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V8 isn't written in JavaScript?

Did you “earn” that reset on a lower tier?

You analyze the frequency of combinations of bytes, then replace those with high frequency with pointers to a single instance.

Sounds like a thing Putin would do in Russia.

I'm pretty sure the third thesis has been taught in my university physiology classes 20 years ago, too.

Not sure if anybody wants to combine the CAPEX risk of running a cloud business and the CAPEX risk of building out the massive capacities of solar, plus lease for the land, plus managing electricity backups for cloudy days.

One of the reasons self-hosting is not sustainable in Germany is that electricity is prohibitively expensive for non-industrial purposes. If you run a service company and do not own a data center, you pay more for the electricity than the equivalent in token costs overseas or in China.

Could you explain how you define hallucination in the context of creativity? Lack of consistency aside, the two look quite similar to me - or would you consider the existence of orcs and elves in LOTR to be hallucinations, too?

PSA for everyone reading this: don't mix vinegar with bleach. Hypochlorite decomposes at pH < 11 and releases chlorine gas.

Urea is odorless

The noise is a huge problem, indeed. Still, a panel of review agents using models and harnesses different from the one implementing a set of changes has proven immensely useful for myself. The panel is basically an n×m matrix of agents and highly specific review prompts, i.e.:

- review for intent fulfillment: is the ticket done?

- review for correctness: race condition bugs, ...

- review for security: check against this list of sources and best practices

- review for api conformity: identify all surfaces of systems outside this codebase touched by the code changes and check against their docs

- etc. pp., same for maintainability, observability & analytics, test coverage, usage of feature flags

The matrix is sparse, so not every model is used with each of the review categories. Effort levels vary, too. The next stage does a consolidation across all findings, then another stage spins up one agent per finding and investigates the whole codebases for identical / similar instances of the finding; finally, it suggests a fix.

This works extremely well for finding deficits, but the amount of noise drives me insane, too. Lots of feedback is technically correct and "by the book", but pretty useless in practical terms – or even detrimental because the amount of code written and thus the size of the change set explodes. I'm not yet sure how to tackle this problem, any suggestions are welcome!

I feel honored being compared to both a drunk buddy and Bart Simpson in a single comment!

Just came across this and it saved not only all of my email, but also my day! Awesome stuff!

"Currently supports Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Slack, CardDAV, Granola, Circleback, Notion AI Meeting Notes, Beeper Desktop, and IMAP sync, plus offline imports from Slackdump, MBOX exports, Apple Mail (.emlx) directories, PST archives, and common chat/text export formats."

Reminds me of how my wife, at the start of the pandemic, beat me TWELVE TIMES IN A ROW in rock-paper-scissors for going first playing Azul. That's like... anyways, she lost all of the Azul games, so I guess we're even.

What should I do now with the 4+ books authored by Ariely that I have sitting on my shelf?

It’s the opposite of racist, which would be clear if your previous comment hadn’t been flagged. Compare tel Aviv “pride” with US “proud boys”.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

.

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

.

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

.

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

.

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out

- Martin Niemöller

At least you can be proud in Tel Aviv using a rainbow instead of the color of your skin.

Just replace “left” with “the good guys according to kmeisthax (TM)” and “right” with “the bad guys according to kmeisthax (TM)” and I’d stop objecting at all. It’s not helpful (and not very honest, but rather eristic) to try to manipulate your understanding of good and bad onto “left” and “right”. It derails every discourse about what really matters: the question what is “good” and what is “bad”.

I know an e-commerce company where the staging environment was completely hijacked by product managers to "stage" their data. They've even convinced management to ask IT to build a tool for migrating data from staging to production. All of this just to avoid building a proper release flow for (product-)data.

Especially the pricing is equally joyous.

> 1. Right-wing politics supports and defends already-established power structures.

Once the left is in power, they immediately turn out to be right wing? Does it happen in the very second they gain power or only when try to keep it? Is running for the next election even though you're already in power inherently right-wing?

The author did not take a stance on the question if Hamas and Iran are leftist Muslims or far-right Islamists, so I dared to ask. You might not believe this, but many German leftist - even moderate ones - supported explicitly the Islamic Revolution, as well as the first or second Intifada. The author might include Hamas and IIR into his conclusion of some groups being "inherently scary to anyone outside the preferred in-group", but by observation, that doesn't seem to be true once your own out-group (i.e., Capitalists, Jews, and Jewish Capitalists) seems even more inherently scary to you than some Islamist thousands of miles away. It's also not true for the governments of Russia or China, which are neither Muslim nor Islamist, thus not part of the proclaimed Iranian "in-group", but they are not at all scared of them.

Furthermore, the author's claims demote "left" and "right" to some kind of synonyms of what they have labeld as "good" and "bad" on their personal moral compass, robbing them of any systematic meaning in political reality; those definitions match neither scientific consensus, nor the way people self-select into groups that call themselves either "left" or "right", nor the way these terms are used to describe policies. The reason is simple: the goals that he attributes to his idea of what "left" means cannot be achieved and sustained on the scale of modern governments and states without the means of authoritarianism, which is, by his definition, exclusively a "far-right" thing.

Thank you, I couldn't have said that in a better way.

"Anti-Fascism" is not an objective terminology to describe a stance against fascism. There are a million ways in which you can oppose fascism, most of which follow democratic traditions of the social, classical liberal, or conservative flavor.

Antifascism is a self-designation of popcultural dimensions, similar to a Che Guevara shirt. It can be appropriated by anybody who's willing to sign off on the same vague image of an enemy. I have no idea if there are, indeed, terroristic cells in the US that appropriated the brand of Antifascism, but there are some in Germany[0][1].

But more interestingly, the brand hasn't always been free of ownership: it was first created by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1932 as a part of their internal and external stalinisation and their adoption of authoritarian structures and policies, which started from 1928 under the influence of the USSR. During that time, KPD proclaimed the main fascist adversary to be no other than the Social Democrats (SPD):

"Stalinisation of the KPD began under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann. Freedom of discussion and internal democracy were replaced piece by piece by (...) authoritarian leadership. (...) in 1929 Thälmann and Stalin agreed upon an ultra-left course against the SPD, concluding that the Social Democrats represented a form of 'social fascism'. (...) The theory of social fascism dictated that Nazis and Social Democrats were essentially two sides of the same coin. The primary enemy of the Communists was supposedly the Social Democrats" [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_left-wing_extremism_tr...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Complex

[2] https://isj.org.uk/divided-they-fell-the-german-left-and-the...

It seems like there is tradeoff between model size and the need for tool use, which - in my mind - is quite costly in terms of time and tokens. More detailed world knowledge requires an exponential increase in model size, but most knowledge can be acquired ad hoc using search or database queries. This will fail for questions where the model lacks the knowledge to ask the right questions, but maybe this could be solved by a handful small inquiry models with different knowledge encoded in their weights?

I'd like to ask Sam Altman if he still thinks that it's too dangerous to publish GPT-3. I mean, no one would use it, but what is his reasoning for not publishing it now, in 2026?

But that's been true for your locally held claims as well, and even more so in modern times with tax rates hovering around 50% in many European countries. It's just that they take their cut every single month, instead of doing so at will.

What kind of program was that? Permanent employment contract (no "Befristung") without any co-financing through private investors, private grants, or the company's revenue?

This might be possible with public grants, but I've never seen it. They usually come with additional strings attached, such as being a de minimis subsidy (limited to 300k in a rolling 3 year window), requiring private co-funding (e.g. 50% for the whole project), being limited to a couple of months or maybe 2-3 years max, etc., so for competitive pay, you must almost always rely on some kind of "mixed financing": every penny above the salary that TVöD allows must be acquired from sources other than the gran. ymmv, part of the lack of attractiveness of public funding is the fact that each program differs in a million different ways.