https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/

Ripgrep has the `--pre` flag and `--hostname-bin` flag that enables it to execute arbitrary commands.

> finding files, [...]

Does that tool invoke the `find` command? Because `find` has the `-exec` flag which could then be used to invoke arbitrary commands.

I really think the only safe option is putting your agent in a virtual machine with only a copy of your code (sans credentials), let the agent work, and then copy it back and manually audit it.

> planet that provides all those things and more for free

This planet does not provide healthcare, telecommunications, or computing for free (unless you consider nature's "the sick get eaten" approach "healthcare"). Housing is only free if you either don't value the labor or you are fine living in caves. Water and food could be free if you're only interested in drinking from rivers and foraging for fruit, otherwise we're back to whether or not you value the labor in farming or building the infrastructure for water collection and transport.

(for the record, I think those things should be all funded by taxes. I just think it is silly to claim the planet provides those things for free. We created those things, through millennia of toil.)

I went from being a passionate programmer spending all my free time working on code, to be unable to write a single line for even my most loved personal projects for 6 months. Fully awake, in the middle of the day, I would boot up my computer and within 10 minutes my body would put itself to sleep. I'd wake up hours later with my laptop barely past the login screen. It took me 6 months before I could do personal projects again. 1 year before I could do professional work again. 2 years before I could juggle both. I've fully recovered (or at least I did right before LLMs hit the scene), but it takes a lot of time and I lost a lot of money not working for that year. If I could go back in time, I would have quit that job earlier because it is far easier finding jobs as a passionate developer rather than a recovering burnout.

"I would like to understand this information, but the way it is presented is unfamiliar to me. If we had the exact same information written in a different way, I would be able to understand it."

"You are the example of anti-intellectualism that is allowing the world being controlled by dumbed down mass media"

That is some reddit-level toxicity and hyperbole.

Looking at the HN front page right now, of the 30 posts, 19/30 (63%) are about software or software companies. I think "this is software development site" is a fair statement to make. Saying "this is a seafood restaurant" doesn't imply they exclusively serve seafood.

  1. The notation used
  2. The lack of concrete examples

Well putting this article in math notation without defining any of the data structures behind it, that's not like putting the article in French, it's like putting the article in Japanese. I can't understand any of it. Some Japanese speakers on this site are saying "I don't understand the problem, just learn Japanese." which is pretty much the least constructive comment they could make.

They're the same thing on an internet forum. There is no space to move through, so while in the physical world "move on" is different from "shut up", on an online forum they both mean exactly the same thing: "don't say anything".

And yes, this is stressing me out. I took the time and effort to think about and explain how this post could reach a wider audience on hackernews, citing an example from my own learning experience, and nearly everyone has attacked me for it. The original article was clearly meant to explain/educate. You'd think "here's how you can do that for more people" would be useful feedback.

Got it. Stay classy HN.

HN is a site for programmers (or specifically "hackers"). Posting an article to a site for programmers in math notation is like posting a French article to an English message board. Some people will be able to read it with varying levels of difficulty, but wouldn't it be better to post an English version of the same information so everyone can read it easily?

Imagine a nursing home that serves steak every day. One resident says "this food isn't helpful to me because I no longer have teeth to chew it. Wouldn't this be better for everyone if we had soup?". They're not suggesting outlawing steak, after all some people will get value from it. They suggesting a way to better serve the entire population of the nursing home.

Perhaps, but HN apparently is pretty hostile to people explaining why something is not clear and how it could be more clear based on all the downvotes. I'll keep that in mind: "If you don't understand something, shut up!"

This article is a bit more of a grey area. It is on a subject that is deeply relevant to this site and I'm sure some HN readers will get value from it. My point is that an even better submission to HN would have been an article on the same topic but written for programmers rather than mathematicians.

1. It uses math notation. This is a software development site, wouldn't this be much more clear to this audience written as psuedo code instead of a complex series of greek and latin letters?

2. It doesn't step through a concrete example. What is hollow R raised to the (M * d_v) ? Is it a number, a set, a list, a matrix?

To use an example I understand: RAG used to seem complicated to me when only math people were talking about it in math words. For example, let's take a line from wikipedia on embeddings:

> the representation is a real-valued vector that encodes the meaning of the word in such a way that the words that are closer in the vector space are expected to be similar in meaning

What made it clear was learning that generating an embedding is just a function(string) -> list[float], and RAG is just taking a list[float] for your prompt and finding other list[float] that are close to it in your dataset.

So what would make this article more clear, is step through a simplified example of putting a value into a memory store and querying that memory store, showing the actual data structures.

(Admittedly I haven't had a printer for over a decade and I have never printed from a phone, so maybe I am missing something.)