cwyers

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by cwyers 2mo ago
```The associate agreed with me that they should not deprecate the old app until the new app can handle this configuration. I asked them to raise this up the chain: they need to push back the deprecation date.``` There's no way a CSR h
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by cwyers 3mo ago
I am really shocked at the tone of so many of the comments here. Did HN become a breeding ground for xenophobia at some point? Has it always been that and is it just way more mask off now?
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by cwyers 4mo ago
> and then when the work was done they were happy with the result It's worse than that -- they don't even know the result! They never tried to run it!
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by cwyers 4mo ago
I was on a GLP-1 a few years ago and lost 70 lbs. After I got off, I kept a ton of diet changes (no more Pepsi or Gatorade and a lot of water instead, switching to whole grains and fiber/protein variants on pasta, etc.) and gained the
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by cwyers 4mo ago
Because it passes the existing test suite? And he knows what's in the test suite?
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by cwyers 5mo ago
If people can figure out how to write RFCs about IP over carrier pigeons for April Fools, they can figure out how to conceive of LLMs as a layer of abstraction beneath a protocol as well.
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by cwyers 6mo ago
I was wondering why HN was linking to Vox Day. The answer "because the alternative is worse" is probably the most justifiable one I can think of.
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by cwyers 7mo ago
There's a lot of people in this thread that assume that Sam Altman is the one who is being dishonest here, and I kind of understand, but the other two parties who could just as easily be lying are Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, and of
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by cwyers 7mo ago
Codex now lets you tell the LLM tgings in the middle of its thinking without interrupting it, so you can read the thinking traces and tell it to change course if it's going off track.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
Ironically they had the foresight, they were just too early/didn't execute. They ran an online service (co-owner with IBM and CBS) called Prodigy that competed with AOL and CompuServ, and they tried to do online shopping there.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
Just use WSL2 and Docker Desktop. VS Code has DevContainer support so you can standardize on a Docker image for your project.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
It's as much of a stretch as describing using an Azure service as "I have to use Halo" or AWS as "I have to use Rings of Power."
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by cwyers 9mo ago
"Slop" is at _least_ as fair a description of "we had an LLM rewrite HN headlines" as "we rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it" is of "we removed our biggest source of crashes on Android by getting
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by cwyers 9mo ago
I mean, he's _allowed_. The Compiler Police aren't going to roll up to his house and take away his Jai compiler if there isn't a quorum of HN users blessing his efforts. But people can point out they don't feel the juice
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by cwyers 9mo ago
If you have bills to pay, it really is.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
The point is that Blow has two blockbuster hits under his belt and can afford to take a decade to ship a single game. Most people would go broke never having shipped a game if they tried to do things Blow's way.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
Yeah, there's only two differences between using Markov chains to predict words and LLMs: * LLMs don't use Markov chains, * LLMs don't predict words.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
Node.js is the most popular web framework/technology in the StackOverflow developer survey. Express is more popular than FastAPI, Django, Flask and Rails in the same survey. Just... what are you talking about?
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by cwyers 9mo ago
I was surprised by that, too, and assumed it was a decade-old article until I saw the date at the bottom. Both being mentioned before Python is wilder, as is the total exclusion of JavaScript.
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by cwyers 9mo ago
You can actually look at history and see what happens when IBM tries to wrest control of the PC platform back with the PS/2, which was a flop with consumers because it wasn't backwards compatible enough with IBM's own previou
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by cwyers 9mo ago
Because the original IBM PC was designed to be cheap and built in a hurry. IBM had a mandate for the original PC to use off the shelf components as much as possible. They also neglected to secure an exclusive license from Microsoft for DOS.
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by cwyers 10mo ago
MinIO is absolutely not a passion project, it's a business.
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by cwyers 11mo ago
I'm not saying SWE-Bench is perfect, and there are reports that suggest there is some contamination of training sets for LLMs with common benchmarks like SWE-Bench. But they publish SWE-bench so anyone can run it and have an open leade
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by cwyers 11mo ago
The short version is: the PC is a historical accident. By "the PC" I mean "the Windows-Intel platform on which most consumer PCs were built." Linux and BSD were both able to exist in the form they did because there was a
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by cwyers 11mo ago
The lack of transparency here is wild. They aggregate the scores of the models they test against, which obscures the performance. They only release results on their own internal benchmark that they won't release. They talk about RL tra
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by cwyers 11mo ago
If you read the article, one of the buttons on the bar prompted people to upgrade to the latest version of IE.
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by cwyers 11mo ago
LLMs are good at pursuing objectives, but they aren't necessarily good at juggling competing objectives at once. So you can picture doing the following, for instance: - "Here is a spec for an API endpoint. Implement this spec.&quo
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by cwyers 11mo ago
The Doctorow school argument, as best I can tell, would go 'the regulations on black car service were meant for things like limo services that don't compete directly with taxis, and once Uber started competing directly with taxis,
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by cwyers 11mo ago
Yeah, it's a real thing that happened to me, to. In multiple US cities. And I'm sure we're far from alone.
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by cwyers 11mo ago
The opening of the article is laying out the case that the laws are good -- they make the market legible to participants. As he says: ``` To navigate all of these technical minefields, you need the help of a third party. In a modern society

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