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by ethmarks 8mo ago
I can't speak for Tesla's FSD specifically, but Waymo did a study on the collision rate of their autonomous cars compared to human drivers: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/ . They found that Waymos get in
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
I guess it depends on whether you're only executing the code or if you're submitting it for humans to review. If your use case is so low-stakes that a review isn't required, then vibe coding is much more defensible. But if
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
ZIP files are lossless. If you compress, unzip, and recompress a ZIP file hundreds of times, it'll still be the exact same data as when you started.
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
What makes Astro fast isn't just that it's static, it's that it automatically pre-renders and it doesn't ship a runtime. React can render to static as well, it just also ships the React runtime.
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
I read the original version a few years ago and read the new version when it came out, and I thought that the name changes were pretty amusing. qntm kept the story as close to the original as possible while still making it a legally distinc
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
A web port is apparently already on their roadmap: https://zed.dev/roadmap#:~:text=Zed%20on%20the%20Web
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
Why bother fixing existing problems if you can just create new problems and then fix those? /s
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
If encoding more learned languages and grammars and dictionaries makes the model size bigger, it will also increase latency. Try running a 1B model locally and then try to run a 500B model on the same hardware. You'll notice that laten
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
They've already done the inverse and trimmed non-coding abilities from their language model: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/ . There's already precedent for creating domain-specific mo
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
But it could potentially be even more efficient if it was single-language.
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by ethmarks 8mo ago
Minification is still a form of compression, it just leaves the file more readable than more powerful compression methods (such as ZIP archives).
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
It depends on what you mean by "valid". If a criticism is correct, then it is "valid" in the technical sense, regardless of whether or not a counter-proposal was provided. But condemning one solution while failing to con
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
Insider trading on prediction markets is the whole point. They don't exist to provide a fair platform for normal people to make money, they exist to create accurate predictions by providing a monetary incentive for people to be correct
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
What alternative do you propose that's more efficient?
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
Accidents, mainly. Solar panels and wind turbines produce far less energy per module than nuclear, so you have to build much more of them. If you build enough of something, the odds that everything goes perfect every single time are quite l
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
Thanks for the reply! I think you're arguing with the wrong person in the second half, though. I agree that renewables could potentially be more economically viable than nuclear power[1]. My reply was disputing the "people can die
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
> Nuclear is expensive even after the reactor is build. Solar panels and wind turbines need maintenance too. And they have much shorter operational lives than nuclear power plants, meaning they'll need to be expensively replaced muc
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
Nothing is ever perfectly safe and a lack of perfect absolute safety is not a valid objection. All sources of power have associated risks, even renewables. Wind power has 0.04 deaths per terawatt hour and solar has 0.02 [1]. Nuclear power h
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
When had Microsoft done this before? For Cortana maybe? I can't recall them ever mandating dedicated physical keys for anything other than the Windows key, but that was over 30 years ago and I assume that's not what you're ta
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
FYI, your site's admin login panel can be bypassed by deleting the login modal from the DOM. Also, there doesn't seem to be any authentication for your admin tools (like triggering a scrape).
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by ethmarks 9mo ago
What would your definition of "instantly" be? I would argue that, compared to taking minutes or hours, taking less than a second is fast enough to be considered "instant" in the colloquial definition. I'll concede t
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
Maybe a stupid question but how can Cloudflare detect what portion of traffic is coming from LLM agents? Do agents identify themselves when they make requests? Are you just assuming that all playwright traffic originated from an agent?
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
Huggingface[0] says that this is a 358B model. What kind of hardware is necessary to run it? [0]: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
This is like if an article titled "A guide to growing your own food instead of buying produce" explained that the author was using a four-acre plot of farmland but suggested that that reader could also use a potted plant instead.
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ethmarks Mine seems to think that I'm some kind of detail-obsessed super-pedant. Personally, I think this is ridiculous. "super" is a Latin stem meaning "beyond", which
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
It would have made more sense if it was "your upvoted submissions in 2035"
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
No it isn't. At least not on my devices. Try opening gemini.google.com in an incognito window.
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
Security risks aside, that's pretty remarkable problem solving on Claude's part. Rather than hallucinating an answer or just giving up, it found a solution by creatively exercising its tools. This kind of stuff was absolute sci-fi
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
Kind of random but why, in the linked repo, are you using dotnet core for minifying a Javascript file? I'm just curious. It seems like overkill to me.
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by ethmarks 10mo ago
Pointing out that masonry isn't as good with mixed-orientation content as it is with uniform-orientation content is all well and good, but we still need a way to display mixed orientation content. What alternatives to masonry do you pr

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