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by jph00 1mo ago
Not only is that not true, but in fact FastMail predates AWS by some years. Source: I founded FastMail.
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by jph00 2mo ago
The range is provided in the title. Presumably it's just regularly sampled over that range.
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by jph00 2mo ago
Wow mucosal innervation was around half in long covid patients - that's super worrying and would have nasty symptoms in practice. The findings also support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 may cause structural nerve damage, which is perh
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by jph00 2mo ago
Heaven forbid we let poor people use software that helps their kids read. If they can't afford a tutor, they deserve nothing. (Am I doing this right?)
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by jph00 2mo ago
It takes a lot of digging to find their cache pricing - it's $0.50, which is unusually expensive. The vast majority of input tokens are normally cached, so this is actually the price that matters. I wonder why it's so high.
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by jph00 2mo ago
Pythons options are here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html SQLite behavior is here: https://sqlite.org/lang_transaction.html . The regular implicit transactions there plus explicit w
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by jph00 2mo ago
I'm a big fan of sqlite-utils, but I really don't like how Python (particularly 3.12+) changes how sqlite's transactions work -- the native behavior explained in the sqlite docs is much better IMO. I understand why Python had
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by jph00 4mo ago
It's both an illogical question and comes from a place of ignorance about a topic which one would expect folks nowadays to have some basic competence in. First, the illogical part: the statement was about "inequality" to whic
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by jph00 4mo ago
You seem to have a rather limited understanding of what kinds of concurrency exist and how those needs are best met. Whether something is a server or not is not very relevant to this discussion. SQLite is an excellent production db for many
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by jph00 4mo ago
I couldn't find a CPAP mask that worked for me, even after 6 months of trying across 4 different masks. Then I read studies showing oropharyngeal exercises can help treat sleep apnea. Originally I used https://snoregym.com&#
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by jph00 4mo ago
q and ch both exist in pinyin, and have different sounds. The q sound requires placing the tip of the tongue on the teeth, and isn’t an initial consonant we have in English, so we don’t have a way to spell it.
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by jph00 4mo ago
TIL HN still doesn't support rfc3492, 23 years after it was published, and so this domain is not rendered correctly on the site. :( (It should appear as: マリウス.com )
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by jph00 4mo ago
He states in the article that they use LLMs for this purpose and find them extremely useful.
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by jph00 4mo ago
There's always someone making this claim when negative comments about AWS come up. They almost always come from people that don't have experience running substantive infra at scale without AWS, so they can't make an informe
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by jph00 4mo ago
The statement “there exists a project where zig led to an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs” does not imply “all zig projects have an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs”. This is a classic logic problem - eg “
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by jph00 5mo ago
No, you are deeply misunderstanding the issue. Creating a rivalrous good that powers fight over for control, then use violence to maintain control of, creating a global feudalism, is not "existing oppression getting worse". It act
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by jph00 5mo ago
"already substantially completed" isn't accurate. $450m of the eventual $1.65b cost had been spent at that point - so less than half.
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by jph00 5mo ago
Yeah this has always been the glaring blind spot for most of the "AI Safety" community; and most of the proposals for "improving" AI safety actually make these risks far worse and far more likely.
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by jph00 6mo ago
GPL was created as a workaround for copyright - it wouldn’t have been needed if there wasn’t copyright. There are complex arguments both for and against copyright and there’s no reason to simply assume it must always be just as now even as
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by jph00 6mo ago
Nearly all my coding for the last decade or so has used literate programming. I built nbdev, which has let me write, document, and test my software using notebooks. Over the last couple of years we integrated LLMs with notebooks and nbdev t
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by jph00 7mo ago
This is exactly the thinking that has characterized responses to new sources of power through history, and has been consistently used to excuse hoarding of that power. In the end, enlightenment thinking has largely won out in the western wo
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by jph00 7mo ago
In the alternative, asymmetry is guaranteed. When you only allow gov and big tech access to powerful AI, you create a much more dangerous and unstable world.
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by jph00 7mo ago
Yes there is. Lots of researchers are more interested in making a contribution to societal flourishing than in making incredible sums of money. That’s why there’s still lots of top AI researchers in academia.
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by jph00 7mo ago
llms.txt files have nothing to do with crawlers or big LLM companies. They are for individual client agents to use. I have my clients set up to always use them when they’re available, and since I did that they’ve been way faster and more to
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by jph00 7mo ago
It's not a mistake. It's correct, and is a excellent way to present this information.
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by jph00 7mo ago
> I don’t know how to trust the author if stuff like this is wrong. She's not wrong. A good way to do this calculation is with the log-ratio, a centered measure of proportional difference. It's symmetric, and widely used in eco
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by jph00 7mo ago
The x.com/twitter "Community Notes" feature is based on this algorithm, BTW. (Disclaimer: I'm on the board of the org that runs Polis.)
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Tool Shaped Objects(minutes.substack.com)
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by jph00 7mo ago
They rarely are IO constrained.
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by jph00 7mo ago
No, your job is to help your reader get to the end of the text. That means writing in a way that most of your audience finds compelling, readable, and not intimidating. Not all readers are the same, so you will fail at your job for some rea

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