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sirk390··on LLM=True
I would use this as a human. That npm output is crazy. Maybe a better variable would be "CONCISE=1". For LLMs, there are a few easier solutions, like outputing in a file (and then tail)., or running a subagent
sirk390··on Build a minimal decorator with Ruby in 30 minutes
All that complexity when you could simply do:

  <td class="<%= @teacher.available_places> 0 ? 'bg-colour-green' : 'bg-colour-red' %>">
sirk390··on Wind Becomes Britain's Largest Electricity Source
> France ("consistently invested in nuclear for the past half-century" ).

Not really and this is currenctly causing a big problem. France stopped building new reactors after 2002. They only built 1 new generation EPR, which was very late and 6x the cost. Many of the reactors are very old and need to be replaced, but it's difficult to do because of the bad experiences of Flamanville's reactor.

sirk390··on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
Ruby is an excellent language/platform and you can do a lot more than using Rails. But yes I don't know for NLP.
sirk390··on I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
I you hang them at 45 degree the depth will be reducted by sqrt(2). (about 0.7 x hanger length), and you will lose space on each side. And the more you increase the angle, the more you will lose space on the sides. With this technique, you will reduce the depth to 0.5 x hanger length and not lose space on the side.
sirk390··on Computation of the n'th digit of pi in any base in O(n^2) (1997)
Better, but irrational numbers can have a predictable pattern like "0.110100100010000" ( E.g "0.1 10 100 1000 10000" )
sirk390··on Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
For example you could set cookies before visiting another website. This is currently impossible in an iframe but possible in a browser. I've wanted to do this to automatically login users on some external websites.
sirk390··on Base64 Encoding, Explained
I really though you were going to say "Chat-GPT detected" when quoting that message.
sirk390··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
With compositions A uses B but B can never use A. With inheritance Child can use the Parent, but Parent will also call the Child (virtual methods) which in turn can call the Parent again etc.., so the code can become difficult to follow. It can become very complicated with multiple inheritance and multiple levels.
sirk390··on Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
Humans are pretty bad at these questions. Even with the simplest questions like "Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?" I think that a lot of people will give an incorrect answer. And for questions like "Argue for and against the use of kubernetes in the style of a haiku", 99.99% will not be able to do it.
sirk390··on How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
> Whereas, in biological brains, the weights are updated continuously. My personal impression is that many "weights" are updated during sleep time. For example when training juggling, I will make no progress at all for hours of training. But later, after a night of sleep, I will have a large and instant progress.
sirk390··on How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
In humans, sleep is also required fo learning, so it's not fully continuous. An AI that occasionnaly retrains using the new knowledge would still be very interesting.
sirk390··on Decades-long bet on consciousness ends
It could be double speak, but the obvious thing you understand from this formulation it that he won because he is a philosopher. Not that he won, and by the way he is a philosopher.
sirk390··on Guido was right, there should be no lambda in Python (2018)
lambdas are very useful for example for sorting data using a key function. Maybe the auther is saying that it should be called differently, or have a different syntax and the title is just clickbait.
sirk390··on DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla
Is outperforming GPT-3 still a good reference? It seems there are many models outperforming GPT-3 in the superglue benchmark: https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard/ GPT-3 is in position #21, with 71.8% score. The best model is at 91.2%. Note the human baseline in #6 with 89.8%
sirk390··on DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla
And if every parameter is one byte, the minimum, it will take at least 70gb to save or share this model. So it's still way to big to package directly in a app.
sirk390··on France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
I doubt that there are numbers to prove that. SMR might just be a buzzword. From the page below there don't seem too many operating or under construction (5 operating, and 4 under construction). https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
sirk390··on Meta AI: Fist high-performance self-supervised algorithm for multiple modalities
Crazy, but who thinks AI is not moving forward? I don't think anyone on HN.
sirk390··on Ask HN: Why aren't there workstation recommendations for software engineers?
Most of the time it's not compute or memory intensive so any computer will do. The most important thing then is too have a good chair, keyboard and mouse!
sirk390··on All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website
sirk390··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
If you only look at the json format it's true. But it would be way worse if some decoders returned decimals and some returned floats.
sirk390··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
I don't thing there is a more "correct" representation. Representing it as a string is equaly correct. Blockchain or banking often represents money as an integer with the smallest divisible unit (cent, or satoshi), but it is not applicable here because there is no smallest divisible unit.
sirk390··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
timestamps and decimal are the two most useful additions compared to json. They would be nice to add to json if that is somehow possible.
sirk390··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
But decimal are way more useful as they can represent currency amounts. It would be strange to show a currency amount like "3/4" or "11/12". Personally, the two datatypes I have always been adding manually to json are datetimes and decimals (from python)
sirk390··on RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
Indeed, I didn't know about the ping attribute. However, you will see they still do click tracking on the google image results for example. And if you check this article from 2013, you will see that they had it back then (I'm not sure when they removed it): https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-g...
sirk390··on RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
Https multiplied latency by three when opening websites compared to 10/15years ago where many websites were http.

And also many websites include more tracking, for example Google search results used to directly send you to the result page. Now they first send you to Google so that they know you clicked but it also adds noticeable latency.

sirk390··on Scaleway: Incident SSD was stolen during a secure transport between datacenters
Yes a running VM from an a corporate customer containing all source code, SSH keys, access keys to github repos, AWS keys and much more.
sirk390··on Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
Very cool. Makes me think of https://dbdiagram.io
sirk390··on Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
It's impressive that it was there for so long, and nobody saw it!
sirk390··on French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules
Unfortunately, the CINL here is not protecting users. Nobody wants those annoying Cookie reminders. I believe this is just a form of taxation that they are not able to get in another way.
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