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by chis 6mo ago
Yeah my take is the exact opposite. It's such a page turner that the book has become one of my default recommendations for people looking to get back into reading. Of course you have to be a certain type of nerd to appreciate it.
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by chis 6mo ago
Just to make one obvious critique your costs per token are probably about 1000x higher than the ones they provide. I'm pretty sympathetic to Anthropic/OpenAI just because they are scaling a pretty new technology by 10x every year.
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by chis 7mo ago
Hackernews needs to nominate an elite crew of individuals who can tell when an article is AI slop and flag it.
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by chis 7mo ago
We’ve had the ability to make water/wind-proof garments long before Gore-Tex. The crucial thing is that Gore-Tex is water vapor permeable. So it has a way better ability to shed excess heat without needing to take off a layer. Traditio
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by chis 7mo ago
My hope would be that this eventually pushes pip to adopt a similar feature-set and performance improvements. It's always a better story when the built-in tool is adequate instead of having to pick something. And yes UV is rust but i
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by chis 7mo ago
E2E encryption lets Meta turn down government subpoenas because they can say they truly don't have access to the unencrypted data. I can't say I really mind this change by Meta that much overall though. Anyone who's serious
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by chis 7mo ago
These AI written articles carry all the features and appearance of a well reasoned, logical article. But if you actually pause to think through what they're saying the conclusions make no sense. In this case no, it's not the case
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by chis 8mo ago
Those are not marginal costs.
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by chis 8mo ago
It's quite clear that these companies do make money on each marginal token. They've said this directly and analysts agree [1]. It's less clear that the margins are high enough to pay off the up-front cost of training each m
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by chis 8mo ago
Football is so unique in that the way it’s presented makes it almost impossible to understand what’s going on. There are a million rules, which even die-hard fans don’t understand. And the broadcast doesn’t even make an attempt to explain o
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by chis 9mo ago
What would the average software engineer pay for a AI coding subscription, as compared to not having any at all? Running a survey on that question would give some interesting results.
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by chis 9mo ago
If Kubernetes didn't in any way reduce labor, then the 95% of large corporations that adopted it must all be idiots? I find that kinda hard to believe. It seems more likely that Kubernetes has been adopted alongside increased scale,
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by chis 9mo ago
I wonder how universal these stages are. All I can say is when I worked at a 15 person company, it was extremely clear to me that we needed more structure than "everyone reports to the CEO". We struggled to prioritize between di
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by chis 10mo ago
I wonder what motivates apple to release features like RDMA which are purely useful for server clusters, while ignoring basic qol stuff like remote management or rack mount hardware. It’s difficult to see it as a cohesive strategy. Makes on
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by chis 10mo ago
Wish you'd show data from past years too! It's hard to know if these are seasonal trends or random variance without that. Super interesting report though.
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by chis 10mo ago
All facts in this post. FB management always had such a shockingly different tone than other big tech companies. It felt like a bunch of friends who’d been there from the start and were in a bit over their heads with way too much confidence
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by chis 10mo ago
His idea seems to be to detect the approximate timing of a flip or roll with sensors and then strap in and wait for it to happen. I have some serious concerns though lol. I mean if the ball rolled off a cliff on the iceberg and fell into th
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by chis 10mo ago
It's really funny how much better the AI is at writing python and javascript than it is C/C++. For one thing it proves the point that those languages really are just way harder to write. And another thing, it's funny that t
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by chis 10mo ago
There are a lot of strong claims that the paper could, but does not make. It never says that Congressional leaders outperform index funds. It just says very specifically that leaders outperform other members of congress. The paper also does
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by chis 10mo ago
I'm interested in the specific claim that Congresspeople are trading in ways that beats SPY, and I think it's just not true. The Unusual Whales piece says that in 2023, Democrats had 31% returns, Republicans 18%, and SPY was 25%.
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by chis 10mo ago
There are a lot of strong claims that the paper does not make. It never says that leaders outperform index funds. It just says very specifically that leaders outperform other members of congress. The paper also does not include any clear
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by chis 11mo ago
Has anyone switched to Gemini CLI? It's so important but also exhausting keeping up with which model is the leading edge. Especially since every model has different idiosyncrasies you have to learn to work with it effectively. Curren
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by chis 11mo ago
Incredible wisdom here. I can only speculate that the author is right about the later stages since I'm nowhere close to that sort of thing. Overall this piece reminds me of reading writeups from pickup artists who sort of ascended bey
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by chis 11mo ago
I can't really agree. I mean you scroll 1 paragraph down and it says he worked a Google Deepmind, that's really all I'd need to see. I think the market is just super hard for new grads. I've heard from people that had
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by chis 11mo ago
That's an interesting data point. I think covid did a lot of damage too. Kids spending formative years stuck in their room texting just didn't get the chance to build basic social skills and habits. But it's hard to separat
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by chis 11mo ago
It's so insane that they let things go this far. It could have been immediately obvious to those involved that cell phones in class would have immensely negative effects. I mean they talk about a lunch room "quiet enough to hear
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by chis 1y ago
Makes sense, but what model was used for the base? Is it some open-source model, and you're not at liberty to disclose?
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by chis 1y ago
I think it's more likely to say that this comes from a place of laziness than some enlightened peak. (I say this as someone who does the same, and is lazy). When I watch the work of coworkers or friends who have gone these rabbit hole
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by chis 1y ago
I can totally see wanting to automate your life like this for work - "re-order that shipment from last week" or "bump my flight a day". But using this for personal stuff, it does seem like a slide towards just living a
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by chis 1y ago
How would you say that out loud

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