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by derefr 2mo ago
> The lady is using some sort of tool made out of hand-cut bamboo. I still haven’t figured out exactly how they work, but every time I’ve seen this process they are using what looks like a modified chopstick to place the chips on the boa
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by derefr 2mo ago
Long-context models do work as advertised... just not when combined with multi-turn conversation sessions. It's my understanding that, for all current models having long-context capability, the "parts" of the model that allow
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by derefr 3mo ago
I get the sense that it's mostly that institutional HF/liquidity traders can trust that the system isn't unfairly advantaging anyone. In a centralized system where trades are accepted in the order presented, HF/liquidity
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by derefr 3mo ago
The "reusable for free" aspect is about building ecosystems. Abstractions that can be freely integrated with have low barriers to entry to existing complementary systems being updated to integrate with them, or with new systems ev
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by derefr 3mo ago
That's a fun thought. A gradual division between "institutional models" trained to have capabilities that solve for the needs of corporations, vs. "personal models" trained to have capabilities that solve for the ne
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by derefr 3mo ago
I think GP meant “collaboratively” as in collaborating online through the game itself. The same way you might e.g. collaborate on a Google Doc. “Sit down together” might be impractical here, if GP’s child’s friends are e.g. friends they mad
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by derefr 3mo ago
True. The real trick, if you have a client-side agent framework to hand, is to prompt it once as "gently" as possible to "just solve the problem"; and then, after its response to that, automatically prompt it again, wi
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by derefr 3mo ago
It would (and does), yes; but this takes a lot more output tokens than asking for a summary would. The summary approach is only helpful insofar as it can be cheaper than using the thinking model. (You're basically tricking the instan
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by derefr 3mo ago
The "auto" mode is (AFAICT) a per-conversation-turn router. (Presumably via a preliminary pass through a very fast tiny model that spits out an number for how challenging it thinks the next response might be to compute.) On high-c
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by derefr 3mo ago
> Lead with conclusion. I would presume (perhaps falsely?) that an instruction like this would lead to the model presenting a conclusion not supported by the evidence, and potentially backtracking as it then tries to justify said conclus
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by derefr 3mo ago
I haven't stress-tested it, but I would imagine it approaches complex problems the same way a human with a phone in their pocket would — that is, by having a degree of awareness of the confidence it has in its own knowledge in some are
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by derefr 3mo ago
Given the personality type common on HN, I imagine that the GP, even if unplugged from all technology on their walk, wouldn't be in a mindful state of enjoying their surroundings, but rather would be "lost in the clouds", ste
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by derefr 3mo ago
In what way are watches with SIMs (or eSIMs) not just tiny cell phones? Or is you meaning that the modern smartphone is itself a “pile of hacks sitting on top of hacks”?
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by derefr 3mo ago
I wonder if this is why so many fantasy narratives lean on the trope of a long-dead precursor civilization which had greater knowledge and capabilities than our own. To most people, real historical innovators are in effect members of some
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by derefr 3mo ago
There are plenty of open-weight models with no such guardrails. Such models are basically the default choice for "collaborative fiction-writing" and "role-playing" tasks.
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by derefr 3mo ago
> CO2 was measured with infrared but water also absorbed it, so you need to heat things up enough to not have water. It can be small, but not watch small. Can't you just measure CO2 "naively"; but then also, separately, me
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by derefr 3mo ago
The trade-off being (I'm guessing) that those threads would be pretty easy to re-tap by hand?
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by derefr 3mo ago
> as they seem to never restock most of their products There is a product development strategy (I'm not sure if there's a formal name for it) where you're given a lead on a finite-but-large supply of parts you can acquire
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by derefr 4mo ago
> There's been no public policy, executive order, legislation, or otherwise on this I mean, insofar as you could frame each new model as its own patentable invention, "patent secrecy" would be an existing policy framework
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by derefr 4mo ago
> "how hot is this deal" (and thus red == best) If that's the intuition you want, then wouldn't it be natural to use the blackbody radiation spectrum (a.k.a. "color temperature")? Red hot -> white hot -&g
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by derefr 4mo ago
There is; click on the "CPU DEALSCOPE" button on the page and it shows a legend, while also letting you change what the primary axis of color-coding is. (Though oddly, the x-axis itself doesn't change, so random dots end up c
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by derefr 4mo ago
You can do that with JPEGs, just not the obvious way (i.e. by exporting the JPEG at the target resolution.) Instead, you need to export the JPEG at a resampled resolution that's a multiple of your target resolution, such that each
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by derefr 4mo ago
Despite being a web dev back in that era, I had totally forgotten about best practice back then being to add "click here for [...]" in link text. Because users didn't necessarily understand what links were!
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by derefr 4mo ago
The main trick governments use isn't to hide the knowledge of how to build the stuff. It's rather to ban the sale of precursor chemicals and specialized devices (think: industrial-scale centrifuges) except through a government-obs
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by derefr 4mo ago
I'd be curious to see a version prompted to recapitulate the style of a Windows 9x app. Everyone these days seems to fondly recall win9x as the last era when there was an actual visual "system" that applications actually obey
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by derefr 4mo ago
My hypothesis is that making the knowledge of how this stuff works accessible to the public results in a lot of false-positives (from people just playing around) that intelligence agencies have to then sift through / tune filters again
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by derefr 4mo ago
> The promise of wasi components has not been fulfilled. The market wants to hotload and link artifacts dynamically. The wasi project requires insider wizardry to use it that way: the offering has been statically linking components befor
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by derefr 4mo ago
> WASI should be ... stable. The WASI standard is not at 1.0 yet! The people designing WASI are still trying to figure out what people want WASI to be at this point. This is very likely to involve a lot of major reworking before 1.0, in
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by derefr 4mo ago
Do they actually need to purchase numbers to do that, though? I always imagined that there are certain shady providers ("grey-market Twilio" sort of idea) that just let you run single outbound call/text requests through a g
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by derefr 4mo ago
You're essentially describing what a silicon engineer would call independent "clock domains" (the stations) and "clock-domain-crossing signals" (the workpieces.) And, indeed, you would also tend to handle clock-doma

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