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itishappy··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Because "depth" is recursive.

You can search twice without waiting for the results of your first search: iteration.

You can't if the thing you need to search for is the results of your first search: recursion.

itishappy··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
That sounds more iterative than recursive.

Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel.

Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.

itishappy··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
A published formalization is code. I would not think humans have any edge when it comes to citing previously published results.
itishappy··on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
It is, but it was also a rhetorical device!

I wanted to highlight that we're actually looking at a trio of concepts: intelligence, IQ, and value. Strongly correlated concepts, yes, but also meaningfully distinct!

itishappy··on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
What does IQ have to do with intelligence?

(Please forgive the flippant response. I believe it cuts to the core of what the parent was intending.)

itishappy··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XMCU2vxtxxqqQ2NY567n...

You can download it in various forms as well, such as txt. Won't fix the tone, but at least it's scannable.

itishappy··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Embeded slides URL is a great hack from which you can just download as .txt directly.
itishappy··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
No, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.
itishappy··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
> Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most.

The statement seems more like a preconception than data.

itishappy··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
That is the appeal. It's an opinionated distro designed around keyboard navigation.
itishappy··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Those self-interested unions better stay away from my interests!
itishappy··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
My distinction is "systems" vs "scripting" but yeah.

I'm bringing Y2K back next!

itishappy··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Agreed, efficiency is still important, but being at the "frontier of efficiency" is significantly more relevant to commodity model providers than state-of-the-art model providers. Frontier labs are incentivized to route their spend towards beating benchmarks because that's what enables them to charge a premium.
itishappy··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
> Given that OpenAI is ahead in intelligence, it's also reasonably likely that they are at the frontier of efficiency too.

Frontier labs have no incentive to be at the frontier of efficiency.

Claude still leads the pack in general intelligence yet has the worst efficiency by far.

itishappy··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Scripting languages are awful. Python is one of the nicest scripting languages.
itishappy··on The Vibe Tax
Happens with humans too! My senior colleagues check in with me significantly less often and cost significantly more in the meantime!
itishappy··on Zed DeltaDB
I don't follow. The default today is that an unprivileged user space application should not crash the machine. The kernel reserves what it needs, then hands the rest to user space. Thus, all available memory should not crash the machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space_and_kernel_space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory

itishappy··on Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree
I don't think anyone can objectively judge the attractiveness of both genders on one scale.
itishappy··on Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree
I like "pretty privilege."

In my experience, improving appearance is already one of the top suggestions for job applicants. We're attuned the other way too, showing up to work in a nice outfit tends to be met with "got an interview today?"

itishappy··on Zed DeltaDB
Isn't that the default? The user has access to all available memory unless they (or an admin) set a restriction. Unavailable memory is only unavailable because writing to it crashes the kernel, thus preventing you from using your hardware!
itishappy··on Zed DeltaDB
Disk, memory, and CPU limits? The app should crash, not the kernel.
itishappy··on Nobel Disease
> if we wanted every human on Earth to be over 6' tall, we could just cull the short ones (or stop them from reproducing)

This is a testable hypotheses.

What's actually stopping us? Science is not the issue here.

itishappy··on Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Pantone is not a color space. They are a supplier of physical color samples. Most pigments can be represented in a color space, but that representation differs based on illumination so it not unique. Some Pantone pigments, fluorescent colors in particular, cannot be represented by a color space at all!
itishappy··on Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Gilbert's is a liver disease...

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17661-gilbert...

itishappy··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
This applies to engineers as well! The ability to connect specialties is what separates the outstanding from the great.
itishappy··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
Yeah, I don't mean it literally, nor do I necessarily agree with the concept of 10x engineers in general, but it's a useful shorthand. I would bet doctors vary somewhat less than other fields, but my family has been surprised and burnt by the variance still there, and I'm the only non-doctor!

On the topic of 10x surgeries per hour, the 1800s were an interesting time! This guy in particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston

itishappy··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
> The lesson for me is that you must advocate for yourself and your loved ones in the medical system, because doctors will not do it for you; they may not even perform the most basic risk assessments. And you have to try to quantify risk yourself, because doctors will refuse to give you the slightest hint of any number attached to risk (I know, I've tried many times).

Doctors vary wildly, and that's part of the issue. For instance, my oncologist had zero problem rattling off mortality statistics. I've personally had doctors try to sell me surgery before identifying the issue, but I've also had doctors successfully talk me out of what would have been useful procedures by offering their risk/benefit assessment unprompted.

It's like any other field. If there are 10x and 0.1x engineers, you bet there are 10x and 0.1x doctors. A 1hr intake appointment isn't anywhere near enough time to judge even for folks in the field.

itishappy··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
Navigating by clicking and holding a desired position on the scrollbar is completely broken.
itishappy··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
I love this, but it does not seem to conform to standard UX best practices.

If I click and hold then move the mouse away to release, I assume an element should not register that as a click. As-is, this is inconsistent: the button registers a click, the checkbox does not.

itishappy··on I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
Why assume bad faith? I've witnessed a barrage of "proof of concepts" at my dayjob by folks who have zero intention of ever hooking up their dashboard to our actual messy data. Shipping is still a major barrier. Is your experience meaningfully different?
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