sporkland

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by sporkland 6mo ago
The article seemed full of weak rationale leading up to the conclusion which made me doubt the whole thing: 1. He kept citing things like PGP, C++ and distributed systems as things in common between Satoshi and Back, but would have describe
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by sporkland 6mo ago
I survived my Microsoft internship in 2001 by listening to Weezer blue, pinkerton, green album on a continuous loop.
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by sporkland 6mo ago
I remember living pre-internet and post-internet, especially post-google and feeling like my own memory was being replaced with an Ethernet cable. The current AI models are definitely carving even more of my brain off, the only thing I&#x2
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by sporkland 6mo ago
My deeply naive take is all of this stuff should be done similar to weight classes. I'm not sure what key measurable testosterone or other doping effects but measure that and separate athletes into classes based on that. Want to do s
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by sporkland 6mo ago
Don't a lot of CEO's famously pay themselves $1 and make their wealth on equity appreciation / capital gains?
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by sporkland 6mo ago
I assume a lot of people don't know the fundamental odds of something happening but have a vague sense on if Mr. Market has gone bananas or not.
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by sporkland 7mo ago
Can someone help me with insights about large context models? Are there relationships that pop up at the beginning and end of long context windows that don't transitively follow from intermediate points? Is there value in the trainin
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by sporkland 7mo ago
So the consumer ate the tariff (I saw somewhere that they just got passed on for the most part). Now the companies are just gonna get the money back and either enrich their exec staff or shareholders? It feels like a company should have to
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by sporkland 7mo ago
You're talking abstractly but the author mentions SF and NYC in the intro where cars come with deep pain points, but at least in SF there are so many bus stops it leads to trip times that are much slower than say an Uber/lyft&#x2F
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by sporkland 8mo ago
While I don't disagree with your point about Epstein case being a massive cya for a ton of people in power, the fact is that if they deeply wanted to cover up something the right way to do it would to be to actually print it and scan i
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by sporkland 8mo ago
As a regular bike commuter in cities with hit and miss roads, With big enough tires (tyres?) it's totally fine, there are some ebikes out there with massive tires. I'd be more concerned about the blind bends and presumably due to
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by sporkland 8mo ago
As a collector of off kilter bigotry, I love finding new forms of it. Gave me a smile thinking about how much you must have nursed this grudge against morning people (they are a judgey holier than thou group on average). The particular grou
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by sporkland 9mo ago
Not dismissing your point, but Looking at the article, it looks like it's in rust unsafe code. Which seems to me to be a point that the rest of the rust code is fine but the place where they turned off the static safety the language p
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by sporkland 9mo ago
As told in Innovator's Dilemma mainframe companies would have told the exact same story right up until the cheaper alternative met all of their core needs. But in this case I don't think you get disrupted by copycats but instead
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by sporkland 10mo ago
Hearing about Richard Nixon at the Bohemian Grove gave me similar vibes.
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by sporkland 11mo ago
Garbage reporting: 1. AWS had an outage 2. AWS has lost a lot of employees Conclusion: The brain drain lead to the outage... I need an LLM trained explicitly on folks confusing correlation and causation and put a big old red dot in my addre
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by sporkland 1y ago
I've been using divvy, had no idea it isn't maintained... but I'm not sure if I'd need any more features outside of what it already does. What items do you want to see them add?
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by sporkland 1y ago
I currently use divvy and effectively a desktop per app. It's not perfect but gets me most of the way there.
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by sporkland 1y ago
As someone that has influenced company politics as an independent contributor (non-manager) repeatedly, I find you have to go through a lifecycle: 1. When you first join you need to show you can actually accomplish things, likely through co
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by sporkland 1y ago
Before that people just took flex days and it was fine. With RTO enforcement and measurement it's made it less flexible
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by sporkland 1y ago
Thought the same, but it's much less insightful than the original.
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by sporkland 1y ago
This is the correct answer. You do a pre-filter on a permissions correlated field like this and post-filter on the results for the deeper perms checks.
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by sporkland 1y ago
If you have a field like and acl_id or some other context information on the data that is linked closely to a user's files. You can pass in the user's set of those field values to the vector database to pre-filter the results and
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by sporkland 1y ago
Does anyone have data on how much better these 1M token context models produce better results than the more limited windows alongside certain RAG implementations? Or how much better in the face of RAG the 200k vs 1M token models perform on
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by sporkland 1y ago
The founding fathers didn't see the corrupting influence of political parties on the separation of powers. It's covered quite well in this SMBC related comic: https://www.lawsandsausagescomic.com/comic/101
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by sporkland 1y ago
While I'm sure some of these predictions will come true and we'll have to layer some additional prompting and context engineering in here... MCP seems to be the ultimate inheritor of ReSTful architectural practices as described by
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by sporkland 1y ago
The problem with this line of thought is that everyone just uses it to hate on people they already hated on. You go after rich tech monopolies, progressives generally go after big business, conservatives use it to go after the biggest busin
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by sporkland 1y ago
And they managed to get it flagged. The longer HN mods pretend this is just natural flagging because folks are sick of the same old topics and not a coordinated effort to control the narrative, the more I'm going to start seeking alte
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by sporkland 1y ago
As someone that criticized a number of their employers API's for not being sufficiently ReSTful especially with regards to HatEoS, I eventually realized the challenge is the clients. App developers and client developers mostly just wa
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by sporkland 1y ago
I find having a therapist for an hour each week and then using chatgpt or gemini for specific scenarios that pop up providing some context from my understanding in therapy as well as telling it to be brutally honest with me and don't m

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