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by brap 4y ago
Perhaps only people with too much to lose can become successful in China, by design? i.e, "we'll let you succeed - but only if we have enough leverage to control you". Think family, reputation, etc.
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by brap 4y ago
I guess that's technically true, but then what would you call tricking the model to reveal its instructions via anticipated input?
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by brap 4y ago
I see why it’s easy to assume that, but there’s a symmetry, anything that we can say about them they can also say about us… Personally I think our first encounter with aliens, if we ever have one, is going to be more similar to plants, bact
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by brap 4y ago
This might also be true for them
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by brap 4y ago
>We're in the center of a ~100 light year sphere of space that we've polluted with our radio waves, so it seems a safe bet that they'll hear us before we hear them. I don't really see why this is a safe bet, whoever s
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by brap 4y ago
I wonder, can these instructions be revealed with prompt injection?
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by brap 4y ago
I think we've reached the point where React is ready to be challenged by a new competitor. Unfortunately I haven't seen one yet.
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by brap 4y ago
How does YC spit out so many GPT based startups recently, so soon after the LLM mainstream hype started (including ones that were founded years prior)? Is Sam Altman still involved in YC?
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by brap 4y ago
"I hope I didn't startle you" -- yeah you fuckin did!
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by brap 4y ago
1. Who is going to sponsor your gardening work? 2. Why would they?
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by brap 4y ago
Coming up with original company names at this point is nearly impossible (and somewhat overrated)
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by brap 4y ago
Don’t know why people downvoted me, but this is exactly what I meant. I used to be part of the LLMs-are-just-fancy-autocomplete club, but you simply cannot deny that these models somehow encode understanding and reasoning that’s improvi
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by brap 4y ago
I was wondering the same thing, if this wasn’t in the training data then I’m super impressed.
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by brap 4y ago
Man, we are getting pretty fuckin close to AGI, aren’t we?
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by brap 4y ago
How can I short Bandcamp?
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by brap 4y ago
This is very cool, one usecase I definitely see for this is letting PMs get the answers they want without bothering eng. I would even take this further and hide the SQL altogether, and make this accessible via Slack/Teams bot.
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by brap 4y ago
You’re not getting paid to be kept busy, and you’re not getting paid because what you do is interesting and fun. You’re getting paid because you provide real value to someone. You are free to vastly reduce your own economic activity and the
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by brap 4y ago
Congrats! Just out of curiosity, it seems like the process function which you define has to run remotely on workers. How does it get serialized? Are there limitations to the process function due to serialization?
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by brap 4y ago
Right, but is it generated under the hood for each query? And how is the data that was initially written encrypted/decrypted? who holds the key for that?
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by brap 4y ago
Looks good, congrats! In your landing page example, where does the secret client key fit in?
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by brap 4y ago
1. Work at Meta 2. Be top performer 3. Remain in your role for too many years 4. Get fired because you're expensive with no growth trajectory
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by brap 4y ago
For most FAANG companies, it's IC -> TL -> TLM -> EM, unless you explicitly insist on remaining IC/TL (and then you're on the chopping block, because promotion trajectory for ICs becomes very, very slow beyond a cert
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by brap 4y ago
1. Work at Meta 2. Be top performer 3. Get promoted to manager 4. Manage <5 people as a newbie manager 5. Get fired because you don't manage enough people Or, alternatively: 1. Work at Meta 2. Be top performer
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by brap 4y ago
The novel isn't for employees, it's for investors
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by brap 4y ago
Ha, I knew this was about exrx from the title alone. Such a valuable resource, unfortunately not as well known as it should be.
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by brap 4y ago
I see, makes perfect sense then. I would clarify that in the example (maybe add another snippet for querying the status). If your friend is open for business, maybe give them a shoutout ;)
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by brap 4y ago
I only skimmed through the landing page so maybe I missed it, but the value proposition isn't clear to me. If you're going to `await` for the contacts import to finish anyway, what's the advantage of separating the import log
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by brap 4y ago
I think hooks were a mistake. I think components should have been made pure functions, with state/effects being provided by higher order components (HOCs). For example: Counter = ({count, setCount}) => { // pure
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by brap 4y ago
This is very true, but regulation/moats can’t stop progress indefinitely, and I think deep down even medical professionals understand this, which is why he reacted the way he did. I could tell he was personally offended by the fact tha
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by brap 4y ago
I once got to witness a very talented doctor being pitched the idea that AI can detect things like tumors in medical imaging. They didn’t use the same words but the emotion was quite similar. And now we all know AI does a better job than do

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