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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
it is silently assumed that only the experts who agree with me are the true experts
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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
Hopefully you are renting your intelligence to the company, not selling it. (Unless the job gets you burned out, in which case it was selling indeed.)
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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
I agree, especially the juxtaposition of "we have still have no idea how all of this is going to work when the dust settles" and "hype". If we don't know, then there is a chance it isn't a hype. For example
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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
> The solution was going to be for everybody to write positive stories in which the LLM is good and relinquishes control, which then made it's way into the LLM's training data Sounds like: https://www.lesswrong.com&
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by Viliam1234 5mo ago
> As a mostly non-programmer it got me a lot done. I guess this means that you have some good instincts or habits that would be good for a programmer, even if you didn't choose that path. Programming is more than just knowing the sy
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
Some people took SO too competitively. They tried to be the first to answer your question (even if by a single sentence that would be edited to a longer answer later), but when they could not, they at least tried to get your question closed
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
"free-range" means fully remote, right?
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by Viliam1234 6mo ago
The Anti-Intellectualism of the Hacker News Elites. AIs are useful tools in programming, whether you like it or not. Yes, there is a lot of hype. There is also a lot of ignorance. AI is not going to write an entire complex application for y
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by Viliam1234 7mo ago
> There is a prevalent view of economy that insists businesses sell their products at the minimum price they can still make a profit at [...] A Marxist view of economy, if I must. That's actually how competition is supposed to wor
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by Viliam1234 8mo ago
> Also, the idea that chess is a good proxy for genius is a bit out of date. He wrote that the reason he chose chess was because it was objectively measurable. You play the game, you either win or you lose; there is no way to dispute the
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by Viliam1234 8mo ago
Yeah, it's easier to do the difficult and boring stuff when it's actually easy and interesting for you.
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by Viliam1234 8mo ago
Exactly. Up to some point, you actually do well because you are smart . Then, in the middle of the game, the rules change (from your perspective), and it may catch you by surprise. It would be much better for the gifted children to attend
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by Viliam1234 8mo ago
I think it does provide some education for the average child. It's just when you are not average that it fails you.
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
There is Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
> only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being Yeah, realizing that thoughtless machines are still more thankful that real human beings would make me depressed.
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
That's why the social networks don't want to talk about the bots, but they are happy to have them.
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
The customers these days are willing to pay for programs full of bugs that require enormous amounts of resources, so the craft no longer generates profits.
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
But it also depends on the organization. If your managers love to micro-manage, you will be paid to do things, because someone else believes they know better than you.
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
> Any mentor type figure is going to be at least partially evaluated by progress of the mentees against some benchmark. Sounds like the same kind of mistake as evaluating teachers by the grades of their students. Soon people figure out t
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
If you have contacts on the seniors who have left, call them, ask them if they like the companies they are currently working for, and whether the companies are looking for new hires. In the job interview, give them the list of responsibilit
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by Viliam1234 10mo ago
I was a teacher, and I didn't notice anything similar. It's just a job -- if you can do it, you can do it. You can be more experienced, you can be more comfortable with solving certain problems, you can do it better or worse, but
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Sadly it's not a joke. Most people suck at math. Those who don't suck usually have many well-paying jobs available for them. There are lots of schools, so many math teachers are needed. Put these numbers together, and you realize
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Sounds familiar. The only missing part are the "happy endings" such as: When you finally complete Feature B, the analysts look at it again, and realize that it actually wasn't necessary, and you should revert it.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
We definitely know how to create a Jira ticket for it, and the rest is developer's problem.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> I still don't understand why standardized testing gets so much pushback. Parents of the children who can't pass the standardized tests also get a vote.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Yeah, this is a mistake everyone makes, and it is difficult to explain to people who didn't study statistics. The short version is that intelligence is an ordinal value, not a cardinal value. You can say that person A is more intellige
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Everyone who actually studied psychometrics has to upvote this. (Which is why it stays at the bottom of the HN comment thread.)
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Even if we could positively confirm that the person is smarter than literally every human who has ever lived... that would be about IQ 200, still far from IQ 210. (The required number of humans grows exponentially.)
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Yes they do. Not that it ever stopped people from making claims about having higher IQ. IQ 160 means that you are 1 in 30,000 of your age group. That means that to calibrate a test that can measure that high, the authors had to test more th
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> 210 IQ will never be enough. $20M dollars will never be enough. At least, $20M dollars exists, while 210 IQ is mathematically nonsense -- it means "one out of several trillions", which exceeds the human population. You would

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