School-Cotton

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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
I'm not sure I grasp the analogy to the invention of calculus. Calculus helped us solve new and interesting math/physics problems. Repeated for emphasis: helped *us* solve. This technology is solving interesting math/physics
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
Why would it excite you, rather than terrifying you? The better LLMs get at math, the closer the expertise you spent your whole life building is to being worthless. Along with all the rest of what humans find meaningful and fulfilling.
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
"Predicting the next token" is meaningless. Every process that has any sort of behavior, including a human writing, can be modeled by some function from past behavior to probability distribution of next action. Viewed this way, li
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
Huh? You said it has to do with "large corporations", specifically. Which is not true.
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
> The best way for one to reduce their carbon footprint is to stop supporting large corporations. Not really, no. The carbon footprint associated with your consumption has little-to-nothing to do with the type of economic structure that
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
> Grand scheme of things, you'd do more "harm" to the planet (however minuscule on the personal level) by choosing not to recycle than choosing to recycle Yes, if everything else were held equal, but it's not. People
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
Recycling is largely a scheme to make people feel better about themselves without actually meaningfully addressing their environmental impact. If you care about the environment, BY FAR the most important thing you can do is reducing your ca
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
Why? Even if the common myth that public company executives must maximize profits at all costs were true, it's easy to construct a plausible explanation for why one might believe in good faith that destroying 538 rather than selling it
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by School-Cotton 5mo ago
What are you referring to?
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
The number of people who profess to care about user-replaceable batteries is absolutely baffling to me. It would save you an $80 trip to the Apple Store (or non-Apple equivalent) every three or four years. What am I missing?
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
> Are people showering and swimming with their phones or something? Believe it or not, yes!
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
E-waste is a minuscule rounding error compared to all the other forms of environmental destruction modern industrial civilization causes. European countries are massive polluters and net carbon producers (though not quite as bad as the US
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
They're rare because outside of the tiny minority of people who complain loudly on HN, nobody cares about this feature.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Who is "they"? Linux isn't a person or an organization. The people (and organizations) contributing to Linux are all doing it for their own motivations to solve their own problems. You are asking them to make their lives hard
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
That is great, they should also start ticketing human-driven cars that violate traffic laws too!
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Punishment is not only tied to the harm done by the crime, it’s also tied to difficulty of enforcement. For laws that are relatively easy to break without getting caught, you need severe penalties or everyone will just ignore them.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
We make child porn illegal which is even easier to copy than local LLMs. It doesn’t work perfectly, of course there are people who still have it, but we could dramatically reduce the number of people with local LLMs if we punished possessio
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
My impression is that The majority of people do want to.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Okay. Let China become more technologically advanced than us. I don’t care. Chinese tech companies being able to write software 20% faster than us is a less bitter pill to swallow than having to live in our current LLM world.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
I don’t understand why people act like we just have to submit to the AI revolution. We can make this technology illegal, and shut it down completely. Why don’t we?
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
> On the other hand, there are too many less-experienced Rust fans who do claim that "Rust" promises this Link some comments like this? Because I've been reading Rust discussions for years and never seen them.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
I have never seen a comment claiming that Rust leads to magically completely bug free programs. Could you please link one? Because I doubt it exists, or if it does, it is probably on some obscure website or downvoted to oblivion. On the oth
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
I agree it’d be nice if there were a safe stdlib openat API, but > If I have to use unsafe just to open a file, I might as well use C. is a ridiculous exaggeration.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
The concept of engineer predates the accreditation systems you’re referring to by centuries.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Have you ever worked at a big company? There are plenty of people who don’t give a shit and just do whatever their boss tells them.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
And I still, to this day, see mojibake from time to time.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
Wouldn’t it be close? AFAIK modern network libraries on modern OSs default to IPv6 when available.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
The cafe WiFi thing (getting IPv6 only, no ipv4, on a public network) used to happen quite often to me on macOS. I never figured out why, and I haven’t noticed in a while.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
That’s indeed what they’re saying, but they’re simply wrong which is obvious from looking at the graph and accounting for seasonal variation.
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by School-Cotton 6mo ago
In my case, yes. I have never used AI to write any prose (including HN comments), and I never will. But I certainly started using them more often since the ChatGPT era began, purely through osmosis. I'm not exactly proud of that, but t

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