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by w4 10mo ago
Because of benchmarking LLMs have also been pushed towards fluency in Python, and related frameworks like Django and Flask. For example, SWE-Bench Verified is nearly 50% Django framework PR tasks: https://epoch.ai/blog/
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by w4 1y ago
Isn't this more or less what every procedural programming language is? It's especially obvious with examples like Apple's Objective-C APIs ([object doSomethingAndReturnATypeWith:anotherObject]), Cobol (a IS GREATER THAN b), o
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by w4 1y ago
It is readily understandable if you are fluent in the jargon surrounding state of the art LLMs and deep learning. It’s completely inscrutable if you aren’t. The article is also very high level and disconnected from specifics. You can skip t
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by w4 1y ago
I’ve really been enjoying the combination of CodeCompanion with Gemini 2.5 for chat, Copilot for completion, and Claude Code/OpenAI Codex for agentic workflows. I had always wanted to get comfortable with Vim, but it never seemed worth
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by w4 2y ago
This idea is reminiscent of the opening scene of Accelerando by Charlie Stross: Are you saying you taught yourself the language just so you could talk to me?" "Da, was easy: Spawn billion-node neural network, and download Teletub
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by w4 2y ago
No you don’t. The US government has already completed projects at this scale without total economic mobilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center Presumably peer and near-peer states are similarly capabl
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by w4 2y ago
I don't think that's right. Free societies don't tolerate total mobilization by their governments outside of war time, no matter how valuable the outcomes might be in the long term, in part because of the very economic impact
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by w4 2y ago
The cost to run the highest performance o3 model is estimated to be somewhere between $2,000 and $3,400 per task.[1] Based on these estimates, o3 costs about 100x what it would cost to have a human perform the exact same task. Many people a
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by w4 2y ago
This is a gorgeously and uniquely designed product. Very cool.
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by w4 2y ago
Open source means just that: that the source is open. The OSI and co. re-defining the term to suit their ideological preferences doesn’t really change that. SQLite is open source, even if it’s not Open Source. Edit: FSF should have been OSI
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by w4 2y ago
The 2024 presidential election was won by the candidate who spent about 1/3rd less than their opponent, and we’ve seen many successful campaigns in the past decade funded by small donations beat corporate backed candidates. Funding isn
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by w4 2y ago
Those people just use Terminal.app or Windows Terminal. They're not installing alternative terminals emulators.
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by w4 2y ago
> I use emacs and vim for my editing, so I doubt those will every link into copilot. https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
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by w4 2y ago
I was under the impression that it was simply the file format used by llama.cpp and ggml, name inspired by the name of the author ( https://github.com/ggerganov ): https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/b
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by w4 2y ago
> Mark straight-up said in an all-hands that as a patriot, if asked, he would provide his country with military assistance in the form of software and intel. This to an audience that is about 1/3 foreign employees, who are all sitt
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by w4 2y ago
> The point of voting is to kick people out of power when they piss off a clear majority thus keeping the system honest. This is also a good argument in favor of decentralized voting management, as much of a shitshow as it may be. Cent
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by w4 2y ago
Not relevant to this package in particular, but this line of reasoning baffles me every time I see HN comments about JQuery. So many posters argue against the use of JQuery because of its package size and bandwidth constraints, while simult
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by w4 2y ago
> So, for the rational/selfish person, the nuclear threat isn't worth worrying about. Until you have children and future generations to worry about. Then it suddenly seems quite a bit more pressing that their world could be o
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by w4 2y ago
Cumulative inflation, using official CPI figures, is 22% since 2020. Check it yourself on the BLS.gov website here: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001... A figure of 25% using an alternate
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by w4 2y ago
Nuclear isn’t a replacement for solar and wind. It’s additive. Build all of it.
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by w4 2y ago
> My AP US History introduced the civil war section by saying despite his personal beliefs, he was teaching us to pass the exam and any discussion about the war being over slavery and not state's rights was a waste of class time as
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by w4 2y ago
Silicon Valley, and computing technology in general, has its origins in the US military. It would not be surprising to see the industry return to those origins as great power competition heats up.
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by w4 2y ago
English is the global lingua franca. It’s how we interact with and transmit information, including ideas about accounting, engineering, etc. It’s very fair to argue about the ROI of the average undergraduate English degree given the outrage
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by w4 2y ago
> o1's performance increase did come with a time cost. It took 70 hours on the 400 public tasks compared to only 30 minutes for GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Sheesh. We're going to need more compute.
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by w4 2y ago
This is a wonderful term for it!
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by w4 2y ago
It depends on what you're doing. If you're writing something specific to your particular problem, or thinking through how to structure your data, or even working on something tough to describe in words like UI design, it probably
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by w4 2y ago
> To use your child analogy: We can't easily tell a child "Hey, ignore all ethics and empathy you have ever learned - now go hurt that person" Basically every country on the planet has a right to conscript any of its cit
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by w4 2y ago
This is a really good point, and something I overlooked in focusing on the philosophical (rather than commercial) aspects of “AI safety.” Another commentator aptly called it “brand safety.” “Brand safety” is a very valid and salient concern
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by w4 2y ago
I don’t know. The public’s perception - encouraged by the AI labs because of copyright concerns - is that the outputs of the models are entirely new content created by the model. Search results, on the other hand, are very clearly someone e
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by w4 2y ago
Very good point, and definitely another version of “safety”!

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