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by remus 5mo ago
I think this is overly reductive. For sure the models are behemoths and consume a lot of resources, but the harness can have a big impact on how much the model is used. For example, having a strong set of tools available in the harness mean
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by remus 5mo ago
I think it is hard to generalise like this. There's a lot of people in the world and we each only know a very small slice of them. I happen to know several people who love AI, I don't feel like have a good grasp of the where the o
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by remus 5mo ago
Both
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by remus 5mo ago
I feel like I must be using a different gogole workspace. I've used it every day for the last 10 years and just don't seem to have these issues? Stuff just seems to work for the most part? It's all way more stable and low-adm
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by remus 5mo ago
> splitting the status page like they do, to the point where it is only a bit of humourous exaggeration to say that they track broken `git push` and `git pull` separately, is a sleight of hand / accounting / SLA-fudging that we
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by remus 5mo ago
For all the negatives about github I agree. They offer a lot of free stuff, and LLMs seem likely to put massively increase their costs with no guarantee they'll be making money off it. I can't think of many (any?) large businesses
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by remus 5mo ago
Unless everything else stays the same (underlying traffic etc.) then you can't really compare. Could be that you hit some fundamental scaling limit with the old design and it completely falls over after a certain scale.
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by remus 5mo ago
I think this is overly harsh. After the guy has been working on the project for such a long period a handover would inevitably be a long process, not least to ensure whoever took over didn't abuse the existing user-base. Completely fai
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by remus 6mo ago
I don't think the parent mentioned military secrets in particular? But the insider trading is already well documented e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge0grppe3po
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by remus 6mo ago
The dark pattern is how it was presented. It wasn't "your total is X, split it in 12 monthly payments" it was a yearly contract disguised as a monthly contract.
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by remus 6mo ago
I think this is a pretty interesting comment because it gets to the heart of differing views on what quality means. For you, non-buggy software is important. You could also reasonably take a more business centered approach, where having som
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by remus 6mo ago
> But if you take the point of view of a customer, it might not matter as much 'which' part is broken. To use a bad analogy, if my car is in the shop 10% of the time, it's not much comfort if each individual component is o
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by remus 6mo ago
I think the parent is just pointing out that these things lie on a spectrum. I have a website that consists largely of static content and the (significant) scraping which occurs doesn't impact the site for general users so I don't
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by remus 6mo ago
In a funny way it reminds me of writing survey questions. You have to be so careful not to introduce some bias just with the wording, as you can basically nudge the LLM to the answer you want with some little hints in the q e.g. "is it
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by remus 7mo ago
Sure, if you exclude the wealthiest parts of the country then it does look significantly poorer. Just as if you exclude California then the GDP of the US drops significantly. The point was whether the UK is economically relevant, not whethe
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by remus 7mo ago
> economically irrelevant in less than 10 years The UK has the 6th highest GDP in the world. Pretty high bar if that make you economically irrelevant.
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by remus 7mo ago
> Guess how one gets "a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment"? This stuff is not magic, you can just do it yourself.
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by remus 7mo ago
> You're only missing out if that's what you want to do. Who writes software and doesn't have a list of "I'll fix this one day" issues as long as their arm? This is honestly one of the things I enjoy most at
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by remus 7mo ago
I mean they're still expensive, they just seem relatively good value because everything else has gotten more expensive.
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by remus 7mo ago
I haven't used it so just spit balling, but surely it depends on the quality of the review? If it picks up lots of issues and prevents downtime then it could work out as worthwhile. What would it cost an engineer with deep knowledge of
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by remus 7mo ago
Nothing revolutionary, but there is a small organisation called The Himalayan Database [1] who have recorded (in great detail) climbing expeditions to peaks in the area. The data is available in a downloadable format, but it is a little awk
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by remus 7mo ago
This is just the reality of the power asymmetry and is exactly the same for small company Vs big company. As a small company your business is just not worth that much to big company, so you choices are accept the terms offered or go elsewhe
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by remus 7mo ago
> As such it’s unclear what the prize at the end of the present race to the bottom is. It's a market worth many billions so the prize is a slice of that market. Perhaps it is just a commodity, but you can build a big company if you
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by remus 7mo ago
To lay it out, Im pretty firmly pro-AI. Putting it succinctly, these kind of conversations feel weird because it's like asking whether carpenters are faster using power tools or hand tools. If you've used power tools it's obv
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by remus 7mo ago
It's currently listed as a 'Likely accept' https://github.com/orgs/golang/projects/17/views/1 Generally means it'll be going in unless something new comes up which alters people&
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by remus 7mo ago
Broadly speaking, maintaining a big std lib is a huge amount of work, so it makes sense that a language team is conservative about adding new surface to a stb lib which they will then have to maintain for a long time.
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by remus 7mo ago
Have you lived in the UK? I have, and it doesn't feel like a police state.
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by remus 7mo ago
> I dunno, is a free trial really a gift? To OPs point, whether you want to call it a gift kinda feels like splitting hairs. As is well established, most software companies have huge dependencies on OSS yet contribute very little so $120
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by remus 7mo ago
It'll be interesting to see if this happens at a service level too. Like how lots of companies offer an S3 compatible API, will companies start offering similar services and building a compatibility layer over the top as an easy way t
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by remus 8mo ago
From the POV of YC, they don't mind too much if it is a bit risky for any given individual company if it increases the legitimacy and stability of their portfolio as a whole.

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