WD-42

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by WD-42 2mo ago
This could be renamed "Asking authors about their own pull requests" and the outcome would be exactly the same.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
It feels particularly bad for a local arts faire. Like maybe ask one of the local artists if they could design a poster instead of defaulting to the plagiarism machine? If I saw this ai poster for a local crafts faire I’d immediately dismis
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by WD-42 2mo ago
First time I heard about V was because of the Volt desktop chat app: https://volt-app.com/ which seemed attractive at the time. Turns out it was completely closed source and read secrets from local browser's cookie sto
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Where do you work? Sounds nice!
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by WD-42 2mo ago
This is extremely depressing, I think I'm coming around to the realization that you may be right and I've been naive my entire career.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
> People never really read documentation before. The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?
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by WD-42 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249269 I put the "humanized" output through Pangram and it still comes out as 100% AI generated.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
I’d have written a shorter comment, but I didn’t have the time.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
So the slop kiddies both don’t understand what they are doing, and they ruin the party for everyone else. Nice.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Kind of ironic that this thing purports to “gate” slop, yet the entire project is slop, including the README and even the authors comments here. I hate this timeline.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
It would be interesting to learn what over engineered solution to fuzzy string matching is being used here to exhibit this behavior, so we never make the same mistake.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
The only people that would care are already using adblockers and not seeing these ads anyway.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
It’s time to start figuring out how to block domains on hacker news. This slop is getting out of control. Who can read this? The first few sentences already induced a migraine.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Why would you get emotional over a model? They got you that good?
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Yea this whole “your job is to create value” argument is always really shaky. Add “with computers and stuff” to the end and it becomes more plausible. Nobody gets a degree is “providing value”.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
If they have solved hundreds of open problems in math, why are they publishing results for the ones other mathematicians happen to be working on at the same time? Why not the others?
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by WD-42 2mo ago
And this is worse than 2 cars in every driveway how?
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by WD-42 2mo ago
I think this is what happens when you try to expand information. Like butter scraped over too much bread.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Thanks! That should be the first paragraph on the website!
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Can anyone decipher the website and paste the ai;dr
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Autonomous cars are pretty space and energy efficient if they act as public transportation. Cars spend something like 95% of their life parked. If AVs replace personal ownership, that's a HUGE reduction in the number of cars in existen
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by WD-42 2mo ago
> ChatGPT has several billion conversations every day. I estimate that the model that solved Navier–Stokes was trained on data from nearly a trillion conversations. How many of those trillion conversations were about Navier-Stokes you re
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Yup! I wanted to side with the mathematician on this one but I read the statement only to discover that they were also pushing an llm on someone else’s idea producing mountains of slop. Have LLMs actually improved anything? Is mathematics b
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Everything is free, except HTTP requests apparently.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
I think a not insignificant amount of it is literally just pavement too. Absurdly wide roads and parking lots everywhere. It’s a bit of a hellscape really.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Fun fact: this is the plot of the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”
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by WD-42 2mo ago
I was just down there and saw multiple massive development projects going on. Like huge new neighborhoods. Of course they aren’t in LA proper. But it seems like people that want to live in SoCal want the suburbs. You talk like LA is this ar
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by WD-42 2mo ago
I just can’t get over that slightly detached, nauseating feeling that follows the realization that I just read 3 long sentences that said very little. It’s almost like it’s possible to sense there is an underlying prompt and what you are ac
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Because it’s extremely profitable for them to serve ads and sell PI. Kind of like how the airline industry makes more money off credit card shenanigans than actual plane tickets.
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by WD-42 2mo ago
Not every project needs to be a reverse engineering project, and the future looks pretty bleak if getting Linux to work on every new computer turns into one. Hopefully this remains an Apple problem with their proprietary crap.

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