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by lars512 3mo ago
...and in particular it says that one of the reasons is that developers are refusing to participate in the non-AI branch, and when they do, changing what tasks they select to those where AI would be less useful. Overall this suggests to the
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by lars512 3mo ago
This kind of systematic distillation by a competitor can allow them to fast-follow you and pick up capabilities. If you've invested in expensive capabilities training, of course you don't want this, so it's in Anthropic'
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Mira Murati bets against the autonomous agent(vector.news)
2 points by lars512 4mo ago|1 comments
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by lars512 10mo ago
Here's data based on absolute poverty lines Distribution: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio... Share: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-in-poverty-relative...
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by lars512 11mo ago
Hetzner is great if you’re in Europe, is there an equivalent in the US or East Asia?
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by lars512 11mo ago
Isn’t that just assuming that people, rather than industry, is the main consumer? Perhaps there are energy hungry industrial applications that could move.
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by lars512 1y ago
I had a good use case at Our World In Data for the public data pipeline, where one repo had the pipeline and one git-lfs repo had the build output of the pipeline. A git note added to a commit to the code pipeline recorded the hash identify
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by lars512 1y ago
And here I thought it would be the antagonistic undecagonstring...
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by lars512 1y ago
At Our World In Data we ended up using Buildkite to run custom CI jobs, integrated with GitHub, but on cheap, massive Hetzner machines. I can really recommend the experience!
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by lars512 1y ago
When living in Stockholm, I came to appreciate the various levels of twilight and darkness, rather than thinking of day and night so strictly. The sun being low on the horizon also scatters light across the sky in ways that are very beautif
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by lars512 2y ago
This looks nice! It could be a replacement for me for duckdb-parquet, a plugin for Datasette that lets you run it on top of DuckDB instead of SQLite.
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by lars512 2y ago
You can check out a range of important development statistics on India here: https://lars.yencken.org/projects/country-explorer/india The one we're talking about today is "extreme poverty", which is
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by lars512 2y ago
To throw yet another option in, you could consider an LXC container per project, if they’re small and you don’t find you need Docker. LXC containers are basically multiprocess containers, unlike Docker’s single process containers, making th
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by lars512 2y ago
Ah, minidiscs, they still have a kind of futuristic cool to them even now! When I was younger only the kids from Hong Kong had minidiscs and minidisc players.
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by lars512 2y ago
I've been enjoying `files-to-prompt` by Simon Willison: https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
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by lars512 2y ago
There's often a lot of small fixes that not time efficient to do, but a solution is not much code and is quick to verify. If the cost is small to setting a coding agent (e.g. aider) on a task, seeing if it reaches a quick solution, and
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by lars512 2y ago
Unfortunately, MacOS ships an earlier version of bash that does not include associative arrays, so they’re not as portable as you might like.
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by lars512 2y ago
Hi HN! You may be interested in some related work: "Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation?" https://ourworldindata.org/better-learning Our
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by lars512 2y ago
Reading between the lines of the post, performance reviews require a lot of trust between a person and their manager. I totally understand that in many workplaces that trust is not there, and you are forced to develop strategies for navigat
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by lars512 2y ago
Will it finally become possible to unsubscribe from the New York Times?
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Exploring the World's Countries(lars.yencken.org)
2 points by lars512 2y ago|1 comments
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by lars512 2y ago
The easiest way to move anywhere is to apply for a job there, and if successful, let them guide you through the visa process. That gives you a visa linked to your job. But keep unbroken employment in that country for 4-5 years and you will
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by lars512 2y ago
Related question: when you're using databases with great offline sync protocols like this, how do you do schema evolution of your DB, especially in the face of different client versions that you cannot upgrade in lockstep? My context h
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by lars512 2y ago
Thanks for the encouragement!
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Country Explorer(lars.yencken.org)
2 points by lars512 2y ago|2 comments
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by lars512 3y ago
Exactly this. What's plotted is the chance of surviving to that age then dying.
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by lars512 3y ago
Oh, that's mostly my lack of Observable Plot skills. The 110 year old category is meant to mean 110+, so it covers all the years after.
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by lars512 3y ago
Factors are of course overlapping, but you could think about what questions a life insurer would ask you, since they have money on the line and probably the best models. Smoking is a really big one, given that it's estimate that 2&#x2F
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by lars512 3y ago
Hi HN, author here. Glad you're enjoying it! I put it together as a kind of Stoic practice to reflect on the fact that we will all die, but also with a data scientist hat on to try to get myself to think about life expectancy as a dist
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In Praise of Nushell(lars.yencken.org)
2 points by lars512 3y ago|0 comments

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