Kinrany

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by Kinrany 1mo ago
You can write and calculate much faster with a typewriter and a calculator than you would do the same by hand, and you can use both even if you don't know handwriting or the algorithm for calculating logarithms by hand.
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
That's not too different for crediting e.g. a typewriter as the tool used to author the text. That is, not ridiculous, but not new.
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
You could ship code without understanding it, it just needs to be treated as throwaway, unreliable and potentially malicious. This is OK for some tasks, e.g. best-effort scraping of a frequently updated website that's actively hostile
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
Infinite growth isn't a myth in general, the world economy does grow over time and for obvious reasons. But of course this doesn't necessarily translate to individual companies growing at the same rate all the time.
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
Right. So these are all examples of market forces being irrelevant. This isn't the market showing that culture doesn't matter: when the winner is predetermined, culture or anything else couldn't _possibly_ matter, as long as
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
You're listing examples where there is no market
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
These off topic complaints about capitalism are pointless and exhausting and make HN a worse place.
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
Software ate LLMs too after all
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
Even microcontrollers would merely require custom compilations that turn off features. There are no technical reasons for having more than one codebase, only economical and coordination-related.
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by Kinrany 1mo ago
Does it let you manually keep track of the parts you've actually seen? Instead of using the granularity provided by the PR author?
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
In terms relevant for this thread, jujutsu is a git CLI with much better UX and support for change IDs. Most history editing operations become trivial. Code review and PR management should be a much thinner layer if implemented on top of ju
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Is it compatible with jujutsu?
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Separately, do I understand the idea correctly: - when learning on the real examples, just propagate forward - when learning on the fake examples, first generate them by propagating white noise backward
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
I'm curious if there is an explanation for it not being more common to sleep like dolphins do, small parts of the brain at a time.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Interesting comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264602 > IMO the much more likely explanation is that the brain uses contrastive learning somewhere. [...] Instead of using calculus and outer products to calcu
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Cleaning happening during sleep doesn't mean it's the main purpose. It could be merely a convenient time for doing the majority of it.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
What's the purpose of privacy when it comes to taxes and real estate?
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
They may very well shrink MTTR and increase deploy frequency at the cost of all other metrics
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
I believe tinygrad still caps the total LoC in their repository to 10k
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Hard to inagine the final outcome being anything other than the smartest model + cheap subagents. The only problem with that is user requests being pasted directly into the model's context, but that's got to be temporary.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Studies in mice aren't used to confirm something relevant for humans, they're exploratory. "Learn via patterns" is hopelessly vague. Archival algorithms learn via patterns too.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
The point about LLMs makes even less sense than drawing conclusions from "in mice" studies
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
It feels like OTel tried standardizing before the correct design was anywhere close to being settled. It's only time to standardize once there's consensus on all the important points, and what's left is minor details that don
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Is there a name for the infrastructure stack that is designed to be operated by a human instead? Spawn agents each in a separate VM with the repo checked out and the tooling set up, allow them to spawn subagents in the same manner, but pull
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
If the pseudocode is precise, what you want is a compiler. Otherwise the LLM is still making decisions for you.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
I believe their point is that "system is at capacity" is something they ought to start fixing before the capacity is exceeded
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
> Microservice: If your service is ONLY exposing json data from some database model, then it should not exist at all IMO. Create a view and be done with it. Yeah, this has nothing to do with Postgres. If the service is accessing a databa
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
Cool UX. A bit jarring that after making a typo one should not press the correct key before continuing.
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
> Because other government programs waste money, it must be okay that this one did too? No, but it's unfair to single out one program when they all do that. > This attitude of "well it was for a good cause [...]" That i
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by Kinrany 2mo ago
The judge did make the decision to outsource to an LLM. This isn't new and isn't too different from tossing a coin.

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