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by substation13 3y ago
I'm surprised that some of the cutting edge AI work is not being done in pure Rust. Why even have a binding layer?
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by substation13 3y ago
How much of GitHub stack is still Ruby? Is it an appropriate language at this scale?
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Ask HN: Why is parsing still inconvenient in 2023?
2 points by substation13 4y ago|4 comments
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Expression – Pragmatic functional programming for Python inspired by F#(github.com)
3 points by substation13 4y ago|0 comments
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by substation13 4y ago
Good post. I am still hopeful that a large scale "backwards" build-system can be made ergonomic enough to be used on even small projects. If Bazel didn't have so many gotchas, it could be the one: cc_library( hdrs
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by substation13 4y ago
I am finding the combination of LLMs and strongly-typed functional programming to be incredibly potent. By building programs out of small, single-purpose pure functions, it is much easier to review the output of the LLM, whilst also giving
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by substation13 4y ago
Yep. And then they wonder why the government can't deliver anything. (Government Digital Service being an exception, great work to those working there and reading this!)
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by substation13 4y ago
There comes a time in every company's evolution when they switch from supporting openness (an opportunity) to protecting the walled garden from openness (now a threat)
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by substation13 4y ago
> preforming a search is basically RO You don't know this. Google results are not the same for all users. How do you know there isn't R/W going on, particularly when signed-in to Google? (Unless you work at Google on searc
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by substation13 4y ago
I get it, but I also wish they could make one app that gets all of this stuff right. They could start by improving on the data model. "Unknown Artist" would never pass code review!
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by substation13 4y ago
I think you are nitpicking. My point is that companies (including Microsoft!) are capable of running large scale infra with much higher uptimes than GitHub. They want to put themselves at the center of our workflows (e.g. GitHub Actions) ye
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by substation13 4y ago
How do you know that?
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by substation13 4y ago
Google search is basically never down. AWS is basically never down. WhatsApp is basically never down. Time for GitHub to grow up?
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by substation13 4y ago
You will need to maintain MS Build files alongside the Bazel definitions. In theory the MS Build files can be generated from the Bazel definitions but someone has to write that tool.
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by substation13 4y ago
The article explains why Cargo was insufficient for them.
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by substation13 4y ago
You may be right, but this: > Cities could convert these office spaces into homeless shelters and save money. does not follow from this: > Unhoused homeless people actually have a non-zero cost to the cities they’re in, whether it com
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by substation13 4y ago
I think there is a feedback loop with self-driving cars. More self-driving cars on the road -> more driving data for that company -> better self driving cars
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by substation13 4y ago
The book was way over optimistic but many of his predictions are coming true, a few decades late. I might have to revisit it!
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by substation13 4y ago
This is the big question isn't it. With self driving cars we have been on the final 20% for what seems like forever.
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by substation13 4y ago
I think replacing a SWE with AI means we have reached AGI levels. However, GPT 4, which is amazing but not able to do what a SWE does, is already making concept artists, voice actors and content marketers obsolete. The arts are far more sus
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by substation13 4y ago
It's a fun action novel; I loved the part with the cult on the island. But yeah, it has nothing on Player of Games.
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by substation13 4y ago
OCaml is having a bit of a moment
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by substation13 4y ago
Only had 10 mins so far, but I think it's useless.
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by substation13 4y ago
It generated some (incorrect) code for me. Just ask!
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by substation13 4y ago
If it is simply pricing power then... why now? If companies could raise prices 20% all along, why did they wait till now to do so? Why not in 2019?
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by substation13 4y ago
Trouble is, wild areas are being destroyed to make room for suburbia.
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by substation13 4y ago
There's still time.
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by substation13 4y ago
Rate hikes may be cancelled if there is a debt crisis.
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by substation13 4y ago
This is why cities are better for the environment. I don't think rural car usage has nearly as much negative impact as driving in a big city though, so this shouldn't be a strong policy focus. Awesome that the kids can ride to sch
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Wigmore Charts(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by substation13 4y ago|0 comments

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