johnfn

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Is Gas Town (and other similar tools) legit by the Anthropic ToS?
1 points by johnfn 9mo ago|1 comments
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I own no TSLA stock and never have. I have no horse in this race.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Are you seriously saying there is no business case for humanoid robots?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
You should say why that is rather than just leaving a short, dismissive comment.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
How is a 15M lawsuit ever reasonable in a case like this?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
What GP said is actually pretty well known ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fpaaud/people_wh... ). Why are you asking other people to read up on something you clearly haven't read up on y
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I think most LLM proponents would say that "basic knowledge-generalization abilities" is on a different, slower trend line. I mean, you aren't very surprised that your CPU can crush humans at chess but can barely run an image
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I find one-off anecdotal examples like this to be a bit like discourse around global warming - "Look at that ridiculous polar vortex we had this week! Global warming can't possibly be a thing!" Of course, a trend line compr
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by johnfn 9mo ago
The author says that he runs both the reference implementation and the new Rust implementation through 2 million (!) randomly generated battles and flags every battle where the results don't line up.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I think the standing assumption is that most of us take pride and enjoyment in being good at our craft - and some of us even want to be great at it. That means understanding all the tools at our disposal - to see if they are useful or not.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I'm mystified by this comment. Do people really forget that they can think in their own mind?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
OP was saying "no one pays for tools", but AI tools are a clear counterexample. That the AI tools are themselves not profitable isn't part of the argument - "no one pays for tools which are profitable" is not an arg
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by johnfn 9mo ago
> some of the most highly paid workers on the planet won't pay for tools Aren't we in the middle of literally the entire industry adopting 200/mo AI subscriptions? It seems to me like engineers will absolutely pay for tool
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I spent some time reading about Gas Town to see if I could understand what Stevey was trying to accomplish. I think he has some good ideas in there, actually - it really does seem like he's thought a bit about what coding in the future
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by johnfn 9mo ago
"Autocomplete is great!" "It doesn't work in bash" "Then don't use it in bash." I don't see what's wrong with this argument, and I certainly don't see it as a proof th
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by johnfn 9mo ago
No, it's not necessary to pay 200/mo. I haven't had an issue with a hallucination in many months. They are typically a solved problem if you can use some sort of linter / static analysis tool. You tell the agent to run y
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Maybe you can provide some examples of what you would consider to be “novel” code? The proof of the Erdos problem the other day was called novel by Terrence Tao. That seems novel to me.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I am not sure if I am missing something, since many people have made this comment, but isn't this in some ways similar to the shape of the traditional definition of back pressure, and not "entirely different"? A downstream co
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I love tracking my HRV. It definitely follows my perception of stress, but watching it carefully has taught me a lot about what causes me to be stressed and what doesn’t. I love talking to people about this. BTW, a really key tip: if you te
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I suspect this is AI generated, but it’s quite high quality, and doesn’t have any of the telltale signs that most AI generated content does. How did you generate this? It’s great.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
The comment I am responding to says that people should be amenable to lockpicking because it’s “hacker” news. But he’s using the wrong meaning of hacker. So the argument doesn’t hold.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
But that isn't what "Hacker" means. Take it from pg, who named the site, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people w
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Literally from the horse's mouth, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things It would be like if you were
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Hallucinations are more or less a solved problem for me ever since I made a simple harness to have Codex/Claude check its work by using static typechecking.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Well, some people use it as a verb :)
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by johnfn 9mo ago
That lodash-es doesn’t ESM lodash/fp, which means there is no straightforward way of using it with Vite after version 5. God help me. I don’t even want to use it, I just want to get legacy code building on a modern version of Vite with
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by johnfn 9mo ago
You should make your own predictions, and then we can do a retrospective on who was right.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
This is really taking the whole "I could build Dropbox in a weekend" style comments to a new level.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Not really? At a small startup, sure, this should be obvious, but a manager who is able to articulate how my work bubbles up to company success at a 1000 eng company, in a way that makes sense, is a pretty rare breed.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
> Motivation is a hired trait. The only place where managers motivate people is in management books. This seems entirely false to me. To be honest it is so incorrect it significantly puts into question the rest of the article. 1. I have

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