Rochus

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by Rochus 8mo ago
Personally I would remove the downvote button entierly because apparently it is a lossy projection of an at least three-dimensional vector: agreement, quality, truth. Graying out text so it is no longer readable is a censoring measure not j
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> I am worried about is if Ladybird changes the language again In the time of good LLMs this is likely no longer a show-stopper (as e.g. the specific formating rules in C/C++ since there are good re-formating tools). The question is
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SPARK is not used for the whole system, but for the < 5% parts, which are safety/security-related in a good architecture.
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> which might have the HN people who prefer rust to respond with downvotes. This completely misses the purpose of the downvoting feature, which is not surprising, since upvoting seems no longer to indicate quality or truth of the comment
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by Rochus 8mo ago
Unfortunately a really good question gets downvoted instead of causing a relevant discussion, as so often in recent HN. It would be really interesting to know, why Ada would not be considered for such a large project, especially now when th
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by Rochus 8mo ago
Your statement may well be protected by freedom of speech, but it is a highly unobjective, personal attack of the kind that I personally do not want to see here. It does not help any of the readers in any way, does not present any facts, an
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This is just a honest view, with which you can agree or not, presented emotionless, referring to facts. How can this post be "toxic in itself". Maybe I'm too old (gen X) and culture has shifted dramatically without me noticin
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I agree that downvoting is definitely misused. I often see the most intelligent and best technical answer to be downvoted. Votes no longer seem to represent quality or truth.
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> I don't think HN is more toxic than anywhere else It is supposed to be less toxic, enabling interesting discussions about tech, where people can exchange ideas and learn something. There are enough other places for politics.
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Thanks for the hint. The "LeanMachines" project literally seems to recreate Event-B constructs (contexts, machines, events, and refinement proof obligations) inside the Lean 4 proof assistant (using Lean 4 as a "host language
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by Rochus 8mo ago
My claim was not that an LLM was a formal, mathematically sound non-monotonic logic engine, but that the problem space is "non-monotonic" and "open world". The fact that an LLM is "unsound" and "informal&q
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This discussion started already in the sixties (see e.g. the 1969 publication by McCarthy and Hayes where they describe the "frame problem" as a fundamental obstacle to the attempt to model the dynamic world using First-Order Logi
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Interesting. It's essentially the same idea as in this article: https://substack.com/home/post/p-184486153 . In both scenarios, the human is relieved of the burden of writing complex formal syntax (whether Eve
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by Rochus 8mo ago
> never explicitly mentioned law. The fellow said "It should be required to include the AI model as a featured artist"; the common means is laws and regulations, like in the food industry. > They could actually differentiate
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"If *you* start to require such things, then *you* should.." > prevent unmitigated spam on music platforms That's not the true reason. The reason is that some clever people have found out how to earn money with fake musici
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by Rochus 8mo ago
Still more laws and regulations. We're already drowning in regulations. If you start to require such things, then you should also require that labels declare whether the artist indeed sung him/herself, and whether it was their rea
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A nice little RISC-V ESP32-P4 board with USB, HDMI and Ethernet(cnx-software.com)
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> A disgrace to democracy Like so many current trends in Germany and Europe. But the US is not better when it comes to IP rights and rulings. There is so much misuse of patent- and copyright and the legislature simply allows this to happ
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by Rochus 8mo ago
Cool. There has also been some effort for coding agents generating hardware descriptions e.g. in Verilog (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/html/2408.08927v1 ). Wonder how good they are today. Also in hardware design we could
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> Converting between ACK and GCC assembler is a solved problem. I assume you mean because the assembler was manually migrated in later Minix versions, not because there is a tool which can do so automatically. Or did I miss this? > an
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I'm usign DJVU files every day. It's just a great format. I have a lot of archived documents which are much faster to use and require much less space than equivalent PDF documents.
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This is a talk by one of the authors of the original Oberon System (J. Gutknecht) at the European Lisp Symposium (honi soit qui mal y pense).
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The author writes in the book explicitly "This is a modified version of config.h for compiling a small Minix system with only the options described in the text". This leaves no doubt that the book indeed describes a working microk
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The book version is a subset of Minix version 3.1.0 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/3.1.0 ). The sursprise comes when you try to compile the minimal book version and find out that it is not a
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> that's N times the fundamental as the Nth Harmonic It's not actually "N times", isn't it?
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Semi-formal human language will replace programming languages for a large part. As we are able to write specifications and build huge and complex systems based on it (as e.g. the Apollo program already in the sixties), an LLM is able to und
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previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919918
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Interesting. Just wanted to note that this is about the expensive J-Link, not the J-Link EDU (which nowadays is a "mini" version, officially supporting the Pi Picos).
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This article is about a neurological condition where people derive no pleasure from music, through the personal story of someone affected. I wasn't aware that such a condition exists. Apparently 2-3% of people are affected.
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That's a cool project. Amazing that the bytecode interpreter is slower than the AST interpreter also here. Wasn't there a paper by S. Marr's team which came to the same conclusion?

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