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brianush1··on Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font
the fact that it's under ipython seems strange, why is that
brianush1··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
in most editors you can just select text and drag it around with the mouse
brianush1··on The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window
Claude does compaction in the regular web chat interface now, too
brianush1··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
> They increase reliability?

For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.

brianush1··on Spending 3 months coding by hand
> Don’t abuse DRY, a little duplication is better than unnecessary dependencies.

That's an interesting thing to include. I agree with this point in principle, but I've found that Claude, at least, duplicates logic FAR too often and needs nudging in the other direction.

brianush1··on Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
claude is stupid but not malicious; chroot is sufficient
brianush1··on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]
One could make the argument that higher-level thought is not the same as awareness of higher-level thought; perhaps language only affords the latter.
brianush1··on Signs of introspection in large language models
What would you title this article to make it less "clickbait"? This is one of the least clickbait headlines I've seen, it's literally just describing what's in the article.
brianush1··on The Demon-Haunted World
> Realistically, what are the odds that our not very large or clever brains really do have the potential to understand the entire universe

My belief on this is not entirely rational, of course, but it seems to me that there's probably a sort of Turing-completeness for intelligence/understanding, where as soon as a mind starts being able to understand abstraction, given enough time and resources, it can probably understand the entire universe.

It would also be presumptuous to say that brainfuck is equally powerful to every other programming language that exists, and yet we know it to be true. The fundamental reason we can prove that Turing-complete languages are equivalent to each other is that we can build the same abstractions in both, so intuitively it feels like a similar principle holds for human intelligence.

brianush1··on CSS Hell
apparently the pegs only have to touch the holes, they don't have to line up perfectly
brianush1··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
I'm not seeing anything in that graph that implies that o1 ever fails on "what is 6*1?" The chart is graphing the number of digits on each axis; it fails on "what is (some 6 digit number) * (some 1 digit number)"
brianush1··on The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State
https://archive.is/xe2V5
brianush1··on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
Your initial translation into JavaScript is a representation of the statement "All my things are green hats", which is not the same as "All my hats are green."

The statement "All my hats are green" would map to

    things.every(thing => thing.type != 'hat' || thing.color == 'green')
i.e., everything the person owns must either be green or, if it isn't green, it must not be a hat since all hats are green.

The negated form would then be

    things.some(thing => thing.type == 'hat' && thing.color != 'green')
i.e., there are some hats that are not green.
brianush1··on A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers
pretty sure you have a typo, should be "If not, consider (sqrt(2) ^ sqrt(2)) ^ sqrt(2)."
brianush1··on The joy of reading books you don't understand
it works with textbooks too though
brianush1··on Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text
Why does there need to be an "I" that uses language to transmit information? Language itself encodes information. I can read a piece of text and gain something from it. Where the text came from is irrelevant.
brianush1··on The Pen, Mightier (2011)
> Put the pen between your index and middle fingers.

I'm genuinely curious, how else could you hold a pen?

brianush1··on Counting the Hard Way
Learning up to 12x12 is commonplace in the U.S., and apparently in other English-speaking countries, too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_table#Modern_ti...

brianush1··on Ocean Temperature
Primary sources are not allowed on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a tertiary source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

brianush1··on Driving with D
> such as the fact that a safe subset exists, but depends on GC,

@safe works perfectly fine and exactly the same in @nogc code as in GC-enabled code.

brianush1··on Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why It Matters (2015)
I use Refined Hacker News[0] to get a list of past threads at the bottom of the page. dang himself has said[1] it overlaps surprisingly with their internal extension, so it might prove useful

[0]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20176460

brianush1··on John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
For me, this was caused by a buggy service worker; unregistering the service worker (from about:debugging > "This Firefox" > "Service Workers" on Firefox, dunno how on Chrome) should fix the issue
brianush1··on John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
From further down in this thread: https://decrypt.co/62217/monty-pythons-john-cleese-mints-bro...
brianush1··on Spectre in JavaScript
From what I understand, Firefox has a lower precision timer, which means you need to do more cache timer repetitions; try increasing it to 400,000, it should look more like the demo (though it still doesn't generate two entirely separate curves).
brianush1··on 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
If Chrome suddenly stopped sending referrer headers, let's be real here, 99% of websites would be fixed within a couple of days at most.
brianush1··on Processors Under Pillows
Restoring the internet would be a pretty geeky and tinker-y mission on its own
brianush1··on Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder
Posix file names can be any sequence of bytes other than '/' and 0
brianush1··on Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
It's not in the Discord terms of service, it's in the Discord bot API terms of service.
brianush1··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
You can't use IPFS or the blockchain without having a connection to the internet in the first place. If all the ISPs decided to refuse you service, there'd be no way to stay connected to the internet.
brianush1··on Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
> LUA

Not that it really matters that much, but just for future reference: Lua is a proper noun, not an acronym.

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