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by diggan 1y ago
> Why would they be incentivized to do that if they survived all the previous hype waves and still have access gated? Because they suddenly now don't want to be left out of the whole AI hype/wave. Is it stupid? Yes. Can we stil
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by diggan 1y ago
(Still) such an overvalued alternative to all these "ephemeral but permanent" chat apps. For folks who like a bit more structure and organization, but still want "live communication" like what Slack et al offers, do your
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by diggan 1y ago
> I’d go for Discord if it had a business version without all the gaming stuff. Granted, my Discord usage been relatively limited, but what "gaming stuff"? In the servers unrelated to gaming I don't think I see anything ga
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by diggan 1y ago
> I wasn’t aware of this, it’s extremely shortsighted. My employees’ chats are my company’s data, and I should be able to use them as I see fit. True, and if you're the only one sitting on the data and using it, then what you say is
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by diggan 1y ago
> you have grown adults talking to teenagers in private, unsupervised and away from parental attention Sounds like the problem is the lack of parental attention, and like many things, that isn't a problem with a technological soluti
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by diggan 1y ago
Re the ethics part, something I haven't quite understand myself yet: On one hand, training it isn't "copying" per se, but "learning", so maybe it isn't straight up copyright infringement, unless it can rep
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by diggan 1y ago
> But I would say that it’s the goal for most FOSS projects when they apply for funding Yes, but I'm guessing most are applying for funding before quitting their full-time jobs, not after. So there isn't really anything to plan
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by diggan 1y ago
> Can you elaborate on what makes this “software 3.0”? Software 2.0: We need to parse a bunch of different job ads. We'll have a rule engine, decide based on keywords what to return, do some filtering, maybe even semantic similarity
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by diggan 1y ago
> gloriefied global variable is pretty high on my BS list Say you have a test that is asserting the output of some code, and that code is using a global variable of some kind, how do you ensure you can have tests that are using different
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by diggan 1y ago
> If the goal is to fund full-time development of something and they don’t know if they are going to get the funding for seven months In my experience, that's not the goal most FOSS projects have in mind from day 1. You might be wor
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by diggan 1y ago
> New to me: is more context worse? Yes, definitely. For every model I've used and/or tested, the more context there is, the worse the output, even within the context limits. When I use chat UIs (which admittedly is less and le
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by diggan 1y ago
> That seems like terrible API design to just truncate without telling the caller Agree, confused me a lot the first time I encountered it. It would be great if implementations/endpoints could converge, but with OpenAI moving to the
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by diggan 1y ago
> Hmm, I'm barely even a dabbler, but I'd assumed that the seed in question drove the (pseudo)randomness inherent in "temperature" - if not, what seed(s) do they use and why could one not set that/those too? Impl
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by diggan 1y ago
You don't think the damage was done by the people who religiously follow whatever loudmouths says? Those are the people I'd stop listening to, rather than ignoring what an educator says when sharing their perspective. Don't g
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by diggan 1y ago
The biggest reason I avoid Gemini (and all of Google's models I've tried) is because I cannot get them to produce the same code I'd produce myself, while with OpenAI's models it's fairly trivial. There is something
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by diggan 1y ago
> Llama (v4 notwithstanding) and Gemma (particularly v3) aren't my idea of lagging far behind... While neat and of course Llama kicked off a large part of the ecosystem, so credit where credit is due, both of those suffer from &quot
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by diggan 1y ago
> Do you use the DeepSeek hosted R1, or a custom one? Mainly the hosted one. > The published model has a note strongly recommending that you should not use system prompts at all I think that's outdated, the new release (deepseek-
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by diggan 1y ago
> Western internet influencers hype up Chinese open-source software industry for clicks while Chinese open-source developers are struggling. That kind of downplays that Chinese open weights are basically the only option for high quality
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by diggan 1y ago
> I find it wild to suggest an LLM would be better at scouring data for gems than the person who wrote them I mean, "an out there" idea sure, but wild? There are plenty of cases where people underestimated their own worth and v
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by diggan 1y ago
> In this case, the author wrote the notes. If they say it has no value, they probably know what they’re talking about. Well, yeah, if they say it has no value, then obviously it has no value to them , no one could claim otherwise. I gu
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by diggan 1y ago
> I'd hate to lose the ability of just going back 20 years later and read my own thoughts and ideas, to meet the person I was at that point. Yeah, my "second-brain" doubles as a journal too, and I have written notebooks fr
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by diggan 1y ago
> if we were at a point where we'd have models developed and produced in the EU, as well as other parts of the world. But we have models developing and being produced outside of the US already, both in Asia but also Europe. Sure, it
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by diggan 1y ago
> have not used current AI coding tools really don't have much to add regarding how they affect our work as developers I dunno, sometimes it's helpful to learn about the perspectives of people who've watched something from
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by diggan 1y ago
I think the whole context of the article is "program with non-deterministic tools", while non-deterministic fuzzing and mutation testing is kind of isolated to "coming up with test cases", not something you constantly pr
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by diggan 1y ago
> probability you assign to a conflict with China in the next five years. I feel like that number should be offered up for scrutiny before a discussion Might as well talk about the probability of a conflict with South Africa, China might
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by diggan 1y ago
Would love to see the system/user prompts involved, if possible. Personally I get it to write the same code I'd produce, which obviously I think is OK code, but seems other's experience differs a lot from my own so curious to
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by diggan 1y ago
> I don't think any of these companies are aiming at long term goal of making money from inference pricing of customers. What is DeepSeek aiming for if not that, which is currently the only thing they offer that cost money? They cla
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by diggan 1y ago
+ temperature=0.0 would be needed for reproducible outputs. And even with that, if it's actually reproducible or not depends on the model/weights themselves, not all of them are even when all those things are static. And then fina
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by diggan 1y ago
> If you exceed the context window the remote LLM endpoint will throw you an error which you probably want to catch Not every endpoint works the same way, I'm pretty sure LM Studio's OpenAI-compatible endpoints will silently (f
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by diggan 1y ago
> Is it normal to take seven months to decide which projects to fund? Is not normal for FOSS projects to get funding to use however they see fit at all, so the whole situation is "not normal" from the get go. Might be too long

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