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snthpy

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snthpy.at.hn

Chief Excel Officer, MAD* Scientist, Pythonista, Rustacian, PRQL Core Contributor (: ML, AI, Data)

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snthpy··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Cool, I didn't know that. It always makes me think of Zellig, the Woody Allen movie.
snthpy··on Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
I feel that the title burries the lead and a positive one would be better:

Upload queues are better than cooldowns

I almost didn't read it because I wasn't interested in a rant. This is a genuinely good idea though so I'm glad I did.

Alas, I did click through so perhaps the title is more effective than my sentiments.

snthpy··on Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User
This looks very cool! My concern is just that it's a lot of things bundled in one and I kind of have to trust you for all of them. I would prefer something that puts together a stack of better known components, like a docker compose of agent-sandbox and tailscale or something equivalent, etc ... ideally with each of those swappable.
snthpy··on Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User
Looks cool! What's a roost? Is that just a name for the server to go with the whole egg analogy some technology that I haven't heard of before?
snthpy··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
This sentiment seems to be shared widely. Is there a good conversion guide for tmux users?

I tried zellij a couple of years ago when it first got popular and it didn't click for me.

snthpy··on Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase
Thanks. What order of magnitude qbits would be needed for RSA 2048?
snthpy··on Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase
Thanks for the clarification.
snthpy··on A perfectable programming language
Great post. Thanks!
snthpy··on A perfectable programming language
Very nice!

I've been wanting to adopt Lean for a project but wasn't sure about the speed. Nice to hear that it should be good on that front.

snthpy··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Thanks. Just noting that those docs say the cache duration is 5 min and not 1 hour as stated in sibling comment:

> By default, the cache has a 5-minute lifetime. The cache is refreshed for no additional cost each time the cached content is used. > > If you find that 5 minutes is too short, Anthropic also offers a 1-hour cache duration at additional cost.

snthpy··on Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline
Does anyone ever worry about prompt injection attacks against yourself in these?

When I was into hypnosis and NLP between one and two decades ago, I used to worry about what the instructions were once I was hypnotized. I lacked the terminology then but there days we would call these prompt injections, just against the human brain.

I guess social engineering is another form, although that's probably more akin to a CSRF or flawed auth logic exploit.

snthpy··on ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity
For real? I wouldn't have thought so many would be possible so soon. Might actually need to look into quantum computing again after 20 years.
snthpy··on I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
I haven't had these issues but I find it strange that I can only sign in with email magic links and no other auth like webauthn for example.
snthpy··on Open Source Security at Astral
Overall I believe this is the right approach and something like this is what's required. I can't see any code or your product though so I'm not sure what to make of it.
snthpy··on AWS S3 Files
So SeaweedFS basically?
snthpy··on Running out of disk space in production
Great idea, thanks!
snthpy··on VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
Anyone who's ever had a break up will thank you.
snthpy··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
I thought this had already been the case for a while?
snthpy··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
What's the easiest way to install these on an Android phone/Samsung?
snthpy··on Slop is not necessarily the future
Well put. I agree.
snthpy··on Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?
That's it for me too. I'm churning through a multi-year backlog and can finally implement my ideas for which there just wasn't time before.
snthpy··on Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention
There seem to be two fundamentally incompatible interpretations of "Never again" [1]. I thought it was a no brainer for universal adoption, but TIL that for some it means more of the same.

1: Never again - Wikipedia https://share.google/LGCVvfaJFeJOizox9

snthpy··on Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference
> The petition cites the 2022 decision by the ICM’s organizing body, the International Mathematical Union (IMU), to move the last congress out of Saint Petersburg, Russia, in response to the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier that year. The event was moved mostly online, with a small in-person awards ceremony held in Helsinki, Finland. > > “Holding the ICM in the United States, after it started two illegal wars, represents a double standard, given that, practically immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine, the ICM in Russia was canceled,” says Michael Harris, a mathematician at Columbia University. Harris is a scheduled panelist for the conference, though he is listed by the petition as an ICM speaker who shares its values.

The logic checks out. Must have some logician signatories.

Not to mention the risk of getting blocked at customs or arrested by ICE.

snthpy··on Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents
> "Post to LinkedIn 13 times a day"

Love this use case! #excited #growth #eatmyslop

snthpy··on LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
Thanks. Great explanation.
snthpy··on Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports
I agree. Ban the advertising and promotion of it, like we do for cigarettes, because the industry is really predatory, but leave people the choice.
snthpy··on Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts
Based on what? I specifically called for some objective measures like SBFs ...

What's the SOTA these days? I dropped out of the community a 2 to 3 years ago. At the time ISRT seemed to be one of the bests but I haven't heard anything since then.

snthpy··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
First thing that I did was also to do that calc and I was surprised by how little energy it was.
snthpy··on The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Château, Part 1: The Priest's Treasure
I click on this because of Gabriel Knight 3, and sure enough, there is in the first paragraph.
snthpy··on Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code
> contradictions log

When you hit one of those you need to introduce laughter:

- interrupt the main loop

- spend some inference on exploring the contradiction

- resolve it, and then

- store a memory about the resolution

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