zild3d · HackerLangs

5 gün öncediscuss

>The rate of improvement of all models is converging to zero.

Curious where you draw this conclusion from? Most benchmarks still show continual steady progress https://metr.org/time-horizons/

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10 gün öncediscuss

> Imagine if you were given a layer of abstraction that randomly flipped bits from time to time... That's not an abstraction, it's random programming.

Computing has never really been deterministic all the way down. Storage gets corrupted, RAM has soft errors, networks drop/reorder packets, schedulers race, caches go stale, distributed systems partition, query planners change plans, ...

Obviously those become tolerable because we've developed layers of contracts and understanding the bounds around them. Error correcting codes, checksums, retries, consensus, idempotency, false-positive rates, SLAs, etc.

If the abstraction is “delegate this task to a junior engineer, analyst, lawyer, designer, or support rep,” you dont expect deterministic behavior. There's review, constraints, escalation, checklists, tests, and accountability.

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15 gün öncediscuss

> defence - why would anyone buy US weapons after Greenland and Canada

Huh? US foreign military sales are up at all time highs

"Total exports by the United States, the world’s largest supplier of arms, increased by 27 per cent. This included a 217 per cent increase in US arms exports to Europe, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)"

[https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2026/global-arms-f...]

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3 ay öncediscuss

Iran's 10-point plan (that no one else has agreed to)

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4 ay öncediscuss

whats surprising about that? most of the minor version updates from all the labs are post training updates / not changing knowledge cutoff

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5 ay öncediscuss

to be fair this is a pretty hot topic, that the work is shifting to the prompt/agent thread but then thrown out / not captured

greg brockman https://x.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946

> 6. Work on basic infra [...] there's a lot of infrastructure that currently go around the tools, such as observability, tracking not just the committed code but the agent trajectories that led to them, and central management of the tools that agents are able to use.

peter steinberger (clawdbot/openclaw) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-cl...

> Peter now views PRs as “prompt requests” and is more interested in seeing the prompts that generated code than the code itself

zild3d

7 ay öncediscuss

> economically disadvantaged countries, enthusiastic consumption of the local cuisine, and a subsequent return home marked by self-congratulatory reflections on how much they have supposedly "learned" about other cultures.

There can certainly be a quite shallow "instagram" quality to some traveler's trips, but it's also clear an economically disadvantaged country benefits mutually from this, and if it wasn't they'd be restricting tourist visas, etc

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7 ay öncediscuss

it's the best ____ we've ever made

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8 ay öncediscuss

POST /superuser/admin?permissions=all&owner=true&restrictions=none&returnerror=no

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9 ay öncediscuss

cool thanks, we've been considering dynamo global tables for the same. We have S3 replication setup for cold storage data. For primary/hot DB there doesn't seem to be many other options for doing local writes

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9 ay öncediscuss

active/active? curious what the data stack looks like as that tends to be the hard part

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9 ay öncediscuss

the downstream effect of that is less startups

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5 yıl öncediscuss

At what point do you start reading a book in a new language? Do you already know say 500 words? Otherwise I'd imagine you have to look up almost every word on the page

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7 yıl öncediscuss

Agree, lived in Ithaca, NY for 3 years. Small city with lots of nature surrounding (waterfalls and gorges in walking distance). Teens and young kids seem largely free to roam and play outside

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7 yıl öncediscuss

> Meanwhile nonprofits and startups focused on solving the problem of open-source sustainability for everyone, not just Github customers, will suffer from this announcement.

Frankly, those startups/nonprofits haven't done a good enough job. If you want to be paid well in OSS it usually means you have to take on consulting work. If people were able to be paid well for working on OSS directly, there wouldn't be a problem for Github/MS to be solving here

> The subtext is pretty clear: “if you want to get paid, you better not leave Github!”

If you want to get paid as a video creator, you better not leave Youtube either

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8 yıl öncediscuss

on chrome: right click -> View page source

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8 yıl öncediscuss

I actually thought there was something really enjoyable about not have it super obvious and shoving pointers and instructions at you.

It felt fun to explore and learn what it is

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8 yıl öncediscuss

don't forget the tasty light blue boxes

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9 yıl öncediscuss

Yes we hear in log scale, but why would that be intuitive? Ask someone how loud or soft any sound is - a dog bark, a cymbal crash, a whisper - and you won't get a numeric response. We're used to measuring distances, weights, etc but not volume, aside from the volume knob which goes from 0-100%, and the logarithmic scale is already built in

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10 yıl öncediscuss

> You also sample at a rate > to the centre frequency

To be clear, a sampling rate that is only greater than the center frequency isn't very useful. You need the well known nyquist rate, twice the maximum frequency to avoid aliasing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...

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