spectraldrift

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Worrying about bad AI code is worrying about the wrong problem(matthorn.io)
2 points by spectraldrift 3d ago|0 comments
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by spectraldrift 3d ago
This might just be me, but I find metaphors like ''Fingerprints' inside the Sun' harder to read than the title of the original paper, which is probably what should be linked here per HN submission guidelines: > Planet
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by spectraldrift 1mo ago
Good reminder! I use the non-poisonous kind, phenol-free.
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Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning(github.com)
23 points by spectraldrift 1mo ago|6 comments
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by spectraldrift 2mo ago
Here's my skill for long-term financial planning (tested only with fable): https://github.com/matt-w-horn/skills/tree/main/skills/finan... I found it helpful. If anyone wants to fold in the adv
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by spectraldrift 3mo ago
Linear seems like the kind of app that typically wouldn't need this sort of optimization. I could understand local copy of the DB for indexing, perhaps, but not for normal transactions. This app seems like an example of an app that wou
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Gemini 3.5 Flash(blog.google)
962 points by spectraldrift 4mo ago|658 comments
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by spectraldrift 5mo ago
Why wouldn't this be priced in already? I am often skeptical when people claim to predict the market, given how much can be made by quietly predicting correctly.
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by spectraldrift 5mo ago
Yes a broken clock might be right twice a day, but I also have limited time in my day. I've read enough of his opinions already and would like to make time for some others!
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by spectraldrift 5mo ago
The author lost me when they quoted Thiel.
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by spectraldrift 5mo ago
There's a great documentary from a German public broadcast channel on this topic, including interviews with the scientists and doctors researching the problem, as well as patients affected by these diseases. It seems like a big deal.
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by spectraldrift 5mo ago
I generally think this is a good article and I agree that measured confidence is important when working on any engineering project. However, I've often seen engineers who are a little too confident and can't admit when they'r
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by spectraldrift 7mo ago
This is a misleading article including some quotes that wildly mischaracterize the original sources, while also including many lines of unrelated speculation that could be easily researched. From the article: > However, Google's pri
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by spectraldrift 10mo ago
Weird how they only share three hand-picked evals, ignoring the evals where they were left in the dust like ARC-AGI2. This post is so misleading, I don't even know whether to trust the numbers they did share. One is just fraction of
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
So I'm only 40 years behind! It's amazing how early innovations like this seamlessly fade into the background and can be taken for granted by folks like myself.
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
Having never heard of mojo before, I found this article fascinating. It provides a great example of how a toy regex parser works and an excellent explanation of why vanilla regex tends to be slow. It also presents a novel solution: compilin
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
> Should You Use Postgres? Most of the time - yes This made me wonder about a tangential statistic that would, in all likelihood, be impossible to derive: If we looked at all database systems running at any given time, what proportion do
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
This is the second article I've seen on taste here. It seems to me the author's definition of "tinkering" is primarily describing hyperfocused, repetitive behaviors found in neurodivergent individuals, potentially even a
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
This sounds incredibly frustrating. But given you're in the leadership seat, it's worth taking a hard look at yourself asking how you're playing a role in this, especially since it's unlikely people are this difficult fo
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by spectraldrift 11mo ago
They already did it with Google's transformer architecture- why not Google's open-source browser framework too? They're pretty much a fork of Google's good-faith open-source efforts at this point.
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
It seems odd to me that someone would write such a polished and comprehensive article and yet completely misunderstand the definition of the central topic.
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
It fully depends on whether those rules or laws actually mean anything.
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Platypuses glow under UV light and we have no idea why (2020)(nytimes.com)
3 points by spectraldrift 1y ago|0 comments
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
I'm not sure why this post gets boosted every few years- and unfortunately (as many have pointed out) the author demonstrates here that they do not understand distributed system design, nor how to use protocol buffers. I have found the
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
You're confusing surface area with surface area to volume ratio. Furthermore the fact that dams increase evaporation though this mechanism is an easily verifiable scientific fact. https://riverresourcehub.org/resources&
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
I had the same initial thought as well, but I realized this caveat would only be true if dams just made rivers deeper. But dams flood valleys and they make the water body much wider, not just deeper. A river that was 300 feet wide becomes a
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
It's wild how quickly this rumor spread across major news sources, and yet I was unable to find a primary source at all. I wonder how this started.
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
I assumed they were already doing this domestically.
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
You make a good point about experience. I've noticed an interesting paradox there. The engineers who most aggressively advocate for bespoke solutions in the name of "simplicity" often have the least experience with their mana
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by spectraldrift 1y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but what you're referring to is "I'm not good at this task yet" which is different from "I am inherently incapable/inferior". The first can motivate, the second does not- this

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