skybrian

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by skybrian 4mo ago
Market cap is based on people making estimates of future cash flow. (Especially for growth companies.) Predictions aren’t physical and can be wrong. It’s also true that these companies raise and spend money and that results in physical chan
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by skybrian 4mo ago
There’s no conservation rule for an asset’s value. Market cap comes mostly out of thin air because people believe a company is valuable. If they change their minds, it disappears. (Market cap is estimated based on transactions that are a sm
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Why not both?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
It seems to be basically a Twitter mirror with extra cruft?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Is there more about what they did somewhere else? I don’t see any implementation details in the article.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
These seem like low-priority bugs to spend time on? Most apps have bigger problems.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Because doing enough security reviews to remove all the security bugs gets expensive, and if you use well-reviewed code, it's already been done.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Doing things the same, standard way each time is often good. Most of the code we write is obvious. We notice it when it's a weird quirk rather than just being the most straightforward way. I wonder how long it will take to fix the quir
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I think this makes sense for apps, but the apps will still need infrastructure and common protocols to interoperate. It still won’t make sense to implement your own cryptography.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
We do have ways to avoid giving an LLM any secrets, but it needs to be the simple, default solution.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
There are plenty of good sandboxes out there but somehow no "obvious right answer" that everyone knows to recommend. Seems like a missed opportunity. (I'm happy with exe.dev, but I'm not sure what I'd use if I were
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by skybrian 5mo ago
This sounds a lot like being on call. If you like that kind of work, why not be an SRE instead? Maybe there also need to be people “on call” for responding to other kinds of events, though? It also sounds a lot like getting pulled into meet
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I assume it’s for business travelers.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Looking at nationwide statistics is also a bit misleading because nobody is average. Under that scenario, oil consumers are exposed and oil producers will win big.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Yes, it certainly is an odd situation when some people believe you cannot use Mythos-class models because security while others believe you must do code reviews with Mythos-class models because security.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
> The hard work Carter asked for — building the physical capacity to never need the buffer — was quietly abandoned. But since then, US natural gas production doubled [1], and solar power is growing exponentially [2]. Leaving that out of
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Do you think their dispute with the Department of Defense would have gone the same way? We didn't see that at OpenAI or Google. (Although it does remind me a bit of Google pulling out of China back in the day.)
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Could you say more about how you use it? What does your workflow look like?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
What do people like for form validation? In this article he recommends the “validation-enhancer” library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/validation-enhancer I’ve also seen one called “formisch” that the author of valibo
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by skybrian 5mo ago
He's saying that pre-training an LLM alone can't do it, but if you run an LLM in a loop with tools (like any coding agent) then it can. Also, the technique his group came up with should be used more: > This is the weakness of d
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Many Americans didn't vote for Trump at all, so to the extent this is true, it still can't be accurately summarized as "American voters are fine with being robbed blind." Maybe some still are, but they don't speak f
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by skybrian 5mo ago
They didn't vote for a war with Iran.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Property-based testing frameworks will often do test case reduction as well (called shrinking).
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Americans aren’t “fine with it.” Trump’s approval ratings are very low. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-approval-stays...
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by skybrian 5mo ago
No, that was not "effectively what happened" in the Industrial Revolution. That was an enormous change, but it didn't "completely eliminate the need for a human workforce." That's just hype.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Would it make any sense for it to orbit next to a Starlink satellite?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
This is dystopian speculation. You don't have to believe every science fiction scenario someone famous talks about.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
How does that work? Funding is useful, but we aren't seeing fully-automated startups, and often, founders don't need all that much funding.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
No, asset values are not like energy. There's no conservation rule. When stocks get bid up, market valuation goes up far more than the amount of money that changed hands. Most of the market cap appears "out of thin air." It&#
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by skybrian 5mo ago
No, that's silly. Chips don't rot like produce. Some components will go bad and will need to be replaced. The owner can choose how fast to replace them depending on how prices look in a few years. The rest of the building (includi

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