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by achierius 5mo ago
I didn't say anything like that! Like I said I just don't think that this opinion is somehow associated with "vibe coders"; if anything I'd expect the opposite.
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by achierius 5mo ago
> Centaur outperformed all methods including CMA-ES alone by using the LLM on only 30% of trials. The LLM receives CMA-ES's full internal state (mean vector, step-size, covariance matrix), the top-5 configurations, and the last 20 t
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LLMs Don't Quite Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms(github.com)
4 points by achierius 5mo ago|2 comments
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by achierius 5mo ago
One of those rare papers where the code speaks for itself. They do a bunch of comparisons but the most salient is comparing Karpathy's autoresearch (verbatim, best as I can tell) vs. some HPO algorithms, and as of yet the Tree-structur
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by achierius 6mo ago
I think a lot of non-vibe-coding types also hold similar opinions -- in fact they might dislike Anthropic products even more, given that they (however few they might be) choose not to use them.
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by achierius 6mo ago
Not if the big labs have anything to say about it! They're working to fix the 'problem', and with Mythos we no longer have any guarantees that the frontier will even be available to distill.
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by achierius 6mo ago
That's fair. I'll adjust and say that I think there's a mix: some people certainly are bashing without understanding, but there are also a lot of engineers here whose day to day work is held to a higher standard than I think
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by achierius 6mo ago
Do you not think people here work at big companies with big products? I do, and we have a much higher bar for shipping.
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by achierius 6mo ago
What people dislike is the boom-bust cycle inherent to all levels of a market economy. During some years, these companies suck people up like a vacuum -- that can be bad if you're on the inside and all of a sudden the culture goes out
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by achierius 6mo ago
Maybe not 1/10, but definitely on-the-order-of 1/4th or 1/6th as many.
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by achierius 6mo ago
We aren't building dozens of new datacenters to host more webapps.
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by achierius 6mo ago
> Assembly to Python creates a lot of Intent & Cognitive debt by his definition, because you didn't think through how to manipulate the bits on the hardware, you just allowed the interpereter to do it I agree! You often see this
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by achierius 6mo ago
GP meant moving the driver into userspace, which is much less painful due to the stable userspace APIs.
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by achierius 6mo ago
> And the fact that having outline calls to methods of value objects is so expensive Is this tied to unions? Or otherwise, when does this happen? I don't see the connection w/ invisicaps or &c
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by achierius 6mo ago
Clearly they don't. They don't tend to occupy other countries, not outside of immediate territorial claims like Tibet (if you think that constitutes an "other" country)
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by achierius 6mo ago
> whether ... the concept of "bad actors coming in and ruining it for everybody by taking without giving back" even makes sense. This is pretty clearly answered by the GPL: yes, it does, and this concept has been around since t
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by achierius 6mo ago
> The last time a property class was removed was _slaves_. Easy counterexample: titles of nobility. Also perpetual bonds, delegated taxation rights, the ability to mint currency. The list goes on. If you're going to use history to s
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by achierius 6mo ago
Are you serious? In what world did we agree "someone may train incredibly important systems on our every utterance, without any compensation, and we will do what we can to not impede them"? Can you not see how there's a diffe
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by achierius 6mo ago
I can tell you that it's not that he's setting aside speed -- the fact that it's as fast as it is is an achievement. But there is a degree of unavoidable overhead -- IIRC his goal is to get it down to 20-30% for most workload
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by achierius 6mo ago
Are they? I'm sure they're vulnerable to certain jailbreaks, but many common ones were demonstrably fixed.
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by achierius 6mo ago
> Steve Jobs was a middle-class guy trying to find his place in the world; the kind to travel India to to meet Neem Karoli Baba, shaved head, barefoot, wearing kurtas I'm gonna be real: I've seen guys with shaved heads and kurt
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by achierius 6mo ago
Essentially all Apple engineers use macOS ~exclusively (at least in the SWE org). That these bugs persist is in spite of that fact. Frankly there's just a lot going on, and between all the kinds of bugs that have higher priority -- cra
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by achierius 6mo ago
And yet feudalism was abolished, and the map of Europe remade.
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by achierius 6mo ago
Do you expect people to wait by while billionaires pour trillions of dollars into replacing them? Evidence takes years to mount; present events are moving far faster than that. Your argument is the exact same as that of COVID denialists in
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by achierius 6mo ago
Well for one, nobody was killed here. But second of all, sure -- because Hacker News are not the class of people involved in drive-by gang shootings; to most of us they are essentially abstractions, barely more real than the trolley probl
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by achierius 6mo ago
While I don't agree with your conclusion, I like the phrase -- "raped society" does quite well capture the feeling of violation I think many feel at having their own publications turned into machines meant to impoverish them.
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by achierius 6mo ago
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Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war(politico.com)
80 points by achierius 6mo ago|26 comments
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by achierius 6mo ago
Exactly -- that means that any analysis based on the current (as of 1926) 'reserves' or 'production capacity' for rubber/fertilizer/coal/wood would have been invalidated as soon as we switched to using oil
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Charges filed after fire destroys Kimberly-Clark toilet paper warehouse(bbc.com)
2 points by achierius 6mo ago|0 comments

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