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horsh1··on A third way of using Linux
Well, if we count claude as tui.
horsh1··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Like Shanghai
horsh1··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
In April
horsh1··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
If programming in the US to become unconditionally 10x more expensive, then the exodus from the US is about to begin.
horsh1··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
Because these are completely different requirements.
horsh1··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Enclosure of XXI century
horsh1··on The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)
Instead of useless stock photos we now have useless AI generated photos.
horsh1··on Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)
The hikers move from tin canned tushonka to plastic pack like these ones https://yandex.ru/images/search?from=tabbar&text=%D0%BA%D1%8...
horsh1··on Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)
This article positions as something invented between the USA and the USSR... But, just looking into wikiepdia:

"One such solution was a method proposed in 1809 by the French pastry chef Nicolas François Appert, which involved long-cooking meat or vegetables (approximately 1-2 hours) and pasteurizing the finished product in a brine solution. Appert received a personal award for this invention from Napoleon."

horsh1··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
So why would they bury a man with a book?
horsh1··on Not buying another Kindle
My typewriter has been successfully serviced 45 years after being produced.
horsh1··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
You are describing a typical state of a wibecoded project.
horsh1··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
The problem is that organizations providing infrastructure (such as message exchange, money exchange, physical entities exchange) are allowed by law to manipulate the stream, heavily advertise, provide credit etc all kind of scum. Depriving children from writing a message to parents and friends is nonsense. Exposing them to these for-profit organizations is questionable. But that is also questionable with the grown ups.
horsh1··on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news
Comparing the same article in different languages sometimes gets very educational.
horsh1··on Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
So what countries will be the beneficiaries of this process?
horsh1··on 2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
How many of them have mobile or internet connection?
horsh1··on When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
Why in this story students use GPT and professors don't?

If you are an expert -- sit down and start working with GPT on your own. See what it can and what it can not do. See where it helps. See where it hands down lose.

horsh1··on When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
Unless we intend to surrender everything about human symbolic manipulations (all math, all proving, all computations, all programming) to llm in the nearest future, we still need some formal representations for engineering.

The major part of tradidional NLP was about formal representations. We are still to see the efficient mining techniques to extract the formal representations and analyses back from LLM.

How would we solve the traditional NLP problems, such as, for example, formalization of law corpus of a given country with LLM?

As an approximation we can look at non-natural language processing, e.g. compiler technologies. How do we write an optimizing compiler on LLM technologies? How do we ensure stability, correctness and price?

In a sence, the traditional NLP field has just doubled, not died. In addition to humans as language capable entities, who can not really explain how they use the language, we now also have LLM as another kind of language capable entities. Who in fact also can not explain anything. The only benefit is that it is cheaper to ask LLM the same question a million of times that a human.

horsh1··on The Simplicity of Prolog
You have "Rows" repeated eight times in this short snippet. You have all the rest of your variables as two letter names. It feels low level, almost like Fortran.
horsh1··on Ask HN: Is it a di*k move to reject pull requests with non-eng commit msgs?
Latin should be okay.
horsh1··on EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
Writing any documents with Word is a sin.
horsh1··on Inventing Cyrillic
50 years is a long time.

Between the existence of Austria-Hungary empire, when the Latin alphabet was very relevant for all the Balkans, and the end of WW2, when the Cyrillic became much more relevant for them is just 1945-1918=27 years.

horsh1··on Inventing Cyrillic
Why Latin? At the moment of EU dissolution, there will be an easy choice of switching to Arabic vs staying with Cyrillic.
horsh1··on Destination Amaltheia – Soviet Science Fiction (1962)
Yeah, a pulp fiction par exellence. Very good when you are 11 years old. Why on HN?
horsh1··on When do we stop finding new music?
6. Go to whosampled.com and figure out the originals. Whom do they cover, whom do they sample.
horsh1··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
As with the majority of the recent search startups: no hiragana, no hebrew, no cyrillic.
horsh1··on Should error messages apologize? (2013)
"File not found. Apologies are made". "The computer is being updated. Grief and sorrow."
horsh1··on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
... yet.
horsh1··on Have LLMs solved natural language parsing?
So with the current state of technologies we can answer all kinds of questions regarding a sentence, and an llm can even invent questions to all different words in the sentence. And we can translate between hundreds of languages live and dead. And we can even ask llm to produce a parse for a sentence.

But we just can not solve the question of mass translating sentences to their AST.

It amazes me. I really hope someone will step up and tell: sure it is possible as a cheap byproduct of the transformer technology, just do this and that.

horsh1··on Ask HN: What is must-have for a systems programming language?
For a systems language execution environment there is a huge list of crucial questions: what is a library, what is a package, how does linking works, how do you interact with different build systems, how you separately compile having only interface declarations, how to manage alternative libraries for the same interface, how to tweak compilation for multiple targets, how do you ffi?

The answers to all of the above will have an impact on your language features: how you import, how you declare foreign entities, what visibilities are possible, what data storage classes are theere, what is the module initialization order, what code can be executed during module initialization, what is your conditional compilation mechanisms?

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