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by dvt 2y ago
> Okay, you don’t like her. Wait what? I think she's doing a great job exposing crypto grifts/scams/hacks/etc. and I check her web3 feed at least once a week, but she does have a persona to uphold. Why would I pretend
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by dvt 2y ago
> That’s a big claim, but it’s presented without evidence. Do you have any examples? What do you mean? Her entire persona and relevance revolves around being anti-crypto. Of course she's heavily biased; this isn't even a remote
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by dvt 2y ago
> On paper there is a limit but in practice it is as high as the rich and powerful like. I'm not particularly bullish on crypto, but this is definitely not the flex you think it is.
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by dvt 2y ago
The AI angle feels like clickbait in this article. Not sure what the fact that Anthropic and OpenAI leased some offices has to do with a sector-wide commercial real estate dropoff (which is not just happening in SF, for the record).
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by dvt 2y ago
> Based on what? Based on it being a semi-impulse buy, since I don't see many people explicitly searching for "framed programmable e-ink calendar."
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by dvt 2y ago
Imo, PG's latest essays have been meandering, overly political, and far outside of his core competency. This feels like an oldschool 2009-era startup-focused chicken soup for the soul with some actionable takeaways.
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by dvt 2y ago
This would probably kill it on Instagram ads honestly. Price point is a tad high, but it's like the perfect "not sure what to get someone" gift.
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by dvt 2y ago
Don't really have much to add other that this is the best PG essay I've read in years, and it feels like a return to form.
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by dvt 2y ago
> I don’t think FTX is the right contrast here. Comparing this article to the (now deleted) SBF profile is night and day.
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by dvt 2y ago
> There were even apps, but everything was lot more locked down and a lot more expensive. And just plain... bad . The entire experience didn't have that "feel" that Apple turned into reality. It's comparable to today
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by dvt 2y ago
> In reality, the road ahead is going to be a long one. It will have ups and downs. But almost certainly it will be worthwhile. The biggest takeaway from this piece is the stark realism of this article (maybe a bit too bearish, imo) comp
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by dvt 2y ago
> I imagine you meant to say that LLMs are comoditized. Yep, much better way of putting it!
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by dvt 2y ago
In my humble opinion, a chat interface (API or not) does not a product make. Not to mention that Llama is free and competitive with both (same with Mistral, heck the 7B model works great on my RTX 3080). If you started a company that blew u
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by dvt 2y ago
Infra has always been a tarpit idea. Google didn't start out as an "infra" company, and neither did Amazon or Facebook. In fact, the few "infra companies" that did start back then (companies like Godaddy) are mi
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by dvt 2y ago
I've seen a lot of papers recently tackle the needle-in-a-haystack problem wrt LLMs, and I think this approach (and more generally, any in-context solution) is a mistake. Imo the best way to handle this is RAG + multi-shot prompting (+
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by dvt 2y ago
I had the privilege of playing CS from 2004-2007 on a sponsored team I led. These days, that would be "professionally" but back then, no one really took esports seriously, as it was all pre-Twitch and before broadband was widely a
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by dvt 2y ago
Fantastic work here! I'm working on a local tool, affectionately called Descartes, which does something similar—but with a spotlight-like UX for the non-hackers out there. I do think that LLMs have the potential to fundamentally change
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by dvt 2y ago
I learned how to program on that PSION II! My dad brought one back from the UK (must've been '93 or maybe '94) and I got hooked. I still have BASIC (or I guess OPL) scribbles from when I was like 7 years old in a notepad. Nos
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by dvt 2y ago
I think code generation is, generally speaking, pretty awful, but contributing to an LLM prompt is kind of an interesting evolution of software design. With that said, I don't really think it saves a lot of time (the author's Yout
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by dvt 2y ago
It was right as we were getting picked up, the Waymo was kind of weirdly diagonally positioned, they were 100% honking at it hah.
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by dvt 2y ago
I've been taking Waymo in LA for about half a year now, and I love it and it's a great party trick (always pick up my dates in one lmao), but a handful of times it's (a) accidentally blocked traffic and gotten incessantly hon
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by dvt 2y ago
It seems like everyone (gen-z/millenials) uses this these days. Pretty cool app and features, makes organizing and attending events super fun.
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by dvt 2y ago
I can't get any permutation/rewording of the original prompt to not give me a disclaimer.
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by dvt 2y ago
I am extremely skeptical of this Gemini response, and it might be just some redditor farming upvotes. First, literally 100% of the blog posts, reddit replies, recipe books, and so on, will always list botulism as a potential danger of canni
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by dvt 2y ago
If you need something more powerful, Boost.Interprocess is also a thing[1]. I used it like 10 years ago and seemed to work well. Looking at the docs, it even has a RAII-ish thing called `boost::interprocess::remove_shared_memory_on_destroy`
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by dvt 2y ago
IPC having a lot of "overhead" is nonsense (other than, like, managing a mutex or semaphore). I've used many header-only IPC libraries (this one[1] worked great on Windows/MacOS). It's way easier to get a hang of in
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by dvt 2y ago
> Next up is some kind of GDPR request perhaps? GDPR doesn't preclude anyone from scraping you. In fact, scraping is not illegal in any context (LinkedIn keeps losing lawsuits). Using copyrighted data in training LLMs is a huge grey
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by dvt 2y ago
Somewhat related, but one of my favorite philosophy books is "Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse[1]. It contextualizes everything from relationships, to school, to business, to geopolitical conflict as a game. [1] https
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by dvt 2y ago
Sans the typical HN quips about "default states" and whatnot, the article has a good point. It's actually kind of funny that whenever I travel to Europe, like 90% of the junk foods I occasionally indulge in when home (like ho
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by dvt 2y ago
Mistral is one of the few AI companies I am extremely excited to see get better funded. I'm working on a local product (coming soon™) that uses Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 under the hood. Parsing screen reader text (and taking actions, et

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