EGreg

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by EGreg 1y ago
Here is my question… This is the first time that millions of people will actually download and run a model on their own devices. The question is… will Apple be constantly tweaking these models, or only during OS upgrades? I for one really l
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by EGreg 1y ago
I wanted to share with HN what I've been building, especially from the point of view of productivity in 2025! This is a branch of my main platform, that I've been working on for years. I've written and expanded the original
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Show HN: Being a "100x developer": added DB adapters for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite(github.com)
1 points by EGreg 1y ago|1 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
Doesnt this mean you have to do a row scan though? With BTREE you have O(log N) index query and that’s it
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Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5(amitmerchant.com)
2 points by EGreg 1y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
AI generated bs doesn’t add anything new. In fact bs has always existed! So there is nothing to see :)
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by EGreg 1y ago
We do have the answers. Pigovian taxes. Government and industry work together to distract people so they don’t organize to demand the actual answers be implemented. 1) Universal basic income funded by taxes at the point of extraction or emi
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by EGreg 1y ago
The key to why this even works (and didn’t work before) is here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/paper-shows-relying-on-has... Simply put, a reliable random oracle in an adversarial environment should be based on sou
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by EGreg 1y ago
What messages can’t be sent as sealed sender? I arrange to tell Alice in an encrypted chat that I will be doing a drop on X url after Y time and to watch it. Alice comes picks up the drop. Done. PS: This is another great use for cryptocurre
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Helpful function to find memory leaks in JavaScript
3 points by EGreg 1y ago|1 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
So you wouldn't call Signal private, right? Just wanted consistency.
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by EGreg 1y ago
I don't know about your particular situation, but I'm speaking systemically, and about large trends and socio-economic realities that affect people. But having said that, I'd be very interested to hear what you think the cons
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by EGreg 1y ago
I was just writing two days ago about how ADHD is overdiagnosed and our system is just set up to try to coerce kids to be convenient for the system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490274 There I put forward some pro
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by EGreg 1y ago
Nice to see this! I was writing about this topic 25 years ago: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_01_C... And part two: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_
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JavaScript helper function for you to use
4 points by EGreg 1y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well, you have to define what you mean by "intelligence". I think it's just not been enough time, we can take the current LLM technology and just put it in a pipeline that includes 24/7 checking work and building up know
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Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer [video] (1979)(youtube.com)
4 points by EGreg 1y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
If we want to reduce the incidence of distress in people and families, we need approach all these issues with compassion and an open mind. The open mind means considering various possibilities, while still being rational. Yes, one theory
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by EGreg 1y ago
I an not an expert but I have a serious counterpoint. While training LLMs to replicate the human output, the intelligence and understanding EMERGES in the internal layers. It seems trivial to do unsupervised training on scientific data, for
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by EGreg 1y ago
The word “disorder” is loaded, but it is interesting to also look through the lens of the Social Theory of Disability. For the rise in diagnoses for autism, ADD, gender dysphoria, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia etc. Just
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by EGreg 1y ago
Only functions on a finite domain are vectors. Functions on a countable domain are sequences.
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well, good. Your problem is artificial, choosing tools and scenarios to avoid "push". Your problem isn't with invalidating caches being hard in 2025. I've explained how to do it in both pull and push scenarios. Certainly
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by EGreg 1y ago
Now you're just conflating things. Pretty sure that when it comes to write transactions, such as bank transactions, you want them to be executed on a source of truth with enforces consistency, not eventual consistency. Any client softw
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by EGreg 1y ago
I’m also not making my own programming language, I’m using PHP. And I’m using MySQL. What is your point? Are you saying that “invalidating caches is hard… if you insist on using only systems with no way to push updates, and oh if they have
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well what are the “real” caching systems, if my system can be used for caching but isnt “real”? This feels like a no true scotsman argument.
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by EGreg 1y ago
On a side note, if quantum algorithms break elliptic curve cryptography, then wouldn’t Satoshi’s wallets and others be flooding the market with coin transfers? The BTC network will need to require all addresses with large Bitcoin UTXOs to s
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by EGreg 1y ago
I have been saying for a decade Satoshi isnt gonna move wallets 1 through 10 But he probably had wallet 55, 182 and 281-290 and has been spending this whole time. Any founder of a crypto project can do that.
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by EGreg 1y ago
See the thread below. Caches only become stale if you refuse to implement any sort of push architecture. And even then, frequent batch-polling with etags will quickly resolve it. (eg right after you used N entries, poll to see which of the
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by EGreg 1y ago
I will answer your question directly, after having explained the core issue. Mysql and Postgresql does in fact have push. It is called replication. The protocol is documented. So, much like a webhook with HTTP protocol, you can ingest chang
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well then maybe consider making a sql replication client that would ingest the changes (like most databases, mysql writes to a straming append-only log, before it is compacted). Just parse the log and act on them. Not trivial, really? Here,

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