lennoff
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Comment · 28 days ago
Can't we settle somewhere in the middle? Like occasionally sleeping an hour longer, but never shorter?
Comment · 2 months ago
Sometimes you don't need an _exact_ solution. approximation of the traveling salesman problem exists for the metric version, it's O(n^3), and produces a result that's not worse than 50% of the optimal result, and for the general case O(n^2) algorithm exists that produces a result that costs at most twice the optimal result.
Comment · 3 months ago
wow, i checked the documentation, and you're right. the type is indeed poorly named!
Comment · 3 months ago
I disagree with the timestamptz advice. I tend to use timestamp (without the timezone), this forces me to use UTC everywhere, so I'm not even tempted to use anything else. I work in fintech, and so far whenever i saw someone storing datetimes with an associated time zone, it always ended with a disaster.
Comment · 4 months ago
afaik before the final sampling, every "next" token has a probability, so theoretically it could select the 10 most likely tokens (based on some kind of sampling algorithm), but you'd end up with exponentially many output-sequences, so nobody does that.
Comment · 4 months ago
i think it actually makes sense, an LLM just imitates human communication, which happens to be useful from time to time.
Comment · 1 year ago
keep in mind that we have "vibe coding" now, where the goal is exactly to _not_ have a human in the loop (at least not constantly).
Comment · 1 year ago
It's fun to theorize about an alternate universe where JavaScript has a LISP-like syntax (Brendan Eich originally wanted "Scheme in the browser"[1], so this isn't so far-fetched!). Indeed, `interpret` sounds like a LISP macro that can "partially evaluate" code (so someone else, ie. the browser can continue to evaluate it).
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems like that the author by using JSX to express code directly as an AST re-invented LISP? See Greenspun's tenth rule[1].
Comment · 3 years ago
How can you ban AI? It's literally designed to produce text that's indistinguishable from text that was produced by a living human being.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's sad to see that Web Crypto[1] does not support Ed25519 (yet), only RSA and ECDSA for asymmetric signatures.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...
Comment · 4 years ago
Because of the company VPN, I usually teleport to Israel, and I have absolutely no idea how to change the language on a right-to-left layout with a Hebrew alphabet...
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess I'll mint an NFT that's going to be a screenshot of this HN thread...
Comment · 5 years ago
Slightly related question: is there a plug-in that can color my code based in scope instead of syntax?
Comment · 5 years ago
Tangentially related question: could Nuitka target WebAssembly, given that according to their overview page, they translate Python into C? Usually when it comes to Python -> WebAssembly, the biggest problem is the lack of GC in the WebAssembly spec (as far as I understand), and I'm wondering if this would be an issue for Nuitka as well...