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by dvt 5d ago
I follow local coffee shops, hotels, bars & coworking spots. They always post events on their social media.
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by dvt 5d ago
Between Partiful, Posh, Luma, Instagram, and yes even Meetup, I'm not sure how people aren't "finding events" around them. I literally get invited to like 100+ random things every week.
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A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf](bgas.org.uk)
7 points by dvt 6d ago|0 comments
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by dvt 6d ago
This is a neat idea, but seriously just like a few bullet points on a clean website would be better than the current slop vomit.
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by dvt 10d ago
> ⇒ this may be useful for some workloads, but even then, can you afford to spend hours every now and then to update your 4B model to ensure it still picks a good query plan? I think this would be likely comparable to a scheduled backup,
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by dvt 10d ago
> How in the world would I interface with claude other than sending it messages? The protocol will of course be `text -> text` for the typical LLM (though some new models are structured, as we saw yesterday with Jev). Even so, the use
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by dvt 10d ago
My personal hot take is that the product people (engineers too probably) at these companies are just straight up lazy. Yes, a new UI paradigm is hard, but it's been painfully obvious that chat just absolutely sucks. It's also obvi
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by dvt 11d ago
> I have seen people actually not get: that LLMs wrap tool calls in special tokens This isn't necessarily true. I'm working on a local harness that doesn't do this and instead coerces everything to YAML (including tool cal
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by dvt 12d ago
I did a show HN & it didn't get much traffic, but I've been working on https://moral.games/ . A kind of debate PvP game, where you try to convince an AI judge of a certain moral position given an ethical conund
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by dvt 13d ago
> Inference is not being subsidized and in fact has pretty high margins. I was referring to the "AI labs" here. Sam Altman himself conceded that OpenAI is losing money on the $200 subscription. Using open-weight/open-sourc
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by dvt 13d ago
I think OpenAI and Anthropic will go bust, or at least be scrapped for parts in the next 5 years or so. It's clear that the extreme cost used up for training is impossible to recoup, as inference is already being subsidized. It'
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by dvt 13d ago
Obligatory "what's Lygma?" But in all seriousness, this AI doomerism has reached a comedic inflection point. A few years ago, GPT-2 was too dangerous to release, then some Google weirdo said Gemini had a soul or something, th
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by dvt 14d ago
I've been saying this since using Databricks at a company almost a decade ago. Most folks do not need big data tools, and it's just so entrenched because everyone wanted to be a "big data" company and pandas was how you
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Show HN: Moral.games, a 1v1 ethics game with an AI judge(moral.games)
2 points by dvt 17d ago|1 comments
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by dvt 17d ago
Your confident re-assertion still doesn't convince me, why do you think so?
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by dvt 17d ago
> Mathematicians will be less likely to work on a problem if there is a solution Yes, that is Tao's premise, I'm just not sure I buy it. Suppose an oracle existed which could answer any question truthfully. Let's ignore th
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by dvt 17d ago
I'm with @nilesh on this one, and not exactly sure how merely the existence of a solution precludes the advancement of human knowledge. If a problem is "solved" (say, symbolically verified) without any insights gained, it d
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by dvt 18d ago
Very fun and great "tactile" experience. Fantastic job!
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by dvt 18d ago
> People do not shut up about it once they’ve tried it, and come up with all sorts of whacky use cases for it. Other than Twitter engagement baiting (which people have done w.r.t. every other new hyped up thing, whether it's drop sh
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by dvt 19d ago
> perhaps most importantly on what makes humans, human What makes humans human is love, laughter, community, children, art, beauty. How are LLMs even remotely a threat to this? The piece is so hyperbolic, it's just hard to take seri
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by dvt 19d ago
> What cool problems did you (not the robot) solve? Building products has nothing to do with technical problems, just the end result. This is in contrast with things like writing a library or coming up with a new algorithm, or doing rese
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by dvt 20d ago
> Computer folders are still organized in structures set up some 50 years ago. Operating systems change. Computers change. Search changes. But this has never changed. I can't change that. And we've been using the Dewey Decimal
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by dvt 20d ago
This was tried with clubhouse and that kind of failed miserably. I think those days are likely over.
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by dvt 20d ago
> So unless you're willing to become a literal terrorist organization and die with a bunch of your friends in an uphill battle (not technically unwinnable, but at least lopsided and the casualties will be tremendous), the only optio
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by dvt 20d ago
I just don't see that the main thrust of their argument, (oversimplified) "humans will become so dependent on AI, they'll become dumb," holds any water. I mean even from an evolutionary standpoint, intelligence is (by fa
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by dvt 22d ago
This website doesn't "teach" anything. It's a fun way to explore and get exposed to history. Kind of like Civilization 6 or something. Do you think CIV6 "teaches falsehoods" because you can build the Pyramids a
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by dvt 22d ago
This is such a weird nitpick, it's clear the website deals in averages and assumptions. It's meant to be an interesting window into possible lives intermixed with historical happenings at, or around, those times. I get that some p
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by dvt 23d ago
You are technically correct, but Verisign billed buying an x subdomain as if the y domain was part of a stable infrastructure. Which it kind of was until they decided to pull the rug.
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by dvt 23d ago
I freaked out for a second because I've owned `dvt.name` for like 15 years. `.name` is not getting terminated, so it's important to be precise here. The third-level x.y.name (where you're the `x`) is getting terminated, and
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by dvt 23d ago
Honestly, combat & movement feel pretty good and and it's very comparable to what a normal engineer would put together after 6 weeks. The hard part, when making games at least, is figuing out what makes things fun and (more speci

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