EGreg

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by EGreg 1mo ago
Meaning?
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Show HN: Qbix webserver 1.0, is able to handle 100x more traffic than Nginx+PHP(github.com)
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by EGreg 1mo ago
Serious question... are LLMs basically operating like aphantasia? Because phantasia seems to me to be just memory of actual qualia having actually experienced seeing something. No? Can't people with aphantasia remember that experience
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by EGreg 1mo ago
Great, now this open source CEO can fire people automatically, and replace them with open source agents. The whole organization finally gets replaced with AI. Time to invest and become a shareholder!
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by EGreg 1mo ago
It’s largely because LLMs are reaching for many different types of adjectives or verbs in the same sentence, in a jarring way. While embedding it in a confidently declarative sentence. Everything sounds like some profound insight, dialed
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by EGreg 1mo ago
Thanks, that's a great list! Might be worth mentioning our engine there too, for people who want a graph database atop SQLite and other battle-tested relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres. My team and I built it over the y
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by EGreg 1mo ago
I once accidentally left my backpack in Nice’s tram, containing mon ordinateur principal . I was flying to Balaji’s Network State conference in Singapore and had no time to go back. I did get ahold of a tram operator and another tram opera
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by EGreg 1mo ago
This is the same kind of analogy people make when they "poo-pooh" any sort of technological advance, especially with AI. "Oh, that old simple device didn't displace anything, so this one which is now quickly taking over
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by EGreg 1mo ago
Wow that doublespeed site is ... something else https://www.doublespeed.ai/ A16Z invested $1M in them? And here I thought I was being scrupulously ethical in 2023 when I was yelled at by HN for making a much milder proof of
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by EGreg 1mo ago
Good, lots of other people who aren't smokers can tell you that
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by EGreg 1mo ago
So did Tesla and Vincent Van Gogh, but how much did he create? Faraday was poor, etc. Lenin deteriorated, and Marx was always poor. Anyway...
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Can you give it a task like “Prove or disprove the Riemann hypotesis, keep going until you’ve done it” and see how long it takes? :-)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Sounds a bit like this: https://ulanguage.org/u-keyword
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/17/billy-bush-f... Donald Trump - becomes president, after all it was just “locker room talk” Billy Bush - career destroyed for passively
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Why is this feature bad? As someone who develops apps for confidential conversations, making it harder for people to screenshot the confidential stuff is a feature the sending party wants, that is why they send in your app as opposed to o
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by EGreg 2mo ago
US spending and the sovereign debt we racked up is already unsustainable. You have it backwards. Money IS credit. If we paid it back, we’d have no money. We need to print MORE money, give it to the spenders, and eventually it will trickle t
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by EGreg 2mo ago
It says a lot about the prevailing mindset of our politicians if they’d rather turn the country into a hellhole and kill a lot of people than just give the plebs $1000 a month and increase their healrh outcomes. The fact that we can spend t
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Vague indeed. Why would you compare “shock therapy” privatization (essentially looting) of public resources directly to a handful of oligarchs hands promoted by the Chicago School (founded by Milton Friedman, who also advocated this with Ch
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Mild inflation (in global terms) is fine and actually rebalances money from savers/hoarders to spenders. Look at the Miracle of Worgl. And the inflation is only the result of the money supply being increased, due to the politicians fea
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by EGreg 2mo ago
This is why UBI is inevitable. There is less and less demand for US treasuries, and Trump’s tariff war has only accelerated it. The GENIUS act gets US a set of entitites that are forced by law to buy US treasuries - stablecoin issuers. It h
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Anyway. This is all a bunch of irrelevant details. The original point I had made was that you don’t need GC at all, if you just have a canonical direction for references and make sure that the other directions have only weak references.
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by EGreg 2mo ago
It doesn't leave anything relevant out. Java pioneered this garbage collection stuff because you had cycles of references. You don't need to have cycles. WeakRef is a much better thing now. All you need is reference counting, and
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by EGreg 2mo ago
There is no need for garbage collection if you don’t form circular references. Just have a canonical direction and always keep weak references the other way.
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by EGreg 2mo ago
“New York intends to make event contract derivatives waste away under its iron curtain of state gaming laws before the courts get the chance to issue final rulings,” said Chairman Michael S. Selig. President Donald J. Trump nominated Mich
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by EGreg 2mo ago
The policy is: Everyone should be for successful policing. We just want the enforcement of this policy to be maximally successful! What’s wrong with that :-)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Or else! “Sir, we are coming by today because we are concerned you are insufficiently supportive of our public servants in uniform. It has come to our attention that you have been disparaging some members of our law enforcement divisions to
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Not just the app idea … but the WEBSITE — is VERY WELL DONE. I immediately signed up. (And offered to help bring users to this thing.)
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by EGreg 2mo ago
I for one am in favor of this I wrote this three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688266
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Can we go as far as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688266
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by EGreg 2mo ago
Governments can hire a hitman to go after you, if you say something wrong. So can international crime syndicates. Will this have a meaningful effect on chilling your speech? https://abcnews.com/amp/US/children-recr

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