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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I like 5.5 a lot, despite how I feel about OpenAI as a company. In OpenCode it feels about as smart as Opus 4.8, but it's less aggressive about following up on minutiae and getting lost in side quests. Might be a matter of prompt desig
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Opus 4.8 already makes its way into deep wasteful pits of "let me check this first" on a regular basis. I don't think I could ever tolerate a model that does that even more aggressively. That doesn't even sound useful
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Yeah but OpenAI has the benefit of people actively going there and willingly giving quite a lot of their attention. It's a lot like Google in that respect. And the suggestion is pretty much the same as suggesting that Google offer a pr
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Clown shows are entertaining and distracting, and all the foibles and silliness is a carefully-calibrated act. Sounds apt to me.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I find this perspective surprising coming from someone who's done ML for a decade. How much of a good machine learning system in production is really "the model"? How many lines of code are dedicated to constructing features
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Out of curiosity which model & interface did you use? I'm starting to think that, for IR tasks like this, the number one differentiator among models and harnesses is the ability for the model to look at its available evidence and c
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
How much of that "decoupling" is actually just "exporting"? Not being glib or dismissive, I think it's an important distinction and I don't know enough about Europe to know how the two compare.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
There are so many bad incentives all over the place in the USA, and it's not so much that cheap hydrocarbons create them as it fails to prevent them. Consider the gradual takeover of SUVs on the roads (many which to be fair are probabl
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I bet the author discovered the problem during an AI coding session. The "mathematically sound" comment sounds like the AI did some deep dive into a possible corrupted private key before checking for a missing public key. Maybe it
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Is the flesh soft and sweet like a modern cultivated banana? I wonder how different it is to eat one of those compared to something like a tamarind, which is also mostly seeds, covered in a relatively small amount of edible delicious stuff.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
1300 AD?! Did the Polynesians bring chickens with them? I knew about the sweet potatoes, but the chickens are a whole different manner.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Coffee is another interesting example in the other direction, it's so often associated with places like Colombia, Java, etc that people don't realize it's only native to Ethiopia, and that the majority of coffee consumed arou
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Well it sure sounded like you were arguing that climate change was not a causal factor, which is ridiculous. Of course we are going to need to use technology to mitigate the effects, even if we stop all carbon emissions tomorrow we are alre
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Hiked interest rates cause a decline in Stackoverflow activity? My answer doesn't change. Against the background of other phenomena already causing various trends, we see acceleration of those trends consistent with a testable hypothes
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I think if you won't even admit that AI greatly accelerated these trends, you're in some kind of denial. There's no reason to believe that we would see a rapid coordinated decline in all of these things at the same time witho
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
What in the world are you talking about? This gets discussed all the time. The impact is not making it even worse at this point. And you talk as if posting on HN was equivalent to starting a coal-fired power plant in your backyard.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
In my town they are building a lot of apartments downtown, and that's fine with me, but the unfortunate reality of my area is that if you don't have a car then you are pretty well stuck in town and can only get around to surroun
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
What's different between Narwhals and Ibis? Why does the former exist when the latter has already (struggled along) existing for a while? Narrower scope / benefit of hindsight? No support for "cloud" data frames like Ray
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
But are they supposed to? For example I have heard it said that in the northeast US (New England, NY, NJ) the forests pretty much evolved around humans (and rarely lightning) burning them periodically to control undergrowth. Is the same tru
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
> Canada’s complete and total refusal to conduct proper forest management Care to say more? Have they been suppressing fires in the forest way out in the middle of nowhere for decades?
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I don't think that's as relevant for these huge regions of remote forest in Canada as it is for the lower 48 of the USA where you have a lot of population density and ranching and farming in the dry areas that historically burned
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Lol I meant "incumbent", that was a STT typo. But yes I get the point. My own point is that even a good-faith honest IPO for a spaceflight company probably won't look anything like Aramark. It's always going to be a bet
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Aramark is a horrible company for comparison. Maybe the only thing they have in common with SpaceX is that they are publicly traded companies. I'm not saying that SpaceX is a good investment or that Musk isn't trying to run a scam
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Depending on what kind of "loop" you're talking about, the answer is yes or no depending on the harness. For example Claude Code already has some relatively sophisticated features for managing automated loops of doing stuff (
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Even with Claude Code and Opus I genuinely don't understand how people are actually doing productive things with these loops. Unmanaged by humans, these things go deep, deep into their own pits of internal domain language, depth-firs
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
What's your harness setup? I haven't had this kind of on-par success with any local LLM yet.
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I don't see the jargon nor is it wordy. It's just the usual uncanny valley AI slop style. But the linked supreme court rulings and other references are genuinely interesting and I learned something from it
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
This same reasoning applies to a lot of things. For example it's the fundamental reason for banning things like voter ID laws and literacy requirements. That said the article seems to degrade into slop partway through, like the author
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
Yes, and in Massachusetts specifically people often call curbside trash cans "barrels", often without any qualification. "I forgot to bring the barrel into the garage and now there's a racoon family in there". Maybe
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by gwerbin 3mo ago
I've started doing this by hand in OpenCode and it works pretty well. But there's no UI support for maintaining a tree of related session forks so there's a little bit of manual fussing involved with session naming to keep or

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