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by jnwatson 1mo ago
We're at the point now where we're seeing 30 second commercials that are mostly GenAI. In other words, this is a failure of degree, not of category.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Rates are going up Aug 16.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
I see ads for this all the time.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
I'm definitely going to use the word "upfuckery" instead of fault injection the next time I need it.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Philip Morris.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
I like cocktails. I like cocktail recipes. I don't know why this is on hacker news thought.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
All but one of the voices sounds tinny. The timing and cadence was good though. Is this intended for anime autodubbing? There's only one voice (Rowan) that is remotely traditional broadcaster-style.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
While the AGPL is untested, what a derived work is is less so. It is entirely outside the bounds of the intentions of the authors of the AGPL for clients to be infected.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
The article does make it clear, though the headline misleads.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Why would AGPL force you to open source your app? Unless you literally compile your app with pgrust by modifying the pgrust source code, you're safe. Clients aren't bound by the AGPL because they aren't derived works.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
The floating point comparison bug is nightmare fuel. I could look at that for years and never spot the mistake.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
It is a great analogy, as the vast majority of software tasks are CRUD or glue logic. At this point, relatively narrowly-defined tasks are a solved problem with frontier models. It is only more advanced tasks with broad scope and large cont
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
They are going to have to come up with better portable noninvasive technology. Technically fMRI is noninvasive; it is just a bit inconvenient for everyday use.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Isn't most of math this way? Occasionally, we find a practical use for it, but that's usually not the point.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Electricity production isn't a free market in the vast majority of municipalities. Market systems only work when demand and supply are relatively unconstrained. In this case, supply is strongly constrained.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Also, there's no guarantee of progress. The writer can starve the reader forever.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
Fable 5 on Max knocks it out of the park: https://imgur.com/a/usR8K7G Definitely has some creative flourishes. (I made no extra prompting. Just the above text. Single shot.)
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
Some teenagers saved up money for a car. I saved up money for a PowerMac 7100. It cost me $3k, with a solid student discount. I used it throughout college and beyond. I upgraded the RAM, the L2 cache. I even added one of the Sonnet G3 cards
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
There was another project posted a few days ago that was quite similar and someone asked the same thing to the author. They said they tried that first and they got a 10x speed boost by doing it manually. It is the same reason why database
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
It seems to have trouble remembering the whole context, even when its limit is only half full. Three times this weekend I've had to switch to Fable, where I literally ask "review the recent conversation and tell me where we went
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
Suggested retail price for Filemaker when it was originally released in 1985 for Macintosh was $195. That's about $600 these days. It is about as expensive as it ever was.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
Interestingly, Fable caught the gist and I didn't have to enumerate every Claudism. "Punchy" seemed to be the operative word. My new operating hypothesis is that Claude (Fable in particular) defaults to optimize for concisi
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
I was just thinking they need to mark each model per benchmark as "model released before the benchmark was released" and "model released after the benchmark was released".
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
I recently wrote a short paper with Fable, and, with some prodding, I was able to get some non-painful prose out of it. I just found my prompt: The writing style could really use some work. Avoid Claude-isms like "stated fairly",
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
And it is likely going to happen a fourth time when SpaceX merges with Tesla. The first time was when Tesla bought Solar City.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
I generally agree. Perhaps there's only a 5% chance that it would write better code or find a bug that it wouldn't have with a lesser model, but the economics of bugs is strong enough that preventing a single bug is worth hundred
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
They've said for some time that Claude Code is 90% LLM generated code.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
That consumer energy prices are going up is simply a matter of public policy. Municipalities have the power to keep rates flat, but they choose not to.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
Putting it in 100m times is great perspective. This is essentially a healthy amateur athlete running at nearly full tilt for 4 minutes straight.
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by jnwatson 2mo ago
After MoE entered the mix, raw parameter count is less useful a measure.

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