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jks commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first   github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
Tepix · 4 days ago
So, what‘s Zed?
jks · 4 days ago
An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172
jks commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year   helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
tommoor · 22 days ago
Drivers are actually calm in Helsinki, not constantly honking and slowly rolling into you in the pedestrian crossing either.
jks · 21 days ago
This may be the case, but as a Helsinki resident I am always surprised when visiting either Stockholm or Tallinn, because their drivers always seem more likely to honor zebra crossings than drivers in Helsinki.
jks commented on When we get Komooted   bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan
mr_mitm · a month ago
Ironically, German law says that the first six months are a trial period for both sides, and you can be fired during that time with a two week notice for no reason.
jks · a month ago
I don't know about German law, but in Finnish law you can only appeal to the trial period if you have an acceptable reason related to the trial period. For example, if the employee isn't performing well, that is a legal reason to annul the work agreement during the trial period. But selling the business to investors or having financial difficulties because of the economy are not acceptable reasons, since they are not related to the specific recently-hired employee.

It cuts both ways: the employee can walk out during the trial period for reasons such as feeling like they didn't fit in, or the work being different from what they imagined. But if they merely find a better-paying job elsewhere, they cannot invoke the trial period but have to give notice in the usual way.

jks commented on Peasant Railgun   knightsdigest.com/what-ex... · Posted by u/cainxinth
jks · 2 months ago
Why the number 2,280? What keeps you from adding peasants until your projectile travels at 0.99c?
jks commented on The Effect of Noise on Sleep   empirical.health/blog/eff... · Posted by u/brandonb
rickydroll · 2 months ago
Nice. Which model do you use? And do they sell them in the U.S.? Not that I would mind making a trip overseas and getting away from the insanity here for a little while, but it adds to the cost.
jks · 2 months ago
I have the "Relax & Sleep" pair. I got mine from a Finnish reseller, and thought they were a global company but they seem to list only European locations. I believe thomann.de delivers to the U.S., but that's little help since the point of these would be to get them made individually.

I would assume that your local audiologist or music instrument store will know what the U.S. equivalent to these is. It seems to me that Elacin's biggest market is musicians who want a comfortable pair of earplugs with a flat frequency response.

jks commented on The Effect of Noise on Sleep   empirical.health/blog/eff... · Posted by u/brandonb
rickydroll · 2 months ago
I've tried the squishy foam earplugs, and they always fall out. Other suggestions, such as silicone and custom earplugs, are something I'm going to try. Let's see if they help.

However, what destroys my sleep is the light from early morning, streetlights, and the neighbor's porch light. Unfortunately, our bedroom faces southeast and features French doors that open onto an east-facing three-season porch, allowing sunlight to stream in. Yeah, I've got curtains everywhere, and I have room-darkening curtains on order. If those don't work, the next step is putting solar panels over my bedroom windows. I figure if I'm going to keep light out, I might as well put it to work some other way.

As an experiment, I'm using my car camping mattress in my office, which is the quietest room in the house, and I'm blocking the light from the windows with curtains and cardboard. So far, it's the best sleep I've had in years. There's a bit of domestic disharmony now, but hopefully my partner and I can work out a compromise on light-blocking curtains and keeping them fucking shut.

jks · 2 months ago
These custom earplugs are the most comfortable I've ever worn:

https://www.elacin.com/your-perfect-fit/leisure/relax-sleep/

jks commented on The Effect of Noise on Sleep   empirical.health/blog/eff... · Posted by u/brandonb
hn_throw2025 · 2 months ago
I used to use mouldable silicone ear plugs :

https://bioears.co.uk/products/bioears-ear-plugs

Very effective, but eventually they made me just focus on my tinnitus.

I now live in a quieter place and use some white noise from a speaker - ocean sounds.

jks · 2 months ago
These are the most comfortable earplugs I've used:

https://www.elacin.com/your-perfect-fit/leisure/relax-sleep/

Currently I use Ozlo Sleepbuds which are not quite as comfortable and a little finicky to operate, but I like the masking noise.

jks commented on parrot.live   github.com/hugomd/parrot.... · Posted by u/jasonthorsness
joshdavham · 3 months ago
This is awesome! Are there any other things like this?
jks · 3 months ago
curl wttr.in
jks commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts   fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
stavros · 3 months ago
I love LLMs, and I really like programming with Cursor, but I never managed to get the "agents with tons of stuff in their context" mode to work for me. I use Cursor like a glorified code completer, 4-5 lines at a time, because otherwise the LLM just makes too many mistakes that compound.

If you let it run in the "write my code for me" mode, and ask it to fix some mistake it made, it will always add more code, never remove any. In my experience, in the end the code just ends up so brittle that the LLM will soon get stuck at a point that it never manages to overcome some mistake, no matter how many times it tries.

Has anyone managed to solve this?

jks · 3 months ago
Not a full solution, but one thing I've learned not to do is tell Cursor "you got that wrong, fix it like this". Instead, I go back to the previous prompt and click "Restore Checkpoint", edit the prompt and possibly the Cursor rules to steer it in the right direction.

When the model has the wrong solution in its context, it will use it when generating new code, and my feeling is that it doesn't handle the idea of "negative example" very well. Instead, delete the bad code and give it positive examples of the right approach.

jks commented on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip   theaiunderwriter.substack... · Posted by u/participant3
vjerancrnjak · 5 months ago
If it overfits on the whole internet then it’s like a search engine that returns really relevant results with some lossy side effect.

Recent benchmark on unseen 2025 Math Olympiad shows none of the models can problem solve . They all accidentally or on purpose had prior solutions in the training set.

jks · 5 months ago
You probably mean the USAMO 2025 paper. They updated their comparison with Gemini 2.5 Pro, which did get a nontrivial score. That Gemini version was released five days after USAMO, so while it's not entirely impossible for the data to be in its training set, it would seem kind of unlikely.

https://x.com/mbalunovic/status/1907436704790651166

u/jks

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