DougBTX

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by DougBTX 1y ago
Agreed, this is just a quote on his link blog. Better to post Reddit thread directly. I wouldn’t expect a plain Reddit link to get to the HN front page though.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
My hot take is that your friend should show you what they’re using, not just dismiss Copilot and leave you hanging!
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Yeah, the chess example is interesting. The best specialised AIs for chess are all clearly better than humans, but our best general AIs are barely able to play legal moves. The ceiling for AI is clearly much higher than current LLMs.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
The once-per-millennium marks are captivating. They feel almost within our understanding, but not quite.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Recent LLMs have larger context windows to process more data and tool use to get new data, so it would be surprising if there’s a fundamental limitation here.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
For a little while someone added Claude’s noreply email address to their account, so their profile started appearing alongside private repo commits!
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Agreed, a screwdriver isn’t broken just because it isn’t a good hammer. The title seems misleading, I was expecting a bug, memory unsafe etc. Allowing more safe uses seems OK to me, but obviously expanding the functionality adds complexity,
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Not the prompts exactly, but these commits should give you a good idea about what they were: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106/commits
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Model weights are code, for a dive into that see [0]. That shows how to encode Boolean logic using NAND gates in an MLP. The expressivity is there, the only question is how to encode useful functions into those weights, especially when we d
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by DougBTX 1y ago
> the more general view that Rust is attempting to be as close as it can get to a language that reads like it has a garbage collector without having one. I've used Rust a fair amount, and I've never seen that expressed as a goa
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Do any of these support streaming dictation, to show text progressively while dictating?
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by DougBTX 1y ago
From the article: > A 2024 GitHub survey found that nearly all enterprise developers (97%) are using Generative AI coding tools. These tools have rapidly evolved from experimental novelties to mission-critical development infrastructure,
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by DougBTX 2y ago
> For example, if 'you' agreed to develop a piece of software 'exclusively' for the customer, and then use AI to create substantial parts of the software, then neither it was 'you' who developed that, nor wa
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by DougBTX 2y ago
AFAIK none of those models have been trained to produce bounding boxes. On the other hand Gemini Pro has, so it may be worth looking at for your use case: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/26/gemini-bounding-
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by DougBTX 2y ago
The article doesn’t explain why this is interesting. Here’s a different way of putting it: A classic pinhole camera is a box with a hole in it. The hole is small, so not much light gets in. We replace it with a lens that acts in effectively
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by DougBTX 2y ago
Maybe the opposite, slow rollbacks cause escalating incidents.
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by DougBTX 2y ago
This article claims that 1e2 is interpreted as a string, while this other article on the front page[0] claims that 556474e378 is interpreted as a number. What's correct? The YAML "Scalars" section[1] says: > A few examples
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by DougBTX 2y ago
Rust has a great package manager, so moving libs into std doesn’t bring much benefit. On the other hand a change like this perf improvement can be released without tying it to a language version, that’s good too.
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by DougBTX 2y ago
The “inherently” means not by default, i.e., the runtime has to support moving green threads between OS threads itself.
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by DougBTX 2y ago
Of course logic gates apply logical reasoning to solve problems, they are not much use for anything else (except as a space heater if there are a lot of them).
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by DougBTX 2y ago
Inside a constructor you can access a partially initialised "this" value, and even call methods on it, which leads to rules like: "Do not call overridable methods in constructors"[0], as they can lead to surprising, non-
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by DougBTX 2y ago
> Where's the paradox? Exactly. I propose that the paradox is in first-past-the-post voting, a 5% swing leads to a 100% change in representation. How can that be?
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by DougBTX 2y ago
That was a pretty interesting twist in the story. There is a check, but due to a confusion in semantics it checks that the user is root (uid == 0) instead of the pointer!
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by DougBTX 2y ago
I’d recommend testing the Apply step in a staging environment before rolling out. For releases, the plans don’t need to be committed to version control. Instead they can be generated in CI just before release, then put reviewing the plan on
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by DougBTX 2y ago
FTA: > The Houthis first attacked commercial ships connected to Israel, expanding to those with ties to the U.S. and United Kingdom following coordinated strikes by the two countries, in partnership with other nations. The Yemen-based gr
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by DougBTX 2y ago
> Hiding the truth seems like the exact opposite of that. It seems like “true defamation” could be a lie of omission. If someone harps on about a past misdeed but omits N years of atonement, that’s misleading, even if true.
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by DougBTX 2y ago
"At rest" is used to contrast with "in flight", where the data is being transferred between computers. So data "in flight" is protected by HTTPS etc, once it has been transferred it is "at rest" on th
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by DougBTX 2y ago
On the other hand, A Pixel Is Not A Little Square[0] would disagree, a raster is a grid sample of a continuous function. [0] http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
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by DougBTX 2y ago
S3 doesn't format the size for human display, the object's Size is returned in bytes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Object.h...
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by DougBTX 2y ago
Yeah, US-centric, I wouldn’t have thought of that. My search results page for Plan B has a musician, a film, climate change advocacy... but the ads are all for pills.

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