jimbohn

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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Can share the sentiment, had to work with celery years ago, and the maintenance/footguns exceeded the expectations. The codebase and docs are also a bit messy, it's a huge project used and contributed by many so it's understa
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I disagree about that being the root cause of the issue. It's true that in some countries there is a sort of permanent work contract that essentially means once you are in, you cannot be fired; that's obviously bad. In my experien
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Along with Europe's incompetence and divisiveness, you must also consider that the US has kept it so tight under its umbrella that it has squeezed it. The US wants a rich market to sell into, a suitable ally for oil campaigns, but not
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Yep :)
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I agree, it would be the best of bad cases, in a sense. I have low trust in OpenAI due to its leadership, and in Meta, because, well, Meta has history, let's say.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Given the importance of scale for this particular product, any company placing itself on "just" one layer of the whole story is at a heavy disadvantage, I guess. I'd rather have a winning google than openai or meta anyway.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
>It is doxxing, but whatever floats your boat It's not; it's information you willingly shared and I haven't added to it in any way, I just mentioned that the information available online doesn't fit with what you are
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
>Of course. You're allowed to choose your narrative and favorite scapegoat No, that's not it. You are operating under the assumption that every culture is equal; it is not. >I have much more in common with them than I do wit
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
>"Enough of them" really applies to any minority It does not. You are allowed to pick and choose. Try asking any Baltic country if they'd like 2 extra million russians, and tell them they are wrong because their argument c
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Note that this isn't "neutral" as in "I like chocolate" vs "You don't like chocolate". Sometimes being "neutral" is pretty damning, more so if you are providing a "neutral" ground
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
IMO russian culture/society, starting from the very early days of the empire, is drenched with imperialism and essentially a genocidal nature. This can be found from the lower strata of their society to the upper end, including authors
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
The "maybe (former) members of a controversial state could also work" carries A LOT of weight here. Given the connection with Yandex, I assume the company itself is A-okay with what russia is doing, since the company is working wi
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Maybe you misunderstood his comment, because russians can actually get into europe, and once you are in a schengen area country it's a free for all. And what he mentioned can be easily verified.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I did. He has a 6-month-old account with apparently no personal information attached. And, if there is personal identifying info in some comment, it will conveniently allow him to "not get involved" for his own security. But he fe
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Couldn't you just answer those simple questions? Why is that question a meme? I've yet to find a russian that "just didn't want to get involved" able to provide me straight, simple answers to those questions. I wish
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I know I sound pedantic, but he didn't say he opposes the war (nor the regime), just that he doesn't want to be involved.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Given the number of russians that approve of the regime and the war (including those living in the west!), the ongoing hybrid warfare, the ongoing war in Ukraine, AND past history; is it really so difficult to understand why people wouldn&#
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Wasn't meant to be racist, but a subtle joke at the fact that many MAGA and russian-appreciating posts on twitter happened to be backed by indian users, and that was discovered thanks to a short-lived new feature. Not sure why that wou
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Account based in India Love this new HN feature!
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Not exactly true, soldiers returning from the front can actually leave and move abroad. Also, with the amount of "hybrid-warfare" taking place in Europe it's safe to say not all russians "fleeing" russia are exactly
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I am sure most russians leaving have left because they are against imperialist expansion and would prefer a free Ukraine, not because they have realized they might have more skin in the game once the 3-days special operation has failed.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
You'd surely be shocked learning what those common people are doing in some parts of the world, like Ukraine :)
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Same boat, and I didn't even know about the Yandex stuff, hard pass.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
Making lots of money, at least in the Western hemisphere!
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
Yes, it's gonna be heuristics all way down. This problem isn't solved formally but the ecosystem(s) having these issues are too big to be discarded "just" because of that.
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
If I had to bet, the most likely and pragmatic solution will be to have dependencies cooldown and that's it
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
Why would the increase be a significant margin? It's basically a security research tool, but with an agent in the loop that uses an LLM instead of another heuristic to decide what to try next.
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
I think it's in part generational (a bunch of western countries have a quasi dead-locked democracy because boomers will vote whatever suits them short term, they will be dead when the bill comes anyway) and part due to the lack of acco
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
It's reinforcement learning applied to text, at a huge scale. So I'd still say that they are not thinking, but they are still useful. The question of the century IMO is if RL can magically solve all our issues when scaled enough.
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by jimbohn 11mo ago
Well, you are in luck, because there will always be conflicting reports.

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