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by afiori 1y ago
Most of the reasonings for the impossibility of intelligence in LLMs either require very restricted environments (chatgpt might not be able to tell how many r are in strawberry, but it can write a python script to do so and it could call it
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by afiori 1y ago
Null and undefined are fine imho with a sort of empty/missing semantics (especially since you mostly just care to == them) I have bigger issues to how similar yet different it is to have an undefined key and a not-defined key, I would
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by afiori 1y ago
The extra T impacts legibility quite a lot and most systems that follow the standard either normalize everything to UTC or use a single global timezone to format everything
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by afiori 1y ago
Especially since there is very little logic to which 12 is midday and which is midnight does not have a clear logic
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by afiori 1y ago
Then replace it with _ or anything else it is going to be equally understandable
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by afiori 1y ago
Running a database with no liquidity does not allow you to actually transfer funds. When A sends money to B both have an expectation that B is able to access such money through normal monetary systems like: seeing their bank balance go up,
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by afiori 1y ago
it would always use such a temporary file and update the "real" file only on explicit saves with fast mv or cp operations
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by afiori 1y ago
In that case the application would keep a temporary file and copy over when saving
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by afiori 1y ago
That is because the EU acts as a coordinating authority, if you wanted to transfer money from Greece to Iran it would be a different issue. I suspect that banks cannot solve this because it would be illegal for them to do so. If many banks
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by afiori 1y ago
I don't like Blockchains mostly but the technology of the Blockchain here is not irrelevant, it is a way to use peer to peer liquidity. That is there is no need for a central entity to have liquidity in many different circuits because
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by afiori 1y ago
I use mullvad and the main reasons I pay the 5$ a month are: 1) I do believe it is quite private 2) the socksv5 proxy is useful to prevent qbittorrent connecting to the internet at work by mistake 3) if the network is spotty or a bit unstab
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by afiori 1y ago
I would expect to see something like this soonish as around now we are seeing the end of training scaling and the beginning of inference scaling
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by afiori 1y ago
I sorta agree with you, but replying to "LLM can't reason" with "an LLM says they do" is wild
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by afiori 1y ago
It looks very similar to Macaroons https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233311 What are the dif
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by afiori 1y ago
I considered 400W 6 hours a day for 20 days because it is about what we I use.
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by afiori 1y ago
the parent was not talking about geothermal, but storage which would come as interesting to store winter cold for the summer, I have no idea whether it would work. Based on some guesses and uninformed searches if a house spends 200MJ on coo
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by afiori 1y ago
That is a problem for future us, I sure don't envy them
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by afiori 1y ago
My reasoning for it would be that they can be very keyboard specific and might require more normalisation than other character classes. If I had to make a specific choice I would probably whitelist the most common emojis for some definition
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by afiori 1y ago
I think we can deprecate dot printer specific advice wrt what we consider plain text today
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by afiori 1y ago
I never have MacOS a chance, I have only used it for some quick safari debugging sessions, but in the last decade+ whenever I see a UI trend that really bothers me, makes things worse and harder to use invariably after some time I discover
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by afiori 1y ago
The main issue I can see is not garbage bytes in text but mixing of incompatible encoding eg splicing latin-1 bytes in a utf-8 string. My understanding of the current "always and only utf-8/unicode" zeitgeist is that is comes
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by afiori 1y ago
I would like an utf-8 optimized bag of bytes where arbitrary byte operations are possible but the buffer keeps track of whether is it valid utf-8 or not (for every edit of n bytes it should be enough to check about n+8 bytes to validate) th
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by afiori 1y ago
This question in analogous to what is the point of better CPUs when people use compilers/assemblers instead of writing binaries in an hex editor.
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by afiori 1y ago
so are pack files diffed byte-wise?
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by afiori 1y ago
My understanding is that git diff algorithms require a file to be segmentable (eg text files are split line-wise) and there is no general segmentation strategy for binary blobs. But a good segmentation is only good for better compression an
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by afiori 1y ago
A significant chunk of floating point bitspace is dedicated to NaNs to represent explicitly invalid data (mostly I suppose to reduce the need for branches and tests in HPC) and NaNs even break the reflexivity of equality in many languages c
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by afiori 1y ago
Which is why sha+bcrypt is always better than just bcrypt
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by afiori 1y ago
Python'a JIT could do the same, it could check if __getattribute__() is the default implementation and replace its call with p x directly. This would work only for classes that have not been modified at runtime and that do not impleme
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by afiori 1y ago
some of the worst dom api were designed with java compatibilty in mind
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by afiori 1y ago
The reason WASM does not have dom access is that many recent DOM APIs return and expect javascript objects and classes like iterators, so you would still need some thin js glue wrapper between the dom and wasm. Security has nothing to do wi

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