ricardobeat

> well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms

The model being able to simply type out NN weights, on demand, and have it outperform one trained on 100M inputs pretty much fits that description, doesn’t it?

And being able to prove that knowledge is localized using tools, is also quite different from an LLM simply looking at raw weights and instantly pointing out that 18373 controls left movement.

It’s not a fundamental change in what we know, but a new emergent ability that surely warrants some excitement.

Good luck running (micro)python on an ESP32.

Is https://pinboard.in still a thing? I used to be a subscriber but completely forgot about it.

The exact same switch is sold by several hardware suppliers. I know Amazon has a bad reputation but standards still mean something.

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It later says that Prince Harry and others were taught that motto in childhood - so that was a temporary slip.

It's an industrial part made for use on much scarier machines.

From my reading of it, the override moment was because they made a coding error which cause manual adjustment to de-sync the arm position, the agent correctly refused to continue when it noticed that.

It does seem like there is minimal "surgery" involved but it's not much of a stretch. If a surgeon took the same steps but someone else opened the skull, it would still be considered 'brain surgery', I think.

As a Crystal fan, really nice syntax. The documentation leaves open several questions:

What is the memory model here? What does it compile to? What makes it 'low level'? Is there a GC? Does it have ABI compatibility with C or a FFI?

I am not looking for any kind of news. Online spaces were for sharing, not just consuming. Sharing creativity, work, experiences, opinions - not 'creating content' for clout. It's a shame that the last two generations did not get to experience this. The ones who lived through that, are still trying to find (or rebuild) those spaces.

"Vomitorium" is an architectural feature, vomit meaning 'to quickly discharge'.

leave to where? bluesky and mastodon are nearly dead for tech. threads is facebook.

> 5-MeO-DMT helped you see something you knew was true? (the red circles are the same size)

You may be an exception here?

Most humans, myself included, see the right circle as larger than the left one, regardless of how strongly you know they are the same size. Perception quirks like these are the basis for a lot of graphic design theory.

If the drug cancels this effect, it is doing something significant to the brain.

It is a bet if they are trying to build a business, or do research, on top of that position.

Not exactly. You are allowed to open the packaging, inspect it an check that it functions. Otherwise it would be pointless, wouldn't it? The exceptions are sealed games, health products, food, etc.

If you use it in a way that results in visible wear, the seller is allowed to deduct depreciation when you return it; that rarely happens.

Why do you suppose somebody wants to read your comment?

The UK inherited the EU 14-day return policy, it's great. Especially nowadays when there are a ton of products that you can't see in person at all, only order online.

The point about libghostty is that Herdr doesn't try to reimplement shell forwarding or emulation, instead it uses the same code your terminal already does. This avoids compatibility problems with more complex TUIs.

Running `herdr` always opens the same session, the app is a just a UI for a server running in the background. But there is no reason to open it in multiple windows, the point is to manage all shells from inside it.

Then you can from another machine do `herdr --remote xxx.local` (over Tailscale) to access the same session, or use `herdr machine add` to get your shells from all machines at once - I don't really use this part.

Leaking emails through your ad platform is quite a bit less serious than leaking five billion dollars.

Surprised to hear this, I'm not alone!

My account was banned back around 2021. I had a separate account on mobile, which got subsequently banned for 'evading a ban'. Have been unable to create an account since then, even on entirely new machines, different OS, renewed IP. Whatever tracking techniques they use are downright scary.

The worst part is that all of this started because a mod in a right-leaning sub silenced my account, then decided to turn it into a permanent ban for no reason.

Nowadays, I'd still like to visit r/programming for a change, and share some of my work, but otherwise it's such a cesspool of AI-generated content and bots that the appeal has almost entirely faded.

I love this story. They started roasting coffee and saving money for nearly a decade, until they could buy land in the mountains, and then set out to build a medieval monastery entirely in stone and developing the CNC machining. It's amazing what people can do when they have a goal.

Don't waste your time on Firefox/Safari: it will download 1GB of assets before failing to load.

~3 million more people voted compared to the first round. 30 million still didn’t vote. You just pay a fine to put your registration in order for the next time, there are no long term consequences.

> a model that refuses to write you a paragraph

AI slop reporting. Actual news: https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model...

The point is that this kind of prose is typical of LLMs. It’s like describing a driving game with “each car has four wheels and a suspension just like the real one”.

Well, I strongly disagree, especially if we are talking about the US in the last decade.

Bolsonaro’s government has zero proposals for anything that will lead the country in that direction anyway, and did very little in the four years they had. Some new, fresh leadership is urgently needed, hopefully in 2030 if there’s still elections.

Bolsonaro voters see the US as some kind of capitalist heaven, where they can live out their dreams of becoming rich and powerful without regulations. That is not a surprise. Brazilian expats majorly vote left in the rest of the world.

Of note, this Bolsonaro is the son of the former president, with zero political plans or credentials; his only claim is the name itself and what it represents. I find the idea of a family lineage in government, much, much worse.

Lula was voted in to power, Brazil is still a strong democracy despite the direction it’s going. It is a shame that another viable opposition candidate could not be produced as I’m not fond of having 80+ year olds in that seat, but still better than the alternative.

I have a feeling the problem isn’t that malicious unfortunately.

Right-wing folks are driven by social media since ~2016. Their content is emotional, aggressive and naturally conducive to more engagement. It’s what their base feeds on. So a lot of the situations described here are just standard ranking algorithms doing their job.

But that begs the question: is the existence of these platforms that amplify divisive and inflammatory content the problem itself? I vote yes. The power of reaching a wide audience should not be handed off without any cross-checks.

I understand the feeling - LLMs have seen the source code for other projects. but would you not have read other engine’s code to understand the problem space and existing solutions too?

The architecture is different, the language is different, implementation choices are all mine. It was not developed by autonomous agents. I don’t think you’ll find any code that is a duplicate of other engines* - happy to be proven wrong here.

* The regexp and unicode modules are taken from QuickJS and have the appropriate licenses.

Those were exactly my thoughts when deciding to write a new JS engine [1] written from scratch.

Having been a product and UX-focused dev for my entire career, I knew only the basics about parsers and compilers, but have enough experience to grasp where each piece of the puzzle fits, and how to evaluate them. At the beginning it was just a fun test, but it got progressively more serious; it now implements 100% of the latest spec, beats QuickJS in performance, and surpasses V8/JSC in test262.

It took me four months, and I imagine it would take me a single month to do it again - I’ve learned a lot. Someone who already knew what they were doing, and with the right orchestration, could achieve this in weeks at minimal cost.

I really think we are in for a cambrian explosion of software, enabling things that were just always a little out of reach before (like why can’t most of your devices really talk to each other, in 2026).

[1] https://github.com/ricardobeat/boomkat