hobofan

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by hobofan 2mo ago
Yes, and it's indistinguishable from the average X user.
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by hobofan 2mo ago
Yeah, that wouldn't be a surprise. It looks to me like a failure of the American media landscape, that such constant revisal trends are not called out in the reporting of new numbers. That just makes them a mouthpiece of the government
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by hobofan 2mo ago
I'm not an expert at quantifying the magnitude of how bad that is, but revision down is not something "exceptional". The numbers have been revised down consistently since ~2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2026&#x
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by hobofan 2mo ago
> but even getting 1% of the redirections wrong sounds absolutely horrible I know this may be a very poor proxy for reality, but from all the US true crime Netflix/Youtube videos I've seen over the years, it seems like there is
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by hobofan 2mo ago
I do feel like that still needs to add a layer of interactivity to be complete. From what I've seen most auto-approvers in coding harnesses either auto-approve or auto-reject, with no middle ground of escalating the decision to the use
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by hobofan 2mo ago
> files, network, and MCP tools Locking that down to nothing is trivial for any harness: just don't expose those to the LLM. The tricky part is allowing access to those.
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by hobofan 2mo ago
> only works for a very narrow definition of what science is And so does academia. It's just that instead of AI and robotics, PhD students are thrown onto problems that are in large parts slightly tweaked reconfigurations of similar
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by hobofan 2mo ago
Yes, just like SaaS was a limitation to it's utility, PaaS is still a limitation, just on a different level.
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by hobofan 2mo ago
It's open source, but it is so incredibly tied to their platform, that there is no vendor portability, which has made almost every of their product launches post-Workers kind of meh.
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by hobofan 2mo ago
I would generally agree, but a word of caution for anyone trying it out from this thread: Try the latest pre 2.x version. The 2.0.0 that was released last week is highly broken even for some of the most common connection scenarios.
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by hobofan 2mo ago
> Those two combined means that unless LLMs reach the state of 'good enough' Once you are able to not just go on-premise, but on-device, there a boatload of other advantages than efficiency (network independence, privacy, etc.)
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by hobofan 2mo ago
The US also isn't energy-limited. They'll just price out all humans living there from buying any electricity. EDIT: This was obviously meant to be facetious with the intent to highlight the negative effects on the general populati
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by hobofan 2mo ago
> WMF spends a lot money (combined) on a splatter of projects According to [0], they intend to spend $18m on community projects total, out of their total $240m FY26-27 budget[1]. $330k of that go to the WikiPortraits project[2]. Almost h
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by hobofan 2mo ago
Silicon Valey
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by hobofan 3mo ago
> You shouldn't implement image generation as MCP: just write your own tool. There are plenty of image/media inference providers (e.g. Fal), web search or deep research providers, etc. Yes, and we as "harness providers&quo
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by hobofan 3mo ago
> Chat completion can still do everything if you are clever. On a purely functional level, yes. However for interactive use cases, the Completions API, as provided by OpenAI or Azure, if paired with reasoning effort of any kind, provides
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by hobofan 3mo ago
> these are just bs to have people accept them, but is that actually the case? I tried to outline that in my sibling comment[0], but I think the article also gives a good example in the "hidden searches" paragraph: There is rea
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by hobofan 3mo ago
I think the article gives a very good overview of a problem that most users of AI rarely evaluate / have to grapple with. There really is a surprising amount of coupling that happens with many of the "frontier inference providers&
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by hobofan 3mo ago
The Corruption Perception Index only ranks the public sector.
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by hobofan 3mo ago
We just today ran into a bug where if the branch a stacked PR points to is deleted, it can just stay stuck in "merging" without any additional feedback. I directly looked at the GH status page, because who knows, maybe the PR subs
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by hobofan 3mo ago
There are plenty industry-specific niche IDEs that you probably never heard of that make up a significant part of many companies product offering. Jetbrains is valued around $7bil and their business is almost exclusively in IDEs. Wolfram Re
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by hobofan 3mo ago
I'm not doubting that Mitchell Hashimoto is capable of building great products with great product market fit. Quite the opposite, as the few strands of idolization that exist within me rank him as one of the best to ever do it in the d
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by hobofan 3mo ago
I don't doubt that, but that phenomenon seems to be reaching egregious levels.
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by hobofan 3mo ago
I'm sorry to take it out on this specific announcement, as it just seems to be one of many "offenders", but why are the 15 investors listed on an announcement blog post of a semi-stealth startup? With most of them being VC or
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by hobofan 3mo ago
> software is 1/10, reducing that to 1/100 makes a bog difference I fully agree! I'm all for moving the needle towards moving the needle towards more formal verification, but what GP is suggesting is full verification of p
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by hobofan 3mo ago
> I, personally, think that it is ridiculous that ~none of the software we use is known to work correctly. It just happens to work correctly, most of the time. I don't know. It seems to match the general futility of pedantry that ex
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by hobofan 3mo ago
This appears to be only for their online shop, not for their retail locations.
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by hobofan 3mo ago
With the amount of security mechanisms in a banknote that have to be tailed to each design, I would assume that making that many variants would be financially irresponsible.
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by hobofan 3mo ago
Anything that tracks employees actions beyond high-level "are they doing their job according to the job descriptions" is forbidden by privacy laws and otherwise will be striken down by a workers council. That's not just speci
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by hobofan 3mo ago
I think there is still a point to be made that alternative more granular settings may help in less people turning it on. e.g. I have "reduced motion" turned on because the workspace switching animation (and some of the other anima

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