jaredklewis

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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
If you can’t even write a for loop, how can you verify the ai code you generated isn’t going to wipe the prod database?
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
Yea, that makes sense to me. But again, would not address most (any?) of the complaints in this post.
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
I don’t disagree with your post but I’m still unclear on how you envision gatekeeper should work. You want the ability to choose a different “authorities” that verify and sign binaries? That makes sense to me but is unlikely to relieve any
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
This take is insane. The charges could be very serious but I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, because being charged (or even just arrested) is not the same as being convicted. The author of this post claims both of their charge
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
I linked that study because it is particularly interesting because they run the mass spec test on archived blood samples. But there are other studies and meta analyses which cover other countries and come to the same conclusion. I think man
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
> testosterone levels have dropped without a solid explanation There is a solid explanation. First, before the adoption of mass spec, studies used a less accurate method of measuring testosterone that overstated testosterone levels. Also
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
> I'm GenZ, my parents were Silent Gen (WWII vets) and my kids are Millennials. My understanding is that Gen Z comes AFTER millennials, so if you are Z, your kids can't be millennials. Maybe you are Gen X? Also, if your kids ar
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
They fund more than 10k research grants a year. These grants are for research into basic, unapplied science that would be extremely unlikely to get funding from the private sector. But this research is the foundation for the applied science
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
Which changes to CPI since 1983 do you most object to? How are you measuring the "actual standard of living?”
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
I would have thought the bulk of the crypto mining was done using ASICs. Still a lot of overlap with running a datacenter of ASICs and a datacenter of GPUs, but both are significant capital investments.
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
> Insider trading is unethical It is illegal to insider trade in financial markets, which makes sense to me. But financial markets and prediction markets are different; one exists to surface capital, the other information. Insider tradin
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
What is unethical? The good point of prediction markets is that they provide information. This information is available to everyone, for free, which benefits everyone. Insiders help achieve this. Insiders have information and by participati
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
The current setup does sort of seem like a tax on being stupid. Why would any non-insider participate in these markets? You’re just asking to get screwed. Though it’s not that different from the stock market, where the folks at WSB happily
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
I kind of see what you are saying, but it reminds me of “if you build it, they will come.” They won’t come, because they won’t even know about it. A more accurate aphorism would have been “if you build it and tell everyone about it, some of
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by jaredklewis 5mo ago
What are you going to use instead?
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
> I don't have the primary source on this, but it is published by a site I read that never fudges these kinds of things, going back many years What's the secondary source then?
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
At least 9 out of every 10 software engineers I know does all their development on a mac. Because this sample is from my experience, it’s skewed to startups and tech companies. For sure, lots of devs outside those areas, but tech companies
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
Perhaps it depends on the product, but interacting with demo almost certainly requires more effort than to watch someone else do a demo. As for me, I’d like to watch a short clip (or at least see screenshots) before I try to demo anything.
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
Geez this comment is a melodramatic non sequitur. There's no rule you have to own QQQ and indeed most people don't. There are thousands of low cost ETFs that provide passive exposure to the market. If this new rule bothers you, be
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
I think you are interpreting the comment too literally. The point is just this: calculating inflation is an art and depending on what kinds of assumptions you make, the results will vary wildly. Before the printing press, very few people in
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
IME there's a reason it's "move fast and break things" and not "move fast and don't break anything," because if the second was generally possible, we wouldn't even need this little aphorism. And again
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
AI coding is great, but iteration speed is absolutely not a desirable trait for a runtime. Stability is everything. Speed code all your SaaS apps, but slow iteration speeds are better for a runtime because once you add something, you can ba
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
It's not the worst metric ever, but is the study in question observational or controlling the problem? My issue with the observational studies is that basically everything is uncontrolled. Maybe the IDEs are causing less defects. Or ma
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
I’ve read dozens of them and find them unconvincing for the reasons outlined. If you want a more specific critique, link a paper. I personally like and use tests, formal verification, and so on. But the evidence for these methods are weak.
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
> what's the evidence What’s the evidence for anything software engineers use? Tests, type checkers, syntax highlighting, IDEs, code review, pair programming, and so on. In my experience, evidence for the efficacy of software engine
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
I don’t think you are supposed to think anything. It’s a news site with a lot of auto-playing video. If you like that kind of content, great. If not, there’s lots of other websites with different mixes of content. I subscribe to the economi
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by jaredklewis 6mo ago
I just loaded the nytimes.com page as an experiment. The volume of tracking pixels and other ad non-sense is truly horrifying. But at least in terms of the headline metric of bandwidth, it's somewhat less horrifying. With my ad-blocker
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by jaredklewis 7mo ago
If there is a skill to using LLM coding agents, I think it is mostly just developing an intuitive sense for how to prompt and the “jagged frontier” of LLMs. IME, the tools are largely interchangeable. They are all slightly different, but th
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by jaredklewis 7mo ago
THe HN title seems very misleading to me. How is this, in any sense of the word, "formal?" I don't see that particular word used to describe this tool on the web page itself. The site does describe it as a "programming l
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by jaredklewis 7mo ago
I don't think you did get my point (my fault perhaps), as my only point is that if you take away from the Haifa study that fines will automatically increase the prevalence the targeted behavior in all situations, that's an insane

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