Karrot_Kream

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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
I struggled with the same in academia. I found genuine beauty and value in improving something implemented. But I also felt a bit "stuck", as if I was just stuck in a groove unable to pedal up. I wasn't the only PhD that felt
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
I thought Grothendieck's "example" was a good one. It's not that the academic environment stymied him, it's that he built up a practice of solitary creativity that helped him take inputs from his surroundings and fo
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
It would be nice if you could put some screenshots, a demo video, or even an actual demo on the page. There's a lot of news readers out there so I'd like to see what I'd potentially be getting if I do actually use Downread.
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Yeah FWIW I think that's the aspect of this place I dislike the most. There's a sort of collective fiction that HN is a special place with better comments. At least Reddit has accepted that they're just the internet's v
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
The same thing happened to mechanical engineering decades ago when CAD came onto the scene. I have a family friend of my parents' generation who remembers feeling like his "superpower" in solving fluidics differential equatio
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
FWIW I find much more politically motivated posting outside of the big social media platforms than on it. I suspect it's a combination of algorithmic downranking and just the fact that more politically motivated users are going to be o
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
I've never been a fan of the "Product driven by desire for profits" line because it simplifies too much into too little imo. The reason people like scale is that it brings a diverse set of interests. For better or for worse,
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
ATProto infrastructure is mostly open and there are folks operating pieces of it independently even if the landscape is dominated by the Bluesky PBC. It's true that Mastodon grew bottom-up without centralized funding so the shuttering
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Nothing is stopping you from building your own AP algorithm either though, right? An "algorithm" is, ultimately, a ranking model that ranks a set of incoming posts based on some criteria no? Nothing stops someone from building the
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
The internet will always be a trailing source of these things. If you have to ask the internet, you're behind. The internet is a form of information exchange; information about the thing needs to exist before it is exchanged. For a bri
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
I use it. We have more workstreams than people and so we have to rely on this pattern for most of our new products, but I still find the code doesn't meet my bar. To me it produces passable but not good, maintainable code. Good enough
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Does management sell unrealistic deadlines to the vendors that buy your solutions? Are you bound by impossible support contracts? Did the firm just let go of a lot of people and expect everyone to finish work quickly? Curious how the econom
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Have any links to this? I'm not super familiar with Texas's generation or grid.
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Not having human input in the loop, i.e. allowing agents to act without guidance. I understand the idea of having agents guide agents, but really how much do we gain when Sol scolds Fable?
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
You are being uncharitable. In fact, you're demonstrating the dynamics I spoke of in my post. I could give you a detailed response but, given your tone, instead I'll say: assume the best and don't make everything about yourse
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Many folks have talked about optimizing for engagement and while I do think this is a factor, I don't think this is the cause. HN has a pretty simple set of algorithms and yet it's largely followed the same trend of negativity and
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Thanks this is a comment with a great amount of useful detail.
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Planning, agreeing on a plan, separating planning and implementation LLM, using separate review LLMs, these are all table stakes. This isn't "guidance" if you're getting paid to write software. If you think "unguide
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
> Why aren't you guiding your LLM usage? Is that what I said - to spam it and not guide anything? Or to have a careful workflow where you agree on design and maximize your human judgement/leverage? You didn't say anything
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by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
Something isn't clear about the size of your codebase here and the level of reliability your customers expect, as a reader of your comments. Clarity there will help. My observation has been: - Initial greenfield work by an LLM is fast
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by Karrot_Kream 3mo ago
Agree that you need a well designed protocol, but I think for small social, we're drowning in good protocols. A lot of the issues with ActivityPub, for example, come about because of socializing In the Large. Once you're just hang
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by Karrot_Kream 3mo ago
I've followed the ATProto space (and seen you around the space) a bunch over time, and honestly for the private data portion of it, I'm quite bearish on the idea of an ATProto shaped thing winning here. I do think "small soci
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by Karrot_Kream 3mo ago
This kind of metric is always used to shock and awe in pop media when talking about the GFC, but it's not how actual investment works. In practice most investments are DCAed. No person puts all of their retirement savings into QQQ or S
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by Karrot_Kream 3mo ago
FWIW smartphones did massively change the economics of being a photographer. The family photographer used to be a reliable profession and now it's just a side thing that event and wedding photographers do.
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by Karrot_Kream 3mo ago
Anything that tries to read a "mailbox" on a smartphone is bound to run into difficulties. Smartphones manage to keep battery life high by keeping the modem inactive most of the time. The way to implement any mailbox functionality
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by Karrot_Kream 4mo ago
There's two things going on here. On the one hand there's the Bluesky moderation service. By default if you use the official Bluesky apps/bsky.app experience (the Bluesky AppView) you are automatically subscribed to moderatio
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by Karrot_Kream 4mo ago
? The correlation is trivially demonstrable. You can probably ask an agent to pull the relevant datasets for a state, run a linear regression, and demonstrate this. It's the entire reason traffic crash statistics in the US are normaliz
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by Karrot_Kream 4mo ago
Everyone is going to dislike this comment because you're cutting across two different polarized groups and comment sections rarely champion the middle ground.
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by Karrot_Kream 4mo ago
This site has gotten a lot more popular and so it's a lot easier to rise up in karma these days. It's really easy to get lots of upvotes and downvotes in pretty much any of the controversial/political threads on the site beca
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by Karrot_Kream 4mo ago
> These buildouts have been receiving scrutiny and often refusal across the US for some time now. Yes but the crux of your reading of my comment is you think I'm trying to downplay the opposition to buildouts. Do you know how much o

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