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mattsan··on Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
You can keep it in the same orbit but spread the mass out along the orbit to the other side and that changes the combined CoG to be closer to Sun's CoG in turn changing Earth's orbit, albeit probably slightly
mattsan··on CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
Haven't tested but I'm almost certain the Electron app they're talking about is VS Code. Wouldn't make sense for a code editor to sandbox extensions
mattsan··on Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
Was a joke :)
mattsan··on Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
Funny thought - want to solve global warming? Disassemble Mercury! Earth's orbit in theory would space a bit further out
mattsan··on Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
To be fair all critical systems can be controlled by hardware buttons below the displays so they don't need a 100% guarantee, worst case rebooting would be fine
mattsan··on Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard
They're definitely marketing this as if they were Apple. If this takes off I'm betting on Apple buying them out.
mattsan··on RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
yep this is what I meant. hallucinating, justifying or missing bad stuff.

additionally, similar to how large PRs are more likely to just be skimmed and replied with a "LGTM!", an LLM missing some bad stuff but still producing a seemingly thorough review would increase the chance of the bad stuff making its way in.

allowing LLMs to write code would be fine if its truly verified by a human, but let another LLM hallucinate and cloud a persons judgement and you've got a problem

mattsan··on RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
It should just be banning the use of AI in code reviews
mattsan··on Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier
Cloudflare is profitable. Whales subsidise retail.
mattsan··on Building a Compiler in 25 Days [video]
To be clear, that's a problem with your attention span, and not with the creator.
mattsan··on DBRX: A new open LLM
can't wait for LLMs to dispatch field agent robots who search for answers in the real world thats not online /s
mattsan··on Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
This is addressed in the README and a comparison is given
mattsan··on PSChess – A chess engine in PostScript
x coord, y coord, command that consumes the arguments from what we can infer is pushed onto a stack beforehand
mattsan··on Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python
To be fair, theres also the kIPC mod that bridges and connects both kOS and kRPC together. I personally like the kerbal-y equivalent of Ada with kOS though ahaha
mattsan··on Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python
If you want a simpler intro into learning the math/logic behind rocket guidance systems, kOS is an alternative mod.

The main difference is that it has a pretty good base autopilot, such that you can give it a direction vector to point to.

The downside is that you have to learn a specific language for it, but you can also make your own language that transpiles as a fun project :)

Example of what's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szsIL_0m2Qo

mattsan··on Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)
And in the UK student loans are adjusted over time based on inflation lol. Inflation don't be helping people with student loans here
mattsan··on Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
I haven't done the math but I would think it's possible due to interactions from other solar systems. Similar to how satellites oscillate around Lagrange points
mattsan··on Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
Yeah, thats the main engine site, the link submitted here is for a specific port. Not the same.
mattsan··on Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
The website says this: https://arc.net/l/quote/btugrszz
mattsan··on The Case for Rust in the base system
Other than LLVM portability concerns, I think Rust can for sure replace C/C++ libraries (I'm talking DLLs etc).

Sure, there will be a small C ABI shim but the developer experience writing in Rust I think is worth it.

Also, nowadays whenever I want to write a fast Python extension, I don't think twice before using pyo3, super simple to write and build.

mattsan··on We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
Out of all the entities to depend on, AWS is tried and battle tested with US gov.

Additionally, a pandemic has shown that government services actually need to scale to arbitrary amounts, seemingly at random.

Don't you think that in this case using AWS is better to simply guarantee availability? Imagine tax payers money being spent on servers and then a pandemic happens and when the economy is screeching to a halt, more tax payers money is needed to expand the cluster, money that really would be useful to spend elsewhere.

mattsan··on Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time
Yeah, people perceive and retain things much differently if its happening in the local area or if its somewhere else, regardless of how much they look into the story.
mattsan··on Do black holes have singularities?
I believe the word you're looking for is quantum - the "point" still has a radius, a singularity does not.
mattsan··on The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
Oh dude imagine using cosmocc on the final C code and have a single binary that runs on 6 different OS's
mattsan··on 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
Sure thing - https://pearlagent.github.io/

HN post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38564526

mattsan··on Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools
Maybe they mean walking a file tree and cleaning up file names to match the titles on the covers of them more accurately?
mattsan··on 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
Which multiple teams are working on - OpenAI (Q*), and Meta just released a reinforcement learning framework
mattsan··on Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
Apologies for the tone. Was really tired when posted.
mattsan··on Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
Have you ever used a dictionary?
mattsan··on Ask HN: What are some resources to help me deal with seeing gory content?
Thank you for the insightful comment. My bubble was popped when I was younger but for some reason this just hit more.
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