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by echelon 5mo ago
> Would universities be paying the token cost? Is that you Dario? A Claude subscription is like 1/5th the cost of one textbook.
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is ridiculous. The genie is not going to go back into the bottle. This is the equivalent of "you wouldn't download a car". (Yes, we would.) The solution is to scale the difficulty of the objective measures. Expect far mo
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by echelon 5mo ago
It's not even that big a deal. It's kind of funny, even. When the household robots start carrying guns, sure. But this is more tame than an eleven year old gaming online. We need to stop clutching pearls. It's deleterious to
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by echelon 5mo ago
I think these incidents and our learnings from them are fascinating. We're figuring out in real time where the rough edges are and how to make this all work. History books (well, not books) will write about this stuff. It's even m
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Consider this: in 5-10 years, the trillions spent on AI data centers will likewise be sold for scrap most likely. That's how short the runway is for OpenAI and Anthropic to recover that investment. Even more interesting: it'l
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by echelon 5mo ago
Wasting their precious limited time on this planet for performative hand wringing. AI is only going to get better and better. Eventually manually writing software by hand with programming languages will be thought of as the punch-card phase
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by echelon 5mo ago
> driving humanity forward against its will. I want this technology! You don't speak for all of us. I'm sick of techo-Luddism. I'm sick of complaints about water use in a world that has avocados, beef, and fabric dyes. I&#
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Couldn’t tell. I can tell. It's night and day. Last year I used a bunch of models to try to generate Rust code. They all sucked. This February I tried again and used Claude to generate Rust code. I have never been more stunned in
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by echelon 5mo ago
Gruber's usually too much of a walking Apple ad for my taste, but I love this. We need to define the things we hate. Give them words. Use the words as weapons. I've been thinking about this a lot recently with "watermarks&quo
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by echelon 5mo ago
Nobody trying to compete with Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic should be playing the small models / local models game. Foundation model labs should be building very large reasoning models, then leaving it to the community to distill them
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by echelon 5mo ago
Good thing humans know how to use AI and make kick ass content with it. AI is a tool. Artists and engineers using AI as a tool can get further than people not using it at all.
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by echelon 5mo ago
I don't have to convince the lot of you anti-tech "yelling at cloud" engineers. Social media already shows people love this stuff. It's only the 1% of terminally online whiners that have to project their take on it. And
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by echelon 5mo ago
I don't mind that ChatGPT and Claude were trained on my HN and Reddit comments. I don't mind that Opus and Codex were trained on my code. I don't mind that Seedance and Veo were trained on my YouTube videos. I benefit from th
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by echelon 5mo ago
> The idea that no one is making 80s or 90s style music is absurd. The idea that only humans can make music is absurd. > I guess she can listen to slob but maybe just look around a little instead? The idea that AI generated = slop is
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by echelon 5mo ago
Runtime evaluated feature flags can always be used for control plane levers and emergency handbrakes. You just have to label them as such and prevent other teams from fiddling with them. This is not an antipattern, it's just semantic h
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by echelon 5mo ago
IIRC, there was one commercial passenger flight where the captain locked himself out of the cockpit that led to everyone dying. Have there been multiple separate incidents? The other side of the coin is that hijackings used to be a frequent
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by echelon 5mo ago
> But a lot of the people who end up causing destruction do so because there's some problem affecting them that's not being dealt with. I think solving the socioeconomic, geopolitical, and religious tensions that lead to plane
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Languages with a single way to do things benefit the most: Rust I posit that Rust is the optimal language to emit from LLMs unless you have to target web, a specific platform, or a legacy project: - The required error handling for Opti
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by echelon 5mo ago
A store doesn't photocopy your ID. Some states even allow retailers to skip the ID check if the patron looks old enough. With online services, there's no way to ensure your information isn't permanently stored and associated
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by echelon 5mo ago
I worked at a large fintech moving billions of dollars in volume a day. I had a fairly long tenure, where I maintained multiple key services in critical online payments flow. Authentication, authorization, core business and risk data, as we
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by echelon 5mo ago
In a high performance service with good maintenance and upkeep, you page for all 500s. A noisy pager forces the team to fix the 500s. Maybe the Github Actions infrastructure isn't run like that. edit: my oncall rotation notified on all
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by echelon 5mo ago
It's our evolutionary background. Land animals first evolved intelligence when we emerged from the cloudy, murky sea and developed the ability to see shapes (predators, prey) really far into the distance. This required the ability to u
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by echelon 5mo ago
Let me be very explicit so we're not dancing around the topic: The potentially all-powerful government shouldn't know: - what vices a person has - what religion a person has or doesn't have - what porn you watch - what alcoho
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by echelon 5mo ago
There might not be space left? I know of a few companies that have already been admitted, and they're filling slots fast. I don't know how much they budget for overflow. Don't let me discourage you. I'm just following my
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is a "Launch HN" / "YC P26" thread, so YC funded them. If YC didn't fund this particular idea, they funded the team to pursue some earlier idea that the team then pivoted from to try this one. In any cas
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Firstly it’s ability to deal with the tedium and secondly not needing to solicit help from people who tell me my problem is trivial while giving contradictory solutions :) I'm so sorry for this btw. The problems are trivial once
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by echelon 5mo ago
Did the YC interviewers ask you about this risk? Did they ask you about a bigger market you can move into? There's no way this foothold will last. You're going to get massacred. Apple WILL ban you. You're not in some capricio
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by echelon 5mo ago
Hurry. Google might give up the ghost on its search product and maintaining indices on anything not geared for LLMs. I'm not sure antitrust will help you.
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by echelon 5mo ago
I love HN for this. I'll go digging for your game!
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by echelon 5mo ago
You can do better than the errors in other languages. You can provide all the relevant information in the emum variant. enum MyApiBindingCrateError { // You didn't provide an // API key. Maybe we should

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