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Comment · 12 days ago
I know there's a lot of GitHub annoyed people out there but after investigating a lot of the instances of outages it does seems like A) They're abusing ElasticSearch in a way is was never meant to be used B) They've seen an unprecedented increase in scale and now have to provide agent slop a lot of free action minutes until they figure out how to separate commercial support from free support C) Who knows how many other systems were never meant to see this scale there

Still grateful for a lot of the free services and the semblance of community that GitHub still offers. It does seem like it's still the yellowpages of tech.

Comment · 12 days ago
How did overall memory footprint look during ingestion vs Redis? Have any tradeoff graphs as the dataset gets larger and with mixed workloads?
Comment · 12 days ago
It really depends on the post anymore. Have had a lot of really thoughtful discussions about the nuance that came out of HN convos. Seems like most businesses and people are still just trying to figure out.
Comment · 12 days ago
Probably being reserved for the OpenBrandSherryDaquiri rebranding.
Comment · 13 days ago
Also Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Comment · 15 days ago
This is definitely a level of universal paper clips we’re on…

This is the level where the AI develops quantum computing to make itself smarter (in the game)

Comment · 15 days ago
yeah especially because it's not very easy to configure everything sensibly for a multi-use case setup, they really need better mac containers on the mac itself
Comment · 16 days ago
It would be very surprising if they weren't working on even more long-context injection, an agent these days could very easily have a single http call get the markdown/http for a whole page that's essentially injection/propaganda. It seems like the agents have been trained on wrapping responses in tails/cats from `.log` calls or other tool calls, in which case the model training will implicitly be trained on the trustworthiness of context within the tool call tokens.
Comment · 16 days ago
I think the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Terence Tao post was much more hopeful and along the lines you're suggesting.
Comment · 19 days ago
Yeah agreed, especially for legal and healthcare models.

[edit] I'd go one step further too and say the training data should be explicitly requestable too so third parties can verify (freedom of information act styles).

Comment · 22 days ago
It might be the people that are being acquired too, at huge inflated ai researchers salaries.

Acquired in the vc sense… not literal exit.

Comment · 22 days ago
Does Cloudflare already use Deno under the hood then? Like the Anthropic -> Bun aquisition
Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
I'm curious about these agent harness frameworks that release their harness before they've released a good agent on top. It's a little cart before the horse.
Comment · 24 days ago
Yeah can't push or create PRs yet for me.

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