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jeroenvlekon Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

Yeah..., or you could read the rest of the comment section and learn that I have RTFA, but that TFA was changed with one that explains it better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257929

This was what I read: https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dod...

jeroenvlekon Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

Am I the only one wondering if it's 26 chickens at once from a single artificial egg or they just succeeded 26 times with different eggs? Rationally it probably has to be the latter, but the title confuses me.

jeroenvlekon Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

True, but don't you think the FBI director should be held to higher standards of security hygiene than average people? Because I'm interpreting your tone as "it could happen to anyone". At some point the doubt is gone and there's no more benefit to give...

jeroenvlekon Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?

Exactly.

jeroenvlekon Hyprland Premium

Apologies, I should have been more specific. "Mature" was a reference to its feature set, not its stability. It runs fine in my setup. I meant things like automatic resolution and scale switching, for example, without having to edit my config file Indeed, I can script that myself, I will. My point is more that if that's the kind of thing I need to do myself, then I'm not paying 60 euro a year.

jeroenvlekon Hyprland Premium

I've been using Hyprland now for 4 months and it's my first tiling WM experience. I absolutely love it and actually donated 10 euro to the dev(s?).

Having said that: This is simply not mature enough yet to warrant a 60 euro a year subscription, regardless of premium features.

To be clear, I do see the potential and I would actually pay it but this is too early.

jeroenvlekon Life on a Closed Timelike Curve

Am I interpreting this correctly to say that if you travel through the universe (at relativistic speeds?) and you arive at your destination, then you are reset to be the same person as when you started the journey?

jeroenvlekon I don't do Domain Driven Design

In the average organization, if you're not talking to other departments then, almost by definition, you're also not doing DDD.

jeroenvlekon Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

In this context I can also highly recommend the Sara Walker episodes on Lex Fridman:

https://youtu.be/-tDQ74I3Ovs?si=1m0JV8gZEl4WFedG

https://youtu.be/SFxIazwNP_0?si=R7yZroSNbw5Jjc0H

https://youtu.be/wwhTfyX9J34?si=ceXh_aehsjQPklUT

jeroenvlekon Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

Ultimately even conventional 3d assets are rendered into pixelspace. It all comes down to the constraints in the model itself.

jeroenvlekon Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)

Very cool! Like others here I've done something similar about a decade ago [0], but only with inheritance and mutation. This was C++ and Qt.

[0] https://github.com/jeroenvlek/evopic

jeroenvlekon Day Rates (2023)

As a freelancer myself I go one step further and actually charge hourly rates. This granularity helps both with short workshops and fulltime projects because with the latter I'm often asked to work overtime or I have personal errands to run. Charging by the hour smooths this quite a lot.

jeroenvlekon Rust needs a web framework

Lol, and there are the downvotes

jeroenvlekon Rust needs a web framework

Strongly agree, yet debates about improving the ergonomics of the language, for which there clearly "is a market", seem to be hindered by those zealous activists. A minority, I'm certain, but vocal nonetheless.

It really can be small stuff too, like hiding that nested generic "GC adjacent" type salad to be accessible only if you need it, via a type alias. Yes, I can define that myself, but the point is that a lot of people need it often, given its widespread use.l, so why not provide one?

I'm sure there's reasons not to do the above example, but that's not the point. It feels like Rust is at 95% of being amazing, and that the remaining 5% is attainable if we want to.

jeroenvlekon Sci-Fi: Every Idea in One CSV

Amazing list and despite having read sci-fi almost exclusively for the past 5 years, luckily there's still so much more to read!

jeroenvlekon Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

Your explanation is appreciated. I naively assumed HN moderation was more meta than that. It boils down to taste, ultimately. I'm really a fan of Rust, and it is sobering to now experience this gatekeeping that the Rust community is often accused of first hand.

Of course, mixing keywords single quotes is confusing, but currently the single quote is also confusing.

Just to illustrate: The keyword could just be called lif, which has the same length as dyn.

jeroenvlekon Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

When is someone a Rust developer and why do you assume that I am not one?

edit: -4 points on my parent comment for a totally valid opinion, not violating any commenting guide line (please enlighten me). However, for the down voters: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."

jeroenvlekon Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

A lifetime keyword would actually go a long way in improving ergonomics. You could even make it synonymous with '. Then people can choose. Maybe one will get much more traction and the other can be deprecated.

jeroenvlekon Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications

Seems like Tesla could really benefit from this about to be released optimizer that reduces intra-GPU communication [0].

[0] https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO/blob/main/A_Prelimina...

jeroenvlekon Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist

Ultimately, we're all just living in an episode on Rick & Morty's galactic cable TV

jeroenvlekon There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

They really are in a class of their own. So smart, eloquent and original. And I have to admit that I don't even get 100% of all references.

The first two also really read like an anime, including a cotton candy sweet beginning.

jeroenvlekon There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

Bought it due to your recommendation. Will start after I finished The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer

jeroenvlekon RLHF is just barely RL

My takeaway is that it's difficult to make a "generic enough" evaluation that encompasses all things we use an LLM for, e.g. code, summaries, jokes. Something with free lunches.

jeroenvlekon Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

What a curious swap. May I ask which course he taught?

jeroenvlekon KUtrace: Low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility

Much appreciated. I bought all 3.

jeroenvlekon Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models

Personally I welcome it. It feels like an extension of humor in code (comments), and it provides a different perspective on the message.

jeroenvlekon Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models

The hard part would be to get the money for the needed compute, I presume. Although Karpathy just released a way to train a GPT2 level model for only 120 dollars [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/l8pRSuU81PU?si=NnbI-7CG-Qbm3E46

jeroenvlekon Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models

Still anecdotal, but I can only confirm this with my own experience. The worst was when I was debugging code, described the problem to GPT-4o, and then got my exact same code back with some blanket statements like "print your output for debugging" etc. This happened a couple of times over separate chats.

jeroenvlekon How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

Interesting article, corroborated by half a century of video games.