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on_the_train commented on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/signa11
charcircuit · 3 days ago
I feel like using "Cosmic Rays" as a reason is equivalent to "Aliens". It makes for good clickbait so everyone is fast to point at it as the reason even if there is no reason to actually believe that the bitflip was due to cosmic rays.
on_the_train · 3 days ago
Thank you for bringing reason to this topic where everyone is losing their mind when it comes up. Cosmic rays are sexy, They're sciency, but they're not a good explanation when you actually run the math.

Random but flips are pretty much always bad hardware. That's what the literature says when you actually study it. And that's also what we find at work: we wrote a program that occupied most of the free ram and checked it for bit flips. Deployed on a sizeable fleet of machines. We found exactly that: yes there were bit flips, but they were highly concentrated on specific machines and disappeared after changing hardware.

on_the_train commented on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price   finance.yahoo.com/news/or... · Posted by u/pera
ElectricalUnion · 3 days ago
Isn't the whole "thing" about JPA (and all other ORMs ever) that you're supposed to "use it" instead of directly doing well optimized native queries on your database so that you can jump ship if the database provider turns out to be shit?
on_the_train · 3 days ago
Nah everything we did was hand crafted for their specific db.

It was particularly bad because it was a very small family business with equally small customers. And they all had to buy oracle licenses first, which made us insanely expensive without making money lol.

Fun in hindsight

on_the_train commented on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price   finance.yahoo.com/news/or... · Posted by u/pera
deepriverfish · 4 days ago
I've never heard good things about Oracle, I don't understand how people keep using their products.
on_the_train · 4 days ago
My old boss literally said they don't trust other databases. I tried to push for postgres. But they insisted only oracle is professional. Our software only worked with an oracle backend. I no longer work there.
on_the_train commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
margorczynski · 7 days ago
> Coding should be among the easiest problems to tackle, yet none of the big models can write basic "real" code. They break when things get more complex than pong. And they can't even write a single proper function with modern c++ templating stuff for example.

This is simply false and ignorant

on_the_train · 7 days ago
It's not, I tried just a week ago with all the popular models. When things get non trivial with fold expressions etc, they fail completely
on_the_train commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
averageRoyalty · 8 days ago
I read these sort of comments every so often and I do not understand them. You are in a sea of people telling you that they are developing software much quicker which ticks the required boxes. I understand that for some reason this isn't the case for your work flow, but obviously it has a lot more value for others.

If you are a chairmaker and everyone gains access to a machine that can spit out all the chair components but sometimes only spits out 3 legs or makes a mistake on the backs, you might find it pointless. Maybe it can't do all the nice artisan styles you can do. But you can be confident others will take advantage of this chair machine, work around the issues and drive the price down from $20 per chair to $2 per chair. In 24 months, you won't be able to sell enough of your chairs any more.

on_the_train · 7 days ago
> You are in a sea of people telling you that they are developing software much quicker which ticks the required boxes

But that's exactly not the case. Everyone is wondering what tf this is supposed to be for. People are vehemently against this tech, and yet it gets shoved down our throats although it's prohibitively expensive.

Coding should be among the easiest problems to tackle, yet none of the big models can write basic "real" code. They break when things get more complex than pong. And they can't even write a single proper function with modern c++ templating stuff for example.

on_the_train commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
on_the_train · 8 days ago
Ai saves me like an hour per month tops. I still don't understand the hype. It's a solution in search of a problem. It can't solve the hard coding problems. And it doesn't say when it can't solve the essay ones either. It's less valuable than resharper. So the business value is maybe $10 a month. That can't finance this industry.
on_the_train commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality   jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre
blackqueeriroh · 10 days ago
Who forced you to get one? Did they hold you down and shove it in your arm?
on_the_train · 9 days ago
No it was more devious, with the thread of economic annihilation and homelessness.
on_the_train commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality   jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre
dalbaugh · 11 days ago
Unfortunately, I don't think any additional evidence will convince vaccine skeptics of the safety of mRNA vaccines
on_the_train · 11 days ago
Yeah maybe forcing people to get them triggered some kind of skepticism, how about that
on_the_train commented on The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress   dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-s... · Posted by u/cubefox
dang · 16 days ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

on_the_train · 16 days ago
That doesn't, or shouldn't apply to the content itself. Because we all know how prevalent clickbait is.
on_the_train commented on The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress   dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-s... · Posted by u/cubefox
Angostura · 16 days ago
Thank god. Was driving me mad.
on_the_train · 16 days ago
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