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by thundergolfer 20d ago
Work in USA for exposure to good tail outcomes, have Aus citizenship as a refuge from v. bad tail outcomes.
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by thundergolfer 2mo ago
Modal was not hacked. A Modal customer left an unauthenticated web endpoint running on Modal which could be used for code compilation and execution. See https://modal.com/blog/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-inci... f
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by thundergolfer 2mo ago
Modal eng here. Getting the model running is quite challenging, but its accessible right now on Modal via Endpoints: https://modal.com/blog/kimi-k3-by-moonshot-now-available-on-...
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by thundergolfer 2mo ago
Having been early at a startup that relied on Postgres I think this post doesn't put enough focus on monitoring and alerting. Postgres has a few key failure modes that you want to avoid ever happening, and you can use alerting to get
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Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds(modal.com)
76 points by thundergolfer 2mo ago|15 comments
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by thundergolfer 2mo ago
Not really that related. Refinement culture is concerned with evolving aesthetics and marketing which is partly a response to globalization and the rising middle classes of asia, partly related to digitization, and partly just a normal evol
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by thundergolfer 3mo ago
Major Sandbox providers (e.g. Modal) run on non-hyperscaler bare metal not AWS and so don't need to markup on AWS's markup. Thus, prices are comparable or better than AWS.
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by thundergolfer 3mo ago
You're talking about AWS Lambda? - Their use of bare metal isn't necessarily the latest gen hardware - AWS Lambda is part of AWS, and obviously has privileged access to supply
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by thundergolfer 3mo ago
Unfortunately supply is quite limited. If you want to horizontally scale on these instances you need to have a good relationship with AWS so they'll give you a big allocation before c9i is a thing.
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Failure numbers every programmer should know(thundergolfer.com)
2 points by thundergolfer 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 3mo ago
> Well, we tried switching back to GitHub Actions, and… yeah it still sucks. Blacksmith has grown explosively because it makes an increasingly frustrating bottleneck in the dev cycle faster. Where's the "grown explosively"
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by thundergolfer 3mo ago
No a Ponzi scheme involves not output, but here there is very much output in the inference being sold by Anthropic. Pretty big difference.
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by thundergolfer 4mo ago
> That means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package. Probably better to use the fully-loaded cost of the engineer, which is much higher than their compensation package. The fully-loaded cost is t
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by thundergolfer 4mo ago
This is downvoted but's it pointing out a fundamental dynamic in capitalism. Labour activists had to intervene in this dynamic to protect workers from being exhausted by the constant need for capital to increase labour exploitation to
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by thundergolfer 4mo ago
“Opt-in by default” is just Opt-out. We already have the term.
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by thundergolfer 4mo ago
https://teachyourselfcs.com/ is an excellent list
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Safetykit: A small collection of safety demos for human-in-the-loop scripts(thundergolfer.com)
2 points by thundergolfer 4mo ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 4mo ago
I just can’t handle this guy’s “it’s a tulip bubble!” approach when just yesterday Thinking Machines released a demo which would have been taken as literal magic if it was shown 20 years ago. The tech is astonishing and Ed spends 98% of his
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
Completely agree that it's off-putting. The author indeed has only ever worked in academia per his LinkedIn. But disagree that this is a path to unemployment. At work we go very fast and yet I think fast is compatible with each of thos
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
> AI-accelerated tradecraft. The CEO publicly attributed the attacker's unusual velocity to AI augmentation — an early, high-profile data point in the 2026 discourse around AI-accelerated adversary tradecraft. Attributed without evi
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
This article is a brilliant skewering of the 'em dash means LLM' heuristic as a broken trick deployed by those too-clever-by-half. 1. https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
I think a bigger blocker is that this is a read-only environment for the computer when we need readwrite. It’s fantastic that computers can be so effective at this read-only work but so much of what I do needs write feedback from the machin
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
The comments pretending Marvel actors (e.g. Benedict Cumberbatch) are their Marvel characters in other movies (e.g. Sam Mendes' 1917) kill me.
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
Their algorithm has a toxic positivity problem where they weight positivity so much the most moronic, saccharine crap sits at the top and you'd be hard pressed to distinguish the comments from LLM slop.
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by thundergolfer 5mo ago
Broadcom builds the TPU chip. Google designs it. You can’t avoid partnering with Broadcom if you want TPUs in significant volume .
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by thundergolfer 6mo ago
It’s a geographic legibility, but you could also say that “C. Chavez ave” provides a historical legibility or an ability to see what the city values. In Melbourne the North-South street go: King, William, Queen, Elizabeth, Swanston, Russell
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by thundergolfer 6mo ago
Yea ok, but move to a numbered city and you notice the boost. I’ve lived in Melbourne, Sydney, and NYC and found Manhattan’s numbering is great. Lower Manhattan also still has a large non-numbered area so you can get the old charm when you
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by thundergolfer 6mo ago
Dwarkesh gets far more technical and in the weeds than TPBN. It’s very different. I can’t listen to TPBN though it seems fun but I’ll relisten to Dwarkesh episodes more than once.
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by thundergolfer 6mo ago
There’s a potential irony here that a commenter lamenting the decline of education in the West is leaning on the “critical thinking over memorization” trope in contemporary Western education, when that trope has contributed to a decline in
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by thundergolfer 6mo ago
Yeah I'd say the critic was most likely affirming the idea that film is a middlebrow medium. Seeing Hamlet at the Globe is high brow, but seeing Hamlet as the cinema is middlebrow.

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