johnfn

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by johnfn 1y ago
Unless I am misunderstanding you, you are talking about something different than the article. The article is talking about web-crawling. You are talking about local / personal LLM usage. No one has any problems with local / person
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by johnfn 1y ago
C'mon man. Just one more type, and then the whole repo will be sound. Just one more type. Just one tiny little `infer`. What could possibly go wrong?
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by johnfn 1y ago
Sometimes at work I can't figure out some TS type and start thinking it's impossible. Then I remember that repos like this exist, and if some guy really managed to parse Typescript types in Typescript, that my problem is peanuts c
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by johnfn 1y ago
Some AI company needs to create a model that can delegate simple tasks to 'stupider' models. I often encounter a task which is complicated enough to require a strong model like Opus, but which subdivides into a number of tasks - t
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by johnfn 1y ago
This is after a user has clicked "Share", read a modal that says "This chat may contain private information" and then clicked "Create link".
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by johnfn 1y ago
Gas is at worst 6 bucks a gallon, which gets you 30 miles on a bad car. That’s enough for like 5 hikes; if you can’t afford a single dollar split across all your friends for multiple hours of entertainment and exercise then I do concede tha
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by johnfn 1y ago
I don't buy this explanation. There are plenty of things you can do together that don't cost very much - or anything at all. You can go take a hike. You can go to the park and hang out, or play a board game. You can go to a court
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by johnfn 1y ago
> Apparently, I crushed their dreams. Why does your post make it sound like you dunked on some poor high school student? Maybe you could have been a tad more supportive? Not everyone is fortunate enough to understand what goes into engin
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by johnfn 1y ago
Why does this feel like it was written with AI? Who says "a deep reckoning with my own mental health"? I'll assume good faith and treat it as if it's not AI: the lack of specifics make it difficult to glean anything from
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by johnfn 1y ago
+1 "Corporate greed" is a thought-terminating cliché. Why did "corporate greed" start happening all of the sudden? Why did those companies overhire, and why aren't they doing that any more - did the corporate gre
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by johnfn 1y ago
Are we not supposed to pass judgement on a blog post just because it's opinion-based? If I put the most nonsensical opinions into my blog post, I hope people tell me that it's not very good.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Personal experience from researching stuff?
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by johnfn 1y ago
"Screwed" = spending hours sifting through poorly-written, vaguely-related documents to find a needle in a haystack. Why would I want to continue doing that?
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by johnfn 1y ago
> "It's a stunning piece. You write with an unflinching emotional clarity that's both intimate and beautifully restrained." This is a hallucination, since there is no source to refer to. The author was surprised becau
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by johnfn 1y ago
This is unrelated to sycophancy. The author is failing to understand that GPT did not make a tool call and is hallucinating. Hallucinations have always been a thing. They are not some new, surprising development.
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by johnfn 1y ago
> A tool that randomly and unpredictably fails is a bad tool. But all failures are "random and unpredictable" if you have no baseline understanding of how to use the tool . "AIs hallucinate" is probably the single mo
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by johnfn 1y ago
I find it fascinating that this is still making the rounds. When I read this it was immediately obvious that the author was using a non-web enabled AI which was just hallucinating; there were none of the inline indications that GPT was usin
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by johnfn 1y ago
Rust lets you do the same because the static typing keeps you safe. In Rust, treating the second 'a' like a number would be an error. In ruby, it would crash.
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by johnfn 1y ago
I seem to recall an endless string of comments mockingly reporting that "crypto bros" were "speedrunning the discovery of every financial regulation" every time a new crypto news article popped up anywhere. You could hav
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by johnfn 1y ago
irb(main):001:0> a = 1 => 1 irb(main):002:0> a = '1' => "1" It doesn't seem that strong to me.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Am I missing something? Even if you do `vet foobar-downloader.sh` instead of `curl foobar-downloader.sh | bash`, isn't your next command going to be to execute `foobar` regardless, "blindly trusting" that all the source in th
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by johnfn 1y ago
Ooh, I really like this. I have spent quite a while scrolling the page and internally going "yes! this guy gets it!" after reading a particularly good line. If you want feedback, I think you should take the bit you said about &quo
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by johnfn 1y ago
Nothing wrong with bland, but a well-designed IDE does a good job using the UI to allow you to parse information as fast as possible. For instance, compare the autocomplete popover in Zed to VSCode. The VSCode popover: - Has icons. These ar
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by johnfn 1y ago
Believe me, I am trying! I have Zed open and I try frequently to get used to it, but it drives me nuts - the autocomplete in particular.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Zed seems really nice, and the usability has come a really long way in the last couple of months. That being said, I have one issue, and I hesitate to even bring it up because it seems so shallow: I hate all the themes! They all look so ugl
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by johnfn 1y ago
What if you're working on something, and you see some code that should be marked with TODO, entirely unrelated to your code? I think it's unrealistic to expect to be able to fix every issue you see.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Gemini did not one-shot these answers; it did its thinking elsewhere (probably not released by Google) and then it consolidated it down into what you see in the PDF. From the article: > We achieved this year’s result using an advanced ve
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by johnfn 1y ago
What I'm saying if we've had 50 years to try to get it right and we have failed.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Off the top of my head, we spent 90M[1] over the last few years adding new gates to prevent fare-hoppers. That's a far cry from "zero thought/resources". [1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti
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by johnfn 1y ago
My point is that we've had 50+ years of "trying to do it well" in the US. For all the claims that "it has been done better in other countries", how come not a single city in the US has been able to extract the je ne

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