating mass videos of copyrighted characters.

So, while it may be common corporate speak, it is still snake-tongued weasel-blather that downplays the illegality of their actions.

toshinoriyagi commented on Zig builds are getting faster   mitchellh.com/writing/zig... · Posted by u/emschwartz
ModernMech · 2 months ago
I don't think it's right to say Zig is more performance-focused than Rust. Based on their designs, they should both be able to generate similar machine code. Indeed, benchmarks show that Rust and Zig perform very similarly: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/rust-vs-z...

This is why the value proposition of Zig is a question for people, because if you got measurably better performance out of Zig in exchange for worse safety that would be one thing. But Rust is just as performant, so with Zig you're exchanging safety for expressivity, which is a much less appealing tradeoff; the learning from C is that expressivity without safety encourages programmers to create a minefield of exploitable bugs.

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago
I don't think Zig is about expressivity over safety. Many people liken Zig to C, like with Rust to C++.

Zig is a lot safer than C by nature. It does not aim to be as safe as Rust by default. But the language is a lot simpler. It also has excellent cross-compiling, much faster compilation (which will improve drastically as incremental compilation is finished), and a better experience interfacing with/using C code.

So there are situations where one may prefer Zig, but if memory-safe performance is the most important thing, Rust is the better tool since that is what it was designed for.

toshinoriyagi commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss   techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer
anthonypasq · 3 months ago
they could keep the current model in chatGPT the same forver and 99% of users wouldnt know or care, and unless you think hardware isnt going to improve, the cost of that will basically decrease to 0.
toshinoriyagi · 3 months ago
The cost of old models decreases a lot, but the cost of frontier models, what people use 99% of the time, is hardly decreasing. Plus, many of the best models rely on thinking or reasoning, which use 10-100x as many tokens for the same prompt. That doesn't work on a fixed cost monthly subscription.
toshinoriyagi commented on SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix   ohdear.app/news-and-updat... · Posted by u/freekmurze
Mojah · 3 months ago
Totally depends on the use case I suppose, we found that in our environment, we perform _a lot_ more SELECT's than we do UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT's.

And with some badly optimized SELECT's, the time MySQL had to spend on sorting results/reading from disk in an inefficient way made all our _write_ queries suffer.

By optimizing our SELECTs first, we freed up some CPU bandwidth (it seems?) that can be spent doing all the other work.

toshinoriyagi · 3 months ago
That's good to hear. We have found some suspect SELECTs used in our client-facing API recently. Might be good to double-check that those are running efficiently and not hamstringing the writes.
toshinoriyagi commented on DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing   404media.co/doj-deletes-s... · Posted by u/christhecaribou
toshinoriyagi · 3 months ago
The discussion above was about violence stemming from political ideology. You will have to provide evidence that the murders in Chicago are politically motivated.

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