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fcarraldo
·17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The largest social media company in the world by several orders of magnitude is Meta, who are both using data collected from their social media platforms to train their AI models and improve ad targeting. Meta also offers AI chat bots on their platforms (FB Messenger and WhatsApp), to capture those innermost thoughts.

Don’t count out Zuckerberg, he’s very good at being a villain.
fcarraldo
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I genuinely do not understand what this person believes is happening here. The Guardian is part of some mass-conspiracy to attack the FDA in order to...achieve what? Prevent unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals from being introduced into the food supply? What sort of mindset must you have to believe this is a bad thing?

No one benefits from PFAS being unregulated in food, other than stockholders, C-suites and the politicians who accept money from lobbyists that represent them.
fcarraldo
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is correct. So much misinformation being spouted here on the spurious grounds that The Guardian is an inaccurate news source.
fcarraldo
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
In drinking water, yes. And the EPA coordinated a "voluntary" phase-out of PFAS in packaging, but it is not enforced.

Is there a limit in food, which is what this petition was about?
fcarraldo
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> The Guardian, which is already at the limits of reliability

Based on what, exactly? Disagreeing with a publication does not make them unreliable. The Guardian's journalism is consistently award-winning and rates highly on credibility. The Guardian's opinion section is openly centre-left, though I suppose Americans would consider this to be some sort of comically ultra-left-wing communist point-of-view given the state of politics in the country.

Simple PFAS regulations have been put in place in Europe[0] and the FDA has access to the same studies and information as the EU bodies. The science has been performed. The lawsuit was to push for regulation because the FDA has been dragging their feet for years[1] and refusing to act.

[0] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/chemicals/pfas-pollu...

[1] https://www.eenews.net/articles/inside-fdas-forever-chemical...

Edit: Also, note that this account was created today and has made 3 comments, 2 of which are taking potshots at The Guardian. This sort of astroturfing has no place on HN.
fcarraldo
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think https://zellij.dev/ covers all of these? But it isn't an "agent native", and `herdr` seems to support importing existing agent sessions.
fcarraldo
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Does a mid-session provider switch result in loading the entire context into the new model, inflating session cost?

I don't think I understand the token/cost implications of this feature
fcarraldo
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Shouldn’t the title be “AWS Lambda MicroVMs”? MicroVMs are an existing concept.
fcarraldo
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yep, LLM chat is classic skinner box design. It’s effectively gambling.
fcarraldo
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
They only respond to the inputs. Try adding some communication preferences to your system prompt.
fcarraldo
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Ironically, we can thank Elon Musk for that too.

edit: Gross that you're being downvoted. HN crowd needs a serious look in the mirror.
fcarraldo
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Which hasn't yet been proven to be either technically or economically viable, even on paper. It's a pipe dream.

The cynical viewpoint is that this is Elon capitalizing on current datacenter hype to inflate SpaceX's valuation based on theoretically overcoming tremendous amounts of hard physics problems, over the next 5-10 years. As he did with FSD, Boring Company / Hyperloop, Twitter, etc.
fcarraldo
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I don’t disagree with your point, but there is still value in having unit tests that change along with the code. It’s less than a “proper” test, but when these tests break _unexpectedly_, it’s still more signal than you’d have without them. Like, always changing `file.go` alongside `file_test.go` may be acceptable if you catch errors that impact `serve_test.go` unexpectedly.

Of course, if you’re just watching Claude changing both and saying “LGTM” then it’s not very valuable.
fcarraldo
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Datacenters are competing with agriculture for both land and water.
fcarraldo
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I would rather my reports tell me to fuck off than to generate something telling me to fuck off in polite but insincere terms full of emojis and em dashes. Honesty is valuable.
fcarraldo
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
It sounds like you’re running this mostly on a single machine? Temporal gets much more complex with scale. Cassandra isn’t fun to manage. Ringpop and TChannel are hard to debug when things go wrong. The SQL backend support doesn’t support horizontally scaled replicas (just single instance) due to consistency requirements. Depending on how your code is written, modifying code baked into workflows becomes complex, as anything that modifies the history event ordering breaks determinism in already-deployed workers.

We use it heavily and everyone who started on it doing simple scripting/automation all love it, everyone who built real production systems on top of it all hate it. Possibly operator error, but my experience hasn’t matched the rosy picture painted in these comments.
fcarraldo
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Do you think the first paragraph is enough of a basis to form an opinion from?
fcarraldo
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Forums are made up of many individual people who all have their own perspectives. It is not all black and white, zero sum, good or bad.
fcarraldo
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
100 years?

In the 1920s and 1930s the US had:

- Forced labor

- Peonage

- Debt servitude

- Jim crow laws

The 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, so that barely missed the cutoff.

The US has not been some beacon of moral righteousness for the majority of its existence.
fcarraldo
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
When the company that owns the physical hardware goes out of business, all of this stuff is moot.