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This is wonderful. Does it support complex types of joinery?

I think part of the issue is that they didn’t explain what is gained by adding generics on methods. You’re right that a few examples here are useful. Without generics: ‘’’ type Str…

I have written Go for the past decade and completely, fundamentally disagree with this take. Go has always had a tendency towards limited exressivity, which created a strong depend…

Note that MoE is a sparsification mechanism and doesn’t actually have to do with expertise or what would commonly be considered areas of expertise.

A more concrete example may be useful to explain what I’m thinking. A company has you click to agree to their TOS. They link a doc, which is of course quite long. That doc has a fo…

I think that means one of three things: the court system is broken, you are wrong, or I failed to be clear and you misunderstood me. So, to be clear, if a company buries or obscure…

But it is complicated, no? Even if you click you agree, if the you thought you were agreeing to one thing but actually agreed to another because they buried the lede, “I didn’t rea…

But attention/KV cache is the heavy bit in long context lengths which is what everyone needs…

This is the “eating yogurt with a hammer” argument. Yes, of course you can do that. Yes, the yogurt gets eaten. It’s just… you see someone eating yogurt with a hammer and it’s hard…

I thought this was lovely, and was surprised by the date: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/196937/summer-moon-at-miyajim...

I like this construction, but I don’t think you take it far enough. If you have a multi dimensional space, and you are trying to compute which points lie “inside” some boundary, th…

This too is not spec compliant. 204 means the request was successful but no body is being returned in the response.

Of course it is technically possible, but doing so would violate the spec. > The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did not find a current representation …

I wonder if a successful, albeit slower, approach would be to walk the git commit history in lockstep, applying the behavioral intent behind each commit. If they did this, I would …

These are also two of my primary gripes. There has been substantial improvement, but the search and symbol follow UX is really bad. Hoping the fix that.

For a relatively small set of dimensions this is true. But the more abstractions the code needs to accommodate, the trickier and more prone to leaky abstractions it becomes. Removi…

I don’t believe Hacker News is social media, it’s news aggregator/message board. Social media requires social network effects, where a large part of the draw is the network effect,…

The Snopes article is useful. For those who don’t want to read it, here is what Grossman says about that quotation: > That clip took my entire, full day presentation, and took it c…

This is absolutely true for many topics. There is a threshold of expertise where opinion that does not meet that threshold has no value. There is also a large gray area where there…

What can you do? I mentioned the use of AI on another thread, asking essentially the same question. The comment was flagged, presumably as off topic. Fair enough, I guess. But abou…

No they don’t. Do you really believe that? Maybe on certain niche issues the opinions of a HS student are useful, but mostly they are still growing into some understanding that can…

One proposed strategy to try and deal with this. https://freeasinweekend.org/

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Imagine, if you would, that the strict libertarians had much more influence in shaping the country. So much so that the roads are toll roads, the parks require a fee, and almost no…

Having been in both roles, I believe it is important that each side of the “1” give the other a little grace. When you are going from “1” to stable, there is some breathing room be…