I might be completely out of context, but why is it only 4x compression? Do they commit a lot of binaries? I just don't understand why would code compress so badly.
I have no special information, but it could just be Amdahl's Law. If one guy (or bot) checked in 5GB of binaries before you thought to enable git-lfs, then that's not a 100/25 ratio, it's a 95/20 ratio. And if it was 10GB, that's a 90/15 ratio, and so on. IIUC, the old un-LFS'ed binaries remain in the history unless you actively `git lfs migrate` and rewrite your whole history, which they might not want (or care enough) to do.
To save someone a click: this seems to be an MCP server that helps agents interact with GlyphDNA, which is an obscure decentralized network created by OP.
I spent too much effort parsing the title and trying to understand what the project is.
What if programming languages, operating systems, concurrency primitives, databases, networking protocols, UI frameworks are already good enough, and the innovation lies elsewhere?
You can do a lot of cool stuff with the same lego pieces.
What does an advance in music even look like? Shifting tastes for pop music? Or new techniques? New music theory? Or just experimentation?
Considering all music is subjectively influenced by the culture in which it's born (see the difference between Asian traditions of music, European traditions of music, African traditions, and traditions of the Americas) not even all of those have a given structure that is present today like the typical 4/4 and have polyrhythmic and multitonal structures by design. The fact that everything on the radio has converged towards 4/4 165bpm major chord progressions is evidence of that cultural phenomenon.
But what if the fundaments of all these, in the human produced literature, actually contain hidden circularities and holes which make very hard the progress?
IMO for the moment the greatest value from these AI tools is that we can start an audit and hopefully proceed on a saner foundation, after we use the tools and think about it.
This is different than too many AI generated proofs or panic reactions from the academic system with its stupid incentives.
I remember saying the exact same thing here on HN like two weeks ago, which someone then promptly corrected me saying that Steam/Valve actually "explain" what their "Buy" means right before payment, and I think they were right, there is some greyed out text somewhere explaining you don't actually "Purchase a copy of the game" but you license it via Valve/Steam somehow, can't remember the details atm, later at the checkout process though.
Thanks! I don't know if the article OP linked is slop or not - site is plainly inacessible from Ukraine.
I find it interesting that they only analyzed texts that mention at least two cities, like this one:
> From Durhumit until Kanes I incurred expenses of 5 minas of refined (copper), I spent 3 minas of copper until Wahsusana, I acquired and spent small wares for a value of 4 shekels of silver. (Tablet AKT 8/145, lines 24–29)
Because I know some local businesses here that are based in city X would not mention this fact in the books, at least not for every transaction. They would write something like 'Got shipment from Y' or 'Sent for repairs to Z' etc.
They also exclude texts that mention Assur, which is the largest city there
> We exclude Assur, the home city of the Assyrians, from our automated search. First, the word Assur is also the name of the main Assyrian deity and occurs very often as an element of personal names. Second, the city of Assur is often referred to as simply alum — “the City” (comparable in use to references to the financial district of London)
So very cool work, and it can be improved upon too!
Serious question: why don't these communities 'succeed' then. Meaning, why don't they keep existing for decades, and why don't more people get interested in this way of living?
The lure of modern society is difficult to resist: most kids would rather live in the suburbs, play video games, and scroll social media than be sequestered on a remote farm with sparse accommodations.
A close approximation may be the Amish or Mennonites. It's a difficult life, and not prone to explosive growth.
do you mean like half of the worldwide population [0]? or anything on top of that like remote villages anywhere in the world that aren't liberal like hippies but are very much tied to pastoral ways of living? heck if back in 1600 we didn't killed dozens of millions of people maybe this type of communities would be much more widespread
I don't think "pastoral ways of living" are a genuinely held cultural preference for a lot of that population. I'd hazard a guess that quite a few of them want electricity, reliable clean water from a tap, and paved roads.
They are living that way not out of choice but out of poverty. Those kinds of villages with the kind of pastoral life you are ruing for are those villages and regions where medical care, education, and other basic services are sparse to no nonexistent.
The reasons are varied… groups implode or become cults… people move on often times when kids get involved for all the reasons other have stated already… but also things get co-opted way faster now given less time for groups and movements to gestate and coalesce… but theres still groups like this and there probably will be in perpetuity…
they either implode or get so successful that they assimilate and morph… The early US was rife with utopian societies whose stories are legion, onieda and the mormons to name two contrasting early examples.
More modern and infamous inline with the time period of this post is drop city… they got too successful as they were a stop on the way out to sf but they went onto do great things.
Because family brings vurnersbility and vurnersbility brings dependence on stability aka conservatism. The phase of life you start into with one another transports you right into adulthood and responsibility. And some just dont grow up to that. Some eternally leech on others. And all the nice words and good intent wont fix that.
What an incredibly callous comment that both manages to assume everyone should have the same goals you've decided are proper, to completely disregard socioeconomic, environmental and genetic differences which can cause life to be a breeze for some and a constant struggle for others.
I don't think this is accurate. Chainsaw is way more powerful than I am, yet it is definitely a tool. Computer is a tool too.
> I understand wanting to feel better and be optimistic about the future.
Historically, people who were pessimistic about the future, were very wrong. And this goes back centuries, if not millennia.