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by ghc 1y ago
Among enterprises I work with, I'm seeing way more migration to self-hosted Gitlab than I was a few years ago. Even among Azure-dependent orgs.
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by ghc 1y ago
In my experience there's a pretty fundamental difference between business consultants and consultants who "build stuff". I've done both and had similar experience to both your experience and GPs experience, but I'd
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by ghc 1y ago
Needing to book days in advance makes it unusable for short-notice trips (vs. driving), and due to the demand they basically doubled prices. It's now more expensive to take Acela than it is to take a plane; that wasn't the case a
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by ghc 1y ago
Great news! I hope prices go back down a bit thanks to the extra capacity. I used to take Acela 3 times a week about a decade ago and they were rarely completely full. Now they're more expensive and fully booked much of the time, which
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by ghc 1y ago
The new trains can go to 160mph, which is slightly faster than the old ones. But...Acela's speed is really limited by the safety of the tracks not the train sets. I remember when they were testing 155mph service in 2010, but they could
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by ghc 1y ago
No, those are symptoms of an eating disorder.
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by ghc 1y ago
Here's a sample of running the 120b model on Ollama with my MBP: ``` total duration: 1m14.16469975s load duration: 56.678959ms prompt eval count: 3921 token(s) prompt eval duration: 10.791402416s prompt eval rate: 3
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by ghc 1y ago
I was extremely disappointed that they didn't choose "...may be black hole suns" for the title.
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm not disagreeing that it's good to keep humans in the loop, but the systems I've worked on give domain experts new information they could not get before -- for example, non-invasive in-home elder care monitoring, tracking
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by ghc 1y ago
This post is a good example of why groundbreaking innovations often come from outsiders. The author's ideas are clearly colored by their particular experiences as an engineering manager or principal engineer in (I'm guessing) larg
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by ghc 1y ago
I think it really, really depends on the language. I haven't been able to make it work at all for Haskell (it's more likely to generate bullshit tests or remove features than actually solve a problem), but for Python I've bee
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by ghc 1y ago
I think it's unlikely the next bubble will involve the stock market. I mean the last bubble (real estate) didn't either. It can still be a bubble even if it's mostly VC money going into it, because more companies, endowments,
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by ghc 1y ago
I wish more people would understand this. VC is just professional guessing. But you're not guessing impacts, you're guessing future value of company stock compared to its value at time of offer. Some people are really, really, rea
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by ghc 1y ago
> Data has only driven advertising This is not remotely true. I mean it's so incredibly not true I wonder how you came to believe this. Haven't you ever heard of how hedge funds pay for cellular data to understand retail store
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by ghc 1y ago
> You ignored the entire issue. It was extralegal. If they wanted to do something about it, they should make clear laws and enforce them. That's actually not true. The SEC & FDIC have broad authority to issue recommendations reg
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by ghc 1y ago
I absolutely hate this too. And the only way around it is to manipulate it into cheerfully pointing out all the problems with something in a similarly sycophantic way.
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by ghc 1y ago
Here's a good article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/technology/crypto-debanki... Treating crypto as a risky and destabilizing security (like subprime mortgages) is a valid reaction to what hap
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by ghc 1y ago
I recently listened to a Ben Horowitz interview ( https://muckrack.com/podcast/a16z-podcast-podcast/episodes/9... ) and it's hard not to see these people as cowards. They parrot QAnon conspiracy theories a
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by ghc 1y ago
I bet apple would actually be a great case study here. They have a great 10 foot UI, the world's shittiest TV remote, and a very easy to use system where your phone can be the entire UI and the TV can just play video (AirPlay). If peop
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by ghc 1y ago
That...does not answer his query.
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by ghc 1y ago
Back in the early days of HN most people thought my username was my initials. Alas, if those were actually my initials it would be a fantastic example of nominative determinism.
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by ghc 1y ago
I miss the days of daily Haskell posts.
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by ghc 1y ago
> You need to train new models to advance the knowledge cutoff That's a great point, but I think it's less important now with MCP and RAG. If VC money dried up and the bubble burst, we'd still have broadly useful models th
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by ghc 1y ago
> to my knowledge, has never had serious incidents of either. The magic removal branch in 2006 was one such case (of API instability). I recall another case circa 2007(?) with a "new admin". But, importantly, pre-1.0 Django mad
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by ghc 1y ago
What is this, AI slop? Kubernetes operators have been around for ages. Heck, the OReilly book on them ( https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Operators-Automating-Conta... ) was published in 2020 .
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by ghc 1y ago
It was added over a year after we needed it (back in 2008/2009). I'm pretty sure our use case was taken as an input into the design of Django's database routing. We were certainly loud enough about it.
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by ghc 1y ago
Even if the profit margin is driven to zero, that does not mean competitors will cease to offer the models. It just means the models will be bundled with other services. Case in point: Subversion & Git drove VCS margin to zero (remember
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by ghc 1y ago
Obviously you don't need to train new models to operate existing ones. I think I trust the semianalysis estimate ($250M) more than this estimate ($2B), but who knows? I do see my revenue estimate was for this year, though. However, $4B
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by ghc 1y ago
> In order to break even they would have to minimize the operating costs (by throttling, maiming models etc.) and/or increase prices. This would be the reality check. Is that true? Are they operating inference at a loss or are they
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by ghc 1y ago
Actions within that system may be unethical: certainly nobody is defending what America did to Cambodia, or countless other war crimes. But you're painting participation in the system as unethical. Therefore, Ukrainians defending their

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