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by gwd 1y ago
Sure, but it's often the case that if you squander a small income you'll squander a large income. Obviously nobody can live in Silicon Valley on $10k/year; but if you find yourself struggling to stay within your means with $
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by gwd 1y ago
That was in response to someone saying: > Find a way to make it free to start. FWIW I looked at all the posts on this thread from `amanchanda` and `nicooo`, and didn't see any obvious reason to think they were the same person.
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by gwd 1y ago
I don't think it's necessarily bad to have the benchmark, but the graphs of Gemini and Claude doing worse than o3 did kind of leave a bad taste in my mouth. "Oh look, your models are worse than ours at this very important me
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by gwd 1y ago
People who are bad with money are bad with money, no matter how much money they have. Look up the financial problems Judy Garland and Johnny Depp have had, for instance.
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by gwd 1y ago
One book I read actually put it a different way: Lots of competition is actually a good thing. If you come to a market that's "wide open" with nobody else there, there are two possibilities: 1. You're the first person
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by gwd 1y ago
> systemd project tackles a lot of important problems Fundamentally, this was it. SysV startup scripts had reached a local maximum decades earlier, and there was serious "overhang". When I said "superior", I really
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by gwd 1y ago
> novice programmers I think Rust has too high a learning curve, and too many features, for novice programmers in general. > Embedded is still C, games are C++, scientific and data are Python and R (I'm talking in general here).
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by gwd 1y ago
Found my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897993
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by gwd 1y ago
> Systemd gets a lot of hate but it really solves a lot of problems. From my perspective, it got a lot of hate in its first few years (decade?), not because the project itself was bad -- on the contrary, it succeeded in spite of having
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by gwd 1y ago
Sure, but it seems there are references to incompatible goals within the Project 2025 document, which is meant to be a unified goal document. For instance, one goal was that "The United States must regain its role as the 'Arsenal
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by gwd 1y ago
MAGA has several mutually exclusive tenets: - Isolationism - Increase US influence worldwide - Exploit US influence worldwide Each one will have a negative effect on the other two.
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by gwd 1y ago
I think the guardrails were designed to hold someone like Trump once ; and then afterwards he was supposed to be convicted of his crimes, or at least never elected again. The guardrails are fundamentally held in place by hundreds of thous
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by gwd 1y ago
So I mean, I've only been reading the NT regularly for about 2 years; and in any case the source text itself is 2000 years old, and the quote itself will almost certainly have been a translation from a very different language (Aramaic
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by gwd 1y ago
Kinda wonder if a "content labyrinth" could be used to influence the ideas / attitudes of bots -- fill it with content pro/anti Communism, or Capitalism, or whatever your thing is, hope it tips the resulting LLM towards
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by gwd 1y ago
> I sort of did this with ssh where I figured out how to crash an ssh client that was trying to guess the root password. What I got for my trouble was a number of script kiddies ddosing my poor little server. This is the main reason I ha
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by gwd 1y ago
It can be both, can't it? "Get this through your skulls" is an idiom in English, for instance; but it's also colorful and much more emphatic than "Listen carefully to what I'm about to say".
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by gwd 1y ago
The "Great question!" thing is annoying but ultimately harmless. What's bad is when it doesn't tell you what's wrong with your thinking; or if it says X, and you push back to try to understand if / why X is tr
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by gwd 1y ago
> In my experience, LLMs have always had a tendency towards sycophancy The very early ones (maybe GPT 3.0?) sure didn't. You'd show them they were wrong, and they'd say something that implied that OK maybe you were right,
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by gwd 1y ago
The question isn't one of meaning, but of "register": How polite / academic / lofty / frank / rude / direct / challenging / submissive is it? In English, "Are you the one, or are we exp
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by gwd 1y ago
Allegedly one of the ways they've been training LLMs to get better at logic and reasoning, as well as factual accuracy, is to use LLMs themselves to generate synthetic training data. The idea here would be similar: generate synthetic
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by gwd 1y ago
I've been learning Biblical Greek, and that was my impression too: The particles he list don't sound at all like the random "uh" and "ah" that he's translating them into. That said, I do think there'
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by gwd 1y ago
New languages / packages / frameworks may need to collaborate with LLM providers to provide good training material. LLM-able training material may be the next important documentation thing. Another potentially interesting avenue
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by gwd 1y ago
If I had to re-summarize your point, I'd put it this way: 1. Success is very little on the idea, almost entirely on the execution 2. Execution has both a technical side and a business side, and can fail from a poor execution either way
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by gwd 1y ago
> I have no idea why they mention coding. It is the same in any kind of job. You can bake cakes for fun, make music for fun, write poems, novels, play chess for fun, practice sports, grow potatos ... One reason is that coding is so much
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by gwd 1y ago
...but you have to share it specifically with each separate group. When I take a cute photo of my son doing something, I have to share it with the family group for my side, and that of my wife; and none of my friends or random extended fam
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by gwd 1y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but the bank payment system in Europe is waaaay better than the US; nearly all four- and low-five-digit sums in the last 20 years I've paid for with bank transfer.
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by gwd 1y ago
I probably write a check every 5 years, and each time I need to ask someone how to do it, because the checks are slightly different compared to the country I grew up in.
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by gwd 1y ago
> Writing the address on the envelope was awkward, as I haven’t used a pen in several years; it took a few attempts and some wasted envelopes... Wow -- I mean, sure, I don't use a pen that often, but I'm sure I hand-write so
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by gwd 1y ago
The comment at the top says it's a draft. It's not unreasonable to ask for random values from a GPT for "filler" for the draft (or even just make them up), just to stay in the flow, and then track down the real numbers
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by gwd 1y ago
I generally agree with the article; but I think he completely misunderstands what prompt injection is about. It's not the user putting "prompt injections" into the "user" part of their stream. It's about pe

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