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by btown 1y ago
Change management, designing schemas for being amenable to change management, having systems that can migrate data with an understanding of what historical context in which that data got into the system (was it imported from a source with
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by btown 1y ago
This is really cool! Live music, game shows, holiday light displays, and anything in between can hugely benefit from this kind of tech. The whole Who Wants To Be a Millionaire sequence comes to mind (where, on an arbitrarily timed cue, the
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by btown 1y ago
Setting aside the choice of LLM, the constraint that the LLM must maintain a world-model-as-knowledge-graph solely by reading and re-reading its own chat history seems to be a less interesting experiment than providing it with tools that le
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by btown 1y ago
Dreamworld (YC W21) is relevant here: https://www.pcgamer.com/dreamworld-infinite-world-mmo-kickst... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898
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by btown 1y ago
When I see things like "The coordinator threw up its hands when tasks weren't clearly defined" but the conclusion is to not use a coordinator at all in favor of imperative logic... it's really hard to know how much of th
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by btown 1y ago
The headline is somewhat misleading: sites using Cloudflare now have an opt-in option to quickly block all AI bots, but it won't be turned on by default for sites using Cloudflare. The idea that Cloudflare could do the latter at th
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by btown 1y ago
They don't link to the Form S-1 prospectus from their announcement, but it's publicly available at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025... Their highlighted metrics page
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by btown 1y ago
PSA: do not vibe-code the hardware controller for your vibration testing rig. This does not pass the vibe test.
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by btown 1y ago
https://accendoreliability.com/the-bath-tub-curve-explained/ is an interesting breakdown of bath tub curve dynamics for those curious!
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by btown 1y ago
It's also the case that every feature in web standards means extra code that needs to be painstakingly maintained, and extra code that anyone trying to create a standards-compliant browser must implement. I want to see projects like
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by btown 1y ago
Even a last-decade transcription model could be used to detect a rough number of syllables per unit time, and the accuracy of that model could be used to guide speed-up and dead-time detection before sending to a more expensive model. As wi
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by btown 1y ago
https://youtu.be/gthm-0Av93Q is also a fascinating dive into the decompilation process here!
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I think an important wake-up call is that bounties now exist in an ecosystem where people who would normally be indifferent to wanting/knowing how to collect bounties, could be driven by techniques from the predatory-gambling-app world
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by btown 1y ago
An interesting thought experiment is that a service that can both be triggered by, and write to, the same persistent queue can call an LLM in each iteration and create a self-evolving agentic workflow. Much like a Scrapy spider can recurs
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by btown 1y ago
From the OP: > a policy change was inserted into the regional Spanner tables that Service Control uses for policies. Given the global nature of quota management, this metadata was replicated globally within seconds If there’s a root caus
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by btown 1y ago
> When they finally realized just how badly they had messed up and removed all the fees Apparently this didn't even happen until 2018, and only then as a limited-time promo! https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-s
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by btown 1y ago
> There are sub-par differencing products that make `patch` look like the future. I absolutely love https://www.draftable.com/compare - it’s an incredibly intuitive presentation of diffs from arbitrary documents, with fu
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by btown 1y ago
One of my biggest fears for a floundering Apple is that they start to depart from their commitment to privacy-first design. The reasons for Apple Intelligence's relative lackluster abilities are numerous and, from everything we hear, p
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by btown 1y ago
If you're looking for the analytics-world version of this "I wish I had real pipelines rather than dot notation" sentiment, I highly recommend checking out Malloy: https://www.malloydata.dev/ It's a doma
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by btown 1y ago
That situation was a bug, with a detailed post-mortem: https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage/ It is worth noting of course that per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913 ChatGPT
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by btown 1y ago
I'm not sure about this specific situation, but from Google Docs to ChatGPT to Notion, there's a clear distinction between "make this a shareable link to only those who have the link" and "also make that shareable l
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by btown 1y ago
Lopez v. Apple (2024) seems to be a recent and useful example of this; my lay understanding is that Apple was found to have failed in its duty to switch from auto-deletion (even if that auto-deletion was contractually promised to users) to
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by btown 1y ago
Which, per the OP, the site would be doing by merely including the Meta pixel, which practically every e-commerce and news site does to track its campaigns and organic traffic. The takeaway is that for all intents and purposes, anything you
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And specifically, if you're on something-sensitive.com in a private browsing session, it would give you the choice of giving no optional permissions. That choice is better than no choice at all, especially in a world where Meta can b
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by btown 1y ago
This is a bit stronger than my point, I should say. I do think that LLMs would have a net benefit to society, by way of their effects on research and innovation... if we could get our political houses in order such that we weren’t negating
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by btown 1y ago
I never realized Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson were college roommates, and how much they'd collaborated together! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wilson
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by btown 1y ago
It's said that much of research is data janitorial work, and from my experience that's not just limited to the machine learning space. Every research scientist wishes that they had an army of engineers to build bespoke tooling for
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by btown 1y ago
We should never forget the infamous 2007 Dropbox comment! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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I feel like there needs to be a notion of "tainted" sessions that's adopted as a best practice. The moment that a tool accesses sensitive/private data, the entire chat session should be flagged, outside of the token st
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by btown 1y ago
One of the patterns I often reach for when working with webhooks is "never trust them to do anything other than set a should-refresh flag on a related object, or upsert a stub identity for a new related object, for asynchronous reproce

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