ianm218

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Inadvertently becoming a slop contributor to a Rust core library(ianm199.github.io)
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Yeah and I think even what might be the most useful is extracting how Codex got to a particular solution into a skill or into even more customized software so it can be applied in lots more places. I know people are working on these things
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Related to Lua - I've been maintaining this project that has Lua 5.1-5.5 in one Rust project [1]. The main reason to use it over mlua or the normal C Lua is for something that plays nicely with WASM/ general cross compilation or
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Something I've thought about a lot is that there is having someone with some domain knowledge or reason to care a lot about a particular issue spend a bunch of tokens and cycles on it until something useful comes out the other end. T
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I said vendor here but it’s more like banks we work with. So there’s someone responsible for the technical side of banking relationships. But yeah it’s kinda a zone where most weekends there’s no problems so it’s not a huge priority… until
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The “debugging” for these type of issues is looking at some logs and http responses and being like “ah if we get this error it means they restarted their firewall again and took us off the whitelist. Email that guy Joe at the bank and hope
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Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore, so the only purpose of them working from their laptop instead of a phone is because that is the normal way to do it. Here is a real use case: you are are responsible for some alert
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Cancer is also bottleknecked by a lot more than just intelligence. If you have 100 of the smartest PHd students working on a cancer problem you have to wait for funding, lab experiments, and clinical trials etc. Math is deterministic and re
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Do you mean like inadvertently interacting with an LLM like when you call a customer service line and you get AI? I find it hard to imagine having a chatbot fix your broken SQL query or summarize some event be experienced as gross.
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Affordable housing is literally treating housing a scarce resource for the state to divide up. It’s good for people who are already in the system or able to get into it but bad for everyone else. We just need radically more market rate supp
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There is huge amounts of construction costs on these things and electrical work as well. The general rule is 50% or more of construction in NYC goes toward labor, so that drives up wages for local talent. Obviously any given project is temp
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People move towards places with growing economic opportunities. New York heavily restricts construction and infrastructure projects of all kinds. The tech and finance elite will stay here but normal people who are trying to make a decent l
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I live in NYC and think the politics in the city and state have been a disaster for middle class people and see this as a continuation of that. The electricity is expensive basically due to the state, so we have to block economically produc
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For any one of their product there is a good opportunity to build an open source alternative or something like it! Can be hard to work around they have the benefit of being able to have negative unit economics on lots of infra products... B
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> LLMs are permanently trapped in the vector space they are trained on. A lot of the time people state the kind of fundamental limitations of LLMs very confidently when it feels like it is too early for people to really know. Like we are
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by ianm218 3mo ago
Do you mind taking your comment a bit further to a conclusion so I can better understand your perspective? Like are you saying that AI is still kinda not a powerful tool and unlikely to become geopolitically relevant etc? I don’t know how t
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This doesn’t track though. Just recently AI became “powerful enough” to warrant export controls from the US and maybe soon China. It’s more he screamed that bacteria is gonna do evolution faster than any before it and turn into a beast that
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Do you still run your main dev loop through this? Curious
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Yeah who knows poor infrastructure might let India skip fiber in some areas entirely. Maybe it’s not that hard to launch a domestic Starlink if Blue Origin/ SpaceX will bring your satellites up cheaply .
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> Ironically it couldn’t be further from the truth… and likewise the predictions of widespread labor obsolescence Could you explain what you mean here? It feels like there is one bucket of verifiable work - programming, math etc that AI
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This does seem to validate the critique that models like GLM are benchmaxxed and not as close to the frontier as you’d think based on their numbers.
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India is super super poor still I cannot imagine they would build out domestic Starlink for hypothetical wars before other actual critical infrastructure.
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I would say I'm still in this mindset. Numbers are hard to come by but analysts optimistically put Chinese SaaS market at ~10% of the size of the US. Also I see that the gross margin for public Chinese SaaS is around 50% vs 80% for the
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I came to the exact same conclusion recently. I am building something like lightspeed that can run on “pay per second” infra like fly.io sprites because I wanted to have an open claw style agent but not have to deal with paying for another
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> At least in China a lot of software developers are now struggling. Do you think that Chinese software industry is that relevant to the kind of software market talked about on HN? I.e. lots of enterprise b2b and infra companies. Chinese
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Inspired by this project I ported most of Valkey to Rust here valdr.dev . The coolest outcome was being able to run a redis comparible store on an a cloudflare durable object so you do I.e. rate limiting for free with little infra.
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Your comment doesn’t make it clear why supporting this party would interfere with making a point on mass surveillance. If there is a link could you describe it?
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But there is also tons of actual corruption especially in the military [1] which is maybe by design so you never know if a purge is political or legitimate or both. [1]. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-corruption-rocke
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To be clear that was 5 of the top 7 in the military not the CCP as a whole. Leaves just Xi and the anti corruption officer. But yes agreed. It’s very hard to parse what is going on from the outside. My very uninformed read is that the peopl
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5 of the 7 highest ranking officials have been purged in recent years [1]. It’s not totally clear what the consequences were for those purged or if their crimes were legit but seems like they are all in prison. [1]. https://www.a

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