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by bsaul 3y ago
How come this page reaches top of HN ? Has anything new happened to this language ? I was hoping there was because i liked the idea when it was announced a year ago, but the page doesn’t seem to show anything new.
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by bsaul 3y ago
Just an anecdotal experience : wikipedia is up-to-date with regards to "recent" discoveries. Whereas books will always be engraved with what was regarded as knowledge at the time of writing. Case in point : elder of zions protocol
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by bsaul 3y ago
I've been thinking a out civilization collapse for a while, and to me the greatest think anyone should be building is simply a computer with wikipedia installed, running on solar batteries (or something even more durable). Meant to be
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by bsaul 3y ago
40 in greece in summer doesn't seem that extraordinary... Don't want to downplay the news, but i don't think it makes a lot of sense to call "extreme heat record" something that's half a degree above what we&
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by bsaul 3y ago
Anyone here has ideas on what could make a difference between openai and bard on this issue ? Not an expert, so i really have no idea what it is that makes this kind of difference. training ? Architecture ? Rlhf ? Etc
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by bsaul 3y ago
I fail to see if some people hate musk so much that they fail to even recognize the most obvious joke. I don’t understand how anyone can read that tweet other than a way for musk to say « this whole dick measuring contest between meta and t
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by bsaul 3y ago
Generics , although kept simple, definitely reduced the amount of copy pasting in go. I actually think go generic’s system is the best i’ve seen because they managed to provide enough features to remove the stupid parts of the language, whi
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by bsaul 3y ago
who would benefit from using this ? People building 3D engines such as unity or unreal ?
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by bsaul 3y ago
The racist behavior and hate are indeed a huge part of the problem. I believe you when you say it's escalating, however this one is relatively well known and not specific to France. My feeling is a bit broader than that : we're en
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by bsaul 3y ago
france is slowly but surely turning into an authoritarian regime. People voted against the extreme right to fight against "fascists" but it seems like it's coming anyway, disguised as a cool looking mid 40 guy.
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by bsaul 3y ago
i wonder how those kinds of proposals are even legal. It's litteraly the equivalent of buying votes.
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by bsaul 3y ago
Funny how the very first sentence of the talk "i think you all know what a man is" would now be subject of heated discussions. oh the times they are a changin...
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by bsaul 3y ago
When working on a project, context is everything. I feel like it'll only really make a difference once it's able to read the thousands of files in my project's folder. My only use so far is get inspiration for type naming, an
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by bsaul 3y ago
Am i the only one that tried using gpt4 for serious development work but stopped pretty fast because of its obvious limitations ? Reading that article makes me wonder if we're even talking about the same thing.
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by bsaul 3y ago
So it's just a feeling then. Although i talked to another friend who made exactly the same observation on its own, without concerting: all of the sudden, some very official sounding declarations from US "officials" making pub
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by bsaul 3y ago
This whole narrative on UFO coming from US Gov at the exact same moment the fear around covid has faded is so suspicious.. It's really really hard not to see it as a pathetic attempt at keeping the population in a state of mass hysteri
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by bsaul 3y ago
it's a one-time shot though. You see what suggestions the LLM is producing, and decide or not to apply them. Once the code is refactored, you get back to regular coding.
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by bsaul 3y ago
i don't like to be overly enthusiastic, but an obvious instrument i see right now that would be capable to refactor 30 million lines are LLM. They might be a good tool to provide superhuman code simplification.
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by bsaul 3y ago
"Also, being a mercenary, there's also the possibility he's been bought by a higher bidder" The fact that this hasn't even come to my mind yet baffles me. It's such a logical explanation as to what has been goi
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by bsaul 3y ago
oh ok, i had no idea..
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by bsaul 3y ago
very confused by the logo, which is the one from the swift programming language. What's the relationship ?
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by bsaul 3y ago
that's why i was mentioning the gap between better in theory and in practice. My feeling is that the transition between something that looks fantastic in a lab, and something that can actually be used as a product, like chatGPT is pret
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by bsaul 3y ago
Do you think researchers that really have 0 conflicts or interest with other researchers working in those companies really are up-to-date as to what the real capabilities of NN will be in the coming years ? We all know there's a huge g
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by bsaul 3y ago
I usually never post those kind of comments on HN because they don’t add any value, but : your comment made me laugh out loud, thanks a lot :))) Maybe i’m dreaming but i’m starting to feel a new « let’s stop with the fashion addict attitude
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by bsaul 3y ago
The question of a priori regulations is interesting because you basically have three options : - ask people not involved in the field, and risk not understanding enough - ask people involved in the field, and risk conflicts of interests - d
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by bsaul 3y ago
Not sure if you know but the name comes from https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Coquand Coq being the first three letters of his name, and also the french name for rooster, the french national emblem. So yeah, he
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by bsaul 3y ago
instead of having smarter autocorrect (which i'll probably disable anyway), i would heavily suggest changing the keyboard back to what it was in iOS 6 or 7. I don't remember exactly which version they started screwing up, but sinc
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by bsaul 3y ago
Actually let me share a story : I usually never ever advise my customers to rewrite their app from scratch. And yet here i was, doing it for the 4th time in a row for 4 different customers, in just 2 years, simply because the codebase were
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by bsaul 3y ago
that's also my tip for devs working in my team when they ask me where they should write a piece of logic : - would you need to change that code if the UI is now a command line application ? No ? then it's in the model layer. EDIT:
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by bsaul 3y ago
Yes, there's definitely a confusion in the meaning of the word "Model": All objects belonging to the model layer don't have to match a data type. For an online shopping app, you may have an "Item" object, but y

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