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New comment by iFire in "Who manages the agents?"

iFire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:46:04 +0000

> The Omnissiah's design is flawless and has no contradiction. Any discrepancies in our interpretation of the universe merely confirm the perfection of the Omnissiah's design and our own informational inadequacy.[58]

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adeptus_Mechanicus_Quotes

New comment by iFire in "Muse Spark 1.1"

iFire — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:43:10 +0000

This is pretty cheap compared to anthropic opus and fable.

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

Model Base Input Tokens 5m Cache Writes 1h Cache Writes Cache Hits & Refreshes Output Tokens

Claude Fable 5 $10 / MTok $12.50 / MTok $20 / MTok $1 / MTok $50 / MTok

Claude Opus 4.8 $5 / MTok $6.25 / MTok $10 / MTok $0.50 / MTok $25 / MTok

Note Fable costs $50 MTok and Opus 4.8 costs $25 / MTok.

New comment by iFire in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

iFire — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:05:55 +0000

As far as I know, American copyright law has ruled large language model output has no copyright status.

New comment by iFire in "Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?"

iFire — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:58:00 +0000

I haven't made money on yet, but I'm trying to model a webtransport (http/3, quic) system for massive multiplay vr games.

See https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/challenges-with-dist... for how async related to distributed systems.

New comment by iFire in "Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?"

iFire — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:01:55 +0000

I don't use tla+ to model real-world systems anymore, Claude is able to model systems in Lean 4 and the binary executable can handle real input or I can directly generate c / rust on proofs with numeric types that have ring structure (integers, rationals, bits).

https://github.com/lambdaclass/truth_research_zk

New comment by iFire in "5NF and Database Design"

iFire — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:40 +0000

Chris Date has a course on this using his parts and supplies example. Don't have time to find it but maybe ai can find it.

https://www.oreilly.com/videos/c-j-dates-database/9781449336...

https://www.amazon.ca/Database-Design-Relational-Theory-Norm...

New comment by iFire in "5NF and Database Design"

iFire — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:32:34 +0000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2274576.2274589

I'll try reading it again.

New comment by iFire in "5NF and Database Design"

iFire — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:55:21 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_tuple_normal_form is cool!

Since I had bad memory, I asked the ai to make me a mnemonic:

* Every

* Table

* Needs

* Full-keys (in its joins)

New comment by iFire in "The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep"

iFire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:46:42 +0000

Ah! So it's the total light output of the light not the specific color. So it means I can use regular colours but dimmer. That would make late night color editing better.

New comment by iFire in "The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep"

iFire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:18 +0000

So it's saying orange light but really really bright makes a difference?

That's ok.

I usually have really dim orange lights...

Edit: Or was it the contrapositive..

New comment by iFire in "The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep"

iFire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:40:14 +0000

So if this research is true, I can get the benefits of better sleep without using https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/v4/welcome/ how would that work?

F.lux is fairly intrusive.

New comment by iFire in "The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep"

iFire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:34:02 +0000

Orange light synced with the daybreak and sunrise made my life better.

So something is odd with this scientific research. Any explanations?

New comment by iFire in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

iFire — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:05:44 +0000

I for one welcome everyone to the tarpit where a normal person is seen as a robot in an endless poison pit and sounds like a Black Mirror television episode.

New comment by iFire in "Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science"

iFire — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:22:36 +0000

https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho has the idea of one sided observations for RAG.

New comment by iFire in "Show HN: Stratum – SQL that branches and beats DuckDB on 35/46 1T benchmarks"

iFire — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:40:18 +0000

https://github.com/replikativ/stratum is apache2.0 license FOSS!

> Stratum is a columnar analytics engine that combines the performance of fused SIMD execution with the semantics of immutable data

What are your thoughts for investing in a columnar based database rather than a hybrid one?

I'm in the game development space.

New comment by iFire in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

iFire — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:33:04 +0000

At the Ise Jingu, the shrine is not built to last; it is built to be reconstructed from scratch every twenty years.

If we want our systems to last, we would need the "process knowledge"—the actual mastery of the craft—to be in human hands rather than decaying in a dead system.

I don't think we can afford to process-knowledge-transfer many of our essential systems... without machine assistance.

New comment by iFire in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

iFire — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:03:51 +0000

Agree.

I don't write for sentimentality. I write so that my code designs can survive longer than my work on it.

No documentation is worse than deceit.

The emptiness and vastness of the void (entropy) is much deeper than humans or machines.

Google search says this philosphy is called https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/

New comment by iFire in "Show HN: I spent a billion tokens bridging Elixir and WebAssembly"

iFire — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:18:24 +0000

Is this about https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn ?

I love their webassembly live demo https://popcorn.swmansion.com/#live-demo

Edited:

Oh this is using llm to write webassembly as an ISA ir (like byte code)?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118778

New comment by iFire in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

iFire — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:30:32 +0000

Most of the platforms were successfully petitioned to have rust sdk mandatory added so that rust code can be added to the platforms. The previously situation was rust was not allowed because the external dependency of the rust sdk was blocked.

Note that the rust having no stable api is not fixed, so I think there's a bunch of internal systems on each platform to hard lock the rust dependencies across multiple rust users.

There's some friction between platform packagers and the code that the author wrote exactly as it was written.

New comment by iFire in "Code is not being read anymore, right?"

iFire — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:03:39 +0000

My approach for a game sandbox https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox for user generated content was to experiment with standardizing on a riscv 64 bit linux ISA.

https://bellard.org/jslinux/ bellard is notable for this approach where you write a riscv execution layer and then write a windows / linux / dos etc emulator on top.

https://bellard.org/tinyemu/