zahlman

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by zahlman 5mo ago
> AI generated art quite literally makes me nautious. I mean an actual, physical reaction where I feel queasy. Have you tested yourself on this, e.g. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar... ?
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by zahlman 5mo ago
I have no idea what you're talking about. 3.x objectively did fix the major problems and was not particularly inventive in its approach. The fact that they didn't fix more things all at once — and the fact that they still rece
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> so it makes sense to optimise for that use case. How do the agent and human use cases meaningfully differ here, though? I'm pretty sure GP's complaint is about the prose description, rather than the actual functionality.
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> Racket, CLisp Syntax really does matter more than you give it credit for. Were that not the case, I'd expect one Lisp or Scheme dialect or other to take Python's place. Outside of that counterfactual, Python's competitio
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> “batteries included” standard library and what’s becoming nearly standard third party libs Historically, the standard library made sense. And we're talking about a history that stretches back to before Internet connections were ub
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by zahlman 5mo ago
The current standard library urllib is a refactoring of previous attempts from the 2.x standard library, and urllib.request is just a sub-package. It does not represent adoption of requests; requests builds on urllib3, which was created to
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> Why couldn’t the core team and the core-adjacent PyPA make a tool as liked as uv Incredibly large backward-compatibility burdens [0], internal politics [1] and general institutional dysfunction (no footnote; if you're familiar the
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Anthony Sottile had a video on the reversion over a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ3hnQiJ0YM
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by zahlman 5mo ago
This is a philosophy paper; it doesn't appear to be posturing as "research".
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Agreed, the option that sacrifices security in search of performance should be the more verbose one. There's a reason Rust doesn't have `safe {}` blocks and there's a reason it chose immutable-by-default semantics.
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by zahlman 5mo ago
... do `unsafe {}` blocks not have the same semantics? I thought that was only about memory safety. Or are you thinking of cases where a wrapped-around integer gets interpreted as a pointer or something?
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> you cannot write shell scripts without them, they are widely and almost unavoidably used in trusted environments. True. That doesn't make them "very exposed to memory safety errors".
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Markets were calm in after-hours trading. It's not as if there is nobody paying attention. That would be a massive inefficiency that couldn't realistically have persisted all the way to 2026, especially not with the introduction o
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by zahlman 5mo ago
It's amazing to me that people actually thought GPT2 produced "human-passing" text, while I'm still tripping over obvious LLMisms in the output of recent models on a daily basis. (It's also amazing to me that it too
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by zahlman 5mo ago
I assume the goal is to be able to prompt with "make me a synth that sounds like ..." and actually get a reasonable result.
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Physically manipulating objects is a lot harder underwater, even if you somehow evolve fine motor control despite not having any real use for it. So that severely limits what an intelligent aquatic species could actually do with that intell
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Thanks. I had a quick run-through and I'm not really that impressed, though I'll cede that I have an atypical perspective on these kinds of issues. HN comments don't seem like the right place for a detailed critique of Claude
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> Have you been in static types the whole time? In fact, Python has been my most-used language for 15+ years and I rarely use annotations. > the Everything Function This doesn't happen in my own code; 10 lines is unusually long f
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Yeah, I struggled a lot with finding authentic pictures, but from what little I could turn up he looks quite different.
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Typical "runaway" scenarios I see described involve something like the AI designing a worm that it uses to propagate itself across the Internet, hijacking whatever CPU/GPU power it can find, and making itself more powerful in
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by zahlman 5mo ago
I think GP was gendering the hypothetical junior dev, rather than the AI.
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> AI is only interesting if it can do things that humans can not do. AI is interesting as long as it can save time and/or money in getting an acceptable result. Anything that runs on a computer and can do "things that humans ca
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by zahlman 5mo ago
The difficult part here is supposed to be the actual compilation to create the .wasm file ? Or what am I missing here? The wheel is only a few hundred lines of code outside of the Python implementation, and it would seem that the MicroPytho
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> The source I linked to above cites Mathematical Cranks by Underwood Dudley, but I couldn’t find it in the book. I don't know why someone would make an AI slop fake of old mathematical crankery, but I think that has to be conside
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> a static_cast that bypasses private inheritance (because the alternative would be to fall back to a reinterpret_cast, which is wrong if the static_cast needs to apply an offset to the pointer) That may well have been it, then. I would
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> There will always be cases (like audio processing, car brakes, pace makers) where hard real-time constraints prohibit GC languages (as well as l1 cache, instruction reordering and other optimizations). Also, consider that Python's
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> Hey Python users: you know that in the end everything ends up as machine code, don't you? I don't understand where you're trying to go with this call-out, especially if you're also describing yourself as a Python us
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by zahlman 5mo ago
Many years ago I remember going through the Boost library and seeing C-style casts that seemed entirely gratuitous. I tried replacing them with what I was pretty sure were the equivalent C++ reinterpret_casts, and the result didn't com
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> a "simple" and "beautiful" function that was mangled into incomprehensibility over the years, and where if a more expressive type signature had been written from the start, it would have restricted the damage caused
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by zahlman 5mo ago
> Many website will request my personal physical address for trivial matters like billing or delivery. That can not under any mean be considered public data. I just don't buy things online, and avoid anyone having my physical addres

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