edude03

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by edude03 5d ago
felixbruns.de that's a domain I haven't seen in ages (probably also like 20 years)
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by edude03 7d ago
I've been watching a bunch of bycloud on YouTube recently, and although he's done a great job reviewing papers from the big AI labs, I feel like I'm missing something - how have all the labs seemingly made a model that's
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by edude03 8d ago
A harness is fundamentally required - although we don’t really see it using tools like Claude or codex ai models still only can take tokens in and produce tokens out. Tool calls are literally just the ai model printing “I want to call searc
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by edude03 8d ago
Devin was the first ai developer harness I ever heard of — and in fact the first one I ever used as I had gotten an invite while it was in private beta. Now it seems like the product has faded (into irrelevance?) between other harnesses lik
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by edude03 17d ago
I think as a hacker/engineer type you’re more aware of what’s possible and because of that you expect more from things in your life. The flip side of that is that it makes features most people would never think of feel like table stake
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by edude03 29d ago
"yes" but that's a philosophical question. I think they're getting better at "early fusion" IE, training the model that "apple" and these visual tokens are the the same concept, but LLMs are fundament
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by edude03 2mo ago
> Cross out stuff you disagree with, draw a big circles around the stuff that resonates. > Not only does it make consumption a lot more engaging, it makes a revisit of that book extremely rewarding This is actually the biggest reason
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by edude03 2mo ago
You might be taking crazy pills or you've yet to come across an app that's just a webpage inside a web view (a lot of apps these days unfortunately)
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by edude03 2mo ago
If phones didn't have secure boot nowadays inevitably little Johnny would (unknowingly) install a rootkit on his mom's phone for the promise of free vbucks or some see through walls app.
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by edude03 2mo ago
I didn’t make the point I was trying to if > Is multiplied by each "system" you add Was still the take away. The idea is the lost a single instance should cause downtown so it’s not multiplied. IE three instances of the databas
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by edude03 2mo ago
As always it depends but at least for me in my anecdotal experience as a Distributed systems engineer (I know, I'm clearly very biased here) - the problem with a single system is that mundane things cause unavailability like - software
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by edude03 2mo ago
A fair callout, though yes it was supposed to be a simplified analogy. I think you got it exactly right though that its temporary in the same that I'd argue the benefits of using AI are temporary
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by edude03 2mo ago
The article states: > If you are on a current iPhone or Mac Presumably if you don't trust apple you wouldn't purchase their products and even if you were for example forced to use it via work or something you wouldn't use
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by edude03 2mo ago
You likely don't need to disassemble the inference code, the weights are "just an array of numbers" in MLX format.
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by edude03 2mo ago
It's not open weight, but the point is to be an on device (and thus local, privacy preserving) option. The article mentions that as the caveat > What this means if you just want good transcription > If you are on a current iPhone
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by edude03 2mo ago
Not to "glaze" the author as the kids say but this has to be one of the best written musings I've read on HN in a long time. I'm likely bias because it's written in "my style" but I feel like it's a r
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by edude03 2mo ago
I liken it to dieting. If your only goal is to be certain weight, then learning how to cook, learning how to portion, learning to make a meal plan, learning about macro nutrients is all "friction" now that we have GLPs. And maybe
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by edude03 2mo ago
Other than batch jobs, I can't think of a problem that can be solved these days that doesn't also require high availability - at the very least they require a warm standby.
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by edude03 2mo ago
I wonder why they're removing support for encryption when clearly they have the code for it and still supporting the actual FS
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by edude03 3mo ago
I'm using "sneaky" here to refer to anything that's not very obviously stated but anyway > That their actions make sense for their business isn't any reason for people to accept their deceitful, customer-hostile
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by edude03 3mo ago
> maybe you don't understand this hypothetical situation > I'm suspecting you just don't care about other people's privacy. Quite a leap to assume I have neither basic reading comprehension skills nor care for priv
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by edude03 3mo ago
Let’s see how long until opus 5 comes out but to me this lends some credence to the rumour that fable/mythos was supposed to be opus 5
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by edude03 3mo ago
I don't understand the privacy concerns the author is trying to highlight. Granted, doing anything "sneaky" will always raise suspicious once caught, but on the other hand, there would be no point in implementing these "
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by edude03 3mo ago
We can't make single cores any faster, so realistically multicore is the only "solution". That said, most languages have M:N event loops, where M tasks are distributed across N OS threads so even if your software doesn't
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by edude03 3mo ago
Could have sworn the author was a nix(os) user already. I know it’s a meme but what all the problems they’re describing literally is solved by nix. The nix sandbox even catches calls for time for example to replace it with 0 for determinism
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by edude03 3mo ago
I think it can't be improved because it's measuring the wrong thing. A junior engineer becomes a senior when they stop being told what code to write and start solving business needs. Therefore often the highest paid engineers aren
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by edude03 3mo ago
Googles machine translation team wrote the Attention is all you need paper that introduced transformers specifically to solve the problem that you can just model language by mapping one word to another. I'd be floored if they weren&#x2
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by edude03 3mo ago
Almost the exact same thing happened to me when I first tried opus, one prompt no output cost $60 in additional usage
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by edude03 3mo ago
I think it's because they're running out of ideas too BUT the current generations of foldables (galaxy fold 7 for example) are essentially indistinguishable from non folding phones when closed. Yes, that means they could have made
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by edude03 5mo ago
I should blog about it but it's essentially two things 1) "A lot" of nodes, (1 42U rack is one cluster, with battery backup and redundant switching) 2) Hybrid cloud, a few nodes of this particular cluster run in GCP (kind of

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