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by adtac 3y ago
Is YC accepting applications for interstellar body rental stations like Hertz is for cars? I'd bootstrap it, but I think this requires venture scale funding.
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by adtac 3y ago
No, you are your consciousness. The self exists only in the story the mind tells itself, so both versions would think they are the original you. Besides, the serialisation process is a form of quantum measurement. Depending on how coarse-
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by adtac 3y ago
Of course, everything is. Doubling the speed of light means your network packets get there twice as fast, but accelerating matter to relativistic speeds, which too is limited by the speed of light, has less marginal utility from the doublin
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by adtac 3y ago
With sufficiently advanced technology, travelling between stars will be more of a transfer of your consciousness using interstellar WiFi (remember to set TCP_NODELAY!) rather than transporting slow and heavy atoms. You just get transferred
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by adtac 3y ago
The opposite is true too. Things that used to be expensive are abundant. An encyclopaedia would have cost you thousands of dollars, but you can use the greatest and most up to date compilation of human knowledge for free today (if you can d
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by adtac 3y ago
Douglas Hofstader has a talk on this topic called "Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein" that I often revisit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePA1zq56J1I (watch 10:30 to 12:00 if you're pressed
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by adtac 3y ago
Even a SHA-256 hash would leave 10^31 margin of error. The "percent of a percent of a percent of a percent" part is sweeping a lot under the proverbial rug here ;)
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by adtac 3y ago
Purely probabilistically, trying things off the beaten path is just a matter of higher LLM temperature. Turning up GPT-4's temperature is basically an expensive /dev/urandom pipe today, but I don't see any fundamental re
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by adtac 3y ago
I must be getting old because I almost wish they didn't add this as it's slightly ambiguous whether it's ranging from [0, 10) or [1, 10] and anything ambiguous is probably going to haunt me at 3am some day
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by adtac 3y ago
> build/test speeds weren't significantly impacted it must be getting a little repetitive to test every version and find that Go continues to build crazy fast every time :)
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by adtac 3y ago
There's definitely some lossy compression when you snap it to the nearest known vector: enumerating every word ever written in human history wouldn't even come close to the 2^(16*D) representable points for a D-dimensional float16
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by adtac 3y ago
Addition won't work for things that depend on the order of operations. If salt + water is ocean and water + fire is steam, what's salt + water + fire? Is it salt + steam or ocean + fire? Associativity and commutivity in vector add
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by adtac 3y ago
>Competing interests: None, apart from owning a bicycle as well as a unicycle.
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by adtac 3y ago
Rare earth metals aren't actually rare. It's a misnomer. Some of them are pretty common. It's just that they're hard to extract and refine.
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by adtac 3y ago
It's funny you mentioned Google's internal infra because my motivation for this was to hack together something to emulate the kind of static fat binaries deployed on Borg.
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by adtac 3y ago
Of course! Bash script is Turing complete so it should be possible to implement everything in it :) The only upside to having an executable Dockerfile is that it's still a valid Dockerfile that you can use with docker build, docker-c
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by adtac 3y ago
As you can imagine, it wasn't a fun developer experience building this incrementally without build logs. This was the only way I could find to have the cake (logs) and it eat it too (sha).
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by adtac 3y ago
I'm probably getting banned for committing this war crime but have you considered a #!/usr/bin/env -S bash -c "docker run --privileged ..." FROM docker RUN <<EOF cat >/other.Do
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Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run(gist.github.com)
496 points by adtac 3y ago|173 comments
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by adtac 3y ago
I'd take it even further: make peer review public and open to all members of that community. Imagine a forum-like discussion anybody can anonymously review any submission and all reviews are public. Becoming a reviewer should still b
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by adtac 3y ago
Colour e-ink displays exist. We don't live in spaceships yet but this is just as good.
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by adtac 3y ago
> In September an average of 1,581 shares a day of eis were sold short, representing 17% of the daily total trading volume. On October 2nd, five days before the attacks, a whopping 227,820 shares were shorted It’s misleading to compare a
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by adtac 3y ago
[tangential to this really cool demo] JPEG images being the only possible interface to GPT-4 feels wasteful. the human eye works the delta between "frames", not the image itself. I wonder if the next big step that would allow real
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by adtac 3y ago
Is "it's just processing frames" the new "it's just predicting the next token"?
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by adtac 3y ago
WebRTC isn't great for non-realtime streams where quality is much more important than latency. I hope p2p WebTransport gets standardised soon.
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by adtac 3y ago
I agree that it's very unlikely for someone to learn Go in a week and start writing flawless code. But Go's real strength is in its readability, not writability. I think it's very much possible to learn Go in a week, then rea
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by adtac 3y ago
That's what the `func foo() (*T, error)` pattern is for. It's actually better than syntactic sugar for optional values because now you also have a descriptive reason for why the value is nil. But if you really cannot afford to r
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by adtac 3y ago
> Nevertheless, they are frustrating and hamper the learning process But that is the learning process. What else is there to learn in a language if the syntax doesn't count? They're all Turing complete and all of them can do
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by adtac 3y ago
I'm sorry but nearly all of them are along the lines of "I came from language X and in X we did it this way, but Go's syntax is different". That's not a footgun. You know what's a footgun? Uncaught exceptions p
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by adtac 3y ago
I'm not sure if that was the best example to showcase NilAway. I understand there's a lot of context omitted to focus on NilAway's impact, but why is foo returning a channel to bar if bar is just going to block on it anyway?

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