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by soerxpso 4mo ago
Why do we need any tools at all? Software worked perfectly fine when people were editing code with `ed`, so I'm going to go open timewasting issues complaining about FOSS devs using an IDE.
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by soerxpso 4mo ago
"Science" can do as much science as it wants on its own dime then. Public funding should be guided by public oversight, not career bureaucrats.
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by soerxpso 4mo ago
My understanding of caching with most models/providers is that a prefix substring of the context has to be reused for a cache hit, but not necessarily the whole entire context window. So if you prune tool calls from the history, you&#x
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by soerxpso 4mo ago
> It’s like if I go to Golden Gate Park and pick one flower, I shouldn’t do that, but no one cares. But if I build a machine to automatically cut every flower in the park because I want to sell them, that’s different. It's not like
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
It's really not uncommon for me to speak to someone who actively doesn't want any sort of adblock on their computer. I would say maybe 5% of people, anecdotally, just don't want it, even when you're in front of their com
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
Half of his recommendations for alternatives take less time to make. You (and the author) are making assumptions about what "people in general" think without any data to back it up. What you've experienced anecdotally in your
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
How is this at my expense? It's at the expense of the hedge fund they bought the oil futures from before the price went up. I don't see why I should assume that some hedge fund manager is more on my side than some insider trader.
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
Some providers are based in the US or EU and would face legal repercussions for lying about what they do with your data. It's a bit more than "trust me bro". Off the top of my head, you can use Fireworks, for example, which i
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
I've been having the same experience. Tasks like "go through this entire module and pedantically make it match my preferred styleguide exactly" were not worth a couple dollars with frontier models. It's nice to be able t
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
A friend of mine uses it for D&D prep and has told me that it's good for that in particular because of its ability to match the flavor/style that he's going for. He prefers ChatGPT for everything else.
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by soerxpso 5mo ago
That "per the instructions I've been given in this session" bit is interesting. Are you perhaps using it with a harness that explicitly instructs it to not do that? If so, it's not being fussy, it's just following t
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
I don't think anyone in Maine cares whether the giant ugly environment-rape box is "new" or not.
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
It's already illegal to threaten journalists. In America we generally make bad things illegal, not activities that could become motivation for bad things. Someone threatened me on League of Legends last week. Should we ban the game?
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
This isn't useful information without also knowing how common it is for newly-created accounts to place and lose bets around that size. Polymarket is a large platform with a lot of accounts being created per day. If two accounts made l
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
He doesn't include the best solution in the 'what actually works' section: Give your LLM the same level of permissions that you would give a human you just hired in the same role. The examples given, tricking the customer sup
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
This is just counting pypi packages. Why would I go to the effort of publishing a library or cli tool that took me ten minutes to create? Especially in an environment where open source contributions from strangers are useless. If anything I
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by soerxpso 6mo ago
I don't see how this is more degenerate than betting on roulette at a casino. Prediction markets usually provide more efficient odds than casinos because the house profits from trading volume instead of from the spread, so it's es
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
The embedded programs can be connected to the other weights during training, in whatever way the training process finds useful. It doesn't just have to be arithmetic calculation. You can put any hard-coded algorithm in there, make the
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
I don't think anyone is using LLMs for those conversations. A lot of those replies are bots. There's a market for reddit accounts that have a solid human-looking reply/post history, to be used for astroturf marketing, so some
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
> borrowing ordinary mannerisms of speech that aren't necessarily egregious That's how a trope starts. When a minority of writers are using a particular pattern, it's personalized style. When a majority of writers in a gen
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
"hacker" news is owned and operated by a large and wealthy venture capital firm
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
No it's not. It's based on how much he "made" in the first half of 2020, mostly originating from gains in Amazon's stock, in a period specifically selected to inflate the number. If you actually want to display how
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by soerxpso 7mo ago
For most tasks it's not necessary. For hairy tasks, it's often nice to switch and pay 10x the cost to complete the task with 10x less intervention.
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by soerxpso 8mo ago
He kept 80%. The other 20% is owned by 8 different VCs. Seems like he's still in control. There's value in using other people's money instead of your own because it might make him less emotionally risk-averse in how he manage
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by soerxpso 8mo ago
Do you mean the value in this specific tool, or in the concept? You don't need a dedicated tool to store agent session transcripts and link them to commits. This can be accomplished by a 10-line bash script.
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by soerxpso 8mo ago
Would declining to let you through security actually be a "penalty" (legally speaking), though? There are a ton of things you need to show papers for in the US; I can't imagine that all of them were pre-approved by the OMB.
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by soerxpso 8mo ago
> More features can always be added to software How does that make it different? More features could always be added to most buildings. You could keep adding rooms onto the side, update the floors/ceilings/walls every year to s
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by soerxpso 8mo ago
I find it interesting how people say "The US" to refer to groups under the US government that are often completely at odds with the interests of the actual US public. There are virtually no Americans who want our government to be
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by soerxpso 9mo ago
Throughput would still remain unchanged. Suppose that the "lunch rush" is from 11AM to 1PM, and imagine that it's uniform for the sake of simplicity. Then drivers would end up being fully utilized from 11:10AM to 1:10PM, inst
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by soerxpso 9mo ago
That's because the unannounced firedrills don't involve setting the building on fire. A "drill" equivalent would be if we all pretended the internet is down sometimes, and in some cases that still might be impossible t

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