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by jmull 4mo ago
The current administration fires people leading BLS when it reports numbers they don't like, regardless of the merit of the numbers.
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by jmull 4mo ago
It's not the administration doing the strategic thinking. The administration is entirely reactive and straightforward to manipulate -- if you have money. The people with strategic goals just send money and compliments and the administr
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by jmull 4mo ago
I think it's pretty clear that the previous poster characterized the Apple brand as a cult to specifically express the idea that people have an irrational devotion to it.
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by jmull 4mo ago
> ...closer to a cult... When you have to image a highly irrational reason to explain why groups of people do the things they do, there's a decent chance you just don't understand their perspective. They may be acting reasonabl
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by jmull 4mo ago
There’s a much less awkward way to keep a change log: Keep a change log.
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by jmull 4mo ago
Agency is entirely observable.
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by jmull 4mo ago
We'd need a good definition of consciousness to get anywhere on this. I suspect such a definition would include agency, which includes desires and goals for the self. LLMs don't seem to have agency, and seem unlikely to get it sin
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by jmull 4mo ago
Regardless, the question still stands: "What does computers getting more intelligent has to do with it getting conscious?" Just because consciousness emerged for we humans and other animals through one mechanism doesn't mean
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by jmull 4mo ago
I believe this is just about the behavior of std.debug.assert. You can pretty easily have a different kind of assert that disappears in release builds (if you want).
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by jmull 4mo ago
> That's an INSANE default. I agree that not running arbitrary installation scripts is the right default, but it's just an incremental improvement. The practical difference between code that runs at installation and code that r
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by jmull 4mo ago
'course, software development itself is a domain.
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by jmull 4mo ago
I don't really get the objection here. Who should make decisions about zig's roadmap, priorities, and approaches, the zig people or the bun people? There's no value to iterating on a PR when the approach itself is not right.
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by jmull 4mo ago
A large, complex, unasked for PR is pretty likely pointless to throw at any serious project. (Well, it's pointless if your goal is to merge something.) Working together is a two-way process. To land a big change, the bun people probabl
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by jmull 5mo ago
A key point to their success, highlighted in the article: They had a strong understanding of exactly what zendesk was doing for them and how it integrated with their other stuff. People hoping to do something similar should try to put thems
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by jmull 5mo ago
You missed a key detail: the NYC valuation system undervalues properties to the tune of around 10% of their actual market value. So your 6.5% tax is effectively aroubd a 0.65% tax against actual market value. That’s not bad (it’s a lot bett
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by jmull 5mo ago
The difference between "mostly true", "misleading", and "false" is context, and responses are specifically not allowed to include any context. Even "true" has a little context, since few things can be
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by jmull 5mo ago
The critique seems perfectly clear to me: The post has no value. There's nothing to salvage, no improvements to be made. It would be best if it simply did not exist. The poster probably hopes (as many of us do) that people will absorb
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by jmull 5mo ago
> All functions, even non-async functions, are colored. Not by the analogy laid out in the article.
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by jmull 5mo ago
> (Human + an almost frontier LLM) vs Frontier LLM I'm curious, who/what is operating the frontier LLM in this scenario? The rest of the article is equally incoherent.
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by jmull 5mo ago
This is an interesting idea, but I'd want to see something solid before acting on it. From what I can tell, LLMs know/use patterns above the syntax and idioms of specific languages and the syntax and idioms of specific languages
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by jmull 5mo ago
I think the main value proposition of Kagi is that you're the customer not the product. As far as I know they are delivering on that. The search infrastructure you're talking about is a natural part of that, but, like any infrastr
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by jmull 5mo ago
I don't know anything about this situation, but basic logic says if you want someone to give you free stuff, be nice to them. It wouldn't surprise me if AMD is scaling back their free offerings due to the impact on support.
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by jmull 5mo ago
The lesson I've learned from our new AI age is how little a large number of people who've worked in software development their entire careers understand software development. I suppose all the money floating around AI helps dummif
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by jmull 5mo ago
These objective facts aren't known right now for vibe bun. Someone would have to do a bunch of work to establish these things.
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by jmull 5mo ago
If it doesn't matter, why did the previous poster mention them? It's pretty clearly a type of argument called an "appeal to authority", where an authority is cited to add credibility to a position. It's usually con
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by jmull 5mo ago
Most people probably think the text editor used would have no meaningful effect on the code written. I don't think many would say the same for LLMs. Maybe vibe bun is just as good or better than old bun, but how would we know at this p
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by jmull 5mo ago
Not sure what seems "political" about this. When deciding to support a given thing, you have to make a determination as to whether it's worth the effort or not. You don't simply ignore unknowns. That effectively means as
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by jmull 5mo ago
We're in a "both are true" situation here. AI has real benefits, that are game-changing in some areas, even if AI never improve from their current capabilities. People are claiming (whether they truly believe it or not) that
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by jmull 5mo ago
It's an archive. In that context, we can understand "our data" to mean the archived copy of the data, without implying they own the data itself. Same as the way a library could say "our books", meaning the books the
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by jmull 5mo ago
More like money psychosis. If enough people buy into this vision, he gets to be a billionaire.

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