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by sestep 1mo ago
Full title: "Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else, it’s the problem"
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by sestep 2mo ago
> In case you are curious about Fable: I intentionally did not test it because I was not sure if the classifiers they are running might downgrade me to Opus silently. Is this still a thing? I thought Anthropic walked back the silent down
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by sestep 3mo ago
> The famous E=mc^2 it's just the first term of a Taylor expansion. Is this actually true? My understanding was that E=mc^2 is exact for a particle at rest.
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by sestep 3mo ago
It's slower. Wasm32 can just reserve 8 GiB (32-bit pointer + 32-bit offset) of the virtual address space from the OS for each memory, so checking for out-of-bounds memory accesses imposes no performance penalty. Wasm64 can't do th
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by sestep 3mo ago
This is just false. The article links to the 46-page paper [1] which lists full prompts in section E.2. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740
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by sestep 4mo ago
I've seen various posts about Elixir's gradual type system pop up on HN, but haven't been following too closely. Does anyone know whether this particular gradual type system can change the asymptotics of programs vs untyped c
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by sestep 4mo ago
For sure, and in the PR description for the Nixpkgs AI policy, they explicitly mentioned this as a "brown M&M test" [1]. I read the blog post as being against including this information in commit messages at all, not just abou
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by sestep 4mo ago
I mean, sure, except that many large open-source projects (e.g. Linux [1], Nixpkgs [2], etc) require this as part of their AI policy. Omit attribution in your own projects if you want, but the maintainers of these projects are owed at least
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by sestep 4mo ago
The triangular table view is fascinating. It looks like the periodic table. I wonder if there are number-theoretic lemmas (or at least conjectures?) about what "family" the optimal packing for a given number falls into (like diamo
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All one-byte program names in Nixpkgs(gist.github.com)
2 points by sestep 4mo ago|0 comments
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by sestep 4mo ago
All I see is "Sorry, we've misplaced that URL or it's pointing to something that doesn't exist."
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by sestep 5mo ago
Another great tool, built on top of nix-locate, is comma. So for any program foo, if you have foo installed, you can run it like this: foo And if you don't have it installed, you can run it (without installing!) like this: ,
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by sestep 5mo ago
I agree with the other replies saying to just run the checks in CI and have the CI error message mention how to install the pre-commit hook. I'm glad cloning a repo doesn't automatically install hooks since I strongly dislike them
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by sestep 5mo ago
Are you referring to how the nixpkgs-unstable branch hasn't been updated in the past five days? Or do you have some specific software in mind? (not arguing, just curious)
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by sestep 6mo ago
This is an issue in Python but less so in languages like JavaScript that support "field name punning", where you pass named arguments via lightweight record construction syntax, and you don't need to duplicate a field name if
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Newcomb's Paradox Needs a Demon(samestep.com)
15 points by sestep 6mo ago|41 comments
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by sestep 7mo ago
One of the other PhD students in my department has an NDSS 2026 paper about combining the strengths of both LLMs and traditional decompilers! https://lukedramko.github.io/files/idioms.pdf
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by sestep 7mo ago
Could you clarify what you mean about Nix missing concurrency and parallelism? I often run builds using nix-output-monitor and it definitely looks like things are running in parallel, although I could be mistaken.
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by sestep 8mo ago
I think you can do this with Virgil, but I'm having trouble finding the exact doc page at the moment: https://github.com/titzer/virgil
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by sestep 8mo ago
https://samestep.com
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by sestep 8mo ago
I tried this five years ago back when I was an engineer on the PyTorch project, and it didn't work well enough to be worth it. Has it improved since then?
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by sestep 8mo ago
This sounds cool but is extremely uninteresting without performance measurements. Are there any?
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by sestep 8mo ago
Same question but for Jai.
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by sestep 8mo ago
Noob question: if it just compiles to threads, is there any need for special syntax in the first place? My understanding was that no language support should be required for blocking on a thread.
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by sestep 8mo ago
Ahh no you're right, I forgot about the difficulties for GPU specifically; apologies for my overly curt earlier message. More accurately: I think this is definitely possible (Troels and I have talked a bit about this previously) and I&
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by sestep 8mo ago
It should be fairly straightforward; feel free to open a PR following the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md :)
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by sestep 8mo ago
Nope, both are measured! In fact, the time to do the autodiff transformation isn't even reflected in the charts shown on the README and the website; those charts only show the time to actually run the computations.
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by sestep 8mo ago
Hey Eric, great to see you've now published this! I know we chatted about this briefly last year, but it would be awesome to see how the performance of jax-js compares against that of other autodiff tools on a broader and more standard
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by sestep 9mo ago
If you have asciinema already installed then you can invoke it through svg-term like this! svg-term --command 'cowsay hey there' But that has the aforementioned issues about not pausing enough, so I usually just record with
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by sestep 9mo ago
I'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

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