ethmarks

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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly. It irks me when people critique automation because it uses large amounts of resources. Running a machine or a computer almost always uses far less resources than a human would to do the same task, so long as you co
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
No, but the average user is capable of describing what they want to something trained in interpreting what users want. The average person is incapable of articulating the exact steps necessary to change a car's oil, but they have no
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
And also like a board game, which I think is what they were going for.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Perhaps it was easier? There were also probably legal reasons.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
They have different use cases. uv is meant to be the singular tool for managing Python packages and dependencies, replacing pip, virtualenv, and pip-tools. Conda is for more general-purpose environment management, not just Python. If you&#x
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Even better, Zed with Helix keybindings: https://zed.dev/docs/helix
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by ethmarks 1y ago
The reason they're farming hard drives is so they can add them to their cloud storage network. You realize that cloud storage isn't actually in clouds, right? Hard drives are always local somewhere , and in Backblaze's case
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Page 21 of their 2024 annual report[1] has expenses listed. About $3,000,000 for web hosting, about $100,000,000 for salaries and benefits out of $178,000,000 total. [1]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploa
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by ethmarks 1y ago
> all they'd have to do is put Gemini directly into Chrome Google would never do that! /s https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/
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by ethmarks 1y ago
It's not confidence-inspiring that their landing page has such atrocious performance. Google Lighthouse gives it[1] a performance score of 25/100 with 12,310ms of TBT and a speed index of 24.7 seconds. It's not even an intera
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by ethmarks 1y ago
It's extra distracting because it doesn't even read like normal LLM prose, but it's close enough to feel off. The frequent use of bold emphasis, lists, and subject-only rhetorical questions ("Those tiny m3,1 m1,6 m-4,-7
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Perhaps one could link to cross-posts from the blog? Maybe a "Discuss on HN" button. And the solution to avoid spamming HN is to avoid writing a large volume of low-quality content on the blog.
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems like you're just talking about AI inpainting. That's like one of the first things people did with image diffusion technology. NVIDIA published a research paper on it back in 2018: htt
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Someone should make a list of these types of lists!
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by ethmarks 1y ago
I've only tried Grok Code Fast 1, so I can't speak for any of the other models. In my experience, Grok is very fast and very cheap, but only moderately intelligent. It isn't stupid, but it rarely does anything that impresses
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by ethmarks 1y ago
This reminds me of Svelte's LLM docs: https://svelte.dev/docs/llms
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by ethmarks 1y ago
The actual underlying neural net that the LLMs use doesn't actually output tokens. It outputs a probability distribution for how likely each token is to come next. For example, in the sentence "once upon a ", the token with t
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by ethmarks 1y ago
The VSCodeUserSetup file from https://code.visualstudio.com/download is in the 90MB range. Perhaps this file is just the installer and the actual system files are much larger? Or maybe your 400MB figure comes from a bloated
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GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview(github.blog)
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Of course they don't. But if even a small percentage of their userbase uses this on even a small percentage of their photos, that amounts to a massive amount of storage. It doesn't cost Google very much to store all those images,
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Zed supports BYOK so you can connect it to GitHub Copilot or Anthropic or OpenRouter or whatever. The 500-per-month limit is only for Zed-hosted prompts. I personally switch between Zed-hosted, GH Copilot, Gemini API, and Ollama. Zed's
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Here's another implementation I made a few months ago: https://ethmarks.github.io/posts/screamcipher
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by ethmarks 1y ago
I don't follow your logic from 'When I tried it, AI hallucinated some citations' to 'AI is fundamentally incapable of explaining a textbook'. Those seem like rather different tasks to me. Plenty of humans are perfec
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by ethmarks 1y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Enriching lithium sounds much more feasible than setting up a moon base, but it still sounds like it would be economically infeasible. First, am I understanding correctly that you aren't talking about DT fu