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by jerf 26d ago
The best lies contain truth in them. Yes, there's nothing magical about $40 trillion. It's true, nominally. But if the conveniently-round number, in dollars (an arbitrary unit) and base-10 (an arbitrary base) prompts some people t
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by jerf 26d ago
Yes, the minority party complains about spending, the majority party spends. "D" and "R" doesn't enter into it. You'll note even the minority party rarely does much about it, like, proposing concrete spending c
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by jerf 27d ago
"people working actively in "modern" Go codebases with generics, is it becoming like a Java/Spring kind of codebase?" I have yet to encounter a 3rd party library that uses generics that isn't a data structure l
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by jerf 27d ago
I'm not sure how to test this but I think there's an interesting possibility where the "reasoning" tokens are actually both an accurate reflection of a line of reasoning, but also, that there can be changes in the weig
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by jerf 27d ago
Having read over this entire conversation I feel that people are almost uniformly missing the practical impact of this, which is simply that you can write your own math in terms of "turns" as much as you like. Nothing stops you
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by jerf 27d ago
You, or $YOU, could add that as a linter and integrate it into golangci-lint [1]. There are many things in golangci-lint that I abhor and can't even imagine turning on, things that default to false that I can't imagine working wit
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by jerf 29d ago
The sloppiness in the AI comes from the human sloppiness on this topic. This seems like a variant of what I've seen called the "fake because", which is the idea that people don't generally analyze whether or not a given
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by jerf 1mo ago
> > It is socially irresponsible that as soon as a service goes out that you are immediately in an emergency. You should not offload basic resiliency on to emergency services. > Sure, but that's not a remotely accurate descrip
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by jerf 1mo ago
People need to make decisions about how much resiliency they want. A medium-sized battery greatly enhances your options in an outage. A "solar generator" expands them yet farther. A whole-house generator somewhat farther. It'
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by jerf 1mo ago
The support for iterators is relatively new, though being limited to data structures that an iterator makes sense on, they don't exactly get around in the language and pollute everything everywhere. The support for generics is years ol
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by jerf 1mo ago
I'm definitely able to spew out more code than I used to. Good code. Maybe not great code, but good code. But I spent a lot of time in the second half of this week dealing with friction with a team that is very annoyed that I'm mo
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by jerf 1mo ago
A "guild field" is not a well-defined matter, but I think it's still the easiest engineering field to sit at home on your personal gear and learn skills that can get you hired in a real job with a future without attending any
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by jerf 1mo ago
This isn't quite the question the article is asking, but if you expand it just a bit to a brain rather than a simulation of a biological brain specifically , the specification complexity of a modern AI is not that large. You can get
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by jerf 1mo ago
He's clearly getting his £500's worth even when he was losing it. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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by jerf 1mo ago
The article conspicuously fails to go into much detail about that. I poked around with an AI a bit (to rapidly cover all the linked pages) and it seems the best numbers we can get are from this arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org&#x2F
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by jerf 1mo ago
Really appreciate the pictures showing the evolution of the costume over the years. He's put some real solid work into it. Also, Monty Python's own take on the phenomenon, for those who haven't seen it: https://www
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by jerf 1mo ago
Of course the three short paragraph description of a general principle posted to Hacker News to give a partial answer to someone's 8-word question is simplified. What's the alternative? HN's text box is too short to contain a
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by jerf 1mo ago
I've been working with Kimi K2.7 in OpenCode for a lot of mundane tasks lately. It isn't as capable as Fable, but due to its nature of being an extra-trained K2.6 on coding tasks and benchmarks I suspect it has similar issues. A n
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by jerf 1mo ago
Building a CPU from gates is something at least some programs did or do; I know I did it in the late 90s. We used simulated gates where for instance an AND gate could include any number of inputs and we didn't have to worry about the e
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by jerf 1mo ago
"why can't a massive company do two things?" It's a variation of opportunity cost. A company that has an opportunity to take $1 and make $1.50 on it can't justify an opportunity to spend $1 and make $1.25, even thou
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by jerf 1mo ago
To quote the original article's context more fully: "The output of chat tools (and most of the output of AI agents) is not containerized text, but plain old regular text, and so can’t be signed. What would it even look like to sig
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by jerf 1mo ago
Ultimately, the entire problem of deallocation in general is a continuum, not a binary, and I tend to find it hard to take anyone seriously who is vigorously arguing about how awful GC is if they don't understand that and indicate some
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by jerf 1mo ago
"What would it even look like to sign ChatGPT outputs? There’s no artifact to pass around." It would look like a lot of little signatures on little bits of text, and then larger signatures on a collection of those chunks once the
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by jerf 1mo ago
Yes, I agree completely. It just heightens the pathos of the story that it is over what is now such a small amount of data.
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by jerf 1mo ago
I read it as a statement of just how little data this is by modern standards more than anything else. This company is going out of business and PBS is losing this valuable data, and there's legal drama and multiple corporate entities i
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by jerf 1mo ago
Browsers fundamentally chew on RAM for breakfast. AIUI the reason is, "we", collectively even though we don't all work on them, optimize browsers for speed above almost all else. Then, when all the advertising websites on the
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by jerf 1mo ago
This is probably a reasonable example of a case where an AI can really help out as an endlessly patient assistant to answer your personal questions in a conversational format. It is possible it may get something wrong but as long as you kee
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by jerf 1mo ago
Possibility: They're all hitting the same plateau of what LLMs can do with their current architectures. I'm not stating this as a fact, but it's a hypothesis I'm keeping in my mix.
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by jerf 1mo ago
To a first approximation, this doesn't matter anymore. "Valid HTML" used to be a big deal because when you left the HTML spec you were inviting the various browsers to interpret your non-standard HTML in differing ways, somet
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by jerf 1mo ago
There are posts to that effect. How many of them source to real humans, though... who can tell anymore. That number is certainly non-zero, though. To a first approximation every stupid thing you can imagine happens. But it may not happen as

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