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If they made a low power/mobile version, this could be really huge for embedded electronics. Mass produced, highly efficient "good enough" but still sort of dumb ais could put inte…

Goodheart's Law of college admissions

plot.ly has been able to do WebGL scatter plots with > 10 million points for years. There's a lot of libraries that can do this I think? https://plotly.com/python/performance/

You can probably get any coding agent with this if you put these instructions in the README/CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md or whatever of your repo. It's unclear to me if Bob is working as in…

A lot of security problems can be solved by moving slower.

Pedestrians on phones, not drivers on phones.

It's actually pretty easy to detect that something is obfuscated, but it's harder to prove that the obfuscated code is actually harmful. This is why we still have a team of humans …

When we find malware on any registry (npm, rubygems, pypi or otherwise), we immediately report it to the upstream registry and try to get it taken down. This helps reduce the blast…

We use a mix of static analysis and AI. Flagged packages are escalated to a human review team. If we catch a malicious package, we notify our users, block installation and report t…

We also caught this right away at Socket, https://socket.dev/blog/npm-author-qix-compromised-in-major-... While it sucks that this happened, the good thing is that the ecosystem mo…

Signing doesn't protect against maintainer sabotage, but it could theoretically help if the registry were ever compromised. It mainly works to prevent MITM type attacks on the pack…

Reminds me of https://ggx-research.github.io/publication/2023/05/10/public...

BlueSky is still working great.

If the self evaluation makes it better, then why not do the self evaluation as part of the normal RAG workflow?

For what it's worth, my kids really like this project.

This seems really badly argued. The second version seems much worse and harder to extend. Looks like classic ORM style database abstraction wrapped with hand written types. This ty…

Posted a reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466855 This is a specific reference on how constraints model contact between rigid bodies https://box2d.org/files/ErinCat…

The principle of least constraint is the basis for rigid body mechanics based contact forces. This has been known since the days of Gauss and Hamilton, and is fundamentally how res…

It's still the same principle even in games. If you are trying to explain where forces come from and how resolution works, you need to ground it in something. Otherwise you are jus…

Collisions are violations of the pairwise non-intersection constraint between bodies. Collision forces are Lagrange multipliers of these constraints. Collision normals are the (nor…

TI92 graphing calculator and the instruction manual. Hundreds of pages of weird math functions to try out and understand. Triggered some kind of weird pokemon-esque collect em all …

Yeah, and it's very weird to bring a non-compete down on an entry level worker like this. Under what circumstances is it even worth it for PDD to spend the resources to enforce and…

In china an employer is required to pay something like 30% of your salary if it elects to enforce a non-compete. If the company doesn't pay you, then it's non-enforceable. Assuming…