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by cdata 18d ago
I can't speak for all, but many mature open source communities have explicit or ad-hoc reputation schemes that are used to triage contributions. A fresh account means starting over with zero reputation, which in turn means your contrib
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by cdata 1mo ago
I strongly prefer a world where open models "win," that said... I don't understand how we will sustain an ecosystem of open models like the one that exists today. My thoughts go down this path every time I try to put the piec
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by cdata 2mo ago
I'm all for framing the spirit this way, so long as we recognize that it was rather difficult to come up with the sum total of human creative output (noting also that approximately zero of the cost to produce it has been born by fronti
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by cdata 2mo ago
That's very cool, although AFAICT my hacked-together non-product shares most of the same virtues. Can you upsell it to me a little?
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by cdata 2mo ago
If you are a Nix flake enjoyer, I whipped up something similar to this (Claude Code-only right now) based on microvm.nix: https://github.com/cdata/katsuobushi/tree/main/lib/sandbox Some highlights:
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by cdata 3mo ago
Google contains multitudes. I don't doubt that your personal experience was the opposite end of the spectrum from mine. I maintain that firing is an extreme resolution here (taking the claims at face value of course). Surely this emplo
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by cdata 3mo ago
When I was there, there was no universal process; different teams had different processes based on their focus. There was a launch process for Google products and there was the open source office for approving open source code (which amount
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by cdata 3mo ago
Simply put: all work published to Google repos is implicitly affiliated with Google. In my team's case we would include expectation-setting language in the README.md so that it was clear that the project was not an officially-supported
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by cdata 3mo ago
I'm noticing a few commenters who work (worked?) at Google (inferred from comment history) who are critical of this person's actions. First: you ought to disclose that information when commenting on a topic that relates in some wa
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by cdata 3mo ago
I think the author is referring to enterprise customers. You aren't the "customer" in this case; you're the bait. How do you know that the other models you are referring to aren't subsidized?
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by cdata 3mo ago
If our strategy to avoid "slavery" involves "normal people" taking the local-vs-managed choice seriously, we have already lost. This choice is made for us. The deciding factors will be convenience and economics. My sense
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by cdata 3mo ago
We are living in a ZIRP-like era where builders at the fastest pace layer have misattributed their velocity to exponential gains in model capability. In fact, they are surfing on decades of careful effort to build a robust foundation of hig
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by cdata 4mo ago
For everyone claiming that this is a trope of LLM text because it is a trope in the training data: how do you know this trope doesn't emerge during RLHF?
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by cdata 4mo ago
> What is reality? Obviously, no one can say, because it isn’t words. It isn’t material—that’s just an idea. It isn’t spiritual—that’s also an idea; a symbol. Reality is this: [GONG]. You see? We all know what reality is, but we can’t de
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by cdata 4mo ago
> There's enough evidence for the counter argument that this is essentially misinformation. > No evidence is shared Help an open-minded critic out.
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by cdata 4mo ago
With respect, you were manipulated (either by founders or by investors). Startups leverage employees' pro-social leanings to make them feel good about a fundamentally anti-social enterprise.
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by cdata 5mo ago
> Man, I really feel like they want us to hate them Man, I feel old.
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by cdata 5mo ago
The influence of cartoon foxes on business strategies in tech has a long history and cannot be overstated. https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html
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International Agreement to Prevent Premature Creation of ASI(techgov.intelligence.org)
2 points by cdata 5mo ago|0 comments
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by cdata 6mo ago
This appears to be dated 2016. Did the preliminary results amount to anything?
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by cdata 8mo ago
I read a lot of AI generated code these days. It makes really bad mistakes (even when the nature of the change is a refactor). I've tried out a few different tools and methodologies, but I haven't escaped the need to babysit the &
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by cdata 8mo ago
AI has pushed me to arrive at an epiphany: new technology is good if it helps me spend more time doing things that I enjoy doing; it's bad if it doesn't; it's worse if I end up spending more time doing things that I don'
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by cdata 9mo ago
Arguably the ad business is to blame. It created a perverse incentive. They maximized pay-to-play. The losers were authors that previously published on a passion budget (and would/could never pay for ads). AI is just the last nail in t
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by cdata 9mo ago
The foresters refusing to plant vast tracts of Norway Spruce aren't protecting themselves; quite the opposite, they’re falling behind. The gap is widening between states who've replaced mixed forests with a flawless mono-crop and
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by cdata 10mo ago
Very cool. I'm always on the lookout for languages - especially beginner-friendly ones - that are good candidates for building Wasm Components (my use case is a fantasy console with Wasm game cartridges). Have you given any thought to
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Guillermo del Toro: 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI(npr.org)
15 points by cdata 11mo ago|7 comments
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by cdata 1y ago
Don't sleep on the Rust toolchain for this! You can have DOM-via-Wasm today, the tools generate all the glue for you and the overhead isn't that bad, either.
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Slow AGI(x.com)
1 points by cdata 1y ago|0 comments
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by cdata 1y ago
I had the pleasure of meeting Mikeal on a few occasions, but mainly I've benefited from his work over the years (initially via the JavaScript ecosystem, and later through the Protocol Labs community). PouchDB was way ahead of its time,
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by cdata 1y ago
I entered the workforce in 08/09. At that time things seemed really dire. It felt to me like the whole house of cards was coming down, and I told myself that I would take any job that I could get. I ultimately landed a job with an odd

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