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by senko 2y ago
> stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath Having read a bunch about stoicism, I've never heard/read this claim. Stoi
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by senko 2y ago
Linus echoing your father's thoughts in 2006: I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different level than with a debugger. I think that without a debugger, you don't
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by senko 2y ago
I hadn't realized LLMs were a thing before Windows 95 and Usenet. Please try to understand the comment you're replying to instead of going with a knee-jerk reaction.
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by senko 2y ago
> Yet what's essentially "cat [62 random files we googled] > prompt.txt" is now being confidently presented with academic language as "62 sources". That's not a very charitable take. I recently quizzed Pe
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by senko 2y ago
This pretty much describes most of mainstream media and news pre-AI as well.
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by senko 2y ago
Wait until you hear about "RevOps". At this point I'm waiting for someone to start flogging "CodeOps".
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by senko 2y ago
> I've build a system that read 500k pages _per day_ using the above completely locally on a machine that cost $20k. That is impressive. However, if someone needs to read a couple of hundred pages per day, there's no point in s
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by senko 2y ago
That's a neat trick! It does still require letters to be able to spell attribute/function names (unless I'm reading it wrong in that blog post).
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by senko 2y ago
> What's surprising about this is how sparsely defined the rewards are Yeah, I would expect the rewards not to be binary. One could easily devise a scoring function in range [0-1] that would depend on how far the model is from the &
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by senko 2y ago
> that's not enough as you can rebuild access to builtins from objects In this specific case, it's safe, as that wouldn't pass the regex just a few line before the eval : # Define a regex pattern that only allows num
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by senko 2y ago
It's still mandatory (1-2 years) in non-vocational high schools in Croatia, for the stupidest of reasons ("culture" and "you might need it in law or medical higher education").
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by senko 2y ago
> Or do devs around the world just have to bite the bullet and learn enough English to be able to use the majority of tools? Not only that. All of the code I (not a native English speaker) write, even if only I will ever see it, is in En
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by senko 2y ago
Is this because they are multi-billion dollar companies, or because they behave poorly, or because you haven't been properly compensated for your contribution to the content on the internet? It is very likely that voting, or voting wit
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by senko 2y ago
I wouldn't know, tho I am sure there's a McKinsey deck somewhere that calculated this :)
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by senko 2y ago
This is awesome, and oh so on target :)
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by senko 2y ago
First class NY to Paris in a couple of weeks, one way, is ~$6k "best overall", with $10k for "fastest" (checked a random flight on Skyscanner).
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by senko 2y ago
Roughly the same, as our collective goalposts have shifted, and are still shifting. What was amazing output last year is today's slop. NV is in no immediate danger; medium/long term, to anyone knowing what "75% gross margin
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by senko 2y ago
It still is. The DeepSeek R1 is 670B parameters, requiring more than 300GB of video ram (or unified memory), even if using 4-bit quantized models.
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by senko 2y ago
There are already some (limited) reproductions that suggest they're not completely lying (ie that there are indeed perf benefits).
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by senko 2y ago
> It should be possible to get a Mac with a lesser processor but at least 256GB of memory for $2000. Apple is not known for leaving money on the table like that. Also, projects like NVidia DIGITS ($2k for 128G) might make Apple unwilling
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Lessons from 27 months building LLM coding agents(ellipsis.dev)
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by senko 2y ago
Content marketing for a new text editor thinly disguised as AI rage-bait. HN fell for it hard - 156 points, 180 comments (as of this writing). Well done Nick! :) And congrats on launching Codescribble! Hope to see a "how my post on AI
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by senko 2y ago
I'm using https://github.com/adefossez/demucs to split drums, bass, voice and "everything else". Works pretty well for my personal/hobbyist use (quality also depends on genre and instruments used -
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by senko 2y ago
> 700,000 installs amount to less than 1% of TikTok’s user base. 700k in how much time? RN tops the (Play Store) charts here (EU/Croatia) as well, and anecdotally there's a lot of word of mouth growth. Even though TikTok will n
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by senko 2y ago
The book has some interesting ideas (which you'll mostly be familiar with if you're following the microisv/indiehacker/solopreneur communities), but stretches the "company of one" concept to breaking point, at
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by senko 2y ago
> You perfectly can print and display an NC image as a poster in your professional office, it's not "commercial". Right, but this discussion is in context of software for planning work, not someone decorating an office.
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by senko 2y ago
I heard a term for a specific version of this that I'm (mis)applying in all such cases: brainrot.
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by senko 2y ago
This presumes that MrBeast intended to create "videos with meaning" in the first place. In his defense (!?), most of what's churned out by the streaming platforms, hollywood, and the music industry, is also not very bothered
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by senko 2y ago
> That's exactly an n-th example of why this non-commercial clause is bogus since the very beginning of CC, and particularly unadapted for software code: no one is able to define clearly what commercial means, and what perimeter it
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by senko 2y ago
That's not what non-commercial means.

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