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by oytis 8mo ago
My rite of passage towards git kung-fu was committing to Linux kernel. It's brutal there, you have to have your history really clean. Meanwhile enterprise teams are often like - who cares, let's auto-squash all commits into one.
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by oytis 8mo ago
> majority (statistically) work on yet another SaaS that is a CRUD that has been solved millions of times already. Not necessarily going to be true by the time current first year students graduate, given that solved problems are most exp
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by oytis 8mo ago
It's not theory of mind, it's an understanding of how trick questions are structured and how to answer one. Pretty useless knowledge after high school - no wonder AI companies didn't bother training their models for that
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by oytis 8mo ago
Yeah, it's an obvious trick question - as in as a human I read it as such. I think it's a bad benchmark for a model's reasoning ability. If you want to know what the model would do in a real world scenario, you should put thi
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by oytis 8mo ago
Government collects the tax for the churches from their members only, so the government here is merely an intermediary between church members and the respective organisations.
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by oytis 8mo ago
My takeaway is that enough capital trumps all engineering, legal and other considerations. Typescript is cool though. Not like cool cool, but definitely an improvement to plain Javascript.
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Dynamics? What branch of mathematics does it refer to? Is he talking about differential equations?
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by oytis 8mo ago
It has to be ironic, right? Not sure what Sam Altman is qualified in apart from money making (which, of course, he's extraordinary excellent in).
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by oytis 8mo ago
It's not something we can pinpoint in any experiment, even not clear how to design one in theory. Yet we know by our very personal experience that it exists. Sounds pretty supernatural to me.
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Copyleft license would not help if they are only using it internally
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But they already know what they want, they have it. Rewriting it to be more efficient and less buggy should be the lowly coding that is supposed to be solved
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Cause it's (allegedly) cheap and you can do much better? Avoiding rewriting things should become a thing of the past if these tools work as advertised.
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Point still stands. If you are so much more productive and have some of the most expensive engineers in the world, why not write something decent
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by oytis 8mo ago
I see them everywhere where paywalled content is referenced
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I mean, the admin of archive.today might face jail time if deanonymised, kind of understandable he's nervous. Meanwhile for Patokallio it's just curiosity and clicks
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> Linux is still written by a couple of people. How is that? It's easily the software project with the largest number of contributors ever (I don't know if it's true, but it could be true).
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by oytis 8mo ago
But... why? How is prompting an LLM "nerding out"? Before it was "it's not the prettiest, but the kid did it himself", which is cool and educational and just cute. Now it's "it's not the prettiest, an
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by oytis 8mo ago
Well, it gives you easier control of your accounts too. Just one entry point for everything, no need to track password leaks from dozens of services (you still need to keep an eye on whether Google has leaked your password, but in that even
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by oytis 8mo ago
> I just don't get why people love this. For the same reason why companies implement SSO for employees? It's just easier to have one account with one password to rule them all.
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by oytis 8mo ago
Sorry, I am not from the USA, but like many people know a lot more about it than I would like - still might be missing some context because of that. I am not sure how it really works - all these people who now support Trump in achieving the
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by oytis 8mo ago
This is all bad, but the real test will be the next presidential elections and, to a lesser extent, midterms. If you can vote a dictator out, it's not a real dictatorship. And again, I'm not really seeing Europe staying democratic
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by oytis 8mo ago
How many PhDs have been sent to El Salvador? EU doesn't nearly have the career opportunities as the US, even less so for foreigners. Canada might be slightly better, for its proximity to the US and being an English-speaking country
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by oytis 8mo ago
He has a point, but there are no obvious alternatives. It's still a long way towards fascism for USA to actually lose its attractiveness, and it's not that other countries are getting more democratic either
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> PhD level discourse What is that? Do you think PhDs have some special way of talking about things?
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Some people here enjoy solutions to difficult technical problems? It's not product hunt
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by oytis 8mo ago
Used to be much more distributed before WWII, or even before the dotcom boom. SV looks like an unstoppable vortex for everything high tech, to the point it becomes a security risk for everyone else
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by oytis 8mo ago
It will definitely help, but also some people, especially in marketing/sales, were writing like that before LLMs. So you should not only write the thing yourself, but also learn some good writing style.
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It is also an advertisement for a magic prompt to make LLM edit text to look less LLM-y.
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Free software alone doesn't give you tech sovereignty. What matters is who integrates and runs the software.
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That's another problem with the idea of tech sovereignity. Anything succesful, even if it started in Europe, will go global, including literally going to the USA

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