eslaught

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by eslaught 27d ago
Why not? Cargo.lock includes the transitive dependencies, and Cargo itself reports everything that changes when you do an upgrade. Those are version changes, not code diffs, but it seems entirely tractable.
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by eslaught 1mo ago
The linked project page [1] claims to be fully homomorphic. Assuming the claim holds (I haven't verified it), then there is provably no way for Google or anyone else to obtain any information from the encrypted data or computation perf
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by eslaught 3mo ago
If AI works the way you suggest then we've literally been here before and we know exactly how this goes. When tractors came along, farmers became dramatically more productive. Were the farmers who did things the old way "forced&qu
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by eslaught 3mo ago
In what sense is AI like paying for ads? In one case you legitimately lose to the competition if you stop (prisoner's dilemma). In other case, whether and how much you lose depends almost entirely on how much it actually impacts your p
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by eslaught 3mo ago
Or, you know, just use a service intended for this purpose: https://timestamp.stanford.edu/
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by eslaught 4mo ago
And how do you get this to work exactly? I keep getting variations of "Missing required parameter: redirect_uri" in the OAuth flow. The solutions proposed by Gemini and Google's AI summaries all hallucinate agy subcommands th
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by eslaught 5mo ago
Just popping in here because people seem to be surprised by > I build on the exact hardware I intend to deploy my software to and ship it to another machine with the same specs as the one it was built on. This is exactly the use case in
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by eslaught 6mo ago
Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025: Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775
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by eslaught 6mo ago
Please don't take up space in the comment section with accusations. You can report this at the email below and the mods will look at it: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents,
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by eslaught 6mo ago
Without an empirical methodology it's hard to know how true this is. There are known and well-documented human biases (e.g., placebo effect) that could easily be involved here. And besides that, there's a convincing (but often ove
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by eslaught 6mo ago
I agree with your points. Answering your one question for posterity: > Also how were the data races significant if nobody noticed them for a decade ? They only replicated in our CI, so it was mainly an annoyance for those of us doing rel
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by eslaught 6mo ago
> it is a career-ending failure It depends highly on the field. In history, sure. The point of getting a history PhD is to become a history professor, and you can't do that if you don't get the PhD, and meanwhile history PhDs d
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by eslaught 6mo ago
I have an old account, you can read my history of comments and see if my style has changed. No need to take my word for it.
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by eslaught 6mo ago
Iteration is inherent to how computers work. There's nothing new or interesting about this. The question is who prunes the space of possible answers. If the LLM spews things at you until it gets one right, then sure, you're in the
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by eslaught 6mo ago
For context I've been an AI skeptic and am trying as hard as I can to continue to be. I honestly think we've moved the goalposts. I'm saying this because, for the longest time, I thought that the chasm that AI couldn't c
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by eslaught 6mo ago
It's not just about the increase in volume, it's about the delta between the prompt and the generation. If the generation merely restates the prompt (possibly in prettier, cleaner language), then usually it's the case that th
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by eslaught 6mo ago
Is there something like this, but without (or with minimal) spoilers?
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by eslaught 7mo ago
It's that, but it's also that the incentives are misaligned. How many supposed "10x" coders actually produced unreadable code that no one else could maintain? But then the effort to produce that code is lauded while the
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by eslaught 8mo ago
Not the same industry but at least one literary agent does this: if you physically print and mail your book proposal, they will respond with a short but polite, physical rejection letter if they reject you. But I think it's a generatio
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by eslaught 8mo ago
But this is exactly my point: if your "code" is different than your "pseudocode", something is wrong. There's a reason why people call Lisp "executable pseudocode", and it's because it shrinks the gap
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by eslaught 8mo ago
But this is what I don't get. Writing code is not that hard . If the act of physically typing my code out is a bottleneck to my process, I am doing something wrong . Either I've under-abstracted, or over-abstracted, or flat out
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by eslaught 8mo ago
Here's a paper from September 2025 that compares programs for (a) semantic equivalence (do they do the same thing) and (b) syntactic similarity (are the parse trees similar). LLMs are more likely to judge programs (correctly or incorre
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by eslaught 9mo ago
If you drive in the FasTrak lanes without an account you pay the fee + $10 surcharge (for a first time violation), and it goes up on the second violation: https://www.bayareafastrak.org/en/help/invoices-and-penalti
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by eslaught 9mo ago
The other answers are great, but let me just add that C++ cannot be parsed with conventional LL/LALR/LR parsers, because the syntax is ambiguous and requires disambiguation via type checking (i.e., there may be multiple parse tr
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by eslaught 9mo ago
The solution I've found is to make using the API a hard error with an explicitly temporary and obnoxiously-named workaround variable. WORKAROUND_URLLIB3_HEADER_DEPRECATION_THIS_IS_A_TEMPORARY_FIX_CHANGE_YOUR_CODE=1 python3 ...
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by eslaught 10mo ago
It depends on what you care about. If you're writing purely for yourself, then by all means, go ahead and do so. I've found there's a balance to be found in listening to others vs yourself. Usually, if multiple people give yo
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by eslaught 10mo ago
It's because if you explain what's going on, you stop the action. And viewers/readers don't like that. In fiction it's called an info dump. As an aspiring science fiction author, virtually every beta reader I'v
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by eslaught 11mo ago
To me it's interesting that (a) most people die of old age, and (b) the leading cause of death is essentially preventable (heart disease being highly lifestyle related) or else plausibly curable in the future (I certainly hope we'
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by eslaught 11mo ago
Conda doesn't do lock files. If you look into it, the best you can do is freeze your entire environment. Aside from this being an entirely manual process, and thus having all the issues that manual processes bring, this comes with a fe

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