sporkland

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by sporkland 6d ago
> Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating. I worked on this literally one year back in March 2025. I spent months of hard work, sweat, and sleepless nights building it While I have deep empathy for what the au
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by sporkland 7d ago
As an outsider in a hyper competitive commercial space like mobile os (apple, android) which part makes you think it's active obstruction and not just moving fast and trying to keep up, get ahead, etc and they want the open source side
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by sporkland 9d ago
Since S3 supports regionally and zonally locked buckets it seems like any promise around this would have to except those buckets where that was configured.
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by sporkland 9d ago
Hacking is also interesting in that it has a clear success/failure outcome so it's easier to RLVR from similar to math problems. Whereas clean code, good architecture, good product taste are reliant on RLHF.
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by sporkland 11d ago
Article brought to you by your local AI agent.
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by sporkland 12d ago
We had one of the most damaging lab leaks in history with COVID and the wuhan lab. And we couldn't even get the facts straight. I think this is largely a similar thing. The labs should be running at certain levels of containment given
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by sporkland 12d ago
Having tried recently to build an app using POI (restaurants) information derived from OSM I've been left both simultaneously in love with the idea of OSM and sad by the reality of it. The idea that we all have an open map free to use
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by sporkland 14d ago
If you've ever ridden a bike next to an autonomous car on its worse day and most meatbag drivers on their best day you'd know it's not just life saving... the amount of near misses, stress and asshole moves drops precipitousl
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by sporkland 27d ago
This is way older than 2025, no?
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by sporkland 1mo ago
... and? People don't build programs using nand gates that often. I'm not gonna miss people fetishizing missing the forest for the trees in their professional lives instead focusing on other skills that produced real value. You&#
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by sporkland 1mo ago
I'm with you on the pros and cons of centralization. But what makes you think if linear became the unified platform that it wouldn't just become like GitHub? See jira. Given the history here, No matter which tool becomes the dea
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by sporkland 1mo ago
In college they made us study the case of therac-25 so we understood the dangers of creating too many errors in our software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by sporkland 1mo ago
The airlines are certainly bad actors, the problem on the other side is there are a massive number of people that are willing to waste massive amounts of time to get undeserved freebies if the boundary is too permissive. I agree with your
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by sporkland 1mo ago
For me the music on the Monkey Island CD-ROM remaster was a real jaw dropper.
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by sporkland 2mo ago
I'm not sure why this is surprising. In the US we try to maintain inflation at a target rate of 2%. For commodities where the costs aren't able to keep pace with inflation you'd either expect prices to double every 35 years
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by sporkland 2mo ago
A few reasons I'd say: 1. Our incentive structure in software has always been to a large extent driven by more features [1]. Agent driven development has poured gasoline on that fire. 2. Despite all the effort we put into quality assu
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by sporkland 2mo ago
People keep referring to the output of neural nets as the "average of the training data" but imho the deep value in neural nets and the interesting philosophical part is they are massive conditional probability engines whose resul
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by sporkland 3mo ago
While I appreciate how deservedly hated all of our politicians are, isn't it such a sad state of affairs that we can't find trustworthy folks to lead these critical institutions?
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by sporkland 3mo ago
> There's so much good stuff in this post. The post starts off so cynical. I know a few people at anthropic and oai and the simplest explanation also matches my observations that they actually believe what they say. That agents wil
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by sporkland 3mo ago
I just made a crappy Microsoft account that I don't check or tie to anything. I'm sure it will backfire at some point.
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by sporkland 4mo ago
Was hoping to understand if anyone has done any research on it. I could only really find one research paper on the topic [1], but it seems less focused on this specific issue. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009
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Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
9 points by sporkland 4mo ago|7 comments
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by sporkland 4mo ago
I walked into the Mint one night because I liked to grab a bad cocktail and some good karaoke.. some guy got on stage and belted out a beautiful version of Rocket Man. I looked closed and it was Drew. Guy has pipes. Oh his software was pre
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by sporkland 5mo ago
Not to discredit anything that was said in any particular blog post. Folks also need to remember that a lot of blog posts are written by engineers or managers that have their own agendas and careers and often external blog posts can be a fo
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by sporkland 5mo ago
I think as a user I have 2 modes: 1. Q&A mode where it's basically Google search by voice. 2. I'm trying to process an idea I have with an LLM buddy. My desires are pretty different in the two scenarios. Q&A mode if it&#x2
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by sporkland 5mo ago
I was doubting this for a minute as I wondered with a significantly biased coin towards the head side would you be more likely to get HT. With probability problems like Monty Hall I like to think about extreme cases like say it's 99 he
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by sporkland 5mo ago
Is there any current research on as agents w/tools start dominating LLM use, if making making models smaller / less single-shot, more like efficient engines that can process a lot of context, and feeding a lot more into context wi
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by sporkland 5mo ago
I went through college around 2000 in compsci and I remember even back then noticing that there were about 10% of us that cared. The other 90% were just in it for money/prestige. The dotbomb cleared them out, but post 2009 you could s
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by sporkland 5mo ago
We can agree scalpers are net negative. And I like your ideas but I don't see why the venues and artists don't want to capture more of what people are willing to pay enabled by what the parent comment suggested. I wonder if in you
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by sporkland 6mo ago
Or a Ford f150: https://www.jalopnik.com/youre-not-wrong-american-trucks-and...

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