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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Check out `print.ts` to see how "more LOC" doesn't mean "more polished"
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Shopify absolutely has an interest in preserving the primacy of the Rails-adjacent tooling with which rv would compete.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
This incident involved many people over a rather long time scale, and it was important to detangle how people perceived events from how they actually unfolded. The subject matter is deeply subjective, and multiple failed attempts at
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
> Why would the development of `rv` be such a threat to them? Well, package managers and language bundlers/runtimes are the hottest new luxury item for big tech - maybe they're worried rv gets bought in the same way that Anthro
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Well, it's still not deterministic even at temp 0. The tech described in my comment's parent is speculative, and technically it's not even inference, once it's perfectly reproducible. At that point it's retrieving r
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Deterministic inference is mechanically indistinguishable from decompression or decryption, so if there's a way to one-weird-trick DMCA, it's probably not this.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
As a work of persuasive writing, this is unfocused and seems mostly generated. One thing I would have expected of someone who knows their history - forget LLMs, this is how startups have worked for decades now. You're only as good as y
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
The language feels like a solution in search of a problem, and the mostly-generated README reduces my confidence in the quality of the project before I've even learned that much about it. One example: Best of all, they work toget
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Shopify and/or its technical leadership worked its connections to oust a Rubygems maintainer they saw as a threat to Ruby projects Shopify has invested in. This was especially provocative because it involved Ruby Central asserting cont
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
The market used to be humans making choices. Why are you assuming it's not going to be flawed people using flawed AI? The rationality of the market was never a guarantee, and you think it's what's going to save us?
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
If you look around and fail to see this already happening, you are part of the problem.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
This specific content scratches quite the itch for me; I was as taken with Westworld's interface design as with Minority Report, the usual go-to for speculative/prescient UI in film. I wish they'd asked him about multimodal i
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
> To the extent that people still need to be able to critically assess what AI delivers to achieve their goals, they will still pick up those skills or fail. Or, the people who evaluate them will be suffering from the exact same self-inf
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
You really should read the linked article if you're going to comment this much.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
> Why would cognitive overload work better? You mean the state of affairs humans have enjoyed for the last four millennia? The status quo that led to all of the technology you seem to think we now can't live without? > Many blank
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
You know, it's very funny. This is the most reproduced quote from Tytler, and yet you also have these chestnuts: While man is being instigated by the love of power—a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the in
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
The quotee would be surprised to see how little voting is being done by the people receiving the largesse in the last 20 years. Not to mention how little voters had to do with the decisions which caused the deficit to rise the most. The Ira
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
> Consider how many people use jq daily and think about how much energy could be saved by faster implementations. Say a number; make a real argument. Don't just wave your hand and say "just imagine how right I could be about th
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
The syntax makes perfect sense when you understand the semantics of the language. Out of curiosity, have you read the jq manpage? The first 500 words explain more or less the entire language and how it works. Not the syntax or the functio
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
I deeply wish for people who say things this cryptic and opinionated to actually speak their mind and back up their positions. Comments like these add little to the discussion.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
OpenAI smells desperate, and is already understood to be overextended. It isn't Anthropic that retired their flashy video gen platform, ceding competitive ground to Google.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Has the Cursor team considered (for instance) that on MDM-managed machines, binaries which do pervasive arbitrary FS reads may be monitored, throttled, or otherwise controlled by overseer programs? That kitchen-sink Electron apps like Curso
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
> No matter how fast ripgrep can match on the contents of a file, it has one serious limitation: it needs to match on the contents of all files. The omission of rg's `-g` parameter is unsurprising in one sense, because it would most
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
I think they were pointing out that replacing em-dashes sort of looks like you want to hide it.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
To elaborate: - The claim of "71% token savings" is misleading. You've already told us that git output is 7% of the "bash commands", so your token savings is really ~5% of bash command output. Also, the "200K t
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
You should expect to be gently ridiculed if you submit this as a serious project. Do not use LLMs to claim knowledge or abilities you don't actually have. It's not impressive, and it's obvious to anyone with more than a year
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Yes, yes, let's all rally around the free speech haven that is Hungary, which only five short years ago banned "the discussion of gender and sexual diversity in schools, the media, advertising, and other public places." Let&#
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
What about "this is actually harming us right now"?
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
This content is generally unwelcome and appears to be generated, which is against HN commenting rules.
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by mpalmer 7mo ago
Personally the only way I see to "imminentize" any sort of healthy software culture is to categorically dismiss people who make this kind of stuff, all these temporarily embarrassed CEOs, in every public channel available. Shut th

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