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by ninkendo 7d ago
To be honest, it depends. If the pedestrian hasn't gotten to the driveway quite yet, and you're stopping to let them get there and cross out of an abundance of caution, then it may not have been legally required for you to yield
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by ninkendo 12d ago
1/100th is hyperbole. But it has gone up. My opinion on the timeframe is the obvious one: Since Trump. Entirely. I generally think there’s actually not that much corruption in politics in the US. Mostly just insider trading, if you cou
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by ninkendo 12d ago
Not really interested in getting into a debate here, I’m just pointing out that GGP said “openness and also the scale”, to which you ignored the “scale” part and pretended it’s only about being corrupt in the open versus in private. I can p
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by ninkendo 12d ago
The answer to this is gonna vary wildly depending on what kind of codebase it is. A large, mature codebase that predates LLM’s and for which changes need a high level of scrutiny regardless of who made them (think llvm, WebKit, important fo
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by ninkendo 12d ago
No but we do need to go back to the good old days of having like 1/100th the scale of corruption we have now.
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by ninkendo 12d ago
My 2¢: When google trained a neural net on Go moves, using some text notation for them, with no other vocabulary of any kind, just predict the next go move, they noticed a representation of a Go board had essentially formed in the network,
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by ninkendo 16d ago
Source address selection still favors GUA over ULA by default in every major operating system… If you run both you’re almost certainly going to see a lot of GUA addresses in logs where you only allow LAN traffic. Especially if you’re using
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by ninkendo 19d ago
So you’re saying if I log into HN, every intra-site link should be rendered with “?token=<secret>” and if I send a link to a friend it will let them be logged in as me? No, because that would be ludicrous, cookies are obviously necess
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by ninkendo 21d ago
Given the title of the article is “RAG is simpler than you think”, and how I expected it to literally be an article explaining what RAG is and how it works, it’s more like going to the menu holder at the front of the restaurant, finding out
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by ninkendo 21d ago
I mean the article is entitled “RAG is simpler than you think”. I clicked the link thinking “I don’t know what RAG is, so ok I’m willing to learn something”, and the article… completely fails to explain it. Given that the stated purpose of
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by ninkendo 22d ago
When I hear stuff like this I always imagine going to a restaurant and asking the waitress for a menu and them replying “lol just google it”. It’s not that I can’t or don’t know how, it’s rather that the expectation should be that a website
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by ninkendo 23d ago
Because that’s all we seem to have measured. So, hypothesizing about whether there’s any other finer-grained causation in the data is the logical next step. Me personally, I have immense trouble believing that passively watching entertainme
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by ninkendo 23d ago
private.icloud.com (née privaterelay.appleid.com) is the address for “Sign In With Apple”, which is an oauth-style service that sites opt into to let you use your Apple ID to sign in. Sites offering this as a signup option are already aware
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by ninkendo 24d ago
> Slack, which can be sync/async depending on context Right, the nohello people are saying “don’t treat initial communication on Slack as sync.” At least not until after the conversation has started. Since you don’t know if I’m avai
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by ninkendo 24d ago
Probably never. WiFi still fundamentally works over a shared medium, by clients that talk on the same frequency, and if they interfere, they have to wait a random amount of time and then retry. Wired switches have dedicated physical cables
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by ninkendo 25d ago
Speaking only from my experience using their rust crates, they have undergone more “code feng shui” than any of our other dependencies. They’re still 0.x and every point release seems to re-imagine things enough to break everything and requ
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by ninkendo 27d ago
> requires a commit and push for every file save I don’t think I could imagine a stupider idea than this if I tried. To paraphrase Babbage: I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a solut
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by ninkendo 28d ago
Well I mean… you didn’t come into this comment section saying “hello” and then waiting for someone to say hello back before commenting, right? And you don’t do that in emails either, right? Because that would be super out of place, and you
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by ninkendo 28d ago
Title was mangled. The actual quote is: > It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state Not “avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state”, as the HN title c
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by ninkendo 28d ago
The problem is the comments only make sense if you knew the original prompt in the first place. It'd be one thing if AI left a bunch of breadcrumbs reminding itself not do do Y, but when it makes a comment that only makes sense if you
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by ninkendo 28d ago
RLHF has the same problem as human reviews of AI code: AI code (and comments) look plausible at first, and if you have 100 other PR's to get to, it looks "good enough" and you approve it. I'm sure the humans doing the &q
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by ninkendo 28d ago
> when using IDEs with the SQL vendors plugins Do these plugins mean you don't get to store them in git? You're just going to open up the developer studio and YOLO a change to the stored procedure, live in production? Because t
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by ninkendo 29d ago
Even Linus’s comments in that bug hedge things a bit: > and that if people depend on interfaces we exported having side effects that weren't intentional, we try to fix things so that they still work unless there is a major reason
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by ninkendo 29d ago
> It depends on how we define the ABI. I see it as a set of client-visible invariants that they rely on By that definition, any change of any kind will break ABI, Hyrum’s law and spacebar heating and all that.
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by ninkendo 29d ago
SQL has one flaw: The verb should come last. So, "FROM users WHERE id = 1 DELETE" or "FROM users WHERE email = 'foo@example.com' SELECT id". That'd cut back on some accidental "oops I dropped the whol
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by ninkendo 1mo ago
> Document what's there, not the diff We recently added a similar thing to our style guide, It’s astonishing to me that we have to spell this out, that something as obvious as this needs to be explained to LLM’s at all. They’re supp
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by ninkendo 1mo ago
I'm not really criticizing oxide as a product here, I'm sure it's great. I'm criticizing the website for being heavy on "solutions" and light on details. But really, the main detail it's lacking is the ope
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by ninkendo 1mo ago
I develop cloud infrastructure controller software for a living but sure. I’m certainly not a target customer , but as someone casually interested in this space it’s certainly very light on details. Re-assessing my criticism, I think I’m m
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by ninkendo 1mo ago
I’ve tried so hard to figure out what the hell oxide even is, but the website is utterly impenetrable. I guess it’s an “integrated platform” and does “AI” and it’s “purpose built for frontier workloads”, but… I have absolutely no idea what
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by ninkendo 1mo ago
I didn’t say “I’m running into issues due to the ram usage”, I’m saying it uses a lot of ram. My computer also feels snappy and fast, it doesn’t change the fact that 2.2GB is a huge amount of bloat for it not having done anything yet and st

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