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Micro-JavaScript: A pure Python JavaScript engine, inspired by MicroQuickJS(github.com)
3 points by nz 3mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 3mo ago
This is very vague. Maybe you could actually name the fintech (or, if that is too sensitive), you can list a few of its competitors?
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by nz 3mo ago
Yeah, that is situation 2 mentioned above. A Chomsky Grammar is also a generator. So it can generate valid inputs, and then turn them into valid outputs -- and it can do the first part stochastically/randomly.
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by nz 3mo ago
So, take a look at my previous comment (I am sibling, not parent). The pencil pushers are still being manufactured by the educational system itself, but they major in Business now, not Social Sciences or Education. This is due to government
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by nz 3mo ago
And, in case anyone needed proof, this is reflected in the US degree-completion-data, when measured as a percentage ( https://galacticbeyond.com/two-percent-programmer/plots/over... ), and when measured as a derivat
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by nz 4mo ago
As someone who does a lot of genetic programming (like, old-school, without AI/LLMs, etc), I can confirm that the fitness function is very difficult to get right, especially if you are trying to evolve programs that have "adversar
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by nz 4mo ago
Disclaimer: I have never applied nor worked at oxide, but nevertheless have a bit of an odd thought. Having looked at the process (RFD 3 and original post on dtrace.org), and contextualizing it with the oversubscribed-problem (which was men
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by nz 4mo ago
You might be surprised just how durable the effects of 40-year-old decisions are. You can actually see changes to the very degree completion-rates, when partitioned by field of study. Particularly, education and physics fields (as classifie
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by nz 4mo ago
You, and the HN users, `lojban`, `klingon`, `ido`, `brithenig`, `solresol`, `babm`, and `tokipona`, may want to start a club. Amusingly, nobody seems to have registered the `esperanto`, `volapuk`, `interslavic`, `balaibalan`, and `dothraki`
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by nz 5mo ago
An alternative to a capped income, would be that every income gets "inflated" by as much as needed until it reaches parity with big-tech incomes, which would require a kind of transnational union, but would have the effect of reve
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by nz 5mo ago
Each of those employees is a liability, for various reasons, not just financial. Even if their salaries were completely subsidized by the state, there are many problems that come from having a very large number of employees. Firstly, there
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by nz 5mo ago
I have been saying things to this effect for a few years now, and have literally been laughed at. I feel like that guy that suggested that doctors should wash their hands before operating on patients -- they laughed at him too, before they
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by nz 5mo ago
No, that would be a strict improvement. The AI note-takers can easily "mishear" or "misreport" non-existent illegal and unethical things. It also seems to easily mess up numbers (which is big problem, because a lot of de
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by nz 5mo ago
Could not help but notice that this project has no explicit policy on whether AI contributions are allowed or not (i.e. nothing analogous to https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/ ).
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by nz 5mo ago
This is interesting. I have always preferred to make my personal projects single-file (or at least few-massive-file)[1]. I noticed that teams in general, strongly dislike this style of programming (even before LLM-coding-assistants, as far
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf](users.ece.cmu.edu)
2 points by nz 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 5mo ago
> What will it mean when I can no longer tell the difference? It just means that you will have to evaluate prose on its own merits (aesthetic, logical, etc). The main problem with LLM-assisted writing is that effort-to-write is now much
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by nz 5mo ago
There is a universe out there, where most of the world is reading Solaris man pages, instead of Linux man pages. Whatever your thoughts on the Solaris OS, I think it is fair to say that no operating system has ever matched the quality of it
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by nz 5mo ago
I don't know how to tell you this, but people have been writing custom software for personal use for decades. I've been doing it since at least 2009! I find it hard to believe that there is a demographic of people that were yearni
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Minimal Fab Promoting Organization(minimalfab.com)
8 points by nz 5mo ago|1 comments
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by nz 5mo ago
I meant the actual fabrication of silicon ;) Just to emphasize my point, China is not being deprived of chip _designs_ (via export bans of ASML-made lithography equipment), but rather of the actual physical machines that rearrange the atoms
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by nz 5mo ago
Wouldn't mind a repeat of 2008, if it means that Oracle goes out of business.
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by nz 5mo ago
People (well, American people (disclosure, I am an American)), used to be scared/worried that Silicon Valley will eventually move to Bangalore or Shenzhen, because of wage-discrepancies, and so on -- and it is not a totally unreasonabl
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by nz 6mo ago
We should start a support group. I feel like LLMs[1] are going to cause a kind of "divorce" between those who love making software and those who love selling software. It was difficult for these two groups to communicate and coord
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United States of America vs. Matthew David Keirans [pdf](ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov)
3 points by nz 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 6mo ago
Just to add some perspective to this comparison: the US massacred four _million_ people in South East Asia, during the Vietnam war. That is 2/3rds of a holocaust. The Iraq War (second one), cost between half a million and a million liv
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by nz 6mo ago
And the US massacred four _million_ people in South East Asia, during the Vietnam war. That is 2/3rds of a holocaust. The Iraq War (second one), cost between half a million and a million lives (estimates vary, and it only includes viol
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by nz 6mo ago
The following happened to a friend. Around the time of the pandemic, a company wanted to make some Javascript code do a kind of transformation over large number of web-pages (a billion or so, fetched as WARC files from the web archive). The
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by nz 6mo ago
It seems that many high-quality things (or otherwise aspirational things) take on Esperanto names (disclosure, I am an Esperantist). While Monero is no doubt a cool crypto-currency, it is even cooler that it has inspired some crypto-curious
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by nz 6mo ago
Back in 2014, I did an analysis of (single threaded) CPU-efficiency and RAM-efficiency of various data-structures (skiplists, slablists, avl-trees, rb-trees, b-trees): https://nickziv.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads&#x

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