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by theK 4y ago
I think you can trust the code of both those worlds exactly the same, not at all. I’ve seen GPT 3 and 4 hallucinate the most amazing commentary about their own output. Maybe we will get dependable, out of process, guidance at some point abo
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by theK 4y ago
Few years, yes. I’m with you “the change is coming” but we still need to transfer millions of tokens in and out to cater for context and out of repo intricacies.
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by theK 4y ago
Token cap will probably be the biggest problem here. After validation. After getting the changes to disk, documented, actually compiling, etc… But the biggest problem is that transferring the nuance that is external to the code base is typi
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by theK 4y ago
Loved this. I think there are many more characteristic cases of programmer-muggle “lost in translation”. On a tangent, > Can you help with my printer? Related Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35165560
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by theK 4y ago
On the flip side, I am having a great time charging enterprises exorbitant hourly rates to come in and help them fix their crappy crud programms. But I still don’t know if I am thrilled by the prospect of being called in to make their monke
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by theK 4y ago
I think this article is a great example of the one key shortcoming that Ai based code generation has. Even a seasoned developer will fail to describe the intricate details and context of what they are trying to do. Non developers constantly
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by theK 4y ago
I think everywhere except HN the expectations on Watson’s and Wolfram’s second seasons where even more inflated
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by theK 4y ago
Creativity and innovation didn't ever stop. Its only words and concepts and we keep inventing new ones constantly. We also imbue new meaning to words and concepts over time.
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by theK 4y ago
Hang on it is 2023 and there still isn't a global standard on printing interfaces? I thought all printer manufacturers had decided to use that CUPS thing more than a decade ago?
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by theK 4y ago
I'm okay with that and really do not care whether the printer uses toner or ink to produce pages with content in them. What I care about is that I don't want it to need an uplink to the Internet in order to do so.
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by theK 4y ago
Indeed they do but if you look at the product range they offer its still in the "we help you run your server" territory, not in the "this is a service that eliminates Component X of your architecture". I really like the
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by theK 4y ago
GPT-4 is really, really impressive! But however we spin it, ChatGPT still has a significant context issue. Sure the increased input token max for GPT4 does help but when you think about the context we draw on in out typical life interaction
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Ask HN: Are there any normal office printers?
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by theK 4y ago
Maybe also check out contabo, I think they have some well priced VPS options in their Asia DCs
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by theK 4y ago
I think what Hetzner have done is just specialise in doing one thing really really well and that is their product, they run servers. They don’t offer any of the „cloudy“ vendor lock in things like functions, DBaaS, blah blah but if you want
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by theK 4y ago
I am very much with you on this but I think the biggest hurdle in this theory is that introducing such regulation would create a de-facto hostile innovation environment in that jurisdiction. And no regulator will lightheartedly put themselv
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by theK 4y ago
I guess at some point most of us will have to yell at clouds. Whether that changes anything or not remains debatable. I think the biggest challenge we have today is that building on SaaS and huge dependency charts is very attractive to some
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by theK 4y ago
This is what maddens me the most about the TradFi space. Everything is supposedly regulated but in the end the b2c companies will keep doing whatever they want. At least serious DeFi gives you a quantum of sovereignty! Sure many will say: “
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by theK 4y ago
Interestingly, I have found out that there is a lifetime threshold, especially in blogs. I often bookmark relatively new content only to find out that six months later it has 404ed. But then you bookmark some old article and find out ten ye
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by theK 4y ago
Or invade my privacy otherwise
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by theK 4y ago
Just keep in mind that actually keeping that 1.5x or even 10x performance boost you need to apply these consistently to a laaarge code base (performance critical apps tend to be this). This means that in 2-3 months you end up with a codebas
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by theK 4y ago
Sorry, I kinda missed that. The "multiple recipient" thing is quite prevalent in the titles (here and on github) so I thought this was supposed to be the key differentiator.
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by theK 4y ago
> The textual file header wraps the file key for one or more recipients, so that it can be unwrapped by one of the corresponding identities Isn't that what LUKS does as well? What's the novelty in this one?
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by theK 4y ago
I'm all for positive language and this sort of feedback. But one needs to keep in mind that this sort of setup can lead to a lot of Yak shaving. So there should be somewhere/someone in the process that addresses the value vs Yak s
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by theK 4y ago
> What microsoft seems to lack is caring about user experience as they slather feature layer after feature layer on top of their products. That's the problem of selling something to the supervisor and not the actual user. MS has had
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by theK 4y ago
Browsers have come a long way in this regard, you are right. Even before containers, I love having a ff profile for work and one for personal stuff, they are ultra portable too.
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by theK 4y ago
Yeah, this would be my preffered way as well. I dont use any MS products any more in my personal life or my own ventures but if I would, that would be the way. But this is not a global cure. This probably will work fine in a household or sm
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by theK 4y ago
Yeah, the identity side of MS products is really dysfunctional. Every time I try to use teams or azure it ends up in hours of finding out the right procedure to log in or switch an account effectively. And then you get the people asking nai
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by theK 4y ago
So this is a fun read and probably also lots of fun to write. One fact that does not get enough mention though is that, regardless of the code golfing results, Haskell programs have the habit of being exceptionally concise even if you don&#
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by theK 4y ago
> we found discrepancies between the apps’ privacy policies and the information they reported to consumers on Google’s Data Safety form. So its like a "sue yourself" system? :-D

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