drusepth

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   by drusepth 5y ago

   I know the different between RAM and disk in a server context (what sort of programmer wouldn't?!), but I've worked pretty exclusively in no-persisted-storage environments (mostly Heroku) for ~5 years now, where referring to &quot
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   Thanks for the answer! Best of N is super useful. With GPT-3 (and probably GPT-J) you can actually pass an n parameter to match best_of and get back all of the N texts generated, which is how my little tool works (displaying them all to pic
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   It sounds like we're using very similar setups for writing. :) I've primarily been using GPT-3 (and burning through millions of tokens) so I've been experimenting with GPT-J more lately and I've found it makes significan
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   Copilot is indeed constantly learning based on user input (as detailed here [1]) but it seems to be more high-level ("did the user accept or deny suggestion XYZ" and potentially what changes you make to suggestions after accepting
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   I also get "unknown" for my Zoho Mail addresses; also a pretty popular provider. { "input": "***redacted***", "is_reachable": "unknown", "misc": { &
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   >if this system was able to understand how to make code better you could keep training it until you had perfect code Based on the FAQ, it looks like some information about how you interact with the suggestions is fed back to the Copilot
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   I could also see an alternative to #2 where it becomes increasingly hard to get a job as a senior dev when companies can just hire juniors to produce probably-good code and slightly more QA to ensure correctness. You'd definitely still
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   I think the thought process is from the perspective of the employer, if you assume these two statements are true: 1) AI tools increase developer productivity, allowing projects to get completed faster; and 2) AI tools offset a nonzero amoun
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   by drusepth 5y ago

   I wrote up a too-long message trying to rationalize some of the repeated animosity directed at Brave Inc in almost every single Brave-related post (for as long as I can remember seeing them on HN), but I'm beginning to think even discu
10. 670.▲
    by drusepth 5y ago

    On the other hand, products do frequently shut down in "average" temperatures, especially in the context of internet dishes. The rural communities most likely to use Starlink are also those most likely to be relying on satellite
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    I think we'll see a lot of private servers, luckily. Most popular online-only games seem to have at least one PS alternative.
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Yeah; from what I can tell, Brave's history is basically a long list of: 1. Do something shady and/or incompetent to make money 2. Ignore an internet backlash calling them out for it 3. "Fix" said shady thing 4. From the
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Do most politicians?
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Uhhhh... side note: you only gave him 5 minutes to respond according to those timestamps. Going offline for a bit is probably a good idea if only for the passage of time; if I were him (especially in a time where shit is hitting the fan), I
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    I've seen a lot of companies "get around" this new law by just saying the job is not available to people living in Colorado, either explicitly on the listing or when you apply.
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    especially a "new grad with no company, no funding, and no commercial ambitions"
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    The big difference between "Apple's app review process" and "seatbelts and airbags" is that car companies acknowledge the latter are fallible. It's not about adding layers of protection or not; it's about
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    >Well if noone who owns these devices wants to do it it probably shouldn't be done then, right? I think it's just a matter of comparing the number of people who would actually opt in to such a service versus the number of peopl
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Would love to see a source to back this number up if you have one. I had caps on almost every ISP I had in Europe, but even out in the boonies here in the US I've only seen caps on one (unfortunate) connection.
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    This looks really cool, I vibe 100% behind the concept of "include a standardized CSS lib so you never have to write your own CSS", and I love the naming conventions (with some nitpicky exceptions), but nowadays it's really h
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Counterthought: I've been running a popular web-only site for about 5 years now and I get a little under a hundred requests per month for it to be made "into an app". A lot of users just want to be able "to install it&qu
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    It's really interesting to compare the niche word processors of the 90s to those today, especially those targeted specifically for writers [1]. The former are all wildly different each other and from the latter, which are basically all
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    I know "could be made in 5 mins" is an exaggeration, but there's a very real long-term cost to adding thematic options like dark mode that HN just might not want to take on. Any time you split your UI (for example, light mode
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    I rely on reading lips for a good portion of my hearing comprehension. This might not be better than seeing an actual person speaking, but I'd VASTLY prefer this over hearing recorded audio. Reading is a separate beast, but for boring
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    10 people tweeting 20x a day is a pretty low bar. I'd wager to say anyone that's active in local politics is doing more good than 90% of politics-tweeters.
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Is OpenAI profitable (yet)? I thought their game plan originally was to raise a TON of money in order to not be (very) financially burdened while doing the long-term R&D necessary to build what would (hopefully) become AI models so adva
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    The article mentions a security escort service that seems like it'd have the chilling effect necessary to quell random people attacking you on the street, rather than relying on a "response".
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    I've had problems with my (large) upstairs neighbor for the past year. The building repeatedly fined them, the police refused to come out, and I knocked on their door sometimes several times a day for about 9 months straight. My soluti
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Private security has been around for what... hundreds, thousands of years? It hasn't devolved into pulling up in an armored van and exiting with weapons drawn yet. Why would yet another company among thousands (millions?) entering the
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    by drusepth 5y ago

    Ideally yes, but is it a hard-enough responsibility to mandate? If not, it seems like there is a financial opportunity for a company to fill that request. Especially in the case of time-sensitive emergencies, it seems like "informing t