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xrisk··on Okay, I Like WezTerm
You can dump iterm2s config into a file and sync it to other machines.

Granted it’s not meant to be edited directly but rather via the GUI, but yeah it’s possible to persist it if you want.

xrisk··on AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
Can you give some context on how using Lean benefits?

In my understanding, proofs are usually harder to transcribe into Lean which is nobody _writes_ proofs using Lean.

What is a nlinarith?

xrisk··on AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
Lean is just the language, Presumably to drive the AI towards the program (“the proof”)
xrisk··on Terminal Workspace with Batteries Included
Seems like a tmux that’s configured out-of-the-box. Neat.
xrisk··on Just Be Rich (2021)
The same Wikipedia article notes that the increase in median income is due to increasing women’s wages and increased participation of women in the labor force.

> While wages for women have increased greatly, median earnings of male wage earners have remained stagnant since the late 1970s. Household income, however, has risen due to the increasing number of households with more than one income earner and women's increased presence in the labor force.

xrisk··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
It seems that the Apple intelligence stuff will be 15 Pro. Man, I just bought a 15 ~8 months ago. That really sucks.
xrisk··on A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis
Didn’t Gödel show that in most useful logical systems there are true statements that cannot be proved?
xrisk··on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
Huh I’m glad I have AirPods, they work perfectly in this scenario. One of those Apple ecosystem things I guess.
xrisk··on A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
That… seems excessive. Is it just security theater or actually useful somehow?
xrisk··on Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
I’d rather have browser vendors responsible for a correct implementation. This seems like a rather nuanced feature.
xrisk··on OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
Obfs4 is what you need
xrisk··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
What’s the current relationship of the project with DE Shaw and how did you end up making a company on top of this?
xrisk··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
Might be iCloud private relay if you use that
xrisk··on Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay
You can’t even view the tweet if you have iCloud private relay turned on
xrisk··on Why is Prettier rock solid?
Is that because they don’t use a bot to auto-close issues like a lot of other projects?
xrisk··on Why the serverless revolution has stalled (2020)
What’s your QPS like and what’s the value-add over running it on something like EC2? (or AppEngine etc if you want something more managed?)
xrisk··on Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
Just spent a great half-hour going through your blog. Great work! :)
xrisk··on US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Curious: outside of people who take lots of high res video, what do people need high-speed USB C for?
xrisk··on LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
How do you know there’s no search involved?
xrisk··on LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
Definitely, but treating fen positions as tokens isn’t going to work, you need something smaller, something you can decompose into. What that is I don’t know.
xrisk··on LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
There are far too many possible positions aka tokens for this to be feasible.
xrisk··on LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
I’m pretty sure you can write a simple tree search based program that plays better than 90% of humans, sheerly by crunching numbers quickly. I’m sure you wouldn’t claim that that program “understands” chess in the way a human does.

Of course it’s a different question as to how exactly do humans understand chess.

I personally don’t believe humans have some sort of “special” intelligence, whatever we do must be computable and therefore doable by a computer. It’s just that todays LLMs don’t seem to be it.

xrisk··on UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B
Well that’s the point, UPI is literally interoperable and you can use any app you want and it just works. It’s not Indian’s fault that there is no such standard worldwide.
xrisk··on Eppie is a decentralized email with full address and account ownership
Look ma! They reinvented Freenet
xrisk··on Cognitive AI for ADHD
I wanted to use this but the privacy policy doesn’t give me much confidence. Are you going to be storing my prompts (and then later using it for training)? Medical data, especially mental health data, is pretty sensitive.
xrisk··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
put your private key in something like Secretive: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
xrisk··on Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP
Imagine all these games on an Apple TV… I’m assuming at some point those will also start using M chips. Excited to see if apple can enter the console market.
xrisk··on Apple Vision
This TechCrunch review where the reviewer had access to them says that the issues with headaches/nausea don’t happen: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/05/first-impressions-yes-appl...
xrisk··on The HTTP QUERY Method specification
did you even read the article? it describes why this is a bad idea — it’s not just your server that’s handling the request, it’s all the other middleboxes in between.
xrisk··on Ask HN: Suggestions to host 10TB data with a monthly +100TB bandwidth
How do you achieve deduplication with S3?
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