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biddit commented on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability   z.ai/blog/glm-4.7... · Posted by u/pretext
embedding-shape · 6 days ago
> Supports tool calling in OpenAI-style format

So Harmony? Or something older? Since Z.ai also claim the thinking mode does tool calling and reasoning interwoven, would make sense it was straight up OpenAI's Harmony.

> in theory, I could get a "relatively" cheap Mac Studio and run this locally

In practice, it'll be incredible slow and you'll quickly regret spending that much money on it instead of just using paid APIs until proper hardware gets cheaper / models get smaller.

biddit · 6 days ago
> In practice, it'll be incredible slow and you'll quickly regret spending that much money on it instead of just using paid APIs until proper hardware gets cheaper / models get smaller.

Yes, as someone who spent several thousand $ on a multi-GPU setup, the only reason to run local codegen inference right now is privacy or deep integration with the model itself.

It’s decidedly more cost efficient to use frontier model APIs. Frontier models trained to work with their tightly-coupled harnesses are worlds ahead of quantized models with generic harnesses.

biddit commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide   mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga
thelittlenag · 13 days ago
My father is a data point in this. He was a farmer all his life and ultimately it was Parkinson's that did him in. While we took some precautions, I have no doubt that the herbicides we used should have been handled more carefully.
biddit · 13 days ago
Sorry for your loss - it's a terrible disease.

My mother is also data point - grew up on a farm where her father used it. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's 2018.

biddit commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
josh_p · 21 days ago
When I worked grocery retail when I was a teen 20ish years ago, any time a customer disputed the price of something during checkout, we’d have someone check the shelf and find the display tag. If the price was lower as the customer suggested, we’d always give them the item at the price listed on the display tag. An employee usually just missed that tag during price change day.

It’s so foreign to me that any retail place would defer to “the computer” if display price and database price were out of sync.

Even young-me understood the idea of “oh yeah, our bad, have it at the lower price” and the potential for legal action if we did otherwise.

biddit · 21 days ago
You need to think like an owner/operator to understand why you would defer to the system.

It’s to prevent employees from stealing. To “defer to the tag” requires a manual price override of some sort, which becomes an abuse vector.

biddit commented on My LLM codegen workflow   harper.blog/2025/02/16/my... · Posted by u/lolptdr
bionhoward · 10 months ago
I don’t mind LLMs, but what irks me is the customer noncompete, you have these systems that can do almost anything and the legal terms explicitly say you’re not allowed to use the thing for anything that competes with the thing. But if the things can do almost anything then you really can’t use it for anything. Making a game with Grok? No, that competes with the xAI game studio. Making an agents framework with ChatGPT? No, that competes with Swarm. Making legal AI with Claude? No, that competes with Claude. Seems like the only American companies making AI we can actually use for work are HuggingFace and Meta.
biddit · 10 months ago
Form a Nonprofit X and a Corp Y:

Noprofit X publishes outputs from competing AI, which is not copyrightable.

Corp Y injests content published by Nonprofit X.

biddit commented on GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases   404media.co/forbidden-wor... · Posted by u/josefresco
biddit · a year ago
You're assessing them with the wrong criteria.

You don't hire architects to execute a demolition and you also don't hire anyone heavily invested in keeping the building standing. But you DO hire people loyal to you to perform the work, who will receive staunch opposition the latter group of people.

biddit commented on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again   chrisholdgraf.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/ianrahman
Tarsul · a year ago
I stil don't understand why none of these sites counts downvotes for their algorithm. Look at HN which does; the best comments are at the top which means that the user sees the more interesting posts first. And troll posts would never rise to the top. There's a lot of tinkering that could provide which is the best up/downvotes-algorithm but imo it simply does not work without downvoting. E.g. Tiktok allows a lot of options to downrank things that you do not like, meaning the user who curates his own feed gets a stream of posts that are more aligned with what he wants than anywhere else. And that's why TikTok won.
biddit · a year ago
To my understanding, removing downvoting removes a vector of abuse. ie: "downvote brigades" on Reddit

While Twitter doesn't have downvoting, it is still dealing with "report brigades" - various interest groups will organize via Telegram (or similar) to mass-report tweets they don't like.

I wonder if you could strike a balance by incorporating downvotes as a visual metric, but not using it to rank content, thus allowing the expression of dislike while removing the abuse vector.

biddit commented on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says   apnews.com/article/micros... · Posted by u/cbg0
rexreed · 2 years ago
Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative. Yes, these other alternatives have their own problems and tradeoffs. But Teams is just substantially worse than these alternatives. I'll take a Google Meet meeting any day over Teams crap.

Nothing is forcing people to use Teams, but they do. It can't solely be cause it's just bundled and free. People don't want to spend any effort to do better? Is the friction that high?

biddit · 2 years ago
> Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative.

Maybe in startups and small companies without a dedicated IT team, but an enterprise IT group will absolutely stop you. And Teams is very easy for them to administrate if they are already deploying MS products.

biddit commented on Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark   aider.chat/2024/03/08/cla... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
mattkevan · 2 years ago
I've used GPT-4 for programming since it came out and it's massively improved my productivity, despite being frustrating at times. It quickly forgets details and starts hallucinating, so I have to constantly remind it by pasting in code. After a few hours it gets so confused I have to start a new chat to reset things.

I've been using Claude pretty intensively over the last week and it's so much better than GPT. The larger context window (200k tokens vs ~16k) means that it can hold almost the entire codebase in memory and is much less likely to forget things.

The low request quota even for paid users is a pain though.

biddit · 2 years ago
> The larger context window (200k tokens vs ~16k)

Just to add some clarification - the newer GPT4 models from OpenAI have 128k context windows[1]. I regularly load in the entirety of my React/Django project, via Aider.

1. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turb...

biddit commented on Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger   github.com/leapingio/leap... · Posted by u/kvptkr
biddit · 2 years ago
Nice work! I watched the demo and can see how it will generate fixes for you, which you then copy and paste into the editor. Perhaps you could consider automating this process like Aider[1] does, whereby you force the LLM to generate a git diff for the fix and automatically commit it.

1. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

biddit commented on Show HN: Fructose – LLM calls as strongly typed functions   github.com/bananaml/fruct... · Posted by u/edunteman
biddit · 2 years ago
I've done a lot of work over the last year wrangling LLM outputs - both from the OpenAI API as well as local LLMs.

What are the benefits of using Fructose over LMQL, Guidance or OpenAI's function calling?

u/biddit

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