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by lolinder 2y ago
> And Apple isn't particularly good at selling to companies. With a big glaring exception: developer laptops are overwhelmingly Apple's game right now. It seems like they should be able to piggyback off of that, given that the
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by lolinder 2y ago
The code you can inspect is analogous to directions on a map. Some have noted in this thread that for them directions on a map actually do help them learn the territory. I have found that they absolutely do not help me. That's not for
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by lolinder 2y ago
I left a comment that was flagged for clarifying what was actually being discussed, and I'm not going to take that sitting down this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012859 Left and right are both off their
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Why wouldn't this be the case for people using LLM like it was for everyone else? I feel like it's a bit different this time because LLMs aren't just an abstraction. To make an analogy: Ruby on Rails serves a similar rol
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I don't think my comment read as snarky but I was surprised to see the immediate downvote which presumably came from you so I only added the last sentence. I can't downvote you because you are downthread of me. HN shadow-disa
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by lolinder 2y ago
The question isn't whether the code is complex algorithmically, the question is whether the code is: * Too large to fit in the useful context window of the model, * Filled with bunch of warts and landmines, and * Connected to external
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I see that you deleted your previous response which was unnecessarily snarky while my question was genuine and simple I suppose. You edited your comment to clarify that you were asking from a place of ignorance as to the tools. Your or
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by lolinder 2y ago
Not OP, but I've had the same experience, and that's with tools that purport to handle the context for you. And frankly, if you can't automate context, then you don't have an AI tool that can realistically replace a prog
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, that would be very helpful to track. Anecdotally, I have found in my own projects that the larger they get the less I can lean on agent/chat models to generate new code that works (without needing enough tweaks that I may as well
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by lolinder 2y ago
Part of the problem is that many working developers are still in companies that don't allow experimentation with the bleeding edge of AI on their code base, so their experiences come from headlines and from playing around on personal p
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by lolinder 2y ago
I mean, it's what it says on the tin: linguists go into remote areas and take recordings of dying languages to preserve them. They'll sometimes prompt for specific words and sentences, other times just record people speaking natur
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by lolinder 2y ago
LLMs, when trained on a language, provide a neutral representation of the statistics of that data set. Used correctly, that makes them perfect for this kind of task. You're reacting to global misuse of llms as databases, but llms as la
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is a nice interpretation of it, and maybe if this sticks we can reinterpret it that way, but this is coming from the guy who coined MAGA, the title of the order is "RESTORING NAMES THAT HONOR AMERICAN GREATNESS", and the text
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by lolinder 2y ago
The same way linguists are already using audio recordings to preserve dying languages that belong to people who have never had access to audio recordings. You can make a record of a culture in a medium that they didn't/don't
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by lolinder 2y ago
What is "they"? Are you saying transformer architecture somehow is biased towards English? Or are you saying that existing LLMs have that bias? The only way this project is going to make sense will be to train it fresh on text in
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by lolinder 2y ago
Is this even related to npm? The extension was on the VS Code marketplace, I can't see any evidence that npm is involved at all besides that it's referenced in passing exactly once in the article: > the need for caution when in
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by lolinder 2y ago
The connection appears to be simply that this is content marketing for Mend, which sells dependency vulnerability scanning software, so NPM is an important keyword for them to stuff in regardless of its relevance.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Importantly, the hallucinating non-existent things in programming languages is still stringing together valid English words to make something that looks like it ought to be a correct concept. It doesn't construct new words from scratch
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by lolinder 2y ago
This take us overly cynical in this case—the original and primary use case for LLMs is to model languages in a comprehensive way. It's literally in the name. Hallucinations rarely make up invalid grammar or invent non-existent words, w
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by lolinder 2y ago
Right, but new product or not if you use this as a solution for permalinks you are running the risk that in certain types of networks—especially those that the target audience for academic writing often operates in—people will not be able t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Heads up that the .cc TLD is frequently used for malicious purposes and will likely get blocked by a lot of networks. When I've worked on spam prevention in the past, that TLD always comes up disproportionately often. I've never p
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by lolinder 2y ago
English has a few diminutive suffixes. Which one is used depends a lot on the shape of the word and the era, but the most common one today is -y. So a child's toy might be Beary, and the kid might go by Johnny. We also have -ling, as i
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, I've always wished for it to be used that way only, but most often when I see it now it's like in TFA: visible in a satellite image.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The largest beaver dam on record is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, stretching the length of seven football fields. The dam is so big, it can be seen from space. And from the linked article: > The world’s largest beaver dam
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by lolinder 2y ago
> if memory safety was all that mattered we'd all be using python. I've seen more segfaults in my Python code than I have in any other language ecosystem. Yes, that's in the C modules that Python libraries so often wrap, b
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by lolinder 2y ago
Cheap maxims written by someone whose immediate response to your comment was just two words: "React developer?" Since flagged, but it's also highly relevant here, since it shows this isn't someone who's interested i
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany). Crossing z's was something I picked up naturally in the states in High School Algebra, for the reasons listed. It'
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by lolinder 2y ago
Just to be clear, are we talking about the Gemini based Assistant replacement? The last time I checked that version couldn't even set reminders or timers, so if that's improved since then I may actually try switching. And yes, agr
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by lolinder 2y ago
Ours doesn't answer questions of any sort and hasn't for months. "Sorry, I can't answer that, try asking something else". The only advantage the Home has had over Alexa was question answering, and that's gone n
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Overall, the former employees paint a picture of a company desperately behind its Big Tech rivals Google, Microsoft, and Meta in the race to launch AI chatbots and agents, and floundering in its efforts to catch up. I obviously don&#x2

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