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by ssivark 11mo ago
Would you perhaps have preferred if they referred to it as "unprofessional" or "sloppy" instead alluding of monkeys? To me all those mean the same thing, except the latter is more flavorful and makes my eyes less likely
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by ssivark 11mo ago
> created by monkeys I don't particularly care for either Zig or Github, but... they do precisely cite the technical issues. That snippet links to a Github discussion comment https://github.com/actions/runner&#
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by ssivark 11mo ago
I would appreciate a simpler conceptual explanation for someone not steeped in the Haskell / functional programming world :-)
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Uhhh... the above comment has a bunch of loose assertions that are not quite true, but with a enough truthiness that makes them hard to refute. So I'll point to my other comment for a more nuanced comparison of Markov models with tiny
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by ssivark 11mo ago
The Markov property means that the next token is determined purely by the current token. Well, if it were a Hidden Markov Model, the next state would actually be determined by the current state, and the respective tokens would be a lossy
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Just a thought... would it make sense to maintain a govt/central registry of copyright owners, and have an "official" means of contacting them, on which they have an SLA to respond (say 3 months) which might be part of the gr
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Switching the default experience away from what people have grown used to over decades seems incredibly rude (despite what commercial software has normalized). The magic of emacs is infinite customizability. And it's quite easy for use
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Uggghhhh! AI crawling is fast becoming a headache for self-hosted content. Is using a CDN the "lowest effort" solution? Or is there something better/simpler?
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Splitting storage from retrieval is a powerful abstraction. You can then build retrieval indexes based on whatever property you desire by indexing it to amortize O(N) over many queries. Concretely, you could search by metadata (timestamp, g
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Sometimes, the best way to learn about abstruse topics one has a passing curiosity in is to upvote what pops up on HN and hope that some nerd might drop by and comment with a simplified intuitive picture for plebs :-)
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by ssivark 11mo ago
> [...] people hate that [...] But that's just culture, and quite easily moldable. Lots of people would also rather gamble watch smut all day, but we decided that it's not the best way to go about life... so we set up a syste
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Peter Drucker: What [American execs] can learn from Japanese management (1970) [pdf](joaomordomo.com)
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by ssivark 11mo ago
I was reading the HN discussion [1] about the Mozilla support fiasco in Japan [2], and was reminded of this Drucker classic about the American -vs- Japanese approaches to decision making. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by ssivark 11mo ago
The way to show you care is by having a meeting of the minds before you shove your changes in their face . The fact that the deployment was done carelessly demonstrates disregard. I doubt "take them out to dinner" is the right
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Peter Drucker has an interesting analysis of the "American" -vs- "Japanese" styles of decision-making + alignment, presenting a complementary perspective: https://www.joaomordomo.com/files/books&
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by ssivark 11mo ago
What are the cons of having a large TV as a monitor? I've been considering something like this recently, and I wonder why is this not more common.
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by ssivark 11mo ago
Interesting. Since this kind of scriptable customization sounds like bread & butter emacs -- what tips the scales towards nano, for you?
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by ssivark 1y ago
> So really, how important is computing the exact gradient using calculus, vs just knowing the general direction to step? Would that be cheaper to calculate than full derivatives? Yes, absolutely -- a lot of ideas inspired by this have b
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by ssivark 1y ago
ICYMI, this drew a lot of attention a few years ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...
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by ssivark 1y ago
Yup, that’s basically the idea behind lenses, once you add a few more ergonomic niceties. The Haskell approach is to take any pattern, abstract it out into a library, and reuse instead of ever having to implement that plumbing again I.e. a
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by ssivark 1y ago
Do check out the links in my original comment above, which explain that the whole motivation behind all this (of which lenses are just a small part) is modularity . Modularity and composability are two sides of the same coin---being able t
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by ssivark 1y ago
Sure, but can you make that imperative program (with pointers and all) as modular/composable? That's the whole point -- lenses are not an end unto themselves; only a tool in service of that goal.
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by ssivark 1y ago
The difference doesn't matter when you have a shallow structure and can access fields directly and have a few lines of code. But field access does not compose easily if you have a nested hierarchy of objects. Your natural choice in the
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by ssivark 1y ago
I don't know if you made a subconscious allusion, but Helen Andrews recently wrote an article with a similar premise: The great feminization https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
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by ssivark 1y ago
Think for a minute about how undefined and vague what you are asking is. Unless the specific claim you have made is close to verbatim in some reference (in which case you're doing search & retrieval), it's incredibly hard to &
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by ssivark 1y ago
I suspect that this happens to be desired by the segment most enamored with LLMs today, and the two are co-evolving. I’ve seen discussions about how LM arena benchmarks might be nudging models in this direction.
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by ssivark 1y ago
Surely the appropriate ratio depends on the resolution of each character, relative to the size of the vision token patch? That is the only way the number of text tokens needed to describe the output of OCR can be independent of the resoluti
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by ssivark 1y ago
> In this view, if a machine performs a task as well as a human, it understands it exactly as much as a human. There's no problem of how to do understanding, only how to do tasks. Yes, but you also gloss over what a "task&quot
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by ssivark 1y ago
First they came for science: Physics, Chemistry, Biology -vs- social science, political science, nutrition science, education science, management science... Now they come for engineering: software engineering, prompt engineering... :P
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by ssivark 1y ago
Having a hard time understanding what that website is showing (eg. what is a lexicon?). Could you explain? Is it meant to be some kind of filtered sampling from the stream of ATProto events?

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