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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
I would not be surprised if people on HN were more likely to hit this issue than Apple's average users. We're a weird bunch ;)
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
I got tired of the AI writing before finding out if they even attempted to contact Apple about this issue? Does anyone know? Also, massively over-dramatised. Yes, a bug worth finding and knowing about, but it’s not a time bomb - very few us
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
How is this not equivalent to training the model on the test data set? Yes it performs better at generating code for the target problems, but seemingly by becoming more tuned to the specific context of those problems (“context aware”), whic
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
I still occasionally make that auto-save mistake. AI tools have caused me to trip up a few times too when I fail to notice how many changes haven’t been checked into git, and then the tool obliterates some of its work and a struggle ensues
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
If you hadn’t written that post using AI, it might’ve received more attention. Also, (1) if you’d put LinkedIn in the title, rather than the very bottom of the post, and (2) if you’d provided any insight, rather than just speculation, as to
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
Mmm, you’ve shown yours too.
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
That..what..no. The question was whether there are any comparable to electricity, of which I have put forth a number of examples. And also offered my opinion that it is too early to judge whether AI will be as significant or not. There are
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
Yeah, I agree, but AI isn’t there yet. It’s too early to call it one way or the other. There’s plenty else that’s as important as electricity in my view, and maybe AI will join those ranks in 15 years or so when it’s gone through the hype l
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
I’m grateful for GitHub and their support for open source, but they’re not getting any sympathy for the AI mess they’re generating (and they’re contributing more to the mess than many other organisations, due to their size, position and pro
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
Mmm, it’s almost like OpenAI built statistical models using pre-existing corporate speech as the target data... ;)
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
Most of modern medicine, by which I mean each discovery and invention in their own right, stand alongside electricity. Particularly vaccines. AI isn’t there yet. You could turn off AI tomorrow and there’d be a shock but people would quickly
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
I was with you until your comment about vibe coders. Microsoft paid for and brought this vibe coding hell upon themselves. GitHub Copilot, investment in/partnership with OpenAI, and everything else they’ve done to enshitify software an
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
The “Grapes in a Cognac glass” image looks like an electric car charger symbol lol
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by BitsAndObjects 6mo ago
“Don’t pay attention to what Claude is doing, just spam your way through code and commands and hope nothing went wrong and you catch any code issues in review afterwards” is what this sounds like. I will run parallel Claude sessions when I
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
Ah yes, the AGI will have many toggle switches, just like intelligent humans :,-)
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
The AI writing of the article made me give up halfway through. It’s a neat idea but the writing style of these AI models is brain-grating, especially when it’s the wrong style choice for this kind of technical report.
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
AFAICT Zotero relies on scanning what you browse, not on suggesting citations based on a draft paper. It’s not solving the same problem.
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
Yeah I tried building such a tool. The problem was two fold: 1) Automated fetching of papers is difficult. API approaches are limited, and often requires per-journal development, scraping approaches are largely blocked, and AI- approaches r
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
I think you missed the point. Yes it was meant to be humorous, and also to emphasise one of the reasons AI-generated citations are completely untrustworthy, especially with the growing number of AI-generated (junk) papers being published. N
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
Also 90% of citations generated by AI are wrong or straight up don’t even exist. It’s got such a long way to go to be able to reliably write credible papers. [Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments&#x2
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
And here we see you’ve hit upon Jevon’s paradox. The scope of work will grow to use more than it did before, now that human labour achieves more for the same money. Employment will ultimately go up not down (over the long term - we are seei
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009327 > “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry-level hiring in this environment,” Nickl
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
That dynamic is nothing new. Years of experience to become a senior engineer is not “training” and not covered by what you’re describing. The shortage of senior engineers will be even worse than it is today. Not sure your argument really ho
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
(IBM figured this out a couple of months ago, and explicitly announced tripling their hiring of juniors/grads in order to avoid ending up with a massive gap in the management/senior layers in future).
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
10 years from now, the people that stopped hiring novices and juniors are going to be deeply regretting their past decisions. The people that kept hiring are going to be working with their newly-promoted-to-senior colleagues and be making s
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
>"Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform." https://office.eu/faq
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
Oh, there's some reference to NextCloud - so is this just a white-labeled NextCloud? Or a straight-up AI generated rip-off / resell?
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
Am I being dumb: they say it's "open-source software" but I can't actually find a link (or links) to the software / source anywhere on the office.eu website??
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
There's having An honorary degree... and then there's having 6 of them plus numerous other awards, and all the achievements to back them up :) Regardless, I've met people with only honorary doctorates, and it's a mixed b
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by BitsAndObjects 7mo ago
I was adding Go to the list at the very end of the comment: >OpenMP also inherits many of those concepts, and some of them are also in CUDA.

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