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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Merchants pay a small fee on completed purchases, but the service is free for users Where's the money coming from to pay the fee? From my wallet, of course! At scale, this raises the price of purchases. Another thought -- the text
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> I bet if I were in your shoes and looking to write a prompt to start a task of a similar type that my prompt would have been 5 to 20x the length of yours Why would you need such extensive prompting just to get the model to not re-imple
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> But, boy have we gone overboard with this now? The modern libraries seem to be creating types for the sake of them. I am drowning in nested types that seem to never reach native types. Thought you were talking about TypeScript for a mo
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Uber charged me $85 (plus tip!) for a 35 min ride from the airport. Yeah, my fond memories of those nascent rideshare apps are long gone...
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> The way to protect against the lethal trifecta is to cut off one of the legs! If the system doesn't have all three of access to private data, exposure to untrusted instructions and an exfiltration mechanism then the attack doesn&#
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yesterday was a full one — you powered through a lot and kept yourself moving at a fast pace. Might I recommend starting your day with a smooth and creamy Starbucks(tm) Iced Matcha Latte? I can place the order and have it delivered to your
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Because that is a bold claim to make. There is no proof of a lab leak and evidence leads to the wet market as the source. A novel coronavirus outbreak happens at the exact location as a lab performing gain of function research on coro
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by pton_xd 1y ago
We've all been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Everyone points out that reviewing code is more difficult than writing it. The natural question is, if AI is generating thousands of lines of code per day, how do you keep up with revi
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by pton_xd 1y ago
I agree, sadness is not how I would describe depression. It's more like... a deep sense of apathy, emptiness and hopelessness with no apparent cause or end in sight. Of course that mental state would hinder learning, you're missin
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by pton_xd 1y ago
std::print / std::format also bloat the binary size, which is a consideration for some platforms (eg WASM).
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> People rarely buy with a purely rational investment mindset; they buy based on lifestyle and emotion. > If you bought a home equivalent to the apartment you’d rent, or a slight downgrade, you might come out ahead financially over fi
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Capital Battery: As I build equity in my home it can become an asset I take loans against to pursue other opportunities. Paying perpetual interest on a non-productive asset doesn't sound like a good idea, to me.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Saying "I don't know" is sort of like an error message. Clear error messages make systems easier to use. "I don't know" is not a good error message. "Here's what I know: ..." and "here&
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by pton_xd 1y ago
I actually agree, I think it's exciting technology and letting it loose is the best way to learn its limits. My comment was really to point out the hypocrisy of OpenAI / Anthropic / et al in pushing for regulation. Either the
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by pton_xd 1y ago
AI companies: Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out. We need regulation to mitigate these risks. The same AI companies: here's a way
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Develop and publish safety frameworks, which describe how they manage, assess, and mitigate catastrophic risks—risks that could foreseeably and materially contribute to a mass casualty incident or substantial monetary damages. Develop
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Lately I've noticed even the Claude web interface for chat is laggy on my 16 core / 32 GB RAM laptop. How is that possible?! It's just text!
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Got through about 45 min at 2x speed / some skipping ahead out of pure fascination. Man that's something else. It's like bug-driven-development. Get the LLM to churn out a huge chunk of text, then skim the code for about 10 s
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> With my skills id manage to make an Elixir system brittle because its not clear to me what happens at all times. What's so cool about BEAM is you can connect a repl and debug the program as it's running. It's probably th
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Anthropic is also scanning conversations and reporting them to the authorities [0]. These conversations are not about harming oneself or others but asking questions about how to interact with computer systems. [0] https://www.ant
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by pton_xd 1y ago
The future of programming -- we're monitoring you. Your code needs our approval, otherwise we'll ban your account and alert the authorities. Now that I think about it, I'm a little amazed we've even been able to compile
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> If you don't want AI bots reading information on the web, you don't actually want a free and open web. This is such a bad faith argument. We want a town center for the whole community to enjoy! What, you don't like those
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Agreed. The beauty of programming is that you're creating a "mathematical artifact." You can always drill down and figure out exactly what is going on and what is going to happen with a given set of inputs. Now with things li
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> AI browser automation is going to blow open all these militarized containers that use our own data against us. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that AI browser automation is going to give us back control over our da
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yes and the scale was far larger, over $80 billion given to GM and Chrysler. GM was majority owned by the US government for a number of years after that too.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
AI prose has been mediocre since the release of ChatGPT. My layman's interpretation is there's just no strong creativity / humor / etc signals to train on, as compared to say math or coding. Current models are "smar
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by pton_xd 1y ago
There are some game systems that lend themselves to unit testing, like say map generation to ensure that the expected landmarks are placed reasonably, or rooms are connected, or whatever. But most game interactions are just not easily &quot
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Third, some people are more sensitive to the kind of errors or style that LLMs tend to use. I frequently can't stand the output of LLMs, even if it technically works; it doesn't live to to my personal standards. I've not
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> To make this possible, we're building DeltaDB: a new kind of version control that tracks every operation, not just commits. Let me guess: DeltaDB is free to use as long as we host your data and have free range on training AI based
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Wouldn't it be more efficient to centralize the generation of electricity and take advantage of economies of scale?

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