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by everforward 5d ago
I think people don’t do genuine benchmarks because the market forces them to pretend their solution works for anything you can throw AI at. Companies whose valuation is based on them being the RAG/compression/routing/etc co
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by everforward 5d ago
Naively, I think some optimizations would require access to the whole codebase and that would make people nervous (plus incur more cost). Eg absurd idea, but you could write something that minifies a codebase (by token, rather than byte) an
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by everforward 6d ago
I would guess they’ll spend ages arguing about what an “ad” is. Eg if I ask Llama 3 to find me the best headphones, I think we can agree its response isn’t an ad. If Claude responds with a banner that Sennheiser designed and paid Claude to
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by everforward 6d ago
I’ve been looking along a similar line, but I came at it from the infra side rather than the software. Mine pretends to be a local ACP agent, but it’s actually managing a Docker container and proxying the ACP connection into the container o
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by everforward 10d ago
There’s a big gap between hobby self-hosting and enterprise. Clouds are appealing (note, not technically better but more appealing) in the enterprise for numerous reasons. We already have a contract, I don’t have to spend a month with procu
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by everforward 17d ago
I'm not positing that as a moral good or bad. It's possible for stock market gambling to be bad for society but have better price discovery, in the same way that dictatorships are bad but tend to have faster response times to eve
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by everforward 17d ago
I've worked on both sides and I really think it comes down to Dunbar's number [1] and thus the size of the company. At a sufficiently small company, you can just trust people will generally do the right thing. I ask X to accompli
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by everforward 18d ago
The utility is always the same. The stock market provides price discovery, which drives efficient resource allocation (in theory). Theoretically, more gamblers should mean better price discovery because the payouts for correctly taking the
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by everforward 18d ago
Acetaminophen overdose does actually have a surprisingly high rate of occurrence. A lot of people don’t realize how narrow the therapeutic band is. Doubling your meds on a bad pain day can put you way beyond the safe limits. People think it
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by everforward 19d ago
When I messed with it I used Kagi's search and I didn't have that issue (not claiming they're the best, they're the only one I tried). They filter their results through their AI, though, so you get a sort of meta-summary
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by everforward 19d ago
Sort of depends on how well the core reasoning works. It’s not a big effort to connect an LLM to a search provider. You do pay for the tokens, but in theory on a smaller model each token is cheaper.
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by everforward 20d ago
That’s just two sides of the same coin. They run a proxy for LLM providers, which inevitably creates a marketplace. They’re amazon.com for tokens. The flip side that others are pointing out is that Amazon is sticky because there’s a sprawli
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by everforward 24d ago
I don’t expect it to be exact or like code, but at the very least I expect it to be predictable and the “spirit of the law” fails that test often. I still remember GDPR coming out and I read til my head hurt, decided the lawyers would have
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by everforward 26d ago
I would disagree with you, because "technical compliance" is compliance with the letter of the law. You have complied with every explicit requirement of the law. If the law is insufficient then legislature is free to add a claus
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by everforward 26d ago
Because it likely is, despite both their levity and the general lack of nuance in the CFAA. Quoted from 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (the CFAA) [1] (without quote blocks, because mobile): --- Start Quote (2) intentionally accesses a computer without a
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by everforward 29d ago
I’ve bought some stuff off there and can tease out some aspects, though they may be after the fact rationalizations of subconscious effects. The first is price. The stuff is cheap, as in so cheap I know it will be terrible and I still sort
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by everforward 1mo ago
It might just not be for you. I use OpenRouter because I do like being able to quickly check whether a new model works better, but mine is a “human in the loop” dev process so it won’t ruin a day of batch processing or anything. I do like b
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by everforward 1mo ago
It cost them more than normal food to maintain the stockpile. I’m not for profiteering but maintaining a stockpile implies excess production that spoils rather than being sold. It does seem fair to pay enough to cover that at least.
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by everforward 1mo ago
I don’t think so because those both live in the context window and as such pollute it when they’re not performing optimally. I think having unused or rarely used weights doesn’t influence the results as poorly as RAG injecting irrelevant fa
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by everforward 1mo ago
Do they do something neat with the colon? I do prefer the shorter keyword syntax, at least in Clojure because of how common they are. Clojure tends to use them very heavily though, and last I looked it seemed like Racket used more lists (as
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by everforward 1mo ago
I have little faith any of it would stop someone who was a) devoted, b) prepared, and c) had physical access for a reasonable time. It’s still worth doing because the vast, vast majority of people will fail at a or b without even reaching c
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by everforward 1mo ago
The electricity company doesn’t have a contract that says they’ll only give electricity to specific people. Iron Mountain just doesn’t want to be in the middle, and I can see why. OSS went defunct, PBS files a lawsuit, guy buys OSS so PBS p
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by everforward 1mo ago
Probably, but LLMs can’t execute code directly. They’d be making tool calls to make bash run ncat or curl or whatever that would be suspicious, as would any attempts to obfuscate it (“why is my agent doing an ‘eval $(base64 -d)’?”). It’d be
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by everforward 1mo ago
Funnily enough, I would say almost the opposite. CC’s feature set is basically table stakes for an agent these days (does it have ACP yet? Very close to behind table stakes if not) and it has a lot of bloat powering that. IMO part of it is
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by everforward 1mo ago
I’m not endorsing the idea, but we could ban printing the card number on the card. New cards would only have a CVV, chip, mag strip and some way to differentiate between 2 cards from the same company (a colored dot?). The info would still b
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by everforward 1mo ago
That’s pretty normal though, and has been for ages. A lot of states have random laws around the things you can sell there, even though it would prevent an out of state entity from selling the product there. Liquor laws come to mind, you usu
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by everforward 1mo ago
Go is relatively easy to learn, and the semantics of the language make it more difficult to write "clever" code that's difficult to understand. That's the main selling point, with a secondary point that it statically com
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by everforward 1mo ago
The outcome in Iran was obvious to anyone paying attention. We knew Iran would close the strait, but we also haven't truly won a guerrilla war yet. Vietnam went poorly, Afghanistan went poorly, we've only historically done well
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by everforward 1mo ago
Others can cause damage, but your odds of being hit by an Amazon driver are dramatically higher than most other companies because of the number of drivers they run. They found a sort of loophole in the law. It's supposed to be self-re
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by everforward 1mo ago
There is _some_ prior art here, though it’s not direct. This is very similar in concept to the joke Python extensions that replaced the global exception handler with one that invokes an LLM. There are “workflows” that are very similar. Ie I

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