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davman··on Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents
My research would be wildly out of date by now but I'm happy to chat. I probably have pre-corrections copies of some of the papers I could send you... and about a hundred citations I fetched back when I was doing this research.
davman··on Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents
Oh hey, something I know something about!

I've long held the belief that if you want to simulate human behaviour, you need human-like memory storage, because so much of our behaviour is influenced by how our memories work. Even something as stupid as walking into between rooms and forgetting why you went there, is a behaviour that would otherwise have to be simulated directly but can be indirectly simulated by the memory of why an Agent is moving from room to room having a chance of disappearing.

Now, as for how useful this will be for something that isn't trying to directly simulate a human and is trying to be "superintelligent", I'm not entirely sure, but I am excited that someone is exploring it.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5952114 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5548405 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5953964

I never did get many citations for these, maybe I just wasn't very good at "marketing" my papers.

davman··on Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
Is this an alt account I didn’t know I had?
davman··on Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
its globally in the hub. The announcement says they are rolling out the block in March but this already blew up my k8s clusters since last weekend. Have tried looking for an option to tell k8s to always use authentication tokens for image pulls, but can't find a way, going to have to add Kyverno to mutate all incoming Deployments to add imagePullSecrets.
davman··on Why do Americans love ice water so much?
Lots of examples on this channel, but here’s a lovely one https://youtu.be/I8r2EAb0Yoo
davman··on Intermittent fasting 2 days vs. 1 day per week
Appreciate your concern! :) Apparently hypoglycemia without diabetes is a thing (you prompted me to google), so I've ordered a blood sugar monitor and I'll do tracking for a week or two with a fast.
davman··on Intermittent fasting 2 days vs. 1 day per week
Yeah unfortunately I’ve had these symptoms throughout my life, have been regularly checked for diabetes but no dice. My dad has type 1 so we recognised my symptoms, but apparently it isn’t diabetes.
davman··on Intermittent fasting 2 days vs. 1 day per week
If someone can make it so it doesn't feel like I can no longer think or move any muscles or start sweating if I go more than about 3 hours without eating, then I'm on board! Also hunger pangs. Please no.
davman··on Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
That certainly sounds like Accenture.
davman··on Node.js packages don't deserve trust
I think curated packages is part of what https://tidelift.com/ is trying to achieve.
davman··on PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to detect side effects
Related:

I have an outstanding Bounty on a SO question for how to write a reusable useRef hook that only runs on the very first mount under StrictMode conditions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71695213/equivalent-isfi...

davman··on Smartknob – an open-source input device
Saw this and instantly want one. I have no idea what I’ll use it for, maybe just an extremely expensive fidget spinner, but I want one.

As per usual living in the UK will make it cost prohibitive to make it myself, but I would pay probably $150-200 for a retail one.

davman··on TypeScript Without TypeScript
I'd love to know more about how you're doing enums. We use JSDoc annotated JS code with tsc switched on to get the IDE integration, and I spent a huge chunk of time yesterday getting enums to work so that for example we could define a type where only certain enum values were valid (enum member types https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/enums.html#unio... )

Was preparing a blog post on this enum work, but if you've solved it differently it'd be great to know :)

davman··on Writing a printer driver in JavaScript
I did something pretty similar for a Brother thermal printer, it took a couple of weeks and I completely lost my mind at one point when I tried to print a single pixel and it ended up as a gigantic block... https://daveirvine.me/#ninety_bytes_is_720_bits
davman··on Some notes on using esbuild
I think you should be able to do something similar to the webpack config that Vue ships would be to use https://github.com/igoradamenko/esbuild-plugin-alias and pass in a similar `runtimeCompiler` option to your build script.
davman··on Summary of June 8 outage
gov.uk ?
davman··on Ask HN: Best Practises / advice for Home Ethernet Cabling
In my new-build (2016) I couldn't bring myself to drill into the floor, and you're basically looking at taking the plasterboard off and redoing it IMO. I ended up giving up and going with Ethernet-over-power when I desperately needed hardwire, with Powerline Wifi repeaters as well.

Now (last Friday) moved house to a 2013 build so I'm a bit more comfortable with putting holes in things.

davman··on Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display
Does this help? https://www.buydisplay.com/5-inch-tft-lcd-module-800x480-dis...
davman··on “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
Its not always just aesthetic unfortunately. Try this shining example from British local government:

http://www.manchester.gov.uk vs http://manchester.gov.uk

davman··on What’s New in ES2019
You mean https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... ?
davman··on Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
And yet the tech scene in Leicester is awful in comparison :(
davman··on A Decade of Remote Work
From a UK perspective, my question is how do you find roles that allow remote work? It always seems to be a blocker and I end up having to take non-remote roles to pay the bills.
davman··on Ask HN: How can I convince a team member to try TDD
Maybe TDD just isn't for him/her/other?

I prototype, then tests, then refactor and I know some people would be zealously against this style; demanding tests before everything. However my mind just doesn't work this way, I need to play with code to get ideas out of my head; coming up with relevant test cases takes a magnitude of time longer than making the prototype.

Now if your co-worker is not writing tests at all, this is a different matter, but as long as the code he writes is covered by a test suite in the end, what does it matter which order he/she does it in?

davman··on Ask HN: What is the thin vertical green line in these search results?
It's a unicode character from the title of one of the URLs in the search results.

https://superuser.com/questions/432015/what-is-this-%CD%8C%C...

Hover this link and look in your browser link preview bar (bottom of screen usually)

davman··on Ask HN: Why is there no wall plug with multiple USB-c ports
I'm no electrical engineer, but the spec says each usb-c port can provide up to 5amps at 20v, which you would need to do the full speed charge you wish for.

If you think about the size of the adapters that can do this already, you'd probably have to imagine nearly doubling the size for each additional port you added. Plus thermals, etc.

I could be wrong but I imagine its related to the physical limits of providing that much power in a small space.

davman··on Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round
The longterm path is to relicense with https://commonsclause.com/ and prevent AWS from selling the software as a platform.
davman··on Ask HN: Is it possible to temporarily live in the UK?
This isn't relevant to your question, and not to question your life choices, but why on earth would you want to move to the UK now? We're about to put ourselves through possibily the most traumatic political upheaval for years which, with the best will in the world, I can't imagine will go particularly smoothly.

I'd give it at least a year before you decide to come here!

davman··on I have magnets implanted in my hands
I guess the question is, what is it about current YouTube alternatives that don't cut it, apart from the userbase being smaller.
davman··on Programming Fonts – Test Drive
Working for me on the same environment
davman··on Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
!RemindMe 29 March 2019
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