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by btown 10mo ago
Don't forget that the Ellisons have a 15% stake in TikTok's American business as well!
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by btown 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20053188 and https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252468013/MapR-collapse-... have some context on MapR's demise. IMO they were simultaneously worse situat
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by btown 10mo ago
Has anyone built a “deep fork” tool that lets you make a private fork of all dependencies, then modifies their transitive dependencies to point to private forks, and so on? Ideally in a way where updates can be pulled in manually? Seems fea
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by btown 10mo ago
Even better, a tool that can tell the rendered bounding box of any set of elements, and what the distances between pairs of elements are, so it can make adjustments if relative positioning doesn't match its expectation. This would be i
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by btown 10mo ago
It’s also the case that the massive set of constantly evolving case law is akin to the most convoluted and buggy “libc” ever implemented, running on a system where random bit flips occur frequently. Any lawyer who says they know how to defi
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by btown 10mo ago
I think part of the tension here comes from the way autism is understood both as a broad, fully-continuous, multivariate spectrum, and as a binary diagnosis. To be sure, clinically, thresholds are useful because services, insurance, and res
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by btown 11mo ago
On top of this, it's understandable to humans when reviewing generated code. There's no 2000-line FooBarAdmin component where bugs could be located. And if you're having it generate HTML templates, you can see exactly what
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by btown 11mo ago
Yea - if you want a paranoidly-sandboxed, instant-start, high-concurrency environment, not just on beefy servers but on resource-constrained/client devices as well, you need experts in V8 integration shenanigans. Cloudflare Workers had
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by btown 11mo ago
Could this be solved by (periodic) snapshotting into a system with good support for indexing in nested documents, for an initial eligibility search, then perhaps re-snapshotting with live updates, mixing in recently updated documents by the
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by btown 11mo ago
There's no service, hosted or otherwise! It's a specification and open-source implementation for the data structure maintenance alone, and expects that users write their own backend as desired. https://stack.convex.dev&
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by btown 11mo ago
One of the most interesting things to me about CRDTs, and something that a skim of the article (with its focus on low-level CRDTs) might give the wrong impression on... is that things like https://automerge.org/ are not j
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by btown 11mo ago
IMO saying that predictable solar cycles are a “root cause” is like calling Bobby Tables’ mom ( https://xkcd.com/327/ ) the root cause of a SQL injection vulnerability.
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by btown 11mo ago
One of the things I find fascinating about this is that we don't blink twice about the idea that an update to a "hot" cache entry that's "just data" should propagate rapidly across caches... but we do have chan
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by btown 11mo ago
So if an agent has no access to non-public data, that's (A) and (C) - the worst an attacker can do, as you note, is socially engineer themselves. But say you're building an agent that does have access to non-public data - say, a
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by btown 11mo ago
It's really vital to also point out that (C) doesn't just mean agentically communicate externally - it extends to any situation where any of your users can even access the output of a chat or other generated text. You might say
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by btown 11mo ago
More likely by the legendary Mongo DB Is Web Scale, which just turned 15 years old! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by btown 11mo ago
There's another variable, though, which is how valuable "engineering time now" is vs. "engineering time later." Certainly, having a regular/automated update schedule may take less clock time in total (due to
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by btown 11mo ago
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-12-11-truly-subq... is an approachable overview of the Monarch approach, for those interested! There's a lot of opportunity here. Just because matrix multiplication make
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by btown 11mo ago
There is something wrong with their chargers.
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by btown 11mo ago
OpenAI is just a wrapper around NVIDIA, which is just a wrapper around TSMC, which is just a wrapper around ASML, which is just a wrapper around Zeiss optics, which is just a wrapper around EUV photons, which are just wrappers around quarks
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by btown 11mo ago
I strongly disagree. Firstly, the barrier to entry lower for people to take web experience and create extensions, furthering the ecosystem moat for Electron-based IDEs. Even more importantly, though, the more we move towards "I'm
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by btown 11mo ago
Ah, but what happens when your plugins need to themselves be configured for different client deployments? You add a few flags, then you need to figure out backwards compatibility as your plugin evolves (which involves defining prioritizatio
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by btown 11mo ago
Has anyone had success with specific prompts to avoid the agent over-indexing on implementation details? For instance, something like: "Before each test case, add a comment justifying the business case for every assumption made here, w
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by btown 11mo ago
IMO there was something of a de facto contract, pre-LLMs, that the set of things one would publicly mirror/excerpt/index and the set of things one would scrape were one and the same. Back then, legitimate search engines wouldn
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by btown 11mo ago
From https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/council-presidency-lewp-csa-r... pp 35: (f) ‘relevant information society services’ means all of the following services: (i) a hosting service; (ii) an interpersonal communications servic
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by btown 11mo ago
“Nobody gets fired for choosing NVIDIA.”
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by btown 11mo ago
One of the dangers of automated tests is that if you use an LLM to generate tests, it can easily start testing implemented rather than desired behavior. Tell it to loop until tests pass, and it will do exactly that if unsupervised. And you
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by btown 11mo ago
I recently learned about Helmfile's support for deep declarative patching of rendered charts, without requiring full forks with value-template-wiring. It's been a gamechanger! https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en&#
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by btown 11mo ago
My way of thinking about it is this: you have your own hyper-flexible Heroku, but (monkey's paw curls) you can only interact with it by typing large amounts of YAML. Oh, and all the documentation for that YAML assumes you've memor
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by btown 11mo ago
There's an interesting case to be made that MCP, as a protocol , is the right abstraction because of code execution tool definitions... but that most people aren't using it correctly. With MCP, you do get things like persistent

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