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I don't agree with this. Yes, the guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, that much is clear. Still, if an intern can delete prod, you wouldn't say that the problem is that he wasn't careful enough: that's a massiv
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See, the problem when making predictions is that the timeframe is effectively the prediction . I don't know what will happen. When I saw GPT-3 I thought it was hot garbage and never took it seriously. As a result I now have large erro
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GP is exaggerating, but this thread in particular is really bad. It's healthy to be skeptical, and it's even healthier to be skeptical of openai, but there are commenters who clearly have no idea of what IMO problems are saying th
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I'm not talking about tools in particular, I completely agree that they're basically fungible, and for "serious" stuff it's probably still better to use the web interface directly as you have more control over the c
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I agree, but with the caveat that it's probably a bad time to fall asleep at the wheel. I'm very much a "nothing ever happens" kind of guy, but I see a lot of people who aren't taking the time to actually understand
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Do these tools still make sense when you can have an agent-type setup like Claude Code or any of the competitors do that kind of low level work? I know that vibe coding isn't quite there yet, but I wonder if low-code solutions like tho
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To be fair you're picking an example that's extremely finicky about indices. It's probably the hardest basic algorithm to write down without errors. Up there with Hoare partition.
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Claude Code is definitely more agentic, but you can use it in a variety of ways. In Plan Mode it won't touch the code, and by default it asks you to accept every single diff. With IDE integration you can definitely just highlight some
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The complaint is that type coercion exists at all. It solves no problems and creates several out of thin air. Or are you arguing that ceteris paribus you'd rather not have the language throw an error or just propagate undefined?
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People aren't mad that errors aren't fixed automatically, people are mad that the behavior is inconsistent and weird for no fundamental reason other than "that's how the interpreter worked when it all started and it&#x27
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We want machines that are better than humans, otherwise what purpose do they serve?
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Not even that, see LMArena. They vaguely gesture in the general direction of the model being good, but between contamination and issues with scoring they're little more than a vibe check.
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The only everyday context where numbers on that scale are commonly used is money/finance, and it's pretty universal in that context that 1e9=B=billion, 1e12=T=trillion. This long scale/short scale distinction gets posted a lo
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The $20 one doesn't have Opus. (This might or might not matter but it's a difference). There's also a $100 version that's indeed the same as the $200 one but with less usage.
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It's really hard to attribute productivity gains/losses to specific technologies or practices, I'm very wary of self-reported anecdotes in any direction precisely because it's so easy to fool ourselves. I'm not maki
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But I thought accidents wouldn't happen if we wear helmets! Clearly they're worthless!
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The gyrations people will go through to avoid using S-expressions...
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Well, that's because they're really languages and not dialects! They all derive from Latin, there is no "old Italian" or anything, at some point we decided the Florentine "dialect", having the most literary pre
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This is 100% the rational response I'd give to OP, but I can't deny I feel a bit of the same unease. It's mostly that this technology is really... weird, I think. I struggle to put that into words if I'm being honest.
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The Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture is a statement in the form "For all <x> (a bunch of math)". Showing that there exists an x such that the statement is false disproves the conjecture. She found a counterexample.
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I commented on this before, I'm in this weird "opinion arbitrage" spot where I'm relatively skeptical by HN standards but I'm actually pushing for more usage at work. Hell, I'm typing this while I wait for Clau
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SPC Inst transfers up to 15,000EUR take 10 seconds, literally .
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Strike "the US" as well...
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This is actually very cool. Not really replacing a browser, but it could enable an alternative way of browsing the web with a combination of deterministic search and prompts. It would probably work even better as a command line tool. A natu
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https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/charset.html
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You do understand that asking to work 32 hours rather than 40 is exactly the same thing as asking a 25% raise right? I'm not against workers asking for more money in the slightest, they don't do that nearly as often as they should
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If it were up to me, anything outside the basic character set in a source file would be a syntax error, I'm simply reporting what the spec says.
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Quoting cppreference: An identifier is an arbitrarily long sequence of digits, underscores, lowercase and uppercase Latin letters, and Unicode characters specified using \u and \U escape notation(since C99), of class XID_Continue(since C23)
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Regardless of how good a model gets, it can't do much if it doesn't have access to deterministic tools and information about the state of the world. And that's before you take into account security: you can't have a mode
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Yeah, there's a similar formula for all homogeneous linear recurrences if I'm not mistaken, but you can't evaluate it naively with floating point arithmetic. We can view (1 + sqrt(5)) and (1 - sqrt(5)) as elements of Z[sqrt(5

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