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by pohl 5mo ago
[Gut Flora Summit banner] “But what if it’s a big hoax and we create solid stools for nothing?”
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by pohl 5mo ago
There’s probably never going to be one answer. The most fascinating thing about this quest for memory is that it’s a Rorschach test. Exploring the myriad attempts to implement memory shows that everyone has a slightly different itch they’re
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by pohl 5mo ago
This doesn't seem surprising, given the straight translation that they prompted. Couldn't a case be made that it's better to get Bun to the to the language with the stronger type system first and, once there, use that stronge
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by pohl 5mo ago
Well, humans specify the tests. The AI can probably write them better, too. Probably more boring still, though.
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by pohl 5mo ago
...but also resistance in the context of authoritarian capture.
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by pohl 5mo ago
My son and I both lost interest in KSP 2 even before its demise for exactly this reason.
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by pohl 5mo ago
Launder your personal journal through an LLM, folks. That way the sentiments can't be provably your own.
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by pohl 5mo ago
The paper shows that it can. Take note this seems to be someone’s experiment. If it’s not working for you that’s probably because it’s not a polished product.
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by pohl 5mo ago
You know how OpenCode can be prompted to modify itself when you want to improve it in some way? This just automates that kind of thing.
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by pohl 5mo ago
Using kittens is a master stroke. If done right, the internet will reward them.
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by pohl 5mo ago
Part of me wanted to object to those two examples, which I’ve used frequently since the reaching adulthood in the 80s. Another part of me has been triggered by an apparent uptick in the word “crisp”, which my gut takes as an coding-LLM tell
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by pohl 5mo ago
could be because, at the end of the day, it's just predicting the next likely token
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by pohl 5mo ago
One nice development recently was ollama's support for MLX optimization on Mac hardware. It's not obvious how to know you're using a model that works with it, yet, so it's rough around the edges. https://olla
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by pohl 5mo ago
Similarly, none of our comments actually exist as language on Hacker News—just numerical values from the ASCII table. We're deluding each other into thinking we're using language.
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by pohl 6mo ago
Sounds like you're betting that the performance users experience today will be the same as the performance they'll expect tomorrow. I wouldn't take that bet.
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by pohl 6mo ago
I suspect that the touch bar served its likely real purpose: to ship an ARM CPU with a secure enclave in the machines so that we could have Touch ID without needing to wait for Apple Silicon. Everything other than that was gravy, an intere
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by pohl 6mo ago
I’d rather hear from someone suggesting, counterfactually, that they would have done worse had they not capitulated. What’s that argument like?
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by pohl 6mo ago
I think you're ignoring subcontractors and other suppliers. It's probably more like a thousand or so companies.
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by pohl 6mo ago
Ever? You would not want to accumulate any useful context at all?
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by pohl 6mo ago
Why to "put him down"? You seem to be making a tacit assumption that the work driving a truck is something one should look down upon.
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by pohl 6mo ago
You should be able to do pinch zoom support for laptops with a trackpad, too. I think it would be window.addEventListener('wheel', ... ) Fantastic work!
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by pohl 6mo ago
At the very least, it’s uncanny how every “stupid” thing he does suddenly makes sense through that lens.
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by pohl 6mo ago
Same. I guess I'll have to try it.
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by pohl 7mo ago
I don’t know, but feel free to send me an offer.
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by pohl 7mo ago
Well, there is when you no longer deserve credit for the work and your boss, should you be fortunate enough to even have a job, just expects you to do more work. The satisfaction will evaporate pretty quickly.
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by pohl 7mo ago
To maintain that take, wouldn't you need to offer a plausible way that Niantic managed to train their Visual Positioning System using that data if the data was all bad?
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by pohl 7mo ago
> contracts Are you assuming that the foundation for those, Rule of Law, is alive & healthy in an autocracy?
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by pohl 7mo ago
For the US, thus far, we keep discovering that we have yet to hit bottom — so probably more.
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by pohl 7mo ago
The vast majority of users on every forum in Internet history, from Usenet to slashdot to Twitter and beyond, have always been lurkers: people who almost exclusively read. They are essential to the vitality of the forums but they are invisi
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by pohl 7mo ago
Aren't shifts in the Overton Window are qualitatively different from attempts to avoid the wrath of an organized crime syndicate in power?

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