slooonz

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by slooonz 5mo ago
One of the hardest problem in programming is naming your variables correctly. I love chaining because it reduce the number of occurrences of that problem.
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by slooonz 6mo ago
"What Elon Musk think or at least pretend to think" is indeed an useful/interesting piece of information, and I don’t see why a commentary on it is necessary or particularly useful ? I mean, I can do the "critical readin
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Show HN: Uback 0.7 – A universal bridge between backup sources and destinations(github.com)
1 points by slooonz 7mo ago|0 comments
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by slooonz 7mo ago
versitygw is the simplest "just expose some S3-compatible API on top of some local folder"
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by slooonz 9mo ago
Why would I pick this over established players : Maddy, Mox, Stalwart ?
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by slooonz 9mo ago
You’re just doing brute force, but with extra steps. It turns out that partial collisions are more common than you think, and it’s not particularly hard to find some. Here, a 186-bits partial collision, found in less than two minutes on my
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by slooonz 10mo ago
Yes it should, because hopefully errors are logged and reported and can be acted upon. Missing name doesn’t.
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by slooonz 10mo ago
It was goofy and fun-looking when the first blog did it. Now that everyone and its dog does those "goofy" illustrations, I find them insufferable.
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by slooonz 10mo ago
I think you should clearly spell out how the key is derived. From the description, I believe it's random string hard-coded in the executable + user-provided password => AES key ? Also… "full offline", but "my API is o
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by slooonz 1y ago
Operational concerns trumps raw performances most of the time. Stored procedures live in a different CI/CD environment, with a different testing framework (if there’s even one), on a different deployment lifecycle, using a different la
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by slooonz 1y ago
That was my first thought, an aimless dialogue is going to go toward content-free idle chat. Like humans talking about weather.
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by slooonz 1y ago
They failed hard with Claude 4 IMO. I just can't have any feedback other than "What a fascinating insight" followed by a reformulation (and, to be generous, an exploration) of what I said, even when Opus 3 has no trouble find
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by slooonz 1y ago
Mostly males. I’m French and "Claude can be female" is a almost a TIL thing (wikipedia says ~5% of Claudes are women in 2022 — and apparently this 5% is counting Claudia).
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by slooonz 1y ago
> A priority was to make setup and trial easy for non-technical users That’s a very strange priority. Why would non-technical users would be interested in a file format and a Python library ?
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by slooonz 1y ago
Yes. This is partly why this article is crap. k*G is never defined, and is the core operation in ECC (also: the article insist on using an elliptic curve in R, but you need to do it on a finite field, because on a smooth curve you can just
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by slooonz 2y ago
Remember that input tokens are quadratic with the length of the conversation, since you re-upload the n previous messages to get the (n+1)-nth message. When Claude completes a task in 3-4 shots, that’s cents. When he goes down in a rabbit h
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by slooonz 2y ago
2200 lines. Half of them unit tests I would probably have been too lazy to write myself even for a "more real" project. Yes, I consider $20 cheap for that, considering: 1. It’s a learning experience 2. Looking at the chat transcri
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by slooonz 2y ago
I decided to try seriously the Sonnet 3.7. I started with a simple prompt on claude.ai ("Do you know claude code ? Can you do a simple implementation for me ?"). After minimal tweaking from me, it gave me this : https:/&#x2F
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by slooonz 2y ago
Ironically, you exemplify the standard of discourse that the rationalist spaces of discussion like lesswrong strives to go above, which is what makes them so valuable. Loaded question (well, affirmation), on a confident sneery tone while us
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by slooonz 2y ago
> I don't think most rationalists would consider themselves leftist Yes they do. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5FqX6XBJlfOShMd3U...
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by slooonz 2y ago
You average grad student in physics is less wrong than Newton in physics (he knows about special relativity for example). It’s not "smugness", of course building on the shoulders of those who comes before means building better th
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by slooonz 2y ago
You know that what you are describing is the central observation of rationalism right ? "Humans rationalize, so you better be skeptical of your own beliefs". You presenting it as a blind spot of rationalists, but that’s precisel
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by slooonz 2y ago
> One possibility is that AGI remains a tool, without a mind or direction other than what we give it "Solve for the equilibrium" is the name of the game. "AGI remain a tool" is nice, until you notice that some people
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by slooonz 2y ago
"There is no good answer to that" is precisely my concern.
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by slooonz 2y ago
> Why aren't there autonomous vehicles already? There’s a lot of reasons. Not in the order of importance, just what in the order of what comes first in my mind : 1. While Real World Interactions (robotics, autonomous driving, factor
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by slooonz 2y ago
Yes, collective suicide means we no longer have any Climate Change issue. Calling this "a solution" stretches the definition of the word tho. > If we are to survive and thrive long term we need to become true masters of our env
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by slooonz 2y ago
> For now - we're not there at all. Both OpenAI and Anthropic think it’s a question of a couple of years at most. Gwern, who has a good track record of predictions, think so too. We’re pretty much here. I arrived at the same conclus
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by slooonz 2y ago
Yes, but this time the automation (AI) can immediately displace humans in the newly created, "more productive form of work" jobs too. Recursively.
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by slooonz 2y ago
But diff does not exists in a vacuum. It would need to be integrated to IDEs, editor, merge tools, PR tools. You now have to have `patch` understand and depend on the details of the syntax of your language. In a way that may break between d
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by slooonz 2y ago
You want diff to know the syntax and semantics of every programming language out there ?

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