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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
You're screaming into the wind. LLMs are coming for "system code" along with everything else. It no longer takes time to learn to be a systems programmer, or time to do things on a systems codebase. You can complain about the
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
The fact that they ban themselves from using the free AGPL license is what makes it possible to sell them a commercial one.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
>we would be happy to dual-license under a commercial license
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
> It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it? Wait, sorry, you're asking why mak
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
> Will Facebook change its policies? No. Going to need bigger fines. This is how they curbed the tobacco industry.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
See also: Why whittlers are against lathes.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
DeepSeek is really crazy cheap, though, and they don't have a giant pool of other invasive personal data to correlate it with.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Sounds good to me, let the bots read the ads instead of the humans.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Exactly: Making new/better ICs is not "deep tech" research. Creating the first IC, creating the concept of an integrated circuit is deep tech research.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
I'm told there is a category of VC who picks their investments based on github stars.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
You can see how an LLM works here https://bbycroft.net/llm they are not magic.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
> Integrated circuit on its own isn't doing anything unless used for something YES! YES EXACTLY! That's part of what makes things like ICs "deep tech" - they are transformative innovations that have no immediate appli
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
At the risk of arguing about semantics (and not interesting database semantics) it seems half the commenters here think "deep tech" just means "like, technology you go really super DEEP into, like really dig into that DEEP DE
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
I know that many practical databases already exist and where I come from refining or improving something that already exists hardly qualifies as "deep tech". Is PepsiCo doing deep tech research on Crystal Pepsi? However, the comme
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
I'm very excited to keep pushing the frontiers of deep tech art history, just as soon as I complete my $150M Series B raise.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Looking forward to the database analogues of IBM Watson and Tay.ai I'm partly kidding; there's plenty of space for innovation in databases. You should sponsor https://sled.rs/
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
C'mon, databases are great but they are not in any way a "deep tech" field. Databases exist today in a zillion production forms as commercial products and free software. Deep tech includes things like nuclear fusion, solid st
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
On the contrary, I kind of love this as form of malicious compliance. I'd wager money that the PO/BAs have been demanding "comprehensive documentation" for a very long time, and now they are getting what they've ask
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
I suspect you will not accept this (because you have been manipulated by the generator?) but there is no "I" in repeated inference calls to large language models. There is no coherent entity behind the text. Try switching backend
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Better frameworks will still help AIs avoid silly mistakes. A smarter framework means you can be productive with a dumber/cheaper AI.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
You're arguing that we should be deliberately build evil and manipulative technology... why? To assert your own superior discernment?
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Millions of adults get hooked by gambling, social media, and AI that pretends to be a person. We need a better standard than "@mdp2021 thinks he's too grown up for this."
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
That's a lot of fancy words to say, "I think I'm too smart to fall for the same tricks that work on other humans." How many hours did you spend on your phone last month? How many fewer hours would you have spent if the a
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Irrelevant. Humans are frail and we shouldn't design systems with dark patterns that take advantage of human frailty.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Boy have I got bad news for you...
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
I think sensible legislation might require that commercial AI providers discourage anthropomorphisation by avoiding personal pronouns from chatbot interfaces. "Hey, customer service chatbot, can you help me get a refund for my order?&q
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
seems like someone who is knowledgeable about financial shenanigans
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Sorry, maybe this speaks to my own values, but "urgency" doesn't translate to "dishonesty" in my book. I have had high pressure jobs where it was important to show results quickly, that doesn't mean I was fakin
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
If you can accept downtime and you really don't need db concurrency, then that's great and SQLite is probably a good fit for you. There are many applications for which that isn't the case.
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Postgres has transactional DDL: you can be applying migrations in one transaction while serving live traffic from the old schema in another. By tying the schema changes directly to the application deployment it becomes harder to apply a big

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