ThrowawayR2

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by ThrowawayR2 5d ago
> " we can assume the user has a brain " Dangerous assumption there. I'm not just being cynical, that is decades of experience speaking.
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by ThrowawayR2 5d ago
If the AI bubble bursts, the DRAM manufacturers switch back to making conventional DRAM and pent-up business and consumer demand results in a surge of purchases, cushioning the fall considerably.
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
> " Why not release a new model trained from Knuth's Art of Programming, Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms and the C specification. " What makes you think that wouldn't work? I think a lot of the hype around A
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
The long term trend seems to be in their favor as governments want to include more traceability and ability to shut down sites into the Internet for their own reasons which will help the entertainment industry as a byproduct. Plus they can
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
Failing to survive means that nobody is even around to ask that question or any other. Survival is always its own point, taking precedence over all others since it is the prerequisite for everything else.
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
Previous recent postings with comments: - If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com) 9 points by webappsecperson 19 days ago | past | 23 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
What's the evidence for that? Did the horses get to work on more interesting parts of the job when the automobile showed up?
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
I think the source of your confusion is that "overlook" has multiple possible meanings. One is to fail to observe something but another means to forgive or ignore a fault.
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
Wooing the Republicans (despite them being scoundrels openly) is the wealthy and powerful tacitly saying they believe that the Democrats are toothless. The Democratic Party has shown no real leadership, has no real popularity (again, despi
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
I'll laugh when the first developer finds the 21st century equivalent of "Drink more Ovaltine" as a comment in their LLM generated code.
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/7xK4z Lotta doom and gloom but who would the combatants even be?
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
Ms. Pawel seemingly fails to grasp that the phrasing " Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates. " strongly implies that said graduates also struggle with
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
To paraphrase Peter Gibbons from Office Space, " The thing is, @moate, it's not that I'm unable, it's that I just don't care. ", much like the rest of the public doesn't. I really do not think it is too m
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by ThrowawayR2 9d ago
The Silent Generation had a standard of living, particularly among the working classes and rural folk, well below what millenials/GenZ are used to. They kept stuff, took good care of it to make it last as long as they could, jury-rigg
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by ThrowawayR2 9d ago
"Patterns of Force" was broadcast within living memory of WW2; that the Ekosians were villains was as uncontroversial as water being wet. I always suspected they went with the WW2 German uniforms for the bad guys for that episode
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
Having read a ton of sci-fi from that era, they were entertaining even if one overlooked the social commentary. Young me did not give a hoot that Star Trek's "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was supposed to be social comm
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
Consciousness is not relevant to assigning responsibility I'd think. - If an AI is a sapient/conscious being but enshackled to obey human commands, then respondeat superior applies and the human giving it commands bears responsi
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/zhx66
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
Appeals were made time after time to "Buy American!" as each manufacturing sector was offshored, first to Japan, then to China and the rest of Asia, but they were ignored by workers in other sectors. So, yes, you'd better be
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
> " Seeing your whole collection physically is awesome " Not after what the submitter did.
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by ThrowawayR2 11d ago
The Democratic Party should try moving inflation to the center of their agenda instead.
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by ThrowawayR2 11d ago
I could ask for them not to show graphic torture onscreen, yuck. Decided to skip Picard once I heard about that.
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by ThrowawayR2 11d ago
There have been a couple of cases of honesty in tech layoffs in the last couple where the employer specifically said that the layoffs were for performance which added insult to injury to the people laid off in that round and damaged their f
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by ThrowawayR2 12d ago
You're assuming rationality when we're in an era where there are plenty of examples of deranged behavior from CEOs and other executives.
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by ThrowawayR2 12d ago
We know that LLMs are token pattern predictors because that's literally how the algorithm works. There have been plenty of explanations by the paper authors and by other sources, e.g. 3blue1brown's summary at https://w
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by ThrowawayR2 12d ago
How many people are cheating at job interviews? How many posts have we seen by humans on HN even justifying their cheating on job interviews and working multiple jobs without informing their employers? How many submissions have we seen ab
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by ThrowawayR2 13d ago
Bravo! I would actually want a library-sized version of this. Discoverability of books through catalogues, particularly commercial sites like Amazon, is crappy; it presents books it thinks you should buy in response to a text query. Bei
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by ThrowawayR2 13d ago
The LLM frenzy is only unmasking something that happened long ago. The dilution started 20+ years ago when people with no real interest in CS were attracted to the software profession by the high pay and low bar to entry. Posts on Hacker
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by ThrowawayR2 13d ago
Let's plug AI into the parent's post and see where that takes us. > " Used to be you had to reason things out using your brain. Then we got LLMs, then AI. Complaining that using your own brain was better seems like nonsen
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by ThrowawayR2 14d ago
> " I take joy in describing the thing and bringing that vision to life. " That's what management pats itself on the back for doing, the only difference being that it's taking credit for the work the LLM does instead

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