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by lolinder 1y ago
> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cu
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by lolinder 1y ago
This also accounts for the author of TFA's sense that the smartest people they know are skeptics. Assuming they're being used well, those people spend far more of their time in the high complexity work than they do in the low comp
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by lolinder 1y ago
Which is exactly why no one's hiring juniors anymore. It made sense back when the market for hiring engineers was super competitive and it was easier to gamble on being able to keep a junior than it was to try to snag a senior. But now
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by lolinder 1y ago
> but OTOH "never improve much" seems unrealistic, given the insane progress of the field in the last 3ish years The point is that no one should hire an intern or a junior because they think it will improve their team's pr
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'm trying to figure out what sci-fi not crossed with something else even means. Even most of the great works of classic sci-fi of the 20th century draw tropes and plot points from other genres.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Aside from what others have pointed out about fixability in post: People have pretty low expectations for most shots in most films. Every film has many mistakes in it that film buffs have fun cataloguing and no one else ever notices. Part o
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by lolinder 1y ago
> I don't want to have to dig into a config file for every little aspect of my OS to be in working order When I see comments like this about NixOS I feel like I must have been using a different breed of distro before and switched to
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by lolinder 1y ago
This is similar to the Minecraft version of this from a few months back [0], but it does seem to have a better time keeping a memory of what you've already seen, at least for a bit. Spinning in circles doesn't lose your position q
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by lolinder 1y ago
The most compelling argument from that other thread wasn't that AI isn't improving productivity, it's that companies never hired Junior engineers to increase productivity in the first place! Unless you win the lottery in hiri
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by lolinder 1y ago
> I prefer llamacpp because doing things "seamlessly" obscures the way things work behind the scenes, which is what I want to learn and play with. And that's a fine choice, but some of us actually just want to hack with th
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by lolinder 1y ago
> The example scenario isn't "person asks the waiter for a hot dog; waiter just keeps walking past them, blanking them as if they don't even exist". First: that scenario is actually still just fine when the establis
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by lolinder 1y ago
Thanks, I hadn't read that before and it's a great piece! > If most things on the menu disgust you, what on earth are you still doing at the table? The door is right over there, try not to slam it on your way out.
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by lolinder 1y ago
No, I was very thorough: I saw every comment and pulled out the obscene, aggressive, offensive acrostic embedded in months of harassing tagging of the target of that acrostic because that recent pattern of behavior overshadows everything el
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by lolinder 1y ago
This was your contribution to that thread last month [0]. Now a month after that insightful contribution you're on HN posting editorialized titles trying to get sympathy? Given your behavior in that thread I'm just impressed at ho
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by lolinder 1y ago
> Since you're on HN, I'd recommend skipping Ollama and LMStudio. I disagree. With Ollama I can set up my desktop as an LLM server, interact with it over WiFi from any other device, and let Ollama switch seamlessly between mode
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by lolinder 1y ago
Thanks, somehow I missed that. https://docs.openwebui.com/license/
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by lolinder 1y ago
To be fair to our modern world this is how the Victorian gentleman's clubs were too—it's even in the name. If you weren't a gentleman you had the pub.
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by lolinder 1y ago
That he was able to go back to sleep with caffeine in his system doesn't show anything at all about the quality of that sleep.
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by lolinder 1y ago
"Aforesaid" is a very specific word that means that the "unequal impositions or discriminations" refers back to specific concepts previously referenced in the law. He can't (legally) just invent his own interpreta
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by lolinder 1y ago
This isn't quite the framing I'd use—the key thing that would make it make sense for the deal to go this way is if there's competition bidding for the slot. Say OpenAI also wants in and was willing to pay for it. Absent compe
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by lolinder 1y ago
More work than what? More work than sharing HEAD in the monorepo, certainly. But it's definitely not more work than versioning across multiple repos because it's literally the same thing. When you're exporting code from a m
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by lolinder 1y ago
The argument is rarely that their lives are worse, it's that they're somehow making other people's lives worse by not paying attention to X, Y, or Z injustice. But even that argument doesn't really hold water. I know peo
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by lolinder 1y ago
A caching proxy for Google is a real solution for a real problem. It might not be a solution to a problem you have.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Monorepo doesn't mean any of those things, nor does a polyrepo setup prevent any of them except for bazel. It sounds like you worked in a dysfunctional organization that happened to use a monorepo. Their dysfunctions are not inherent i
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by lolinder 1y ago
But I think you're the first person to introduce the concept of a monolith to the conversation. How you structure your repo is an orthogonal question to how you break up your deployments, and this conversation is about the former not t
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by lolinder 1y ago
Why can't you just use versioning in your external-to-the-monorepo APIs and use HEAD within the monorepo? Nothing about combining some projects into a monorepo forces you into dropping everything else we know about software release cyc
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yep, I think this further illustrates OP's point—hobbyists building low-stakes projects get enormous benefits from LLM tooling even while professionals working on high-stakes projects find that there are lots of places where they still
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by lolinder 1y ago
This is exactly what I'm advocating for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103895
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by lolinder 1y ago
Why does it need to be the Internet Archive that takes big risks? In the startup space it's common for a founder to, after a successful launch, hand off control of the organization to someone else who's better equipped to drive th
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by lolinder 1y ago
I did read that, but you don't know that that's the only way to trigger that kind of behavior. The point is that you're giving a probability drive that you don't have direct control over access to your system. It can be

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