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I have been imagining this since GPT-3. I still only know of very few games making use of LLMs. There are add-ons for Skyrim, and web search points me to NVIDIA's ACE autonomous ga…

This sounds really cool. My intuition was that the selected experts might change heavily for each token, resulting in slow SSD loads for each token. This seems to be wrong. Did you…

Why not simply have both? This does not have to be an either-or decision. Have a default repository with vetted extensions, but leave the option to install from other sources open.…

For seekable gzip indexes in zip, there SOZip: https://github.com/sozip/sozip-spec . However, it stores the indexes as files succeeding the actual file entry. To hide these index f…

> 10. Code is cheap, but maintenance, support, and security aren’t. I also keep circling around this point. So many software repositories in the AI space seem to follow a publish a…

The title seems misleading. These are not errors. They are simply warnings about extended attributes being ignored when extracting files, which seems completely fine to me, and cre…

https://github.com/martinellimarco/indexed_zstd https://github.com/martinellimarco/libzstd-seek Note, however, that this can only seek to frames, and zstd still only creates files …

> Apparently the internal state is only 32kB Exactly. And often this state is either highly compressible or non-compressible but only sparsely used. The latter can then be made com…

I like the idea of bubblewrap, but my pain point is that it is work to set it up correctly with bind mounts and forwarding necessary environment variables to make the program actua…

> The obvious one outside of KV caches as mentioned above is vector databases. Any RAG pipeline that stores embedding vectors for retrieval benefits from the same compression. Turb…

After 2 minutes at 150 kHashes on mobile, I finally see the first pixel of the progress bar filling up. Seems like it will take hours or a day to finish. Some estimate would have b…

I never understood why the recommended replacement for ß is ss. It is a ligature of sz (similar to & being a ligature of et) and is even pronounced ess-zet. The only logical replac…

On the other hand, fonts can be an expression of your personality. Shouldn't it be preferable to centrally enable overriding fonts instead of forcing every site designer not to use…

I can confirm usual compression ratios of 10-20 for JSON. For example, wikidata-20220103.json.gz is quite fun to work with. It is 109 GB, which decompresses to 1.4 TB, and even the…

I concur with most of these arguments, especially about longevity. But, this only applies to smallish files like configurations because I don't agree with the last paragraph regard…

This resonates. I have finally started looking into local inference a bit more recently. I have tried Cursor a bit, and whatever it used worked somewhat alright to generate a start…

Yes. It can also be shown in the Activity tab or accessed and scanned for secrets or personal information via the API. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452623

AI-overview was the straw that broke the camel's back for me recently. But I also suffered from dark mode issues for a long time. On almost every visit, it shows the outer backgrou…

The Anime Yukikaze (2002 - 2005) has some similar themes. It's about a fighter jet pilot using a new AI-supported jet to fight against aliens. It asserts that the combination of hu…

> I'm sure there are zip-bomb equivalents in binary formats like .xlsx, PDF, .docx, etc. Yes. Both, docx and xlsx are literally just a zip of XML files with a different extension. …

Yes, that section is fitting and interesting. It is the production-side view. I think I was more motivated by the comments envisioning an abundance of cheap gold, which seems not i…

The "gold" would not be radioactive as far as I understand. The reaction is 198Hg (stable) -> 197Hg (65h half life) -> 197Au (stable). You would end up with a mix of radioactive 19…

Even if you could separate mercury-198 for zero cost, it would only be 10% of the mercury production, and the yearly mercury production is 4500 t/yr, i.e., at most a maximum of 450…

Even if you only have the QR code, you can download the image or screenshot it and then extract the secret without ever having to use a smartphone by using zbarimg and then manuall…