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by hosh 1y ago
Is the article also suggesting that if there are version conflicts, it goes with the top level library? For example, if we want to use a secure version of L2, it would be specified at A, ignoring the version specified by L1? Or maybe I misr
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by hosh 1y ago
Interesting, considering that Anthropic spends a lot of resourced to build ethics checks into their AI. I wonder if this hiring process was ever put through its own ethics check.
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by hosh 1y ago
The strategies and outcome for the three-cue system reminds me of how LLMs autocompletes, and even hallucinates. Maybe for some, vibe reading is good enough. But given our culture wars where people of different beliefs cannot talk to each o
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by hosh 1y ago
I once heard, that a masters degree qualifies one to teach the subject matter. To do so, you had to organize the material in a way to accommodate students with different backgrounds, learning, and thinking process. In the process of doing s
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by hosh 1y ago
Wikipedia has an entry for "hacktivism". The people who illegally obtained classified information to leak to WikiLeaks have made a political impact: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/
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by hosh 1y ago
The headline of the article called these people cyber activists, and in the text of the article, they were called cybercriminals. Which is it? It reminds me a bit with the situation with privateers during the age of sail. These were often p
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by hosh 1y ago
Ok, given that then I think the next thing that is tripping me up is that the author of the New Yorker article is writing in a way that is itself being very literalist. I read through the whole article looking for something that is insightf
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by hosh 1y ago
"So are computers themselves. However free and open the web once was, or could've been, hardware was always capital-heavy, and it only got heavier with time. Cheap, ubiquitous computers and TSMC are two sides of the same coin.&quo
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by hosh 1y ago
I have been keenly watching for locally-run AIs. This includes the price point for running 70b models, such as the one recently announced by Switzerland. I've also been looking at what it would take to run these in much smaller comput
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by hosh 1y ago
I have seen people conduct business that doesn’t enshittify. Though rare, it is not an universal trait for conducting business. The process of creating the AIs require mobilizing vast amount of energy, capital, and time. It is a product of
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by hosh 1y ago
While the Internet and LLMs are huge turning points — the metaphor that comes to mind are phase change thresholds, from solid to gas, from gas to solids — there is a crucial difference between the internet and LLMs. The early internet conne
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by hosh 1y ago
I am confused by the use of the term, telegraphed or signpost. I am not even sure I understand what this literalism is about. Coming from a martial art background, telegraph means reading the subtle signs that comes before an action in orde
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by hosh 1y ago
My biggest takeaway from Roy Fielding's dissertation wasn't how to construct a RESTful architecture or what is the one true REST, but how to understand any computer architecture -- particularly their constraints -- in order to des
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by hosh 1y ago
Double entry accounting has properties that allow it to track the flow of money, not just its state (current balance), so it useful for countries as well as corporations.
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by hosh 1y ago
I am in the early design phases for a local-first software forge, intended for unreliable networks. I should be able to continue tinker open source software, and limited collaboration, even if network access is unreliable. This is starting
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by hosh 1y ago
I used Typescript cdk8s, or tried to. Manipulating the objects were unwieldy. I wrote https://github.com/matsuri-rb/matsuri ... I have not really promoted it. I tried cdk8s because the team I was working with used Type
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by hosh 1y ago
It's been my experience that nothing in infra and ops will ever "just work". Even something like Heroku will run into scaling issues, and how much you are willing to pay for it. If people's concerns is that they want a d
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by hosh 1y ago
While we're speculating: I disagree that YAML is so bad. I don't particularly like HCL. The tooling I use don't care though -- as long as I can stil specify things in JSON, then I can generate (not template) what I need. It w
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by hosh 1y ago
I think that depends on the scope of the risk someone is trying to mitigate. As an example, Hundred Rabbits is living in a situation with extremely iffy internet. They live on a sailbot and work in computing out there. They have had to buil
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by hosh 1y ago
What happens when you can't access Github?
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by hosh 1y ago
There is a (perverse?) incentive to have an always-on network connected to services that can be metered and billed -- that is how we get monthjly recurring revenue. Even hardware companies want in on that -- think HP printers and authorized
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by hosh 1y ago
Hearing this is exciting to me, because it is a very concrete and actionable target for a true “local-first” ecosystem and infrastructure. I was very disappointed to find that the “local-first” manifesto was not the “local-first” as I under
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by hosh 1y ago
It doesn't take many generations for selective breeding to show improvements in landraces. Even just making sure that volunteers from seeds that were thrown out as food waste were given a chance to fruit and seed starts that process. O
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by hosh 1y ago
Pay it forward. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_It_Forward_(film)
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by hosh 1y ago
Is 3 years reasonable? If we are making say, a point-of-sale software rolled out in a fast food franchise (let’s take Chick-fil-A since they have edge Kubernetes deployments), is it reasonable that we won’t add features to that software in
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by hosh 1y ago
The difference between a fermentation system and software is that right now, software changes fast enough that five years is a long time. While there are software that are still in use from five years ago, there are plenty of obsolete softw
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by hosh 1y ago
I came here to say that too. It already does well coordinating IoT networks. It's probably one of the most underestimated systems. The Elixir community has been working hard to be able to run models directly within BEAM, and recently,
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by hosh 1y ago
While I can apply promise theory to call-by-future, call-by-future by itself does not really bring out the richness of promise theory. Promise theory isn't really about computation. It is about voluntary cooperation among agents. Agent
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by hosh 1y ago
I am not familiar with that book and that sounds interesting. I have not read that book so I won't make a recommendation on where to start. I was working through "Promise Theory: Principles and Applications" and read through
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by hosh 1y ago
There's an entire semi-formal language on promises, called promise theory. This includes promises autonomous agents (humans, back when this was conceived) make for other autonomous agents. Promise Theory was the basis for CFEngine, whi

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