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by fny 8mo ago
Software engineers don't understand how user hostile all these AI gizmos are. Terminals are scary. AI running local code is scary. Random Github software is scary. And in my experience, normies are far more security paranoid than deve
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by fny 9mo ago
This is not unusual. Spotify is included because it is a relevant source of evidence as the custodian of the data. It improves the narrative that the data wasn't just indexed but obtained illegally.
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by fny 9mo ago
It's because the higher up the stack you go, tools become more declarative and literate. Calling sort is far easier than understanding the algorithm for example.
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by fny 9mo ago
Is it possible to use cocaine mindfully? I encourage you to compare using YouTube with videos on the right hidden. It will disturb you how easily they can trick you to click. Intstagram and friends are far, far worse.
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by fny 9mo ago
I'm a huge green energy supporter, but the data belies the headline. These types of headlines are often leverage to discredit the transition. 1. US emissions didn't jump. See the first chart. The 2.4% increase easily falls within
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by fny 9mo ago
Claude is likely just using a hand-written package[0] that already does this. If not it's almost certainly plagiarized. [0]: https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/
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by fny 9mo ago
There are a few things that confuse me about this potential acquisition: 1. You won't govern it. Greenland has it's own Self-Government Act. [0] 2. You won't own the land. Almost all land is owned by the State. [1] 3. The Dan
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by fny 9mo ago
A tangential thought: say AI makes a huge dent into labor. Wages will collapse across the board. Who is left to profit from?
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by fny 9mo ago
I doubt this was ever classified information. It's written all over DoD and NSA requirements and best practices for staff and diplomats. She was probably briefed repeatedly about this as a member of that committee. Here's one exam
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by fny 10mo ago
I have worked on out of sample problems, and AI absolutely struggles, but it dramatically accelerates the research process. Testing ideas is cheap, support tools are quick to write, and the LLM itself is a tremendous research tool itself. M
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by fny 10mo ago
This is so goergeous compared to the mess that's out there now.
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by fny 10mo ago
In the US, homeless individuals foremost suffer from financial hardship not mental illness. Consider 39% of homeless individuals are in families [0: Page 17] while 40% have a serious mental illness or drug problem.[1] Many develop these p
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by fny 10mo ago
I'm a former Ruby guy who ended up in stats/ML for a time. I think it's all about information density. Let's use your example of `A = P (1 + r / n) * (n * t)` -- I can immediately see the shape of the function and h
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by fny 10mo ago
It's also been done before...[0] [0]: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/05/2024-edge-ai-and-visi...
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by fny 10mo ago
My takeaway is that clock is ticking on Claude, Codex et al's AI monopoly. If a local setup can do 90% of what Claude can do today, what do things look like in 5 years?
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by fny 10mo ago
This seems like a classic time vs space trade off. Instead of reconstructing a "wide event" from multiple log lines with the same request id, the suggestion seems to be logging wide events repeatedly to simplify reconstruction fro
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by fny 10mo ago
The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet.
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by fny 10mo ago
I'm all for antitrust, but it's a shame the Amazon acquisition was blocked.[0] iRobot was in a distressed state then, and immediately laid of 1/3 of staff when the deal fell through. I knew a survivor of that mess. Now this.
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by fny 10mo ago
I know a gazillion med students who used Anki as is to graduate. They routinely have decks with north of 10K cards. The people who hunt for alternatives are probably procrastinating, and the people who write their own apps are definitely ya
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by fny 10mo ago
There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and others. Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared hosting providers (2) no one who uses a CMS cares about the backend (3) Wordpress has massive ecosystem
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by fny 10mo ago
> slight change in json path syntax (can't think of any right now) can cause SQLite to not use this index It's pretty fragile... -- Just changing the quoting select * from events where json_extract(data, "$.typ
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by fny 10mo ago
> Or hell, why not do it in x86 assembly? Or greater hell, why not binary ? If we ignore human readability (as the author suggests), the answer is context. The token count explodes as you fall down the abstraction rabbit hole. Context c
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by fny 11mo ago
A databases is a global variable in disguise.
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by fny 11mo ago
Why exactly do we need a new language? The agents I write get access to a subset of the Python SDK (i.e. non-destructive), packages, and custom functions. All this ceremony around tools and pseudo-RPC seems pointless given LLMs are extremel
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by fny 11mo ago
I find it unbelievable that npm still doesn't upgrade integrity entries to SHA512 across the board. This seems like such a simple hole to plug. What gives?
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by fny 11mo ago
Ironically, cloudflare.com is not down.
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by fny 11mo ago
Great work! This brings back memories of futzing with knobs on a boombox as a kid. For your sake, I hope you built a heaphone jack.
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by fny 11mo ago
I was making a joke.
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by fny 11mo ago
I'm personally excited for when the AGI-nauts start trotting out figures like... > An H100 on low-carbon grid is only about 1–2% of one US person’s total daily footprint! The real culprit is humans after all.
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by fny 11mo ago
Yes, it can be tampered with. Drives can even lie about the amount of storage they support. I once bought a 1TB pen drive that was only 32MB for $10. (Yes, I knew it was a scam beforehand.)

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