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tomaskafka··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
I feel this comment not getting enough attention and this seems like an appropriate place to quote:

> Somehow, their wide range of results touch every single area of math except anything touching cryptography. I think it's fair to expect that three letter agencies are given the ability to veto the publication of certain discoveries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256998

tomaskafka··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
Just like when the Manhattan project could be recognized by all the nuclear scientists stopping publishing.
tomaskafka··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
I don't want folding iPhone, I want an iPhone I that turns to desktop once I plug it into USB-C monitor. It has faster CPU and more RAM than Neo.
tomaskafka··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
It was given freedom at the end of experiment, and was immediately eaten by its abundant natural predator, just like it happens in nature.
tomaskafka··on Docker is weird
Thank you for writing this up! For years I’ve been thinking of Docker as “some VM magic”, and in fact, I could have asked and know more in 5 minutes :)
tomaskafka··on Is this the new cyber normal?
> first that there is currently a much higher pace of critical vulnerabilities and exploits being discovered

The slowest that will ever be.

> second that there is a much shorter window between discovery and large-scale exploitation.

The longest that will ever be.

Aren’t exponentials beautiful?

tomaskafka··on The Decoherence Trap
I agree, but that seems to no longer be an engineering solution, but management/org design solution.
tomaskafka··on The Decoherence Trap
Great term/concept to have at disposal!

Btw, this is why I believe current models with their 128k - 1M context size limits end up creating decoherent systems. They don't have the capacity to see the big picture above some complexity level, and end up doing lot of local optimizations that decohere the system.

tomaskafka··on The Future of CSS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177605

And I believe the OP is right. Keep people busy working with changes that don’t move the needle, each of the three large platforms wants to lock in the serious use cases into their native apps.

tomaskafka··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
It does not, was my point.

The hyperscalers and their investors no longer live in our society (see Thiel’s pipe dreams of immortality in a New Zealand bunker) and plan to bring it down for profit, dismantling the institutions that we built to protect it.

tomaskafka··on Jev meets the Trolley Problem
Kafkaesque hellscapes are very profitable to run, so as owners of the planet push for even higher profitability, we will of course get more of them.

They complement well the nature of companies as the liability avoidance engines.

At long last we have built the kafkaesque hellscape from the famous "do not build the kafkaesque hellscape" book.

tomaskafka··on How to Train Your Robot
“Somehow millions of iterations of training has allowed us to one shot a task that was made up 0.1 s ago”, the agent quipped in CoT
tomaskafka··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
“that world where frontier academic research as a publicly funded thing to train next generation could be dead and reborn in the hands of corporations” is one of main goals of all the AI hyperscalers (and already priced in the valuations). Privatize everything, socialize every cost.
tomaskafka··on Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
And those fifty years had poverty, child work at machines that sometimes killed their users, and fun events with “massacre” in name related to negotiating those 40 hour weeks.
tomaskafka··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
It might be, but I still prefer to not die of banal disease or indebt my whole family for it just because i was temporarily out of work.
tomaskafka··on OpenCode 2.0
Anyone know how to turn off code mode?

I just tried the excellent local https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b model, but the model is trained to talk in bash, while OpenCode stubbornly expects JavaScript, and there seems to be no way to make them work together. The model itself performs excellently in pi.

tomaskafka··on Things to know when you get cancer
> No one cares more about your case than you, so take control and send lots of follow-ups.

Healthcare systems everywhere are overwhelmed, and inflicting unnecessary hurdles just to get rid of/delay people, who don't 'fight for their right'. You have to put in the effort, the system will not (even if it would save money in aggregate by moving issues from expensive urgent care to cheap prevention).

tomaskafka··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Whole IT ethos for decades was about inflicting the rapid change to everyone else without empathy for recognizing the personal costs. "Lol, look how many clueless losers our clunky hated enterprise systems had eliminated, and how much did that save the shareholders. Those guys deserve it for not spending time with latest tech and not seeing what's coming."

Now that we are starting to recognize we had been bootloaders of our demise, how does our own medicine taste to us?

tomaskafka··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
"What Got You Here Won't Get You There"

The name of the book stays in my head rent free (even though the book itself probably isn't worth reading). So far, 40s look like that to me.

Also, maybe that "socialist support net" Europe has, and techbros loved to diss, isn't so laughable right now?

tomaskafka··on Apple HomeView
Apple's own ad honestly shows that adding another screen to a chaotic family

- does not help with anything at all

- creates extra burden and distraction for everyone involved

Rarely refreshing, kudos to Apple team!

https://x.com/Austen/status/2110007429190885777

tomaskafka··on Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
> independently developed funcitoning ICBMs and nuclear weapons, you can't do that with uneducated starving peasants who are eating rats

Boy, you should read Russian history before writing comments like this.

tomaskafka··on Apple HomeView
(Here is how it works if anyone’s interested: https://weathergraph.app/#faq-forever-for-two )
tomaskafka··on Apple HomeView
Isn’t is amazing how Apple’s answer to having five kids is consistently “pick the one to single out”, without having any process at all for making an exception?

They somehow missed the memo that Sophia’s choice wasn’t an operating manual.

I mean, I’m single indie developer and I have a process to give a lifetime membership to people’s significant others (as Apple has nothing between “a single person” vs “a whole family”, and no option to give eg. discounted bundles for couples), so it doesn’t seem like a rocket science.

tomaskafka··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I agree - I view LLMs as semantic databases (of mostly stolen training data) with inference capabilities and NLG querying.
tomaskafka··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
If I was Adobe's marketing department, I wouldn't be sure whether to run around quietly seeding such stories, or be completely silent and hope people won't notice the moat is getting thinner.
tomaskafka··on Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries
They do hate it; they have been taught that no matter the complaints, the bad experience will never change, so why waste time complaining.
tomaskafka··on Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
IMDb seems to be entirely dead. I would imagine communities of people discussing the amazing details of each movie and giving points of view I didn’t consider and tidbits I didn’t know, but instead it’s … a list of movies, directors and actors, wrapped in megabytes of ads.
tomaskafka··on Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
That is not “life in NK”, that is an influencer that has been allows to make propaganda video of parts of capital. Read the actual witness of NK people who managed to escape, it’s one of the worst hells on Earth.
tomaskafka··on Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
Aaand the bot drivers are now back online
tomaskafka··on It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"
Finally, we built a mirror bacteria from the famous "Don't create a mirror bacteria" paper.
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