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coderaptor··on Show HN: Laminar – Open-Source DataDog + PostHog for LLM Apps, Built in Rust
The output can be explicitly constrained to a formal syntax (see outlines.dev).

For many cases this is more than enough to solve some hard problems well enough.

coderaptor··on Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
I haven’t heard a definition of “reasoning” or “thinking” that proves humans aren’t doing exactly that same probabilistic regurgitation.

I don’t think it’s possible to prove; feels like a philosophical question.

coderaptor··on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
It’s called painting with too wide a brush.

A lot of us are simply interested in promoting and continuing to evolve and understand that well-reasoned ideology. We feel its application can improve the human condition.

coderaptor··on Docker Is Four Things
But it seems to be doing it imperatively. I’d expect something like ‘nginxConf = pkgs.file “nginx.conf”, “contents”’ instead of ‘nginxConf = pkgs.writeText “nginx.conf”, “contents”’.

Not saying the system doesn’t apply this declaratively, but I find it difficult to intuit the above is checking for a state and applying changes only if necessary.

coderaptor··on CPSC approves new magnet safety standard for certain non-toy products
These are not the same things. You are not necessarily capable of protecting yourself from their use by another party.

If these magnets are used incorrectly, why should the responsibility for that not be the users?

coderaptor··on Telling people you're a self taught developer in YouTube is a big business now
Pick a project you’re passionate about and find a technology you’re curious to learn. Then figure out how to make it happen. You can chart your own course (and from what I’ve seen from most bootcamp project results during interviews, you probably should).

I’m a self-taught dropout - I learned how to do this to the detriment of other endeavors including my assigned coursework (which happened to be for another degree).

It sounds like you’re not doing this because you’re driven to. That’s fine, but you’ll probably struggle doing it on your own. I’m guessing those self-taught folks were just more inclined to the field.

coderaptor··on Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
Blame the fools who believe the misinformation (or better yet, take responsibility for publishing truth in a more compelling form). It takes two to tango, and one of these tango dancers was raised in a country where they were given a right to dance.
coderaptor··on Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low
Would you give a couple examples?
coderaptor··on Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge
The Legislature is still ultimately capable of changing the law the Court rules on.
coderaptor··on Covid patients pushed medical extremes in life support breakthrough
Did you consider the impact on those responsible for your long term care?
coderaptor··on U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts
When everyone’s settled on maximizing the diversity of their investments, I wonder if the strategy loses viability as an effective hedge.
coderaptor··on 1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)
Do we have evidence it was carved?

It’s possible to “shrink” a stamp by pressing onto wet clay, firing, and then repeating the process multiple times (clay will reduce after firing).

I wonder if this could have been etched or pressed, potentially with a chemical process?

coderaptor··on Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
Communicating technical concepts to lay audiences is difficult, and a universal problem these days.

Very rare and impossible are nearly equivalent wrt policies that broadly and significantly impact personal health and liberty.

coderaptor··on What can mRNA treat next?
I'd also like to know where I can read further on discussions on this. My understanding is that it's the same for chickenpox - that lack of frequent natural exposure now requires artificial exposure with boosters to prevent shingles. Feels like vendor lock-in to me - often valuable but with some downsides that need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.
coderaptor··on America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
> Did fiscal and monetary policy help smooth things out?

We're assuming the crash in March was due to COVID - though there's no proof this was the case. This very much could have been a correction to more realistic valuation.

> So you're saying "this time is different." Let's see how that plays out.

Agree here - I think we're in for an interesting year. We may have amplified the upswing dynamics with Fed action, but I'm pretty sure we'll see amplified downswings, as a result.

coderaptor··on Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
Just provide more effective tools allowing users to tune their own feeds.
coderaptor··on Have we already been visited by aliens?
The amount of press and public interest he’s drummed up likely encourages young folks to get into the field, raises the profile of the work, and encourages public support of more funding and exploration.

And, since he’s not wrong or right - just exploring possibilities and being imaginative, I think it’s pretty cool.

coderaptor··on EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts
I don’t have a ball in this match other than the one that wants to continue to raise my daughter without civil unrest. How are you so certain of the benefit of this action?
coderaptor··on Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by starvation'
Anecdote - I find letting spiders live and using no insecticide results in fewer insects and more diverse and plentiful bird activity.
coderaptor··on Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by starvation'
Can someone more familiar with the field post some applicable models for review?
coderaptor··on SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
Agreed, thanks for following up, these are likely near impossible to solve at a local level. I don’t have good solutions, and I certainly don’t envy the folks we elected who really do need them.
coderaptor··on SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
Lack of alignment of Congress is lack of alignment of their constituents.

It’s good that it stalls in that condition, IMO. I’d expect unaligned moves in Congress to cause social strife.

Can we remedy things at a lower level before we push a fix through and apply it to half the country that doesn’t want it?

coderaptor··on SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
Is less output from Congress really a problem? I mean, Court clarifies, and if clarification is beyond expectations of a majority of Congress then they have the ability to rewrite and ship an update?

I feel like this is a useful prioritization mechanic within the structure of government.

coderaptor··on U.S. lawmakers ask Gilead to justify hepatitis C drug's $84,000 price
But, in the end, still market-bearable costs. Maybe we'd see a reduction of the costs of doing research if there weren't so much tax-payer and insurance money involved today.
coderaptor··on Show HN: API Happiness is not a 'nice-to-have'
I've been thinking of implementing a similar dashboard with https://github.com/jkassemi/stubby.

I like the concept of this long term allowing me to specify a single url and toggle the environment of the API I'm hitting from a remote, secure web interface. What sort of uptime and scaling guarantees do you intend to provide?

coderaptor··on Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
Just getting Stubby going (https://github.com/jkassemi/stubby) - and it could use some more love.

It's a suite of tools that focus around declarative configuration of various project environments. For instance, the Stubfile.json can contain the references to your staging and production servers, and you can swap your system to view either staging or production from the command line. Additionally it supports stub packages, so you could theoretically write a GitHub API stub (think pre-configured and packaged webmock stubs) and distribute to other devs over github.

My company's building this out to assist with dev/QA and a migration to docker, so there's some semblance of a team.

coderaptor··on Doctored.js – A new kind of editor
JSON and a side-by-side view would make this invaluable.
coderaptor··on Using pry in production
> $ RAILS_ENV=production bin/pry -r ./config/environment
coderaptor··on Doing Better: Making Improvements to HealthCare.gov
Since the target is probably the general public, I wouldn't expect a technical write-up on problems faced and potential solutions (though it would have been nice) - but this write-up is devoid of any actual information whatsoever.

I fear this is what we can expect in the future was well. At least give us the names of the folks you're bringing in to make this thing work! This is the reason those of us in the US were doubtful of this project in the first place - not a single one of my peers expected this site to stay up (we've all got experience with media company advertisement efforts, so we know what it means to go from zero to millions).

As an aside - spewing this "with over 19 million unique visits to date to HealthCare.gov– confirms that the American people are looking for quality, affordable health coverage, and want to find it online" is ridiculous - it confirms only that Americans are now legally obligated to look for health coverage... There's more, but instead of pissing myself off further I'm just going to hit 'reply' and shrug away to my corner of indifference for the day.

coderaptor··on Who is PG referring to as the fastest growing YC startup?
coinbase June 2012...
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