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by chubot 3y ago
If basketball is so hard, then how did Michael Jordan score so many points?
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by chubot 3y ago
There are definitely trends, but the pattern I see with early JS and PHP is they simply didn't anticipate the consequences of certain decisions. What happens is you make a decision "locally", for some use case or program. An
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by chubot 3y ago
The short answer is somewhere between Go and Rust strings, which are newer languages that use UTF-8 for interior representation, and also favor it for exterior encoding. Roughly speaking, Java and JavaScript are in the UTF-16 camp, and Pyth
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by chubot 3y ago
Language design is a curious mixture of grand ideas and fiddly details I hadn't heard this last one before, but it's SO right ... I always wondered why JS and PHP and Perl got so many details "wrong" (e.g. with Perl, o
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by chubot 3y ago
This is notable too: In the year since I wrote this post, Pony added partial division. I still don’t know anything about the language but they’ve been getting grief over this post so I wanted to clear that up. https://tutorial.
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah, I've been deep in the bash manual and source code during my work on https://www.oilshell.org , which basically reimplements a "cleaned up" spec-driven bash (called OSH). But I also used bash for 15 years befo
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by chubot 3y ago
No this doesn't really make sense. Unix shell is "situated in" a bunch of native executables (grep, awk, ripgrep, etc.) and textual data, while PowerShell is VM-based, with bindings to Windows. If I were doing stuff with Win
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by chubot 3y ago
FWIW there is a big list of similar libraries / internal DSLs in nearly all Lisps, and nearly all statically typed functional languages here: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Internal-DSLs-for-Shell
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by chubot 3y ago
Not disagreeing with your larger point, but Google paid $40M+ for the 3 people from U Toronto responsible for AlexNet (according to Cade Metz's book). Google might deserve more credit than any other company, but there were 20-30 years
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by chubot 3y ago
What projects you would you say the public has been unfairly/viciously critical of the motives of? I'm a former Google engineer of 11 years, and while I certainly remember pile-ons, I don't recall many "unfair" ones
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by chubot 3y ago
Also, Sam himself repeatedly used the charter as marketing, and as a recruiting tool for AI researchers that could have gone anywhere they wanted (e.g. Ilya) He was basically making the argument that AGI is better under OpenAI than Google.
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah exactly, on top of the library, I buy old used books online, and they're dirt cheap, and dense with knowledge No ads lol! It's honestly sad to me when I see people scrolling through terrible web pages with tiny morsels of inf
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by chubot 3y ago
One thing I've found comically underestimated is books. It's not whether the information is physical or electronic, but what actual corpus of information is available. There is A LOT of information in printed books that is not on
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by chubot 3y ago
How do you do this? Links / more info?
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by chubot 3y ago
I do think a lot of OpenAI comments on Hacker News are from people who have a financial interest in it e.g. startup founders building on OpenAI and so forth Usually Hacker News isn't so one-sided Also the PR around this is absolutely i
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by chubot 3y ago
This is also a good 2020 article on OpenAI, by the same author Karen Hao: The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai.
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by chubot 3y ago
If we do not release Laundry Buddy, that increases humanity's extinction risk
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by chubot 3y ago
What I think is funny is how the whole "we're just doing this to make sure AI is safe" meme breaks down, if you have OpenAI, Anthropic, and Altman AI all competing, which seems likely now. Do you really need all 3? Is each
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah, but also remember that Altman and Musk started the non-profit to begin with (back when both their reputations were much different). They were explicitly concerned about Google's dominance in AI. It was always competitive, and a
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah it definitely paints a picture of struggling to keep a board together because AI is "hot", and so many people have conflicts. It does seem like the whole organization was "born in conflict", starting with Elon and S
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by chubot 3y ago
Well that's always been the rub ... It's a non-profit AND a for-profit company (controlled by a non-profit) It's also extremely intertwined with and competes with for-profit companies Financially it's wholly dependent on
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by chubot 3y ago
What I meant is that there are corporate raids of declining/old companies like Sears and K-Mart. Nobody wants to run these companies on their way down, so opportunistic people come along, promise the board the world, cause a lot of ch
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah, although I guess you can read that as: "I will do everything I can to raise the stock price, which executives and employees both hold", then it actually makes sense. But that $1 salary thing got quoted into a meme, and peopl
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah that's my guess too. The claim that he doesn't hold equity always struck me as suspect. It's a little like SBF driving around in the Toyota Corolla while buying tens of millions of dollars of real estate for himself an
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OK it's great that it was tried But it feels like you're saying it was tried and didn't quite pan out? That's what my impression was
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Yeah I always thought of distributed GC as a failed research idea from the 80's and 90's, kind of like transparent remote objects (as opposed to messages) I'd be interested to hear otherwise. And some details about a deploym
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All of them at once
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This reminds me that I actually bought the first edition of the GC handbook on purpose, because it had more C++ material, which was relevant to my project. The second edition cut a bunch of C++ material out. And yeah I don't think I mi
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I briefly lived in Manhattan, and I think my neighbor across the hall was in such a unique situation. The building was an old one in the center of Manhattan, but newly renovated. I moved in in 2021, and I think everybody had moved in withi
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FWIW we also test the Oils GC with a X-to-Y to generator, where X is Python and not Scheme, and Y is C++ and not C :) For example here's a self-contained Python program to make various types of linked lists and traverse them, making su

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