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So are kids not going to have access to llms? Seems trivial to get around this from a technical standpoint for frontier llms no matter how this is implemented.

Generally I think this is a legitemate issue, although: > the training process doesn't introduce anything novel This is not always the case. A compiler, linter, proof checker, test…

To fix this I recently made myself a tiny tool I called jtree that recursively walks json, spitting out one line per leaf. Each line is the jq selector and leaf value separated by …

I think there's a good one if you search around for "xv6 sh.c". Hard to tell immediately from a google search just now since there are many implementations (people do it in school)…

When I was a beginner, A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation worked for me. As the title suggests, it gently introduces concepts in a very beginner friendly manner, so even…

These are all great. If you need to do something more involved, pexpect is also worth mentioning. It's a reimplementation of expect in python that's easy to be productive with quic…

dwm and the community around it tend to use patches for absolutely everything, unlike most other projects. For most projects/codebases, maintaining patch sets is done for security,…

I guess people downvoting this don't get the joke?

Everything is an object in Python as well

Human beings get by quite well with extremely oversimplified (low resolution) abstractions. There is no need whatsoever for something even approaching universal or perfect. Humans …

Yes, but the main thing here is that ALL software development is now "profit" in the short term. In theory you've developed a capital good that benefits you over time, hence the am…

My bad on that typo. I write "$@" so often in shell scripts that I should know better. Also would've been caught by shellcheck. Outside the hn edit window though, so my mistake is …

I'm generally not a huge fan of inlining the command or cluttering up my local directory with little scripts to get around the fact that it must be a subprocess you can send a sign…

A bit confusing for sure, but I think (not sure) I get what they're saying. Training a nn (for visual tasks at least) consists of training a model with much more dimensions (params…

Actually no, it's not interesting at all. Vague dismissal of an outsider is a pretty standard response by insecure academic types. It could have been interesting and/or helpful to …

> We studied 198 randomly sampled, real world fail- ures reported on five popular distributed data-analytic and storage systems, including HDFS, a distributed file system [27]; Had…

The best answer to your question is some variant of "write more assembly". When someone indicates to me they want to learn programming for example, I ask them how many programs the…

For what's written in assembly, lack of portability is a given. The only exceptions would presumably be high level entry points called to from C, etc. If you wanted to support mult…

If someone doesn't understand "container", I'm supposed to expect them to understand all the namespaces and their uses, cgroups, and the nitty gritty of the wimpy security isolatio…

> Having multiple processes under one user in an operating system is more akin to having multiple threads in one process than you think. Not than I think. I'm well aware of how "ta…

If a container is "a process", then an entire linux/unix os (pid 1) is simply "a process"

No, they are not. I'm not sure who started this whole container is just a process thing, but it's not a good analogy. Quite a lot of things you spin up containers for have multiple…

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347

Do you really believe what you're saying, or are you just trying to "win" the argument? The nukes functioned as intended...