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mrbombastic commented on Programming peaked   functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic
mrbombastic · 12 days ago
“ Once our work is done, we create a “pull request”. This is a way of emulating open-source development inside a single company, which as we know, is the only way to work. Typically, this means that the code is downloaded and built on another computer, and then several hours later, a colleague will come along and ask to change a few words. Once we change these words, the computer builds everything again, and then the next day, the same colleague will allow the code to be merged into the mainline.”

Fix this and your life will be much better, generate testable preview apps on every pr, this feedback loop is a velocity killer. Management for some reason never wants to prioritize speeding it up even though it slows down every single project so advise to just do it and not ask permission.

mrbombastic commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
lxgr · 17 days ago
Claude? I’d be extremely surprised.

Gemini? As gemini.google.com or as the thoroughly mediocre “AI summaries” on top of Google Search results?

mrbombastic · 17 days ago
Yeah my father who codes occasionally asked me what the best AI for coding was and he had never even heard of claude so I would be very surprised if your average person knows it.
mrbombastic commented on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving    · Posted by u/prodigycorp
abraxas · 19 days ago
They invented Ozemipc. Restraint is unamerican.
mrbombastic · 19 days ago
Utopia is nigh.
mrbombastic commented on $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux   github.com/nadimkobeissi/... · Posted by u/rany_
hackyhacky · 24 days ago
> Only frontend React.js

Good suggestion, but I discovered that React was not able to fix my Linux kernel, either, for some reason.

mrbombastic · 24 days ago
Have you tried asking an llm to use react to fix your Linux kernel?
mrbombastic commented on $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux   github.com/nadimkobeissi/... · Posted by u/rany_
pm215 · 24 days ago
For small stuff, the cost is just going to be too much for people to want to pay it. This bug had a $1900 bounty attached. Let's put the cost of one software engineer (salary plus overheads) at $200,000 a year, which I think is an underestimate. That's $3850 a week, so unless your bug can definitely be fixed (including getting any necessary hardware, investigation, fixing, code review overhead, etc) in two or three days it doesn't pay. And if it could obviously be done in two days then it's likely somebody would have already done that.

The above back of envelope maths ignores the overheads of interacting with the people who posted the bounties to get them to agree to pay up, and of the cost overruns on the class of bugs that look like two day fixes but take two weeks.

mrbombastic · 24 days ago
200k is a fairly high salaried software eng in expensive markets, a bounty program like this would be open worldwide and many people would be willing to work for a fraction of that, quality control is another concern but take a look at prices on sites like upwork and bids for this type of work and realize 200k is nowhere near the lower baseline.
mrbombastic commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker   wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil
nirvdrum · 25 days ago
Actual Budget uses SimpleFIN [1] in the US. The integration is pretty good. The big alternative is Plaid and I don't trust them at all. It's a shame we don't have a standard for electronic banking yet.

[1] -- https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/

mrbombastic · 25 days ago
There is also teller.io i tried them for a side project and were pretty good, but I didn’t go to far
mrbombastic commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models   github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded
docmars · a month ago
If you ask a mainstream LLM to repeat a slur back to you, it will refuse to. This was determined by the AI company, not the content it was trained on. This should be incredibly obvious — and this extends to many other issues.

In fact, OpenAI has made deliberate changes to ChatGPT more recently that helps prevent people from finding themselves in negative spirals over mental health concerns, which many would agree is a good thing. [1]

Companies typically have community guidelines that often align politically in many ways, so it stands to reason AI companies are spending a fair bit of time tailoring AI responses according to their biases as well.

1. https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-...

mrbombastic · a month ago
That seems like more like openAI playing whackamole with behaviors they don’t like or see as beneficial, simplifying but adding things to system prompts like “don’t ever say racial slurs or use offensive rhetoric, cut off conversations about mental health and refer to a professional” are certaintly things they do. But would you not think the vast meat of what you are getting is coming from training data and not the result of such sterring beyond a thin veneer ?
mrbombastic commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models   github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded
docmars · a month ago
I'd expect LLMs' biases to originate from the companies' system prompts rather than the volume of training data that happens to align with those biases.
mrbombastic · a month ago
I would expect the opposite. Seems unlikely to me an ai company would be spending much time engineering system prompts that way except in the case of maybe Grok where Elon has a bone to pick with perceived bias.
mrbombastic commented on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts   oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye
chrneu · a month ago
Lol the mental gymnastics of republicans to say "Tariffs aren't taxes on citizens, they're taxes on foreign countries"

and now trump is easing tariffs on foods because they're too expensive. he's also thinking of shipping out STIMULUS CHECKS because people are struggling to buy tariffed goods.

it's mind boggling what they must be thinking to justify this stuff.

mrbombastic · a month ago
True freedom is letting your beliefs float to support whatever the fuck you feel like doing that day

u/mrbombastic

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