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by Frieren 1y ago
Most times that a country attacks another is a tragedy of the commons situation. A few people at the top will profit from the war even if most citizens from both countries lose because of it. The country as its citizens does not profit from
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by Frieren 1y ago
What is the impact of an increase of energy spend each day by this birds? They need more food, so they will eat more insects and grain. I doubt that it is a negligible amount. It could easy affect the amount of birds that an ecosystem can h
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by Frieren 1y ago
European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs - https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspens... It makes sense when the USA rules are not clear.
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by Frieren 1y ago
> I see a lot of money in the future for competent engineers who can unfuck what ChatGPT has fucked. I do not want to do that work. Cleaning up junior code is easy, because they mess in predictable ways. LLM generated code can be extreme
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by Frieren 1y ago
That is true. And I do not argue that education cannot be better and more fair. We saw how train privatization worked for Sweden. Education should not follow the same path. But I have seen too many people arguing that education is collapsin
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by Frieren 1y ago
> but denoising (which basically every smartphone camera does) often has the effect of removing details like wrinkles. I do not get the argument of "if nothing happens when an ant bites you then I can shot you with a cannon be cause
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Even smartphones do it automatically for you, digital post-processing to compensate for the limitations of the cameras. The level of post-processing matters. There is a difference between color grading an image and removing wrinkles fr
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> The results has been...not great. Sweden is the 19th country in the PISA scores. And it is in the upper section on all education indexes. There has been a world decline on scores, but has nothing to do with the Swedish education system
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by Frieren 1y ago
How long until all of them merge is a mega-corporation? At this point big chunks of these companies are owned by the same investors so their interests are already aligned.
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Apple, Nvidia and US govt can provide the required funds When the first tough about investing is to go to big corporations and the goverment instead of going to investors is a telling about how nowadays the economy works. I love that t
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Before LLMs, provided that your team did some of their due diligence, you could always expect to have some help when tackling new code-bases. Either a mentor, or at least some (even if maybe partially outdated) documentation. With LLMs
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by Frieren 1y ago
What is people doing instead of reading? Social media is designed to be extremely addictive. It taps also on teenagers fears of failing to fit in. I love HN for being a place for discussion. But most social media is a one way trend setting
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by Frieren 1y ago
Any capability that we lose as a society is going to be hard to get back. I understand that AI companies want to embed AI in everything and make society dependent on it. Like cigarette brands AI companies want a world addicted to their tech
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by Frieren 1y ago
> He's a far left voice As European I see Bernie as center-right, but I guess it is a matter of perspective.
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by Frieren 1y ago
Hard to say if you are being ironic or you really believe that bullshit. "/s" helps with this situations. So, I will assume that you are for real believing that or you have invested a lot of money on AI and the hype profits y
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by Frieren 1y ago
> The feeling of instability she describes is a hallmark of the generative-AI era. This is by design. Power-hungry billionaires thrive in chaos. God governed countries and the rule of law do not allow for the level of inequality that we
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Politicians will align themselves with whatever ideology will get them the support they need to accumulate power and money. Not all politicians are like that. The Republican party has been very focused on that. "All politicians b
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by Frieren 1y ago
At this point I think that this kind of tracking should be forbidden by law. People should not have an option to accept "being spied at all times on their personal behavior". It is creepy, it is dangerous and it is inhuman. The ex
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Then the projects become more complex, there's less quick wins, and cycles get longer. The problem with Boeing is mostly a business side one, not an engineering problem. Boeing invested in buy backs instead of creating good produc
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> 10% hurts the same no matter your income. 10% is more just. Than a flat fine. But 10% hurts more when you are poor and have no savings and you need that money to pay rent. For small companies is the same. Bigger corporations have more
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by Frieren 1y ago
I was "playing" the gamification part of StackOverflow. I wanted to ask a good question for points. But it was very difficult because any meaningful question had already been asked. It was way easier to find questions to answer.
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This assessment fits with my anecdotal evidence. LLMs just cannot reason in any basic way. LLMs have a large knowledge base that can be spit out at a moment notice. But they have zero insight on its contents, even when the information has j
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by Frieren 1y ago
> My go to benchmark is a 3d snake game Claude does almost flawlessly (or at least in 3-4 iterations) If you need to know how the snake game should look to get the code then Claude is not doing the work you are.
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> ChatGPT didn't ruin anything. Lazy students did. That's a very unuseful way of looking at it. It solves nothing. ChatGPT has created a problem, we need to look ways of solving it. Unregulated technology is harmful, we need re
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To be influenced in this subtle ways at such a high level. AI is trained by big tech corporations to accomplish their goals. To use any of it for policy making is a horrifying step in the wrong direction. But that is the goal of tech compan
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UN reports: - Environment should be protected. - Corruption harms countries and economies. - Extreme poverty could be eradicated with coordinated efforts. Half of the parties in any goverment: let's just ignore all of that.
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We live in the middle ages of computing. No reasonable laws, no regulations, rogue corporations doing whatever they please. Can you imagine installing pipes in a building that can only be serviced by that one corporation? Can you imagine in
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> It’s time for Microsoft—and the industry at large—to make security a fundamental pillar, not an afterthought. If you use Microsoft products, check your settings, advocate for change, and demand accountability. Only regulations will for
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This is why so many people are against nuclear. It may be theoretically possible to create safe nuclear plants, but capitalism is badly equipped to create them.
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> There are a lot of idiots out there. Tech experts things that everybody not as knowledgeable as them are "stupid". The reality is that everybody has blind spots and fall for a scam. Maybe, you will not fall for this one becau

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