<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Xmd5a</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Xmd5a</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:39:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Xmd5a" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xmd5a in "Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When the context gets edited and compressed enough, it sometimes stops behaving like something that needs to be managed, and starts reconstructing what it needs automatically.<p>Do you have examples?</p>
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<p>> Description: Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die?</p>
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<p>try zucchinis next (protip: the flowers needs the fresh of the morning to bloom).</p>
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<p>Yo. I successfully did outdoor aeroponics with insane temperatures in the root chamber (near 40°C/100°F). My secret? I grew 'Virginia Gold' tobacco.<p>> Farmers discovered that bright leaf tobacco needs thin, starved soil, and those who could not grow other crops found that they could grow tobacco. Formerly unproductive farms reached 20–35 times their previous worth. By 1855, six Piedmont counties adjoining Virginia led Virginia's tobacco market<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_tobacco" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_tobacco</a><p>This is one beast of a plant. My plants stayed alive when I stopped spraying water in September and only died because of frost in late December. They were about 40 cm high due to the small volume of the root chamber.<p>Anyway it's a great choice for an outdoor aeroponics setup.</p>
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<p>> In contrast, if a user has been rude, entitled, and high maintenance, I may end up not even trying to reply in the first place because I know they’ll just be combative every step of the way,<p>get paid. Stop this nonsense. You shouldn't work for free it makes you disagreeable (I am the living proof).<p>> I guess the moral of the story is don’t be a prick to the people you’re asking something from.<p>This is your salary. That's how you get paid. In power. Power over what? "I am a latex maintainer". I'm not impressed. You're wasting your time. Show me your Ferrari instead.</p>
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<p>>NOT stepdaughter<p>checkmate</p>
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<p>> Pour celleux qui ne connaissent pas l’informatique<p><a href="https://shs.cairn.info/revue-cites-2020-2-page-137?lang=fr" rel="nofollow">https://shs.cairn.info/revue-cites-2020-2-page-137?lang=fr</a></p>
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<p>I'd enjoy if someone could elaborate, in the style of Erik Naggum ideally.</p>
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<p>Thanks! Does it mean I can now upload tracks to the mz-rh1 without using their ugly piece of software? Or is this still impossible due to the use of cryptographic keys?</p>
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<p>another "noahpinion"</p>
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<p>elaborate please</p>
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<p>> If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.<p>I think it's the idea of the boot that is stamping on this human face. We're in an open society, 1984 makes up for a good contrast that pushes us in the right direction.</p>
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<p>> MI5Victim (Mike Corley, a.k.a. Boleslaw Tadeusz Szocik) – paranoid user who goes through periods of binge posting, claiming that MI5<p>They are all paranoids. The first three are interpretive paranoids. Sarfatti too. Nancy Lieder too, she might also be erotomaniac (another modality of paranoid personality), but I'd need to go further into this rabbit hole to be sure.<p>The criminal ones correspond to quarreling or revendicative paranoid personality. Naggum too.<p>And Baez is just a legend. Period.</p>
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<p>thanks anon for rectifying the record.</p>
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<p>2 days ago: <a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47744955/paok-fans-killed-minibus-crash-romania-lyon-europa-league" rel="nofollow">https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47744955/paok-fans-ki...</a><p>I'll let you find the video, it's brutal. Allegedly caused by lane assist activating out of the blue when overtaking other cars.</p>
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<p><a href="https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1712.01826" rel="nofollow">https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1712.01826</a><p>> In this work, I propose a rigorous approach of this kind on the basis of algorithmic information theory. It is based on a single postulate: that universal induction determines the chances of what any observer sees next. That is, instead of a world or physical laws, it is the local state of the observer alone that determines those probabilities. Surprisingly, despite its solipsistic foundation, I show that the resulting theory recovers many features of our established physical worldview: it predicts that it appears to observers as if there was an external world that evolves according to simple, computable, probabilistic laws. In contrast to the standard view, objective reality is not assumed on this approach but rather provably emerges as an asymptotic statistical phenomenon. The resulting theory dissolves puzzles like cosmology’s Boltzmann brain problem, makes concrete predictions for thought experiments like the computer simulation of agents, and suggests novel phenomena such as “probabilistic zombies” governed by observer-dependent probabilistic chances. It also suggests that some basic phenomena of quantum theory (Bell inequality violation and no-signalling) might be understood as consequences of this framework.<p>You're welcome</p>
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<p>Some comments I wrote a while back:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077741">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077741</a><p>I don't have the energy to delve into this shit again, I found another antique site + ancient measurement system combo where the same link between 1/5, 1, π and phi are intertwined: <a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/acar/83/1/article-p278_208.xml" rel="nofollow">https://brill.com/view/journals/acar/83/1/article-p278_208.x...</a> albeit in a different fashion. + it was used to square the circle on top of the same remarkable approximation of phi as<p><pre><code>    5/6π - 1
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which preserves the algebraic property that defines phi<p><pre><code>    phi^2 = phi + 1
</code></pre>
But only for 0.2:<p><pre><code>    0.2 * pseudo-phi^2 = 0.2 * (pseudo-phi + 1) = π/6
</code></pre>
My take is that "conspiracy theories" about the origin of the meter predate the definition of the meter. You don't need to invoke a glorious altantean past to explain this, just a long series of coincidentalists puzzling over each other throughout time. It's something difficult to do, even on HN, where people don't want to see that indeed g ~= π^2 and it isn't a matter of coincidence.  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208988">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208988</a><p>I'm depressed. I tried to sleep as long a possible, because when I woke up, within 3 seconds, I was back in hell. I want it to end, seriously, I can't stand it anymore.</p>
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<p>It can be useful in a "primitive" environment: with the metric or even the imperial system, you need to multiply the length of your measurement unit by a certain factor in order to build the next unit (10x1cm = 1dm for instance).<p>But if your units follow a golden ratio progression, you just need to "concatenate" 2 consecutive units (2 measuring sticks) in order to find the third. And so on.</p>
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<p>Israel strips you naked and rubs the swipe between your legs thoroughly. Source: friend.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLODO" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLODO</a><p>A Front for clandestine Operations? (Speculative Timeline)<p>- April 6 & 8, 1980: Sabotage and arson against Philips Data Systems and CII-Honeywell-Bull in Toulouse. Speculation: French State Operation. A move to protect national technological sovereignty during the "Plan Calcul" era.<p>- May 19, 1980: Arson attack on the archives of ICL (International Computers Limited) in Toulouse. Speculation: Continuation of the French State's "cleansing" of foreign influence.<p>- September 11, 1980 & December 2, 1980: Attacks against a computing firm in Toulouse and the UAP (Union des Assurances de Paris) in Paris. Speculation: American Operation? Possible retaliation or disruption of French administrative networks.<p>- January 28, 1983: Bombing of the new computer center at the Haute-Garonne Prefecture in Toulouse. Speculation: American Revenge. A direct hit against the French State's local administrative brain.<p>- October 26, 1983: Total destruction by fire of the Sperry Univac offices (a US multinational) in Toulouse. Speculation: French Revenge. A final "tit-for-tat" response targeting a key asset of the US military-industrial complex on French soil.</p>
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