I think a better way question is how much damage they might inadvertently do without being evil
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hopeless commented on Show HN: 10x cheaper GitHub Actions on your AWS account warpbuild.com/blog/launch... · Posted by u/suryao
Any such error is a bug. We do have tons of ruby users running 1000s of jobs each hour but maybe we are hitting a corner case with you, I'm sorry that that happened and I'll look into it.
Switching from github actions default runners is exactly a one line change.
Migrating from `actions-runner-controller` with k8s or self-managed VMs could be different based on specific customizations in place. However, we have import flows for the former to directly import the custom containers used in k8s, and an AMI import is coming soon.
There shouldn't be any stack specific behavior, except with caches. We have introduced fast custom caching actions including stack specific instructions in docs [1].
[1] https://docs.warpbuild.com/cache/quickstart#ruby
hth.
ah, I think it was prior to the caching actions so I'll see if I can try again today. Thanks
hopeless commented on Show HN: 10x cheaper GitHub Actions on your AWS account warpbuild.com/blog/launch... · Posted by u/suryao
I'd love to see some more detailed write-up on how to switch to Warpbuild for different tech stacks. I tried a few months ago when the instructions were basically just to change the runs-on type but IIRC it failed with an error around setting up ruby (and caching it?) and there were no clear instructions on how to proceed.
> The term agent has been used by AI researchers without a formal definition [1]
> [1] In traditional AI, agents are defined entities that perceive and act upon their environment, but that definition is less useful in the LLM era — even a thermostat would qualify as an agent under that definition.
I'm a huge believer in the power of agents, but this kind of complete ignorance of the history of AI gets frustrating. This statement belies a gross misunderstanding of how simple agents have been viewed.
If you're serious about agents then Minsky's The Society of the Mind should be on your desk. From the opening chapter:
> We want to explain intelligence as a combination of simpler things. This means that we must be sure to check, at every step, that none of our agents is, itself, intelligent... Accordingly, whenever we find that an agent has to do anything complicated, we'll replace it with a subsociety of agents that do simpler things.
Instead this write up completely ignores the logic of one of the seminal writings on this topic (and it's okay to disagree with Minsky, I sure do, but you need to at least acknowledge this) and immediately thinks the future of agents must be immensely complex.
Automatic thermostats existed in the early days of research on agents, and the key to a thermostat being an agent is it's ability to communicate with other agents automatically, and collectively perform complex actions.
I worked on agent-based systems >20 years ago, including large research projects and standardisation/interoperability work.
Ultimately, that effort failed but I don’t see any awareness of that considerable volume of work reflected in today’s use of the word “agent”. If nothing else, there was a lot of work on the use-cases and human factors.
It’s just a bit disheartening to know that so much work, by hundreds of researchers (at least), over 10+ years, has just slipped into irrelevance
yes (at least, that's my theory and experience too)
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hopeless commented on Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost blog.filippo.io/mkcert-va... · Posted by u/FiloSottile
I've been using https://www.tinycert.org/ for years which basically lets you create your own certificate authority and issue certs (which obviously aren't trusted by everyone but can be trusted by you/your team). It's ideal for generating SSL certs for ephemeral apps e.g. review apps on Heroku since it can all be done using an API
hopeless commented on EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/bkfh
If it means people stop telling me I'm in UTC in the summer, this would be fantastic.
"we'll meet at four your time"
"great!"
"why weren't you there?? I googled 'current time utc!!'"
"because we're on BST, aka IST, aka UTC+1 in the summer"
But this rando website says UK/Ireland is UTC!!
Someday, somehow, we'll teach people that if you're using PST in the summer, there's a 99% chance you're wrong.
yeah, I've had Americans say 6AM EST during the summer when it's EDT
A lot of people complained that GDPR was too onerous on small firms and that they should be exempt. According to LinkedIn https://ie.linkedin.com/company/exactis-llc Exactis has just 10 employees (obviously some error possible. Call it 15-20?)
Now do you think small firms can’t hold large quantities of damaging data?
What if agentic coding sessions are triggering a similar dopamine feedback loop as social media apps? Obviously not to the same degree as social media apps, I mean coding for work is still "work"... but there's maybe some similarity in getting iterative solutions from the agent, triggering something in your brain each time, yes?
If that was the case, wouldn't we expect developers to have an overly positive perception of AI because they're literally becoming addicted to it?
There's no flow state to be achieved with AI tools (at the moment)