mden

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by mden 7d ago
It's hard to say exactly how much credit Astra gets if its training contained the research notes of Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster. Surely it's impressive to generate the result even if working from their notes but it muddie
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by mden 11d ago
I tried out Opus 5 on a Bevy game app and was really surprised at how capable AI has become at testing visual applications without even being prompted to. It wrote itself a mini testing harness in the form of various startup flags. Then it
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by mden 3mo ago
This seems less about frontier models and restriction and more just lack of compute capacity to meet demand. This has always been an issue for large clients running on cloud, though not to this extent.
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by mden 4mo ago
Can you explain what your point really was then? Belittling the idea of hotlines seemed central in your messaging and the possible exploitation of data more of a secondary thing. It's fine to be cynical but it's also good to remem
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by mden 7mo ago
> React is the literal worst of all the modern JavaScript frameworks and yet that's what everybody insists on using. That's rather amusing. "Am I wrong? No it's the rest of the world!" How are these other framewo
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by mden 2y ago
My (personally) humorous interpretation was that they were extending your joke by implying the only users using FF are devs and they are the ones that care.
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by mden 2y ago
Anyone have examples where fold leads to easier to read code than a for loop in Rust?
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by mden 2y ago
I think people are missing that you're being satirical (maybe there is a better word for it?). Unless I'm the one being wooshed.
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by mden 2y ago
"most fraudsters are not evil people, they just follow the incentives and almost non-existent disincentives" Maybe I'm too idealistic but why does following incentives with no regard for secondary consequences not evil?
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by mden 2y ago
> Why invent "safety" practices and ignore every documented software engineering best practice? That seems unnecessarily brutal (and untrue). > 2,000 line long modules and 200-line methods with 3-4 if-levels are considered
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by mden 3y ago
I'm not saying you're entitled to a paycheck - a company has the right to fire you for your differences in politics. But if you frame it as a relationship, communication can help both sides as long as it's done with some mutu
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by mden 3y ago
A lot of work can be inherently political. If your company pivots into mass surveillance is it unreasonable to speak up if it's against your ethics framework?
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by mden 3y ago
Isn't having a private entity be able to do what previously required a nation a good sign for that nation? The idea that the USA cannot re-obtain that capability again seems silly to me and there are a lot of pros for having private co
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by mden 3y ago
Money and tech. Their dev experience is imo better than Google. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the best out of all large tech companies.
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by mden 3y ago
I mean, it's not really wrong, is it? :D Have you tried the same with gpt4?
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by mden 3y ago
4) Throughput is probably a better metric than density and that's hard to guess from static images.
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by mden 3y ago
Is the gas in the car you parked publicly really yours ("private") if there is a way to siphon it out? Just because there is a way to obtain a resource doesn't make it yours automatically..
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by mden 3y ago
Yeah.. but do you think most ultra-rich elite are pushing against entropy or contributing more to it or at best staying neutral while further growing their wealth?
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by mden 4y ago
For certain things I think so. For me the fascinating and really useful utility of LLMs is their ability to synthesize answers to questions. This is something search generally speaking can't do. I find myself using ChatGPT to answer qu
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by mden 4y ago
> You have no idea the wave of disruption coming. Cool, but can you give some concrete examples so it doesn't sound like you're being extremely hyperbolic? > Even adapting to the new world order puts their primary revenue s
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by mden 4y ago
Then you would encourage people to have behaviors that trend towards criminal so they would get paid. But I agree with the thrust of the idea - investing that money in reducing factors that would cause people to turn to crime is a good idea
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by mden 4y ago
I can't speak for large games but the Bevy build-run loop is quite fast for smallish games (say 10k loc). Certainly more pleasant than say Python or JS where it starts fast and then you spent five iterations fixing errors Rust's t
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by mden 4y ago
Agreed. Most code at the top tech companies isn't interesting or even necessarily good. The hardest part of jumping into a new code base is almost always understanding the problem it's solving rather than the technology used to so
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by mden 4y ago
That's too simplistic of a statement. Sometimes you have to drive some segments out to keep others or to keep advertisers happy. If HN didn't put effort in curating the community would a lot of us still be here?
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by mden 4y ago
True, but achieving that sustainably is a problem at least 2 orders of magnitude more difficult. Let's take the wins where we can.
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by mden 4y ago
There are good use cases for WASM in the browser where the js shim is transparently provided for you, e.g. for game engines that export to web. As for non-web use, I believe the wasm runtimes that exist generally don't require js shims
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by mden 4y ago
You need employees to care about their employer. This won't happen if the employer doesn't care about the employees first. I am not sure how true this is but I have a feeling a lot of the issues come from already successful busine
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by mden 4y ago
Or more explicitly the people who would see the message would have no incentive to do anything about it as it would likely add more work for them with no gain. I think this is in part a result of all work "efficiency" optimization
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by mden 4y ago
The next NASA space telescope is The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/the-nancy-grace-roman-spac... .
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by mden 4y ago
Can you share a source? Here's a quick one I found that shows the opposite: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...

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