If we make a distinction between CLI apps and TUI apps, my interpretation is that the article was specifically talking about the latter. By a CLI app (with the emphasis on command line) I mean something like grep, sort,…
Prompts like this feel like it's using the wrong abstraction. The "obvious" thing to do with something like this would be to generate some code that generates the image and then run that code. Inspired by this, I tried…
Exactly - it very likely was trained on it. I tried this with Opus 4.6. I turned off web searches and other tool calls, and asked it to list some filenames it remembers being in the 7-zip repo. It got dozens exactly…
With anything like this, I would love to look at the raw data to get an intuitive feel for the phenomenon. For example, the word "surpass" was used 1.47 times per million in the pre-2022 dataset and 3.53 times per…
Yeah. I can believe that this will improve in the future, and this is a technology preview and all. But my takeaway from the video is that it is still too vibey for me to trust it. If I was coaching a junior data…
I think there exists a separate skill for classifying problems by difficulty, apart from being able to solve them. This skill can be developed from both directions by learning which problems have been solved and which…
For "similar to tree-sitter but js-only", Lezer might be an even closer match: https://lezer.codemirror.net/ I have used both Ohm and Lezer - for different use cases - and have been happy with both. If you want a parser…
If the minimum wage is increased $4, the competing explanations seem to be: 1. Change in unemployment is normally distributed with mean 0% and standard deviation 0.606%. 2. Change in unemployment is uniformly…
Not all functional programming idioms work in all languages. On my computer, the article's imperative range(6000) took 0.05 ms and the "functional" range(6000) took 400 ms. The whole [...cur, cur.length+1] thing turns a…
This. I’ve been a Backblaze customer for years. I’m not a backup enthusiast. To me it’s a problem I want to solve and forget about. If I needed to save money on utilities, I’d probably have more to gain by switching my…
How about relation chaining, such as with inequalities? Is there some nice S-expression notation for, say, "0 < x ≤ y < 1"? In many programming languages you would have to write "0 < x and x <= y and y < 1", but in…
There's a lot of information, data, and software out there that is available to download for free. Yes there are hosting costs, but there are also people and organizations that are willing to pay them because they…
I wouldn't say it makes "little sense". Just like we can talk about the year 776 BC even though no one at the time called it that, we can extend the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates when it wasn't used anywhere.…
Or: "If there is any evidence of a crime on my phone, it was probably planted there by a version of Cellebrite that got infected with a virus when you scanned someone else's phone with it."
I might be misunderstanding you, but if you're referring to things such as ζ(2)=π²/6, then that doesn't strike me as a good example of "nothing to do with circles" and "in those places tau does not do better". This…
I've always interpreted "under-promise and over-deliver" as being about keeping your promises despite future unknowns. The simplest example I can think of: If you think some task will probably take 2 days, you say…
But it’s not enough to steal a blank YubiKey from the office storage room. You would have to steal some specific person’s activated YubiKey, and that person will notice it if they need the key regularly to do their job.
I can also report a positive experience with Jamulus. There's probably people in this discussion who have only experienced the latency through Zoom or Skype, and assume it's about as good as you can get over the…
Tree-sitter is the library that Atom uses to parse as you type. It's incremental: if you just add one character, you don't have to parse the entire file from scratch. And it's robust: it tries to provide useful results…
In a way, they _do_ have a limited-time discount. Facebook's ad prices are set by an auction. If there are less advertisers competing during the boycott, the prices will be lower.
Chris Lattner wrote a chapter about LLVM in The Architecture of Open Source Applications. https://aosabook.org/en/llvm.html Based on that, my understanding was that while intermediate representations were certainly not…
Don't feel too bad. The notation "0.999..." looks non-threatening, which tricks people into believing that they understand what it means. We could make "0.999... = 1" look scarier by writing it as [n ↦ 1 - 10^(-n)] = [n…
I agree that it's worse, but I'm not that surprised about the attention. I've seen people come up with this idea in multiple threads about password managers, so there is clearly something appealing about it. Instead of…
Regardless of the interpretation it's not a false premise. The uniqueness of the answer is just an assumption that we don't need. Suppose the question was instead: "What is the unique real number x for which x^3 = 8?"…
Please correct me if I've misunderstood Curry–Howard, but the way I see it: In mathematics we can take a proposition, and then try to find a proof for it. Depending on the proposition, this can be extremely challenging.…
If we make a distinction between CLI apps and TUI apps, my interpretation is that the article was specifically talking about the latter. By a CLI app (with the emphasis on command line) I mean something like grep, sort,…
Prompts like this feel like it's using the wrong abstraction. The "obvious" thing to do with something like this would be to generate some code that generates the image and then run that code. Inspired by this, I tried…
Exactly - it very likely was trained on it. I tried this with Opus 4.6. I turned off web searches and other tool calls, and asked it to list some filenames it remembers being in the 7-zip repo. It got dozens exactly…
With anything like this, I would love to look at the raw data to get an intuitive feel for the phenomenon. For example, the word "surpass" was used 1.47 times per million in the pre-2022 dataset and 3.53 times per…
Yeah. I can believe that this will improve in the future, and this is a technology preview and all. But my takeaway from the video is that it is still too vibey for me to trust it. If I was coaching a junior data…
I think there exists a separate skill for classifying problems by difficulty, apart from being able to solve them. This skill can be developed from both directions by learning which problems have been solved and which…
For "similar to tree-sitter but js-only", Lezer might be an even closer match: https://lezer.codemirror.net/ I have used both Ohm and Lezer - for different use cases - and have been happy with both. If you want a parser…
If the minimum wage is increased $4, the competing explanations seem to be: 1. Change in unemployment is normally distributed with mean 0% and standard deviation 0.606%. 2. Change in unemployment is uniformly…
Not all functional programming idioms work in all languages. On my computer, the article's imperative range(6000) took 0.05 ms and the "functional" range(6000) took 400 ms. The whole [...cur, cur.length+1] thing turns a…
This. I’ve been a Backblaze customer for years. I’m not a backup enthusiast. To me it’s a problem I want to solve and forget about. If I needed to save money on utilities, I’d probably have more to gain by switching my…
How about relation chaining, such as with inequalities? Is there some nice S-expression notation for, say, "0 < x ≤ y < 1"? In many programming languages you would have to write "0 < x and x <= y and y < 1", but in…
There's a lot of information, data, and software out there that is available to download for free. Yes there are hosting costs, but there are also people and organizations that are willing to pay them because they…
I wouldn't say it makes "little sense". Just like we can talk about the year 776 BC even though no one at the time called it that, we can extend the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates when it wasn't used anywhere.…
Or: "If there is any evidence of a crime on my phone, it was probably planted there by a version of Cellebrite that got infected with a virus when you scanned someone else's phone with it."
I might be misunderstanding you, but if you're referring to things such as ζ(2)=π²/6, then that doesn't strike me as a good example of "nothing to do with circles" and "in those places tau does not do better". This…
I've always interpreted "under-promise and over-deliver" as being about keeping your promises despite future unknowns. The simplest example I can think of: If you think some task will probably take 2 days, you say…
But it’s not enough to steal a blank YubiKey from the office storage room. You would have to steal some specific person’s activated YubiKey, and that person will notice it if they need the key regularly to do their job.
I can also report a positive experience with Jamulus. There's probably people in this discussion who have only experienced the latency through Zoom or Skype, and assume it's about as good as you can get over the…
Tree-sitter is the library that Atom uses to parse as you type. It's incremental: if you just add one character, you don't have to parse the entire file from scratch. And it's robust: it tries to provide useful results…
In a way, they _do_ have a limited-time discount. Facebook's ad prices are set by an auction. If there are less advertisers competing during the boycott, the prices will be lower.
Chris Lattner wrote a chapter about LLVM in The Architecture of Open Source Applications. https://aosabook.org/en/llvm.html Based on that, my understanding was that while intermediate representations were certainly not…
Don't feel too bad. The notation "0.999..." looks non-threatening, which tricks people into believing that they understand what it means. We could make "0.999... = 1" look scarier by writing it as [n ↦ 1 - 10^(-n)] = [n…
I agree that it's worse, but I'm not that surprised about the attention. I've seen people come up with this idea in multiple threads about password managers, so there is clearly something appealing about it. Instead of…
Regardless of the interpretation it's not a false premise. The uniqueness of the answer is just an assumption that we don't need. Suppose the question was instead: "What is the unique real number x for which x^3 = 8?"…
Please correct me if I've misunderstood Curry–Howard, but the way I see it: In mathematics we can take a proposition, and then try to find a proof for it. Depending on the proposition, this can be extremely challenging.…