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>they won't have a runtime dependency on their billing system Well, that makes sense in principle, but they obviously do have some billing check that prevents me from making additional requests after that "final query". An
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It's not the best, but there's a photo of the butterfly in Figure 1(B) on page 20. On a separate note, if you're looking for something more explicit, there are some suggestive violin plots in item F in the same figure, ironic
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> When I use OpenAI, Openrouter etc., I can put 10 $ on my API key, and when the key leaks, someone can use these 10 $ and that's it. On that note, I'll just mention that I had discovered over the last while that when you prepa
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Get ready for takeoff with Uber and Joby(uber.com)
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https://archive.ph/kGD9i Going through it twice, I can see nothing directly actionable there at all, beyond what is already being done, and definitely nothing "shockingly simple".
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I for one hate it when product managers update systems to make them simpler and remove features/settings that I depend on.
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The blog doesn't have a clear explanation about how to access it. Refreshing perplexity.ai, I see that there's now a "Computer" option in the sidebar (also accessible via https://www.perplexity.ai/compute
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It says "Introducing Perplexity Computer" - but there's no link or other CTA - how would I actually use it? EDIT: I see someone already posted the detailed link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153775
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Do any of those companies collect and share data on their defect rates to give you a baseline to compare against?
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I'm pretty sure that this was exactly the response to the first generation of devs who insisted on coding with a terminal instead of submitting punch cards like "real programmers".
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Obviously the signal is comparison against the behavior of the original.
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> There's no way Cloudflare could have pulled this off without next's very own tests. I'm very uncovinced. History showed us very complex systems reverse engineered without access to the source code. With access to the sou
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Because you often need the result not as a standalone artifact, but as a piece in a rigid process, consisting with well-defined business logic and control flow, with which you can't trust AI yet.
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Nice! I can almost see your vision. In terms of tooling, I think this could be integrated with deep instrumentation (a-la datadog) and used to create self-improving systems.
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It depends on the cell; an amoeba for example clearly seems to know what's going on around it. A virus on the other hand, having no metabolism of its own clearly doesn't.
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I suppose I might not be understanding your and the GP's intent correctly, but I thought that the question was based on the following sentences: > I think it would be good service to use AI tools to bring open source alternatives li
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For numeric stuff, I've been playing recently with chebpy (a python implementation of matlab's chebfun), and am really impressed with it so far - https://github.com/chebpy/chebpy
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What does this have to do with anything? We as a culture decided that science is worthwhile, and that it's worth funding it with public money, which I personally strongly support. With that in mind, I want us to continue contributing t
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Absolutely, as per the xkcd automation chart, you'll break even if you save yourself those 5 minutes of work even just once a month over 5 years. https://xkcd.com/1205/
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Why? Are you arguing that insects are purely automatons? I personally don't have a strong view on insects, but my intuition is that there are different degrees of consciousness, and feel natural to attribute some consciousness to insec
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Well, yes, these were definitely a success for some. And I personally still believe that VR will be a success in the longer-term. In any case, I agree with the grandparent post about the distinction between being successful and good.
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Oh, absolutely, my vision depends on AGI (and maybe even ASI), and I definitely agree that it'll be a whole new ball game.
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I know I'm shooting myself in the wallet here, but I honestly don't think that SWE is an "essential" domain. To explain, as one who has taken relational data modeling classes, it's obvious to me that everything that
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It's already happening, particularly with "Ladybird Browser adopts Rust" [0] being at the top of HN today. It's now feasible to quickly iterate on a system's design with a dynamic language like Python, and then, onc
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But that's the thing - changing course is suddenly no longer hard. We've already reached a state where I can have AI generate a decent set of tests from an existing codebase (or better yet, I'd already have them ahead of time
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> to the point we saturate systems downstream But that's point of TFA, no? Now that writing code is no longer the bottleneck, the upstream and downstream processes have become the new bottlenecks, and we need to figure out how to wi
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But that only gets you to a philosophical argument about what "value" is. Many would argue that being able to get your thing into a Super Bowl commercial is extremely valuable. I definitely have never built anything that did. It&#
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> It is the traditional way of interpreting the Bible and few people had a problem with it until modern times. Sorry to nitpick, but there were quite a lot of "heathens" and "witches" who had faced some problems with
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> incentivizes labs to withhold their models from the public. Does it really? How would they get revenue if they withhold their models? And doesn't economics generally say that if it's easier for your competitor to catch up, yo
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I think that the bigger conversation to be had here is about the environmental damage - if by using distillation we can really train new models at 1% of the cost in energy, it is ethically imperative that we do this.

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