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by mbesto 11mo ago
Tech isn't a market thats why.... but there is a narrative that it is. Tesla is an automobile, solar and robotics company. Facebook is a media company. Google is a highly diversified media company. The list goes on and on... Fun fact:
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by mbesto 11mo ago
Also, "tech" and "AI" are not markets. A software provider that provides let's say CRM software may have very different operating margins than Tesla (automobiles), a hardware manufacturer (TSMC), a chip designer (NV
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by mbesto 11mo ago
For all of the "SV startups" that are working on hard tech problems (new DBs, LLMs, etc.) there are thousands of SV startup CRUD apps. Most SV tech stacks are romanticized when in reality they are just are all mostly some flavor o
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by mbesto 11mo ago
If I understand correctly, the author's company provides a CAPTCHA alternative, which presumably means that if their service goes down, all of their customer's logins, forms, etc. either become inoperable or don't provide the
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by mbesto 11mo ago
I've seen plenty of innovative .NET/C# shops. They just don't have the "hip" factor to them.
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by mbesto 11mo ago
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups In my experience .NET/C# dwarfs pretty much any other framework in the SMB and there are WAY more software companies that aren't considered "startups" than those tagged as
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Good (perhaps artisanal) code is useful and better for everyone. How so? We actually don't have any specific characteristics on what makes code "good", nor do we have any quantifiable metrics that say "said good cod
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by mbesto 1y ago
> I don't consider this my project, and I have no sense of acomplishment or growth. Trigger warning incoming... if you are in a for-profit company, does the business really care whether you feel accomplished as long as you are produ
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by mbesto 1y ago
HN members do too. Look at my comment history. The general populace doesn't care to question how benchmarks are formulated and what their known (and unknown) limitations are. That being said, they are likely decent proxies. For example
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by mbesto 1y ago
Passkeys essentially solve this, however they are not backwards compatible. If they were backwards compatible (e.g. an automated way to change passwords) then you might as well just enable Passkey as a replacement. Thats the conundrum.
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by mbesto 1y ago
Did you read the whole article? "In other words, the primary reason nearly all LLM inference endpoints are nondeterministic is that the load (and thus batch-size) nondeterministically varies! This nondeterminism is not unique to GPUs —
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by mbesto 1y ago
> LLMs hallucinate because training on source material is a lossy process and bigger, LLMs hallucinate because they are probabilistic by nature not because the source material is lossy or too big. They are literally designed to create so
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by mbesto 1y ago
> but I work in the space Ya, the original commenter likely does not work in the space - hence the ask. > the evaluation of new models is actually very quantitative. While you may be able to derive a % correct (and hence quantitativ
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by mbesto 1y ago
Take a look at the video the car driving. I don't think people who buy this are worried about range anxiety.
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by mbesto 1y ago
How do you objectively tell whether a model "performs" better than another?
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the ACA brought down costs. How it possible to calculate this theory when you don't have a control group? Said differently, if everyone is subject to ACA you can't compare it to a group of peop
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by mbesto 1y ago
> LLMs are deterministic if you control all parameters, including the “temperature” and random “seed”. This is not true. Even my LLM told me this isn't true: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-llms-determinist
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by mbesto 1y ago
I think the discrepancy is this: 1. We trained it on a fraction of the world's information (e.g. text and media that is explicitly online) 2. It carries all of the biases us humans have and worse the biases that are present in the info
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by mbesto 1y ago
I've used both and was super interested to use Omada because of its price and performance. Honestly, Ubiquiti is just so much easier. The whole controller model for Omada tries to be way more "enterprisey" at the cost of a SO
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by mbesto 1y ago
When there is no generally accepted definition for a word, it's easy to claim you've obtained it.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> All processes in reality, everywhere, are probablistic. If we want to go in philosophy then sure, you're correct, but this not what we're saying. For example, an LLM is capable (and it's highly plausible for it to do so)
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by mbesto 1y ago
Not the parent poster, but this is pretty much the foundation of LLMs. They are by their nature probabilistic, not deterministic. This is precisely what the parent is referring to.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> I can only see cloud getting even more expensive, not less. When you have three major hyperscalers competing for your dollars this is basically not true and not how markets work...unless they start colluding on prices. We've alrea
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by mbesto 1y ago
This is actually super interesting. Is this "SDLC as code" equivalent of "infrastructure as code"?
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by mbesto 1y ago
I actually encountered this recently where it installed a new package via npm but I was using pnpm and when it used npm all sorts of things went haywire. It frustrates me to no end that it doesn't verify my environment every time... I&
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by mbesto 1y ago
> For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me If you already know what a good answer is why use a LLM? If the answer is "it'll just write the same thing quicker than I would have&quo
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by mbesto 1y ago
So why isn't blocking something that is starred 82k times on GitHub bad for business.
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I was once an AI true believer(old.reddit.com)
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by mbesto 1y ago
> but I can control my reaction to you. That's what stoicism is. I think what the parent is saying is this: Say you (hyperhello) have PTSD from a fire incident in which your face is completely disfigured. You associated this pain (e
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by mbesto 1y ago
> My claim: there is no psychiatric body of work that is impervious to criticism. Which makes these books all the more dangerous because the authors are overly confident about their conclusions and hence the attraction (which leads to bo

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