JackC

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Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athena(jackcushman.org)
1 points by JackC 2mo ago|0 comments
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by JackC 2mo ago
> What Reame is NOT for — said plainly, because trust is built here It is so weird (or, used to be) to see an LLM's internal thought process pop up this way. Like imagine how strange it would be to read human writing that accidental
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by JackC 3mo ago
I mean, we're talking about an administration that has already over-reached in regulating this specific company out of personal bias; is openly seeking leverage over companies for favoritism and graft; hires on the basis of loyalty to
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by JackC 5mo ago
"They may speed up the good programmers a little, but those people were able to program anyway without LLMs." I don't think this is realistic. I'm a good programmer, and it speeds up my work a lot , from "make sens
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by JackC 6mo ago
The article argues that shared memory and message passing are the same thing because they share the same classes of potential failure modes. Isn't it more like, message passing is a way of constraining shared memory to the point where
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Show HN: Agent Protocols Tech Tree(harvard-lil.github.io)
1 points by JackC 7mo ago|0 comments
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by JackC 8mo ago
I don't have a job where I need this, but I love the UI experimentation you're doing here -- "fast muscle memory folder-based encrypted snippets for devops" makes total sense as a different need than most password manage
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by JackC 10mo ago
I knew about those internment camps -- because they were widely recognized afterward as a stain on our national character, something never to be repeated. And I knew about the hieleras[1] and about Guantanamo. And about so many other instan
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by JackC 10mo ago
Thanks for your work! Is the project interested in supporting http-vfs readonly usecases? I'm thinking of tools like DuckDB or sql.js-httpvfs that support reading blocks from a remote url via range requests. Curious because we build st
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by JackC 11mo ago
> The president has something to offer as a solution. For everything. Unfortunately it is not a coincidence that the solution to all problems is always (a) make a loud noise (b) take your stuff (c) take away your ability to object to tak
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by JackC 11mo ago
Opinion from 10 years ago, I suspect still valid: There are a million python libraries and tools to do some overlapping subset of the things you'd want to do with a pdf. There are no doubt another million in other languages. These are
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by JackC 1y ago
Cases are being filed -- of ones with decisions, about 138 successful cases to block executive actions so far, and 91 unsuccessful. https://apnews.com/projects/trump-executive-order-lawsuit-tr... Meanwhile the Supreme
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by JackC 1y ago
> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be? At best a walled garden is
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by JackC 1y ago
Amusingly this makes them more like actual fingerprints, which also lack enough information for "true fingerprinting" -- there seems to be little scientific knowledge of the error rates in matching human fingerprints in court. &qu
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by JackC 1y ago
This is why Slay the Spire is as loved as it is -- clearly defined skill and luck checks delivered one after the other at the precise limits of your ability. Minesweeper is more like a quirky old wooden board game, charming because it'
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by JackC 1y ago
Here https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha... It's been below 300 ppm for at least the last 800,000 years, had now increased to over 400 ppm in a pattern that directly maps to the indus
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by JackC 1y ago
(I read the post but not paper.) Did you measure subjective fatigue as one way to explain the misperception that AI was faster? As a developer-turned-manager I like AI because it's easier when my brain is tired.
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by JackC 1y ago
> Signal already offers reproducible builds After a short google, I think it does not have reproducible builds for Mac, Windows, or iOS. It does for Linux and Android, though there's a long Android bug thread that sounds like the re
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by JackC 1y ago
The difference in fields is key here: AI models are going to have a very different impact in fields where ground truth is available instantly (does the generated code have the expected output?) or takes years of manual verification. (Not a
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by JackC 1y ago
> It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood. Not really the point of the article, but, does it? This[0] says the bed is 60 inches long and 43 wide, and plywood is 96x48 inches. Is it like, any vehicle fits ply
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by JackC 1y ago
> People could have invented crypto versions of real-life things like insurances and mortgages. Crypto makes large technical sacrifices for the sake of being harder to regulate. I don't think that's a desirable quality for insu
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by JackC 1y ago
> I work for an org with close ties to arXiv, and just like us they are getting a lot more demand due to AI crawling Funny, I also work on academic sites (much smaller than arXiv) and we're looking at moving from AWS to bare metal f
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by JackC 1y ago
This might be what you mean, but for anyone reading -- the point of Simon's article is the whole agent and all of its tools have to be considered part of the same sandbox, and the same security boundary. You can't sandbox MCPs ind
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by JackC 1y ago
I'll add "reduce code size and complexity" to the list of benefits. A python library to calculate a simhash, or track changes on a django model, or auto generate test fixtures, will often be 90% configuration cruft for other
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by JackC 2y ago
Here's the full decision, which (like most decisions!) is largely written to be legible to non-lawyers: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.721... The core story seems to be: Westlaw writes an
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by JackC 2y ago
It is on core Harvard funds, and we also have paid accounts used by law firms and journalists. As an innovation lab we often minimize Harvard branding with project websites because it's more instructive to win or lose on our own merits
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by JackC 2y ago
We're coauthors on the wacz-auth spec, which is designed to solve this sort of thing by signing archives with the domain cert of the archive that created them. If you cross-sign with a private cert you can do pretty well with this appr
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by JackC 2y ago
I think the biggest distinction is between archiving platforms made primarily for authors and primarily for web crawlers. If you're an author (say, of a court decision) and you archive example.com/foo, Perma makes a fresh copy of
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by JackC 2y ago
Hi! Perma is made by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, which I direct, and I wrote a bunch of the early code for it back in 2015 or so. For HN readers, I'd suggest checking out https://tools.perma.cc/ , where we post
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by JackC 2y ago
I think the distinction is these usecases require an ABI, but not the same ABI? You could in theory migrate both sides to Carbon for all of these, if it was worth it.

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