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by applfanboysbgon 3d ago
> The black card being brandished will be the final part of a three-step process. In the first instance, the referee will temporarily suspend the match and ask coaches to speak directly to its team’s supporters and parents, while an anno
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by applfanboysbgon 3d ago
Sell me on this. Why would you want to change it? What good can actually come of allowing foo and Foo to coexist in the same directory?
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by applfanboysbgon 3d ago
ZDR is based on the exact same pinky-promise as training opt-outs. There is no technical barrier to OpenAI, or whoever is running your compute, retaining your prompt after they run inference on their servers. If you don't control the h
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by applfanboysbgon 4d ago
Update: this tool allowed me to almost immediately diagnose a compile time mystery I encountered yesterday that I hadn't yet been able to identify with my own tools. Great work!
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by applfanboysbgon 4d ago
> Open Source never meant having to give your software away for free, it was always free as in speech. Sure, sure. And how exactly is software not also free-as-in-beer when any consumer can just download it themselves? > if there hadn
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by applfanboysbgon 4d ago
Because that void is filled by open-source software that, even if it is not itself enshittified, is controlled and funded by big tech. Take languages and compilers, for instance. It is almost[1] impossible to make a living developing langua
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by applfanboysbgon 4d ago
Excellent write-up, love to see profiling work on compile times. I have some rudimentary tooling I threw together myself but nothing that looks as comprehensive and insightfully presented as this, I'll be giving it a try!
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by applfanboysbgon 5d ago
The problem with technology is that the people who have it conquer and kill all the people who don't, essentially ensuring a destructive race to the bottom. You would need a mutual international alliance of nations who not only renounc
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by applfanboysbgon 5d ago
First you run a program (training framework) to generate a database of values. Then you run a program (inference engine) which performs calculations against the database of values. To put it in ELI5 terms: run a program against a book, coun
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by applfanboysbgon 5d ago
It's impressive technology but not revolutionary. Revolutionary technology would have resulted in, you know, a revolution in software quality. Instead quality keeps going down.
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by applfanboysbgon 5d ago
> in fact more specific than usual. At which point you might as well write the code yourself and get a deterministic result faster, better and cheaper.
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
> you would keep on making and listening to music you like, and you wouldn't care It becomes harder to find and therefore listen to music you like when every avenue of discovering music is drowned out with 1000 AI-generated songs fo
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
It's being handed an infinite slop machine, drowning out genuinely good content and making it harder than ever to discover. As it becomes harder to discover, fewer talented creatives are able to make a living. We are destroying our own
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
> This is an excellent reason to choose Rust. The whole point of Rust's technology is to enable you to encapsulate the tricky difficult part of the problem so that people don't blow their foot off working on the mundane parts o
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
Severe financial liability for security breaches, severe enough that, for instance, companies which leak 1m+ user data are driven to bankruptcy [yes, this would also get rid of the previous generation of 1000-JS-lego vibers]
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
You have completely misunderstood what I was saying so badly I can't even formulate a response other than to suggest you read my reply again. I was not suggesting that LLMs are programmed with print statements, for fuck's sake.
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
> And yet you still fail to demonstrate good understanding of the topic Or you simply misinterpreted my words, seemingly intentionally so because pedantry is a comfortable fall-back for not having a logical argument. > Saying (derisiv
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
> Much more knowledgeable than you or I are Speak for yourself. I work for an LLM startup that was successfully bootstrapped and is now highly profitable with 8-digit revenue and zero outside investment. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, we d
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
> Complex behavior can emerge from very simple rules. Indeed. You can observe emergent behaviour from, for instance, Conway's Game of Life, written in 1970. Redefining consciousness as "has emergent behaviour" is another t
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
It is easy to be sure because, despite their technically impressive outputs, the programming is child's play compared to biological programming. Recently it has become trendy to suggest that the human brain is "just electrical sig
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
It's marketing that some of them have started unironically believing.
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by applfanboysbgon 6d ago
Do you see Pokemon as encouraging a culture of accepting dogfighting/cockfighting rings?
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by applfanboysbgon 7d ago
You think most folks on HN are making $500,000 after taxes (being charitable and assuming "in a day" means a working day)? Moreover, does one commenter have to represent most folks? If someone makes less than $500,000, are they no
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by applfanboysbgon 7d ago
Yesterday, with Astra Max, a very clear instruction to "remove the GUI editor pane and add <another component> to the existing sidebar" for a prototype I had it working on resulted in it deleting literally the entire GUI and
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
It's so funny to see a "compiler is magic" people encountering reality in the wild. No, an algorithm that must work for every single user of the language cannot possibly optimize for every individual's use case. It is
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
This is an embarrassingly idiotic article. They're comparing against the least intensive text model, ie some million parameter model nobody uses. Stable Diffusion is a 3.5 billion parameter model, while the GPT models a billion peopl
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
Neither of those languages are obscure. If enough time passes that they become considered so, by all means there is no reason to condemn the names to an eternal graveyard.
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
> Furthermore, any C++ programmer who says they do not know C, knows neither C nor C++ (hence my preference in using C/C++ as a shorthand to encompass both and highlight the dependency of the latter on the former). Right, but this d
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
Does it matter? Is the global namespace permanently depleted because of an obscure language that nobody has used in 30 years?
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
Does one often use this basis for consuming autobiographies? I'd rather think the common cause for reading an autobiography is because it is interesting, or because the person is interesting, or notable to history in some way, and you

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