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by losvedir 11mo ago
I almost scrolled past the "Safety" section, because in the past it always seemed sort of silly sci-fi scaremongering (IMO) or things that I would classify as "sharp tool dangerous in the wrong hands". But I'm glad
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by losvedir 11mo ago
I was actually just thinking of that "cow milk" one the other day. I remember when I read C&H as a kid thinking that one was absolutely hilarious and oh so true. Then I realized, now that I'm older and more experienced in
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by losvedir 11mo ago
I'm sure Apple will roll something out in the coming years. Now that just anyone can easily AI themselves into a picture in front of the Eiffel tower, they'll want a feature that will let their users prove that they _really_ took
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by losvedir 11mo ago
I was wondering about that, too. It means they're malnourished, right?
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by losvedir 11mo ago
> they didn't have enough money to meet their expenses more likely What does this mean, exactly? I think that's the core of my question, and something I don't understand since I lack the experience. If someone can live lik
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by losvedir 11mo ago
I'm privileged to have never had to worry about this, growing up comfortably middle to upper middle class. With that said, I have a perpetual point of confusion here, likely due to my own blindspots and something I don't want to a
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by losvedir 1y ago
I appreciate the goal of demystifying agents by writing one yourself, but for me the key part is still a little obscured by using OpenAI APIs in the examples. A lot of the magic has to do with tool calls, which the API helpfully wraps for y
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by losvedir 1y ago
This has been his stance for a long time. He has a lot of dishwasher videos for some reason! One thing I can't get a good answer to is whether the "prewash" step is universally the case or not. I have a good Bosch dishwasher
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by losvedir 1y ago
Thanks! Maybe I'm a little too sensitive to AI signals. I actually really love the story and content, but if it was AI generated I didn't know how much to actually believe it. I still don't know who you are, but it's p
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by losvedir 1y ago
This has got to be ChatGPT, right? There's just a lot of... nonsensical phrasing and sentences? I love the story of it, but I can't take the writing. > This worked great if you were electrifying America in the 1930s, when labo
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by losvedir 1y ago
Maybe arXiv could keep the free preprints but offer a service on top. Humans, experts in the field, would review submissions, and arXiv would curate and publish the high quality ones, and offer access to these via a subscription or fee per
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by losvedir 1y ago
Maybe I missed it in the design here, but this pseudo-Kafka Postgres implementation doesn't really handle consumer groups very well. The great thing about Kafka consumer groups is it makes it easy to spread the load over several instan
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by losvedir 1y ago
I read that as "of 100 people who quit voluntarily, we wish 69-81 of them hadn't". But that number is meaningless without the context of how many people are quitting out of how many are there, not to mention onboarding proces
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by losvedir 1y ago
I'm a little confused about the relationship of Skills and just plain tools. It seems like a lot of skills might just be tools. Or, they might rely on calling sets of tools with some instructions. But aren't the tool definitions a
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by losvedir 1y ago
Very cool! As a professional Elixir developer who loves types, I'm so happy to see them coming more and more to the language. I have a question about how the type inference works. Dialyzer, which also attempts to do type inference, use
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by losvedir 1y ago
Is there a better source for that data? I appreciate that you're at least bringing data to the discussion, but honestly I kind of don't buy it, having lived all over the US from rural farm communities to Manhattan. I think I can i
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by losvedir 1y ago
> Nearly every accident would be classified as having alcohol involved. You might be surprised to know that only something like 50-60% of Americans drink alcohol at all.
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by losvedir 1y ago
So is the protocol sort of like a big public kafka topic? If you want to create a new web app, say, you don't actually store the data yourself. You basically set up a listener to "the big topic in the sky" and ask your users
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by losvedir 1y ago
I disagree with the zero sum perspective that the valuations only make sense with mass layoffs. The economy is big. You didn't need that much of a marginal increase in growth to justify huge investments.
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by losvedir 1y ago
Hopefully tptacek shows up... this is sort of offtopic but made me remember some comments of his from years ago here on HN. Something about the "rehydrating" step not having to be the same as the "cooking" step. I feel l
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by losvedir 1y ago
Heh, as someone who lives there (Northwest Indiana) that was a rough read. Then again, our state motto did used to be "Crossroads of America", so I guess that's kind of fair. These days it's the more aspirational "M
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by losvedir 1y ago
It's not your employer's "health care" plan. It's an insurance plan. And dental care doesn't really fit the insurance model since the vast majority of spending is expected and regular (checkups, cleaning, etc).
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by losvedir 1y ago
Sure, this might matter to "very online" people. But I don't think it's the norm.
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by losvedir 1y ago
Babe get in here, a new kentonv library just dropped! I'm surprised how little code is actually involved here, just looking at the linked GitHub repo. Is that really all there is to it? In theory, it shouldn't be too hard to port
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by losvedir 1y ago
The guy you're responding to is an aerospace expert, iirc. Anyway, the balloon would be relatively stable. The atmosphere gets increasingly dense as you go towards the surface, while the balloon has a particular density which is more t
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by losvedir 1y ago
I, too, always found Brave New World more prescient than 1984 .
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by losvedir 1y ago
How so, specifically?
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by losvedir 1y ago
Ouch. Kudos for trying, though. I miss the days of live demos at Apple events, instead of all these polished videos of people standing in silly poses around the Apple campus.
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by losvedir 1y ago
Because kids sure hate putting pictures on instagram...
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by losvedir 1y ago
I mean, you are effectively defending this particular expert, with your insinuation that the public should be more trusting of people framed as experts like this. As someone moderately knowledgeable in this area and moderately skeptical o

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