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vrotaru commented on I ditched Docker for Podman   codesmash.dev/why-i-ditch... · Posted by u/codesmash
daitangio · 2 days ago
I do not know: the lack of proper docker compose support it is a problem for me. About security: gVistor adoption failure in Google is a proof that containerization cannot be enforced easily and container will always be less secure than a VM.

If you want proper security go to firecracker [^1]. Podman is the "RedHat/IBM docker-way" but I see very little benefit overall; never less if it works for you great and go with it!

[^1]: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io

vrotaru · 2 days ago
There is a podman-compose which works almost as drop-in replacement.

Almost because most common commands work, but I have not check all.

And almost, because for some docker-compose.yaml which you downloaded/LLM generated you may need to prepend `docker.io/` to the image name

vrotaru commented on Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models   anthropic.com/research/pe... · Posted by u/itchyjunk
xwolfi · a month ago
What are humans, fundamentally, then ?
vrotaru · a month ago
That is a good questions and I guess we have good progress since Plato whose definition was - A man is a featherless biped.

But I think we still do not know.

vrotaru commented on Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models   anthropic.com/research/pe... · Posted by u/itchyjunk
andsoitis · a month ago
> Other personality changes are subtler but still unsettling, like when models start sucking up to users or making up facts.

My understanding is that the former (sucking up) is a personality trait, substantially influenced by the desire to facilitate engagement. The latter (making up facts), I do not think is correct to ascribe to a personality trait (like compulsive liar); instead, it is because the fitness function of LLMs drive them to produce some answer and they do not know what they're talking about, but produce strings of text based on statistics.

vrotaru · a month ago
To some degree *all* LLM's answers are made up facts. For stuff that is abundantly present in training data those are almost always correct. For topics which are not common knowledge (allow for a great variability) you should always check.

I've started to think of LLM's as a form lossy compression of available knowledge which when prompted produces "facts".

vrotaru commented on Study mode   openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
abenga · a month ago
Why would you try to convince an LLM of anything?
vrotaru · a month ago
Well, not exactly convince. I was curious what will happen.

If you are curious it was a question about the behavior of Kafka producer interceptors when an exception is thrown.

But I agree that it is hard to resist the temptation to treat LLM's as a pear.

vrotaru commented on Study mode   openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
czhu12 · a month ago
I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you.

Now, everyone basically has a personal TA, ready to go at all hours of the day.

I get the commentary that it makes learning too easy or shallow, but I doubt anyone would think that college students would learn better if we got rid of TA's.

vrotaru · a month ago
You should always check. I've seen LLM's being wrong (and obstinate) on topics which are one step separated from common knowledge.

I had to post the source code to win the dispute, so to speak.

vrotaru commented on Two narratives about AI   calnewport.com/no-one-kno... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
vrotaru · a month ago
So what is your pick?

* AI is the next electric screwdriver * AI is THE steam engine.

My pick is that the AI is not THE steam engine.

vrotaru commented on Oberon Pi   pascal.hansotten.com/nikl... · Posted by u/tosh
skoodge · 4 months ago
The linked pdfs on that page are wonderful. I reread Wirth's Plea for Lean Software and it still holds up remarkably well. It reminded me of Alan Kay's VPRI and the STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming which unfortunately ended in 2012. Oberon also doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore as far as I can tell. Are there any similar projects that are still being actively worked on?
vrotaru · 4 months ago
> Oberon also doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore

That's pretty much it, for maybe 10+ years now. There was a successor project BlueBottle with some promise, but it did not deliver. Later it was renamed to A2. Surprisingly, it did not help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_(operating_system)

IMO the authors of BB/A2 bet heavily on XML/Java hype, and were trying to make Oberon more like Java. The result was something without much internal consistency and not very usable.

Not being able to use a major browser and not having the resources to write one from scratch did not help either.

Then some of the major figures of this project left. And that was it.

There are some hobbyists and some small businesses which use it for niche projects and that is all

vrotaru commented on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops   github.com/vinceliuice/Wh... · Posted by u/nateb2022
teo_zero · 6 months ago
> On windows, I type the name of an app, and right before I hit enter, the search changes and launches something else.

This shouldn't happen. If KeePass, for example, is the best guess for an app beginning with k, ke, or kee, it must also be for keep, keepa, etc. I've never experienced what you report. Except if I misspell the app name; then it's plausible that the reaction to my last (wrong) keypress happens while my hand is in flight towards the Enter key.

vrotaru · 6 months ago
It happens. It shows you the right suggestion, and if you keep typing it assumes that you meant something else and displays other suggestion.

Good for slow typers, not so much for quick ones.

vrotaru commented on Skype Credit is no longer available   skype.com/en/credit/... · Posted by u/tlyleung
cbsks · 9 months ago
My elderly grandmother who lives in the Bay Area uses Skype daily to talk to her sister in Hungary. I bought her an iPad a few years ago and loaded $50 of credits on it. I check her balance when I visit and occasionally top it off. Now I need to set up a monthly subscription??

As an aside, Skype has a terrible iPad app for accessibility. My grandmother can’t see very well anymore and needs the font to be increased a lot. The iPad Skype app doesn’t do well at large font levels. The interface spills out all over itself and it’s unusable. Microsoft badly needs usability testing.

vrotaru · 9 months ago
Maybe web.skype.com will be better? Just a guess.

Anyway, that's how I use Skype when I still have to use it. Which is about once a month.

vrotaru commented on 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)   chshersh.com/blog/2023-12... · Posted by u/droideqa
sgt_bilko · 9 months ago
Anyone built simple (but not trivial) projects with Haskell or OCaml with source that I can look at?
vrotaru · 9 months ago
The are LLVM Caleidoscope (toy compiler) in both Haskell and OCaml

https://github.com/sdiehl/kaleidoscopehttps://github.com/arbipher/llvm-ocaml-tutorial

The Haskell one is a nice one. Can say nothing about the OCaml one since I found it using a google search.

I've had a try at implementing an Caleidoscope compiler in OCaml but did not finish it. But it was fun to write.

u/vrotaru

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