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by fwlr 1mo ago
I suppose it is only a new trend in engineering, not in the broader world.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
So this product is a thin wrapper over a remote virtual machine, a new name for remote virtual machines, and an exhortation to not look inside or reason about remote virtual machines? I feel like up until recently this would been pitched as
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Tall order. I guess I could cheat and say “it might change YOUR world”, insofar as it can put you into a like-minded and passionate community?
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by fwlr 2mo ago
If you want to read something interesting and edifying about chess960, the classical starting position, and other interesting starting positions, might I recommend instead this wonderful paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/251
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Hah, my apologies - I jump at any chance I get to explain why nebulous, unenforceable, or even impossible laws can nevertheless have concrete and worthwhile benefits, it’s a favorite pet topic for me.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
There are many reasons you might want to outlaw or ban something even when there isn’t an easy way to detect it. Case in point: the existence of this law, even in the absence of enforceability, makes “using AI for a song intended for the ch
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Apple shipped their “Neural Engine” in lots of iPhones before publicizing or fully documenting it, could be part of their playbook.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I expect the pnpm maintainers to be familiar with it because bun is one of the other three or four major JavaScript package managers. To put it another way, if you gathered up the 100 people in the world working on the most similar problems
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Had to check the calendar to be sure it wasn’t somehow April 1st. No, it’s August. Huh. I don’t see how it’s possible that the pnpm maintainers are unaware of the bun AI-rewrite-to-rust saga… so I’m baffled, befuddled, and overall at a loss
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by fwlr 2mo ago
> the subject matter is too complicated to explain … All I can do is walk you around like an excited tour guide, one who has unearthed an ancient alien civilization. Now this is AI psychosis.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Every site is a dating site, if you try hard enough.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Very prescient from Uncle Ted.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I see someone is implementing FizzBuzz in “startup funding rounds”.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
>>We’re better off with the way the web is now Well, bad news, you aren’t going to get to keep that either. Whether for high-minded reasons like “the knowledge that everything you create will be fed into the slop machine so it can lat
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Amusing to read the author saying “if you ask everyone on Earth what jobs they’d like to see automated, and take the union of that, it’s everything”, and then read the HN comments and see a worked example precisely demonstrating it: https:
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by fwlr 2mo ago
From the article: “[for Windows victims,] the [malicious] build script [fetches the attacker’s remote payload,] writes [it] to %TEMP%\rust-setup.ps1 and starts [it] through a VBScript launcher under wscript.exe, with a comment in the source
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Utterly imperceptible, even when studied under the microscope in a way that LLM text very rarely is in practice. It will be interesting to see whose concerns are assuaged (perhaps they genuinely though mistakenly believed it would degrade q
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I gestured at it with “embeddings” but to spell it out, I’m more or less claiming that the only sense in which LLMs “understand” a given thing is as big list of all the things it is related to (implemented in the form of a vector embeddin
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by fwlr 2mo ago
It seems that is the price you pay for the power to turn a 600-line nightmare SQL query into 60 lines of barely readable code.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Mathematics is like this. You read the first symbol in the paper, it is a wiggly triangle, what does that mean? Well you will find out that symbol means the Constant or Operator or Set or Function belonging to So-and-So with the unfortunate
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by fwlr 2mo ago
They have pretty significant negative externalities in the communities they are built in, which would be reason enough. They have historically tended to get approved through means verging-on “graft/corruption/lies” - the promised
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by fwlr 2mo ago
If we wish to use “the very best, most precise words at every single decision point” then I will note that “writing” is not the best word for what LLMs are doing. A more precise synonym might be “generating”, in which case this essay become
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by fwlr 2mo ago
This page is just a bad[1] reskin of the data on http://pldb.info/lists/creators (which is arranged in the way you and I expect) 1: “A horizontally scrolling list of text items at the top of the page” somehow manages t
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Oh, so it’s my kids’ problem, not mine? Fantastic, full steam ahead, I guess.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Transformer-style attention archectiture and language models won’t bring about AGI, I agree - but you’d be foolish to think there aren’t OAI/Anthropic researchers working to invent the thing that will.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Absolutely, that’s more or less exactly what I took away from it.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Until pretty recently, the tools you wrote code with were a flat fee (or free) … [so] an individual task didn't really have a price of its own … [but] with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, it does. I’ve heard this anti-
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I haven’t read much of the for or against, so it’s certainly possible there’s a whole hidden web of ulterior motives at play here that I’m unaware of (rather than just “there’s a lot of pre-existing bad blood I’m unaware of, which is why bo
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by fwlr 2mo ago
A surprising number of people are worried that the code they don’t read will be imperceptibly different.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Because the tool is made by a corporation that is subject to regulation by a government, and that government has decided it’s in the best interests of society that the tool be limited in this way.

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