forgingahead
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- forgingaheadI truly enjoy how the naming conventions seem to follow how I did homework assignments back in the day: finalpaper-1-dec2nd, finalpaper-2-dec4th, etc etc.
- Where does "Smol" come from? It's supposed to mean "Small" right? If yes then what's the etymology and reason for popular usage?
- But why would you call it fringe then, if you didn't hear it yourself?
- > before I realized people thought he is a kook
But what is your own opinion?
- What are you talking about? How does it follow that "if they don't know what to do with 130, they also don't know what to do with 70"? This is literally capital allocation, the decision was that the people laid off couldn't be deployed effectively within this particular org. But maybe they would be effective elsewhere. Don't take this stuff personally, else the working world will always be difficult.
- Hilariously naive comment - "if you have money you should spend it on salaries". This is not a charity, it's a transaction, the salary is paid in exchange for revenue generating activities or supporting activities in a viable business. If the business is only doing 2.7mill in ARR, then it's entirely valid for the whole lot to get laid off.
- Tekin's conclusion: "it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views."
He is going to be ultra surprised to learn what the majority thinks and how it's not what he thinks it is.
- Sad, truly an end of an era. Big thanks to all maintainers!
- Thanks!
- Yeah, mind sharing any of the scripts? I looked at the docs briefly, looks like we need to install ALL of nemo to get access to Parakeet? Seems ultra heavy.
- Wish it was on the web app as well!
- The HN peanut gallery remains undefeated
- System prompts are fine and all, but how useful is it really when LLMs clearly ignore prompt instructions randomly? I've had this with all the different LLMs, explicitly asking it to not do something works maybe 85-90% of the time. Sometimes they just seem "overloaded", even in a fresh chat session, so like a human would, they get confused and drop random instructions.
- Perhaps I'm being mean (haven't read the full presentation) - but the winning team is made up of 2 actresses/artists, 1 social innovator, 1 designer, and 1 astrophysicist?
- Love to see the Ruby implementations! Thanks for sharing.
- In college, people would just put a sock on the door....
- This never happens in real life....."rewriting software" is the introverted programmer's wet dream because it gives them relevance and the idea of respect. No serious business "rewrites software in something else" once they start to take off.
- This sound be the top comment, and the discussion should be around why this is the case (how Congress appropriates money like this), what alternatives there could be, and what are the pros/cons of each different option. Sadly HN is no longer a place where this can happen.
- Great article, thanks for taking the time to research and write it all up! Definitely learned some new things from it.