kaoD · HackerTrans

vor 23 Stundendiscuss

Sorry, the wording confused me.

The project itself seems to be structued around 1.4k micro-crates[0] which I admit is a bit weird. Rust's compilation unit is the crate unlike C's per-file compilation unit, so if this was a 1:1 AI-assisted translation from the original Postgres source this might be an artifact of the translation.

[0] https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/main/Cargo.toml

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vor 24 Stundendiscuss

> I love llm coding. I don't know what I am looking at here

There might be some correlation here.

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vor 4 Tagendiscuss

With the current trajectory of looms, I see unionisation efforts dead in the water.

- Someone in the early 19th century

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vor 5 Tagendiscuss

https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/blob/...

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vor 20 Tagendiscuss

> wonder if CORS world be better off opt-in rather than opt-out.

It's necessary that the defaults are secure. More so, not less, if the problem is hard.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

If I perfectly know all the guardrails I need, I don't need an LLM, only Prolog.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

But that's not very informative.

Levenshtein distance is not only a well-understood problem, it's small, self-contained, and extremely well-represented in the training data. The kind of problem where even small/bad models can excel. The golden standard for those tasks is just "use a library" so no wonder the beefy models are expensive: you're chartering a commercial airplane to go grocery shopping.

My personal benchmarks are software engineering tasks (ideally spanning multiple packages in a monorepo) composed of many small decisions that, compounded, make or break the implementation and long-term maintainability.

There's where even frontier models struggle, which makes comparisons meaningful.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> Whenever a central position is formed with power over something, even if it’s only a steering power, it will be sought out by power-hungry people and manipulated

The inevitable "iron law of oligarchy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

That's how you get date bugs.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Ah, that's where you're wrong. There is no long term. Investors want results now. "Later" is for the greater fools.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> I was surprised to find out how much hate there is for AI in art.

I'm surprised you're surprised.

Giant corpos steal work from millions of independent artists and the State ruled that IP laws didn't apply to them, only to us common mortals.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Is the token budget also there? I assume not it they'd be at multiple orders of magnitude negative.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> nobody is sitting their waiting / watching the LLM code anyway

My personal experience is that for production-grade code you need to steer the agent more often than not... so yes, at least some of us are watching the LLM code.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

So what you propose is first you create the request payload and POST it, which generates a request-id-bound URL (but it does nothing stateful yet) and then you actually request to perform it? Because otherwise I don't see any difference.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Yes, I understand that, but I'm not sure how that changes anything?

I mean: you still have the problem regardless of following HTTP verb semantics or not.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> Don't do that, and this problem evaporates.

Don't do that, and you solved nothing.

Either I'm missing what you mean, or half the comments here are missing the point of idempotency.

Let's say your server received this request twice within one minute:

    {
      items: [ { id: 123, amount: 1 } ],
      creditCardInfo: { ... }
    }

How can you tell from the server if that's a retry (think e.g. some reverse proxy crashed and the first request timed out, but the payment already went through to the user's CC)... or if the user just trying to purchase another item 123 because they forgot they needed 2?

There is simply no way to make the requests idempotent without an idempotency key. The only way to tell both situations apart is to key the requests by some UID. The HTTP verb is irrelevant.

Did I misunderstand what you meant?

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

And what's the public API/stdlib/bindings inside the WASM workers?

I've been thinking a lot about this today and I think you might have a hidden gem here. Where can I reach you to talk more about this?

Feel free to drop an email (address in my profile)

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Let's see if I got this right: so it's something like a private Yggdrasil Network (minus the IPv6 overlay?) meets self-distributing WASM-powered serverless functions? Plus some built-in functions for proxying/serving.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I know the individual words in the description but I'm a bit confused about what this is.

What would I use Pollen for?

I'm not sure I understand the "seed" metaphor.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> You have to join the Union, after all

Uh, how? This might be a country thing but you don't have to join any union in my country. You do, if they represent your interests. Big companies have multiple, competing unions, and the anarchists (which refuse state subsidies and are fully self-funded) are pretty good at what they do.

If you have to join a union isn't that essentially a racket?