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by bjornsing 1y ago
I’m well aware of the risks. But I think you have an unrealistically rosy picture of professionals’ diagnoses.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Or maybe it just feels that way because the world is being fixed at unprecedented rates? For example I had the misfortune to needing help from the mental health community a decade ago. I sometimes think about how much easier that part of my
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Is it really true that Google has no feature branches? Sounds unlikely to me. How do you do code reviews for example if everything goes straight to main?
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by bjornsing 1y ago
The current state of affairs is concerning. But what really concerns me is how much of the innovation in the infrastructure layer is American. I can browse innovative infra layer startups all day and not come across a single European compan
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Sure, I can spend my days doing that. But I appreciate the help (from the LLMs). And I think we actually have the same goal function: we want to make naming more compressible, less unexpected. You can call that culture (and it is) but you c
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by bjornsing 1y ago
This feels like the beginning of a wonderful friendship between me and the LLMS. I work as a fractional CTO. One of the things that frustrate me is when my clients have various idiosyncratic naming conventions on things, eg there’s a ”dev”
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Yes. So yet another pretty law with no consequences for transgressions.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
I’m Swedish. We have plenty of toothless laws that no one follows. Plenty.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Don’t hold your breath.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
> These things will keep happening until it is no longer socially acceptable to advocate for the creation of data collection programs that are a necessary precondition. One or two cops locked up for it can also work wonders. But somehow
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by bjornsing 1y ago
If I’m not mistaken LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn’t work with connection poolers, and you can’t have tens of thousands of connections to a Postgres database. Not sure you need a more elaborate analysis than that to reach the same conclusion.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Well… I just don’t care if the cause is biological or not. I care about human suffering, and humans suffer all the same regardless.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
The rate of change over the last 150 years has certainly been dramatic. But it’s nothing extraordinary over the course of Earth’s history. There’s been roughly 30 million 150-year periods in Earth’s history and given the planet’s violent pa
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Or to have fewer children and move to where it’s cooler? Could work, or at least it seems so to me.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Our ability to adapt to a changing climate without too much human suffering should radically increase with a shrinking world population though. In general I think too much emphasis is placed on trying to preserve the current climate as is,
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Over an open flame?
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by bjornsing 1y ago
> Sure you have a 100C heatsink within millimeters, but I still find it surprising that the outside layer of the basket wouldn't burn away slowly. Probably because the water slowly permeates through the outside layer of the basket a
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Exactly. It’s a crack in the MBA’s anti-commoditization wall. Right now it’s like USB-C. If we’re lucky it will turn into TCP/IP and transform the whole economy.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
So how are we doing with whole program optimization on the compiler level? Feels kind of backwards that people are optimizing these LLM architectures, one at a time.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Yeah I have the same feeling. I also think it’s weird to say he’s clearly wrong. I mean, it’s a very subtle question exactly where you cross the line that comes with an obligation to credit others. All ideas build on each other and are to s
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by bjornsing 1y ago
It’s well-known that John von Neumann had this ability too: Herman Goldstine wrote "One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall. As far as I could tell, von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article to quo
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by bjornsing 1y ago
There’s some truth to that, but I think it’s even broader. Here in Sweden there’s a widely understood term (”bostadskarriär”) that roughly translates to ”housing career” and refers to building wealth through home ownership. It’s often more
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by bjornsing 1y ago
So the security mistake was saying to Claude ”please handle that GitHub issue for me” with auto approve enabled?
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Could someone update the TLDR to explain how / why a third party was able to inject instructions to Claude? I don’t get it.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
Great natural filter for startup talent.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
I’m using the word ”bureaucrat” mostly as a derogatory term. The problem as I see it is actually a lack bureaucracy. It arises when you hire ”bureaucrats” and tell them ”you are now a general do-gooder who can do whatever you want, like an
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by bjornsing 1y ago
I could not agree more. But the problem is: then the politicians / bureaucrats don’t get to decide who gets the money.
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by bjornsing 1y ago
> On the other hand, I also read stories how startups can successfully bootstrap themselves via generous support of the government, like tax deduction for small companies, unemployment benefits for founders, low-interest loans, venture i
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by bjornsing 1y ago
That’s the typical racket, yes. 20 years ago I saw it as an unfortunate consequence of policy mistakes. But now I’m more inclined to see it as the intended purpose of these systems. ”It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”
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by bjornsing 1y ago
> Research departments at large corporations with the right contacts can get campaigns designed for them, more or less, which I disagree with but it's not like it fits the picture you give. Not sure what you mean... It fits perfectl

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