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by georgelyon 3y ago
Docker already uses many of these frameworks on macOS (look in Docker settings to confirm).
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Sure, “very infrequently recurring” may be a more accurate label than “one time”
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Given recent research into using WiFi to “see” through walls or at the very least track what humans are doing in a space, I would argue we should go in the opposite direction. I’m pretty happy with my current house and adversarial-to-WiFi c
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by georgelyon 3y ago
- FoundationDB's testing philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc - VSCode devcontainers: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
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by georgelyon 3y ago
The great thing about FDB is that they have a testing infrastructure that is unlike any other database: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc If there is a Swift compiler bug that causes data loss I will bet money they
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Also, Rust does not have C++ interoperability the way Swift does and instead requires a binding layer. Some projects are choosing to completely replace C++ with Rust, but there isn’t a good way for the two to coexist, or to incrementally tr
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by georgelyon 3y ago
On Mobile Safari: A problem repeatedly occurred on " https://hu.ma.ne/aipin ". I guess they really do hate smartphones…
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by georgelyon 3y ago
It seems kind of wild that "installing some binaries on my system" requires these sorts of crazy workarounds like Launch Deamons. I'd personally love something like nix that would live nicely in a low-privilege folder somewhe
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Just to clarify, Chris hasn’t been working at SiFive for about two years now (he’s working on a new startup called Modular). CIRCT itself has a number of larger companies invested in it, but it’s true that FIRRTL (CIRCT’s replacement compil
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Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB [video](youtube.com)
8 points by georgelyon 3y ago|1 comments
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Companion Swift forums thread: https://forums.swift.org/t/video-swift-as-c-successor-in-fou...
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by georgelyon 3y ago
I didn’t find any mention of Lockdown Mode in the article, which is advertised as something a user in this position could use to decrease their attack surface. I find it surprising journalists covering high-risk stories don’t just all have
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by georgelyon 3y ago
Something finetuned to toolform on Shortcuts would be pretty neat and likely could run on iPhones with acceptable performance.
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by georgelyon 3y ago
FoundationDB is a truly one-of-a-kind bit of technology. Others have already linked to the testing methodology that allows them to run orders of magnitude more database hours in test than have run in production: https://www.youtu
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by georgelyon 3y ago
I am a proud owner of a top hat and tails. I also enjoy a somewhat direct mechanism for giving money to artists I admire, and having an attractive physical artifact of that transaction is a plus. For the (ahem) record, not all vinyl purchas
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by georgelyon 4y ago
It seems like the output of this model is masks, but for cropping you really need to be able to pull partial color out of certain pixels (for example, pulling a translucent object out from of a colored background). I tried the demo, and it
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by georgelyon 4y ago
Something fitting about this story being reported on yahoo.
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by georgelyon 4y ago
I’m intrigued by this. I wonder how well it functions as an HN discussion forum… let’s try to hug it? https://wavelength.app/invite/FtKfkbGbbbc#r9ji5_g_IA7UV23et1...
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by georgelyon 4y ago
The app has an “@AI” user which needs to be mentioned for the data to be shared. Chef’s kiss emoji from me in terms of transparency. Also, if you DM @AI it calls out that the message will be shared with OpenAI and Wavelength.
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by georgelyon 4y ago
I’ve brought this up in another thread, but we already have evidence that in certain cases it is desirable to trade off specificity for just “getting something done”, that evidence is Python. Python succeeds despite not having a serious typ
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by georgelyon 4y ago
This is not strictly true anymore as the low-level (FIRRTL) compilation is powered by CIRCT ( http://GitHub.com/llvm/circt ) which is built using MLIR (part of the LLVM project: https://GitHub.com/llvm&#x
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by georgelyon 4y ago
No, but you could build something that guesses the next step in a list of steps to access knowledge from an external source.
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by georgelyon 4y ago
Does anyone have any context as to how the image understanding works? From what I can gather they are simply using separate text-summarization step to generate some text like "and now we have an image of chicken nuggets" that it t
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by georgelyon 4y ago
I've always been curious, what happens if they just let these shares just expire? It wouldn't look great for Stripe, but presumably they would just get back for free (modulo taxes) any shares employees could not afford to exercise
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by georgelyon 4y ago
I've long desired form my AirPods to operate in a "play any sound from any of my devices" mode. This seems like a no-brainer and such phantom connections would as a result have no user-visible impact and you could do things l
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by georgelyon 4y ago
One thing this doesn't cover is that while we've gotten much better at making cars and TVs, but haven't really gotten all that much better at building houses. In fact, we seem to have only gotten better at using with cheaper,
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by georgelyon 4y ago
Am I correct in understanding that this doesn't actually generate answers based on HN, but instead finds semantically-near comments and sends them verbatim to GPT to summarize? Seems like a good enough hack, though I'd love a de
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by georgelyon 4y ago
Python proves that there is a use case for a tool with imprecise semantics (no meaningful type system) even if that tool has terrible performance compared to other options (GIL). That use case is gluing together C++. Hottest take? In 5-10 y
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by georgelyon 4y ago
The way Swift handles this is that you can’t do anything that involves the self pointer before calling super.
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by georgelyon 4y ago
You could take a look a swift-nio ( https://github.com/apple/swift-nio ) which is a pretty high-throughput system. swift-nio does this using some reference-counted GC where it simplifies the code and doesn't affec

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