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541.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Sure, cloning a local copy. But why clone on github ?
542.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Insinuation? As a sw dev they don't have any agency over whether or by whom they get acquired. Their decision will be whether to leave if it's changing to the worse, and that's very much understandable (and arguably the ethic
543.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Look around you. Our industry has cultivated that this kind of software is everywhere.
544.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> the problem is two fold No, the biggest problem at the root of all this is complexity. OpenSSL is a garbled mess. No matter AI or not, such software should not be the security backbone of the internet. People writing and maintaining so
545.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> I've been a FOSS guy my entire adult life, I wouldn't put my name to something that would enable the kinds of issues you describe. Until you get acquired, receive a golden parachute and use it when realizing that the new dire
546.
by teiferer 9mo ago
And what purpose would this serve, exactly?
547.
by teiferer 9mo ago
I don't really get why they need to clone in order to scrape ...? > It feels weird to think that LLMs are being trained on my code, especially when I'm painfully aware of every corner I'm cutting. That's very much exp
548.
by teiferer 9mo ago
If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.
549.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Can we please stop calling those models "open source"? Yes the weights are open. So, "open weight" maybe. But the source isn't open, the thing that allows to re-create it. That's what "open source" us
550.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> Do you think they find a white guy flying out of China to be a likely terrorist? What does skin color have to do with this? And yes, oppressed groups in China, like the Uyghurs, have support in the west. Among white people. Maybe the w
551.
by teiferer 9mo ago
And yet .. nothing ever seems to happen! Even though it's so easy. That means one of at least two things. Either the terrorists are stupid and easily impressed by the security theater. Or there are just not that many bad ombres out the
552.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Baffling to see such a take on HN. If I give you a die and ask about the probabiliy for a 6, then it's exactly 1/6. Being able to quantify this exactly is the great success story of probability theory. You can have a different &qu
553.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> Think of the lengthy prompt as being like a safe combination I can think all I want, but how do we know that this metaphore holds water? We can all do a rain dance, and sometimes it rains afterwords, but as long as we don't have
554.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> We could easily have a 2026 LLM deliver high-quality editing advice to fix this up extensively, but it would still be mediocre. This seems to suggest that a human needs to be in the creative loop, but that could be short sighted. LLM t
555.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Definitely not. "Probability" does not mean "maybe yes, maybe not, let me assign some gut feeling value measuring how much I believe something to be the case." The mathematical field of probability theory has very precis
556.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Is it though? Is seeing a wrong answer really better than to be left wondering? There is enough unintentional half-knowledge (and intentional misinformation) out there. We don't need to make that worse by introducing BS generators just
557.
by teiferer 9mo ago
You are in for a rude awakening when you realize that those answers tend to be subtly to blatently wrong especially when the questions are tricky and non-obvious. Once that blind initial trust is shattered and you stary to question the accu
558.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Does it? I can blurb whatever grammatical, structural, spelling mess into the LLM input, it still gets what I mean. If I do that with a co-worker, they will be either offended or ask if I'm drunk or both. Just like omnipresent spell-ch
559.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> Coffee is a universally available, productivity enhancing commodity The analogy carries further than you intended. If you have never reached addiction stage, then there is no factual productivity enhancement. "But I'm so much
560.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Again, in the short run and if only Ukraine did that, sure. But that's too simplistic thinking. If every country doubled its military, then the relative stengths wouldn't change and nobody would be more or less safe. But we'd
561.
by teiferer 9mo ago
In the short run, today, you of course have to shoot back. What else can you do.. In the long run, just piling up more military is not the solution.
562.
by teiferer 9mo ago
It's not the only way. An alternative is to organize the world in a way that makes it not just unnecessary but even more so detrimental to said soldier's interests to launch a missle towards your house in the first place. The se
563.
by teiferer 9mo ago
You can't just give any random job to any random person. Go out on the street, talk to the first homeless person and then tell me that for your mom's hip replacement surgery next week for which a Syrian doctor is scheduled, you ra
564.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Context was "The Americans on HN driving tech, ...". I'm not sure that includes Elon.
565.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Not to downplay the Modi thing but ... honorary Ph.D.s are handed out left and right, and it's common for politicians to just buy one. They mean very little, and making that into a scandal is just showing lack of creativity to show the
566.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Those sterilized during Nazi rule would like a word.
567.
by teiferer 9mo ago
A Dane not in Greenland I suppose.
568.
by teiferer 9mo ago
How are US tech folks more enabling Trump than anybody else who pays tax there?
569.
by teiferer 9mo ago
> National security? Plus, punishing exactlty those Nato partners who are sending military there to see how to strengthen the defense. That shows you don't want Greenland stronger, militarily. You want it weaker to have less issues
570.
by teiferer 9mo ago
Had Merkel not opened the border in 2015, Germany would be far worse off. If you ever set foot into a German retirement home, hospital, restaurant, random shop at the central station, cinema, xmas market, you name it, you realize that all t

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