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by andy99 7mo ago
Does that seem hard? I think it’s hard. The relevant physical phenomena include at least.., In most engineering problems, the starting point is recognizing that usually one or two key things will dominate and the rest won’t matter.
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by andy99 7mo ago
I stopped reading at “ 2 bytes on a 64GB stick is embarrassing. 2 bytes in your mouse is art.” No way to know for sure, but worth flagging.
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by andy99 7mo ago
> I saw someone get attacked with a knife, another commenter here had a gun pulled on him I though the discussion here was about people not using their headphones on airplanes.
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by andy99 7mo ago
I don’t know if anyone remembers the movie Inside Man where at the beginning they are waiting in line at the bank and the woman is having a loud conversation on her phone and the guard comes and tells here to keep it down. It’s this kind of
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by andy99 7mo ago
Pretty sure on planes this is more ignorance than malice. It’s self absorbed people that are too selfish to consider someone else might not want to hear what they’re watching, rather than some deliberate anti society thing. Regardless, no p
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by andy99 7mo ago
This captures the problem, the sycophancy / preference optimization deludes people into thinking they’re on to something and posting things that don’t contribute to the discussion. It’s the “I drive better when I’m drunk” syndrome, it’
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by andy99 8mo ago
Does declaring a function as inline do anything for any modern compiler? I understood that this is basically ignored now and is the compiler makes its own decisions based on what is fastest.
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by andy99 9mo ago
Yeah so find a forum that’s for discussing that and discuss it there. Don’t try and force people who are discussing something else to talk about politics with you. Do you also randomly go onto GitHub issues and start talking politics becaus
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by andy99 9mo ago
> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.
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by andy99 9mo ago
Just to add on, armchair quarterbacking is a thing, it’s easy in hindsight to label decisions as the result of bad intentions. This is completely different than whatever might have been at play in the moment and retrospective judgement is o
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by andy99 9mo ago
It’s an indicator of extremely low effort. I don’t think fundamentally it’s people not liking the picture, or liking it less than a stock picture (even if the all look the same) it’s just a tell that someone is being super lazy. Same as peo
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by andy99 9mo ago
The comparison is false anyway, even if one just understands a high level language, there is no magic, you’re working in a closed system where you can understand and explain what your code is doing. There may be edge case, performance thing
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by andy99 9mo ago
I call it “AI blindness”, people genuinely don’t see what’s bad about AI output, it happens across code, text, and images. Same as the title itself being X not Y AI slop.
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by andy99 9mo ago
I have, and your reply is a pretty weak fallback from The relationship between owners and workers has always been extractive. The adversarial relationship is built in. I’m sure extractive relationships exist, but it’s certainly not a
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by andy99 9mo ago
This has almost never been my experience in ~20 years of working. Other than a few fleeting assholes, all of my work relationships have essentially been collegial, with all parties, regardless of position, looking at how we can best get the
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by andy99 9mo ago
> Issues and discussions can use AI assistance but must have a full human-in-the-loop. This means that any content generated with AI must have been reviewed and edited by a human before submission. I can see this being a problem. I read
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by andy99 9mo ago
For example, authors may have given an LLM a partial description of a citation and asked the LLM to produce bibtex This is equivalent to a typo. I’d like to know which “hallucinations” are completely made up, and which have a corre
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by andy99 9mo ago
Nature abhors a vacuum
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by andy99 9mo ago
You obviously know what you’re looking for better than me, but personally I’d want to see a narrative that made sense before accepting that a smaller model somehow just performs better, even if the benchmarks say so. There may be such an ex
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by andy99 9mo ago
What does that look like in your opinion, what do you use?
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by andy99 9mo ago
How much you value control is one part of the optimization problem. Obviously self hosting gives you more but it costs more, and re evals, I trust GPT, Gemini, and Claude a lot more than some smaller thing I self host, and would end up want
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by andy99 9mo ago
Depends on what you’re doing. Using the smaller / cheaper LLMs will generally make it way more fragile. The article appears to focus on creating a benchmark dataset with real examples. For lots of applications, especially if you’re wor
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by andy99 9mo ago
Imo this is what happened once protests became a “right”. I know most people here won’t agree with the Canada trucker protest, but I remember when it happened, people were saying “ok, you’ve had your protest and exercised your rights, you’v
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by andy99 9mo ago
Is anyone aware of a more thorough argument for why this must be the case? Is it a commonly held view? It sounds realistic, but not necessarily and immutable law, I’d like to know what thought has been given to this.
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by andy99 9mo ago
Yes, just clicked on the video, instantly nauseous. I get motion sick generally.
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by andy99 9mo ago
There was a COBOL LLM eval benchmark published a few years ago, looks like it hasn’t been maintained: https://github.com/zorse-project/COBOLEval At least I think that’s the repo, there was an HN discussion at the time
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Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026(cnn.com)
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by andy99 9mo ago
I recently learned Bear blog (a small blogging platform, posts on which often appear on HN) has a “discover” section with a front page style ranking. Their algorithm is on the page This page is ranked according to the following algorith
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by andy99 9mo ago
I just saw a sibling post about Kagi, maybe this is how the industry will end up, with a main provider like OpenAI and niche wrappers on top (I know Kagi is not just a google wrapper but at least they used to return google search results th
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by andy99 9mo ago
There would be competition from API wrappers, if you want to pay there will always be lots of options to chat without ads. I hate to think what they and others might come up with to try and thwart this.

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