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by ripvanwinkle 9d ago
this is my favorite bit >So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist? >So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated
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How Delhi built a world-class metro for a bargain(nytimes.com)
2 points by ripvanwinkle 13d ago|1 comments
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by ripvanwinkle 13d ago
fixed the url here
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How Delhi built a world-class metro for a bargain(nytimes.com)
4 points by ripvanwinkle 13d ago|1 comments
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by ripvanwinkle 17d ago
I've noticed ChatGPT Work does a much better job of editing google docs than the pure Chat. It also does a better job of handling long threads and doing the necessary compaction to get better results
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DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5(venturebeat.com)
4 points by ripvanwinkle 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ripvanwinkle 4mo ago
This para caught my eye >Frontier cyber models may push states and defense firms toward the opposite logic: security by obscurity, with closed software, closed tooling, closed firmware, and closed chips. If a model cannot train on the co
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by ripvanwinkle 4mo ago
TSLA not in the top 10- very interesting
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by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago
I stumbled on this page and it seems to imply that Claude Code calls other models like Qwen, not just Anthropic's Is that commonly done. Presumably this is from people customizing their installs - is that correct?
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Ask HN:Do people configure Claude Code to use other models(openrouter.ai)
2 points by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago|6 comments
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by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago
IF the feds are a sufficiently large market your viability as a business might depend on keeping them happy. btw i am not making a judgement call on the ai usage issue itself, just saying that this and taxes are more equivalent than it migh
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by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago
One observation. Having your work being used by the govt in ways you disagree with feels similar to having your taxes used in ways you disagree. When you pay taxes you have no say in the bombs acquired with that and where they are dropped.
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by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago
>>In our analysis we found that all frontier models we tested were able to reproduce the original, human-written bug fix used as the ground-truth reference, known as the gold patch, or verbatim problem statement specifics for certain
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Workforce(wsj.com)
15 points by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How can I identify and prevent graceful degradation when using ChatGPT
2 points by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ripvanwinkle 5mo ago
The LLMs need documentation
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by ripvanwinkle 6mo ago
I had this big guy, very big guy with tears streaming down his cheeks asking me "Sir can you take down that woke star that keeps me awake"
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by ripvanwinkle 6mo ago
I'd say it's a closer race and the end is not a foregone conclusion yet. That one country currently exhibiting some very troubling tendencies also has more robust self-healing mechanisms in the form of democracy. It has gone off c
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by ripvanwinkle 6mo ago
The surplus goes to the owners of the capital. Labor has been losing to capital for sometime now
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by ripvanwinkle 6mo ago
I was wondering about that too. It shows 1.9M Software Developer Jobs and 122K Computer Programmer jobs. Reason for hope
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by ripvanwinkle 7mo ago
because it worked out for North Korea
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by ripvanwinkle 8mo ago
Pick an activity that is accessible that catches your fancy. Even better if you already have an activity, just spend more time doing it and with people you enjoy hanging out with. At a minimum you'll start feeling less lonely and over
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by ripvanwinkle 9mo ago
It's not just about protecting data in the old sense - typically from other corporate entities. It would suck if your information somehow made it into a generally available model that then leaked some of that anyone asking a question
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by ripvanwinkle 9mo ago
I see mentions of Gemini as a fast growing alternative to ChatGPT. Isn't anyone troubled by the fact that for consumers there is no way to keep your data from being used for model training if you want to maintain history of your Gemini
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by ripvanwinkle 1y ago
This shouldn't be a surprise - capitalism always overshoots. Anything worth investing in will generally receive too much investment in because very few people can tell where the line is. And that's what causes bubbles but at this
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by ripvanwinkle 1y ago
shouldn't the comparison be with gpt4o or 4.5 and not 4.1 or o3
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by ripvanwinkle 1y ago
a well written postmortem and it raised my confidence in their product in general
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by ripvanwinkle 1y ago
I think this is the best april fools article I've seen
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by ripvanwinkle 2y ago
Very cool to have his kids closely involved in his work
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by ripvanwinkle 2y ago
Its cyclical, a lot of companies over hired and are trying hard to cut down

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