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by romaniv 5mo ago
>We could call this the ‘Speed’ version of the system. It’s not meant to be understandable, the goal is getting things good enough to take it to the market for feedback. AI is actually quite awful for prototyping, because it makes it f
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by romaniv 5mo ago
"I signed the contract for getting access, but then nothing happened. Weeks went past and I was told there was a hiccup somewhere and access was delayed. Eventually, I was instead offered that someone else, who has access to the model
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by romaniv 5mo ago
This seems to be the new normal in Big Tech. They regularly announce massive layoffs, but if you look at their size over time it stays stable or grows. Cloudflare size grew every year. Microsoft size was stable for the past 4 years despite
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by romaniv 5mo ago
PCs and higher-end IoT devices (like RPi) are becoming less and less affordable. The web is saturated with slop and bot traffic. I wonder how many people think about what this means. We are rapidly losing several of our major technological
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by romaniv 5mo ago
> "Where is the ROI for the 2 mio € we paid Anthropic last year?" The bias in the assumptions here is absolutely bonkers. Problem: GenAI is not generating any visible return on investment. "Solution": rearrange your
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by romaniv 6mo ago
This seems like a sensible long-term strategy, much better one than entering into token-fueled AI arms race against slop. It's not even clear what's the end goal of such race would be for an open source project. Open source softwa
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by romaniv 6mo ago
Some people thought SHRDLU was basically AGI after seeing its demo in 1970. The hype around such systems was so strong that Hubert Dreyfus felt the need to write an entire book arguing against this viewpoint (1972 What Computers Can'
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by romaniv 6mo ago
One of cool things about Factor (and part of why I brought it up) is that it basically does something similar out of the box. There is a full-featured optimizing compiler and a simpler, faster non-optimizing compiler for eval-like functiona
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by romaniv 6mo ago
I will eat the downvotes to say what I actually think. Unless this gets back eval, metaprogramming and threads this isn't all that interesting as an actual language. There are plenty of compiled languages out there. Metaprogramming is
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by romaniv 6mo ago
> It's fun to complain about the good ol' days, but I'd rather face the world as it is and find the joy in it. This is a manipulative combination of condescension, gaslighting and emotionalization. "It's fun to c
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by romaniv 6mo ago
The problem with all these discussions about banning stuff is that privacy is always on the back foot. It's by design. People who want to surveil and manipulate us are actively investigating new ways of doing it, they get paid for it
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by romaniv 6mo ago
>For people who support this kind of ban, I'd ask if you would support a similar ban on new factories for, say, car parts. If car parts factories produced nothing, employed no one and were made with equipment that will get outdate
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by romaniv 6mo ago
This is a tiresome argument that is based on a pile of unstated and rather shaky assumptions, ignores the very concept of opportunity costs and does not consider alternative solutions to the problems you seem to consider so important. Fir s
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by romaniv 6mo ago
I still hope that one of these days people in general will realize that executable signing and SecureBoot are specifically designed for controlling what a normal person can run, rather than for anything resembling real security. The premise
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by romaniv 6mo ago
> use less RAM. The same accounts that defended and promoted LLM use just a few weeks ago are now telling RPi users to use less RAM.
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by romaniv 6mo ago
RPis are used in a lot of embedded devices. From industrial IoT to music keyboards. You can't easily use refurbishes laptops for those[1]. -- [1] Korg Kronos with its crazy Intel Atom based architecture notwithstanding.
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by romaniv 6mo ago
The current strategy of the AI hype machine is to exhaust people's reserves of attention by presenting a never-ending stream of hard-to-verify "positive" claims. It's Gish Gallop done on the Internet scale with a never-e
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by romaniv 7mo ago
> weaponisation of FOMO This is in an excellent characterization of the kind of marketing tactic I see all over social media right now and that I find absolutely disgusting. The keyword here is fear . Despite faux-positive veneer, the m
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by romaniv 7mo ago
Small Web, Indie Web and Gemini are terminally missing the point. The web in the 90s was an ecosystem that attracted people because of experimentation with the medium, diversity of content and certain free-spirited social defaults. It als
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by romaniv 7mo ago
I would like to note that it would be trivial to definitively prove or disprove such things if we had a searchable public archive of the training data. Interestingly, the same people (and corporate entities) who loudly claim that LLMs are c
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by romaniv 10mo ago
The fact that everyone is now constantly forced to use (oftentimes faulty) personal heuristics to determine whether or not they read slop is the real problem here. AI companies and some of their product users relentlessly exploit the commun
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by romaniv 11mo ago
> Instead of asking “which language is best?” we need to ask “what is this language going to cost us?” As long as engineering salaries depend on tribal identity markers (i.e. language and tooling preferences) rather than ability to save
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by romaniv 1y ago
I liked Shneier much more when he was arguing against hyperbolic tech claims that were used as excuses for mass control and surveillance. The notion that AI is reshaping American politic is a clear example of a made-up problem that is pro
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by romaniv 1y ago
No, this is not a pre-existing problem. In the past the problem was about transferring a mental model from one developer to the other. This applied even when people copy-pasted poorly understood chunks of example code from StackOverflow. Th
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by romaniv 1y ago
We call these workers “pilots,” as opposed to “passengers.” Pilots use gen AI 75% more often at work than passengers, and 95% more often outside of work. Identify a real issue with the technology, then shift the blame to a made-up group o
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by romaniv 1y ago
Reminder: you can use indentation to encode s-expressions. The result is very easy to parse and easy to read provided the underlying data structures are not insane. https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
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by romaniv 1y ago
I've been a web developer for over two decades. I have specific well-tested solutions for avoiding external JS dependencies. Despite that, I have the exact same experience as the above security guy. Most developers love adding dependen
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by romaniv 1y ago
Not a single reference to P. H. Winston's work on story understanding and the Genesis system. Yes, sorry, I do expect people claiming to operate in some field to have knowledge of that field and acknowledge prior wok. This is absolutel
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by romaniv 1y ago
The web today is a rotting carcass with various middlemen maggots crawling all over it and gorging themselves on the decay. The only real discussion to be had is what to replace it with and how to design the new protocols to avoid the same
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by romaniv 1y ago
Spot on. At some point I tried to figure out where the term "alignment" came from. I didn't find any definitive source, but it seems to have originated on a medium.com blog of Paul Christiano: https://ai-alignment.

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