danpalmer

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by danpalmer 7d ago
All of the "hacks" (from Google and others) were the same issue – the vendor Irregular running the models unsandboxed.
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by danpalmer 7d ago
Specifically, the model hacked when run on 3rd party infrastructure without the necessary sandboxing. Given this was to test/benchmark certain capabilities it's also possible that this was a model without built-in guardrails.
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by danpalmer 8d ago
Why do you think that? Waymo hasn't done that anywhere else.
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by danpalmer 9d ago
I don't read it as informal. Childish or lazy perhaps, at best. When you intend it as "inviting informality", you're implicitly doing this because "formality" is too much effort. The thing is you're not in
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by danpalmer 10d ago
> It's reasonable to assume that if AI drop-in-replaced all those knowledge workers, AI companies could credibly charge somewhere in that order of magnitude, because that's what the market is already bearing This assumes you do
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by danpalmer 10d ago
It's a tech bro thing. Altman does it too, and I've worked with people in the past who do it. I read it as "I'll take literally any conscience for myself no matter how minor, at any cost for you no matter how big".
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by danpalmer 10d ago
Sure, but installing a chess program is child/teen level general ability, and playing chess well is highly trained expert level ability. Which one are we sold AI as being?
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by danpalmer 10d ago
> The reason ... is because the cost of one bug is many, many orders of magnitude higher than software. Both in dollar cost and in schedule cost (it takes months ... and if you messed up and need to spin a fix, it costs tens of millions
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by danpalmer 10d ago
We've had technology beating humans on memory for millennia, and we've had technology beating humans on computation for many decades now. The tricky thing with LLMs is describing what they actually do. They are too clearly beating
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by danpalmer 26d ago
What do you mean, there's a screenshot link right there in the docs: https://docs.rs/crate/relm4/assets/screenshots /s
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by danpalmer 26d ago
There's a now dead comment giving a few options. One of those options was the main driver for my previous company moving fully to GCP, they were atrocious and caused a major security incident for us. They also regularly took days to ac
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by danpalmer 26d ago
Fair enough! That's some good experience and should address some of what I've heard from him, but perhaps he has forgotten. That said, and this is coming from someone who (sadly) missed the era of computing you're describing,
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by danpalmer 26d ago
Setting aside incentives – because I think that's very fair to push back on, we should strive for better craft... I find Blow in particular a bit naive when it comes to the complexity of modern non-game software. Games are very complex
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by danpalmer 27d ago
It's hard because you have to constantly make "sub-optimal" decisions. If you optimise for things you can measure, or at least see right now, you get a low performing team of high performers, or you get a collection of local
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by danpalmer 27d ago
There's one caveat to this – I think it's good to have bias to other people's actions early on in a new role. Taking on little projects that are already understood, taking on cleanups, things other people aren't voluntee
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by danpalmer 28d ago
Which British businesses provide this sort of infrastructure? I ask this as a Brit who ran stuff on a few UK providers, and ultimately moved to a cloud platform because of the combination of terrible service and lack of features. The landsc
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by danpalmer 28d ago
The cost effectiveness doesn't really add up for me either though (and again, I lack a lot of context). 1% of cost to run everything essential doesn't pass the sniff test, I assume it's much more during an actual failover. Bu
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by danpalmer 28d ago
Cancellation is different to porting a number. You'll still need to cancel your previous plan, but legislation fixed carriers holding numbers hostage a while ago.
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by danpalmer 28d ago
Nice demo, but can we talk about how this is patented. Should it be? Should something like this actually get granted. While it's neat, it's neat on the order of a UX idea someone might just come up with at standup one day. Like, c
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by danpalmer 28d ago
I'm afraid I'd have to defer to the public docs on this. I've only used it internally and a bunch of that is not public. What I would say is that it's considered to be much better than CockroachDB, but that there's
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by danpalmer 28d ago
> Didn't even need to talk to anyone to port my old number That seems like pretty low stakes – I wouldn't expect to talk to anyone to sign up and transfer to a consumer service in the UK. I don't think I've spoken to
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by danpalmer 28d ago
Redundancy is great, absolutely, but there are multiple ways to do it and this is not necessarily the right one. Which is better: 3 DCs for 2 DCs worth of traffic, running the same stack but isolated failure domains... or 4 DCs for 2 DCs wo
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by danpalmer 28d ago
I can't help but think this isn't the best idea, it raises so many questions. How does fail over work (it failed for me!), can you safely fail over, how does product think about the stack, is it funded well enough, how do you scal
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by danpalmer 29d ago
I know that's the likely timeline. My hope is that because consoles today look a lot more like PCs than they did in 2013 (or earlier during development), that it might be sooner, plus from leaks we know that development appears to most
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by danpalmer 29d ago
> Be it the Scar Face parody of Vice City, Gang culture of San Andreas, the Immegrant story of the 4th or the trio they went for with the 5 with the LA story melting pot. I think this is the crux of my point actually – these are all stor
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by danpalmer 29d ago
You may be right, but I would push back on near total market capture. I guess it depends which market you're referring to, but even scoping to just software engineering I don't think they got anywhere near total capture. OpenAI ha
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by danpalmer 29d ago
Absolutely, I replayed some of GTAV is ~2018 it already felt a bit clunky in that respect. I think some of this is technological, but much of it is style. There are likely limitations that forced some of those issues back in 2013, but I thi
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by danpalmer 29d ago
Indeed, and likely playing on its similarity to "affluence".
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by danpalmer 29d ago
I see your point, and maybe I'm over indexing on this or not describing it well. I don't see myself in either of these characters, but I do see them as representative of society, whereas I don't see the GTAV characters as rep
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by danpalmer 29d ago
The second one is pretty much directly a Die Hard parody – new building, party, execs off doing drugs, dead guy in the lift. I'm looking forward to that one, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more in there.

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