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by brap 2y ago
The front page is full of OF ads masquerading as genuine women posting innocent selfies. The rest is either political propaganda bots or karma farming bots (gaining karma to later advertise OF or propaganda).
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by brap 2y ago
One thing that’s missing: programs are mutable. A good programmer writes programs that are easy to maintain and extend.
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by brap 2y ago
That seems… very low?
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by brap 2y ago
The longer they spend in heaven, the less they spend trolling. I’m not saying it’s worth the cost, but it’s something to consider.
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by brap 2y ago
This reminds me of “shadow banning” - instead of letting the misbehaving user know they’ve been banned, and let them find a way around it, you make them believe they’re not banned and let them waste their time interacting with the system (w
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by brap 2y ago
True but I would probably not share her naked video on HN
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by brap 2y ago
I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.
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by brap 2y ago
I mean, it’s literally his job at Google?
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by brap 2y ago
I honestly thought this was a new Claude model before clicking the link.
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by brap 2y ago
This seems like an org/process problem and not a tech problem. You can end up in this situation with or without a monorepo.
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by brap 2y ago
Insane, what could possibly take so much space?
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by brap 2y ago
Waiting line is too long so I gave up. Can anyone tell me, are the pixels themselves generated by the model, or does it just generate the environment which is rendered by “classical” means?
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by brap 2y ago
That was kind of a joke…
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by brap 2y ago
Crazy that even o1-preview gets most things wrong. This is in line with my own personal experience with LLMs and non-trivial questions. They’re excellent when answering questions on topics you know nothing about, and somehow embarrassingly
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by brap 2y ago
Cryptocurrency... city? What will the scammers come up with next
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by brap 2y ago
I wrote a Python library for compound interest. It lets you simulate things like irregular deposits/withdrawals, changing interest rates, etc. I basically use it to plot different scenarios in my future.
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by brap 2y ago
You raise a good point, but REST isn't quite declarative, and RPCs isn't quite what I'm proposing. REST is great but I wouldn't exactly call it declarative, it relies on HTTP verbs, plus there are times when you simply c
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by brap 2y ago
This declarative approach is always limited compared to an actual programming language (e.g. JS), and so over time things get bolted on until it’s no longer truly declarative, it’s just a poor man’s imperative language. A good example is HC
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by brap 2y ago
You can say this about almost any software in general
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by brap 2y ago
I always found it pretty awkward that you even need libraries like this. A limitation of TS I suppose.
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by brap 2y ago
Probably Yasser Arafat
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by brap 2y ago
I would not go anywhere near a product whose founder talks like that.
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by brap 2y ago
pg is sama’s biggest DR-er (interpret this as you will). They have that Michael Scott & Ryan energy.
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by brap 2y ago
Isn’t transferring all of your value to a for-profit company that can pay dividends, kinda the same thing?
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by brap 2y ago
Plain-English version for those who can’t deal with meaningless corpspeak babble: ”I’m leaving. Mira”
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by brap 2y ago
From a former obsessive media hoarder of over a decade, to my fellow media hoarders, my sincere advice: give up. Just stop. Delete it all and embrace streaming or ad hoc torrent if you need it. All of this hoarding is just not worth your ti
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by brap 2y ago
Some companies (OpenAI, Anthropic…) base their whole business on hosted closed source models. What’s going to happen when all of this inevitably gets commoditized? This is why I’m putting my money on Google in the long run. They have the re
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by brap 2y ago
I think it can be a tradeoff to get to smaller models. Use larger models trained on the whole internet to produce output that would train the smaller model.
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by brap 2y ago
Google wipes inactive accounts because they’re often used for spam and malware.
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by brap 2y ago
Because China really wouldn’t like it, and that’s all there is to it. Is it technically feasible? Yes.

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