danielfalbo

absolutely hilarious, made me laugh a lot. thank you for writing this, whether human or AI.

Abbey Road

The Dark Side of the Moon

OK Computer

Those are my 3 personal records ever. I feel so average now...

Context:

Thomson Leighton is the founder of Akamai

Lectures here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7540DEDD482705B

One of the set of lectures on the internet I loved the most.

(OP)

Exactly. I care about profiles as well.

In the background of my head while playing: Daft Punk - Around the world

I also like to redirect ^https?://instagram.com/(.*) to https://imginn.com/$1

But I never trust extensions, I do it manually.

https://cdn.danielfalbo.com/picturephone.mp4

Thank you for pointing out that a video may be more interesting

Maybe off-topic but,

If you're not familiar with the CMU DB Group you might want to check out their eccentric teaching style [1].

I absolutely love their gangsta intros like [2] and pre-lecture dj sets like [3].

I also remember a video where he was lecturing with someone sleeping on the floor in the background for some reason. I can't find that video right now.

Not too sure about the context or Andy's biography, I'll research that later, I'm even more curious now.

[1] https://youtube.com/results?search_query=cmu+database

[2] https://youtu.be/dSxV5Sob5V8

[3] https://youtu.be/7NPIENPr-zk?t=85

Prepend 'pure.md/' in front of any url.

I'm sure there are more proxies around.

I feel you.

I decided to leave my phone at home

I used to do this too but soon I realized I wanted my phone for payments (say, coffee) and/or unlocking public bikes (like Lime).

Now I have 2 phones: - Phone A with my SIM, internet, payment cards, but unlogged from any internet account - Phone B, no SIM, usually connected to Phone A via hotspot, with email, messaging apps, logged into hacker news and everything.

When I want to take an offline walk/ebike-ride I only bring Phone A with me.

In lire, che bello.

How do we measure this is any better than just using 1 good model?

And huge kudos for doing it from Italy!

We have a sense of what we would most love to do but we immediately push it aside. Why? Typically because “it is not realistic” which is code for, “I can’t make money doing this.”

Reminds me of PG's "How To Do What You Love"[1]

[1] https://paulgraham.com/love.html

I see more and more blog posts that contain interactive elements. Despite the general enshittification of the average blog and the internet, this feels like a 'modern' touch that actually adds something valuable to the sufficient ad-free no-popups old blog style.

None. Sample of my usual AI flow: https://github.com/danielfalbo/distributed-systems/commit/68...

WLOG

NetNewsWire is open source[1]. You can use a fork with your changes.

[1] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

Are we going to be too many developers / software engineers ? What will happen for the rests of us?

I propose that we should raise the bar for the quality of software now.

Reminds me of: Databases on SSDs, Initial Ideas on Tuning (2010) [1]

[1] https://www.dr-josiah.com/2010/08/databases-on-ssds-initial-...

Exactly. The singularity is already here. It's just "programmers + AI" as a whole, rather than independent self-improvements of the AI.

I wonder how a "programmers + AI" self-improving loop is different from an "AI only" one.

they

I'm not sure antirez is involved in any business decision making process at Redis Ltd.

He may not be part of "they".

I think he's referring to AI safety.

https://lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-lis...

There are certain tasks, like improving a given program for speed, for instance, where in theory the model can continue to make progress with a very clear reward signal for a very long time.

This makes me think: I wonder if Goodhart's law[1] may apply here. I wonder if, for instance, optimizing for speed may produce code that is faster but harder to understand and extend. Should we care or would it be ok for AI to produce code that passes all tests and is faster? Would the AI become good at creating explanations for humans as a side effect?

And if Goodhard's law doesn't apply, why is it? Is it because we're only doing RLVR fine-tuning on the last layers of the network so all the generality of the pre-training is not lost? And if this is the case, could this be a limitation in not being able to be creative enough to come up with move 37?

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

As soon as I noticed it was down I came to hacker news to post about it, but...

The footer animation of koi.ai is so cool.

Building my own static site generator using vanilla Python and SQLite for my personal blog and Notion-like second-brain https://github.com/danielfalbo/prev

Author here. I previously used Next.js for my blog and Notion for my collection of linked books/resources/notes, but I wasn't happy with the compilation time of Next.js for a simple blog and the slowness of Notion. So I built my own solution for both from scratch.

I use Python for the logic (zero dependencies) and SQLite for the data.

I still have to migrate the data, but the core is already online at https://danielfalbo.com

For instance, I have an SQLite table for resources and one for authors, linked together.

The indices for each are automatically generated at https://danielfalbo.com/resources and https://danielfalbo.com/authors

If you open, for example, an author's page, you'll find hyperlinks to all their resources in the first part of the document, and vice versa for the resources. Example: https://danielfalbo.com/resources/fabric-of-reality

The blog will live in the "notes" table, which behaves similarly at https://danielfalbo.com/notes (actually, I'm still thinking whether to split the notes and the blog tables or keep them together, but infrastructure-wise it doesn't change anything).

A fun feature is the dynamic calculation of my age at the moment of writing of any blog post, for example, seen at https://danielfalbo.com/notes/essentials

There is also a lightweight livee preview feature for nice offline html content editing.

I still have to finish migrating everything and might realize there are gaps along the way, but the goal is relevant-features parity with https://old.danielfalbo.com/weblog and https://danielfalbo.notion.site/3cce7ff647e94470ba1342211337...

For comparison: ASML machines print chips with precision up to 2nm.

https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twi...

Applies to Software too.

Update: https://web.archive.org/ gives 503 Service Unavailable to me right now.