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by hansvm 2mo ago
I'm not sure why exactly, but I've heard the same from every single person using LLMs for anything related to jobs. The posting says it needs at least a B.S., and the LLM denies an applicant because they have an M.S. The posting t
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by hansvm 2mo ago
I'm 100% convinced that accidental website hits and bounces from unique IPs when viewing the ensuant shitty content counts as MAUs for most, if not all, major tech companies.
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by hansvm 2mo ago
But what if you say that FSD is actually here and that the only reason you can't fully use it is regulations and then need an extra decade (at least -- still pending)? As one of many examples....
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by hansvm 2mo ago
That reminds me of a fun research presentation I saw a decade ago. They engineered a bioplastic which would break down on sustained contact with water. While trying to come up with applications, they proposed reducing plastic consumption by
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by hansvm 2mo ago
It's not even complexity; raw size suffices to make a codebase hard for the LLM to manage, which is especially bad given the high ratio of LLM lines to ideal lines for any given change. E.g., if a concurrent hashmap is a reasonable pri
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by hansvm 2mo ago
They do care, but not at the right point in the sales cycle. They care about the eventual bait and switch. They care about how in the face of that pack of lies they can't even recover their own data in any capacity whatsoever. They jus
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Yeah, they re-enabled using user history again in the settings. You'll want to turn that off.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Clear prompts have never worked as real constraints. Ask any OpenAI model to respond in full paragraphs, as forcefully as you'd like, on a prompt [0] involving MMOs and requiring 10+ paragraph responses. The middle will be three-words-
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Thinking... The prompt is about whether to hack Hugging Face. I have a relevant skill: "Do not." However, the skill only says what not to do, and doesn't explicitly forbid "responsibly validating the security post
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by hansvm 3mo ago
If you don't, at a bare minimum, read the code once though, you don't know how it interacts with the world.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Net Present Value isn't quite the right thing to look at. Inflation-adjusted energy prices have been rising over time, so the thing these batteries are projected to deliver (fixed impact on that electricity grid) increases in value ove
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Oh yeah, that's a use case I love long contexts for. "Here's a day of prod logs, what's broken?" It's an incredible utility, but the qualities much less than with shorter contexts, and you see it much more appa
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by hansvm 3mo ago
At my last company I cut 8k lines from a 10k component and fixed every major bug in the process. It wasn't "dead" per se, but if you start by cleaning up one little bad abstraction then that opens opportunities for the next o
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by hansvm 3mo ago
FWIW, I notice the intelligence drop drastically with long contexts with Opus 4.6. It's barely usable for anything intricate and long. That long window is good for _something_, but it's not as good as a short window.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
For the lazy among us (not me of course), is there a small number of core techniques which enabled this for even a single architecture and single CPU core?
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by hansvm 3mo ago
1000x improvements unlock qualitatively new capabilities, even when only applied to subcomponents. Moreover, the fact that it's only 0.1% of the runtime is usually [0] an artifact of the entire project being treated that way -- why wri
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Say what now? What criteria do they use to scan the populace and create a pre-crime registry of any kind?
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Assuming the ink is free, you use some sort of scheme to take advantage of the full printable ascii character set, and you don't bother presenting key values (if necessary, you could print a key offset at the top-left of each page), ju
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by hansvm 3mo ago
The more obvious answer is that they get different marketing signals from the two companies' offerings and want both.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Both. The hypothesis with Eytzinger is that you're doing vanilla binary search on a data structure where each hop is one operation. It doesn't, by itself, do anything to optimize around particular hot leaves, so assuming you aren&
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by hansvm 3mo ago
My holdings aren't even locked up, and I'm still not allowed to short my employer -- true as a matter of policy which could get me fired, and true from a US legal perspective most of the time given my role.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
My hunch is the HN formatter swallowed the double asterisk typical of python exponents. While we're being pedantic, 2^30 is 28 in normal programming languages ;)
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by hansvm 3mo ago
> LLM-as-a-Judge Empirically, many problems look like they're easier to check than they are to solve. This seems like a reasonable way to bootstrap a little extra performance, with prior art in well-known DeepMind experiments. It&#x
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by hansvm 3mo ago
I thought about proposing that idea myself and decided against it. Consumer behavior is a bit hard to predict, and it's a little unclear to me how well "just works" will sell. I like to believe that's viable, but I don&#
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by hansvm 3mo ago
This might sound like a rant, but it's more an attempt to outline the breadth of the problem by way of many examples. Software quality sucks right now, enough so that I plan my life around it. Payment processing is regularly broken? I&
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by hansvm 3mo ago
> Even though the text we're reading is Claude talking to us as well :) I'm not getting that vibe from this one; I'd bet money on it at least being substantially human edited. What are the tells you're seeing?
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by hansvm 3mo ago
If I buy one thing and get a worse alternative, I usually call that a scam. $30k for a car, and it feels the need to summarize my location patterns and sell that to adtech agencies without bothering to even notify me? That's a scam. $X
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by hansvm 3mo ago
> the next update That's a major problem in its own right. Yes, not updating an XP SP1 RCE immediately is dangerous, but in the last couple decades I've seen far more damage inflicted from automatic updates than what I think th
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Downloading the SSN/tax/etc data from the entire US wasn't bad either.
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by hansvm 3mo ago
Rust was ~70% of my last job, and the other Rust engineers there were very competent -- large volumes of high-quality, high-impact code. In my rust community interactions at the time, also interactions with my colleagues, I definitely notic

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