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by andy99 1y ago
There are definitely big?bubbles where everyone has outsourced their thinking to AI. I’d like to think it’s mostly at the lower end of “knowledge work” - think Deloitte, but it seems that even people / orgs that you would expect more c
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by andy99 1y ago
Does that seem like what’s happening here?
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by andy99 1y ago
IPO is to leave someone holding the bag, right? The narrative has really changed from AGI, the most consequential technology, blabla. If I had that I would keep it private. If I wanted to cash out, I’d do an IPO. Is there a narrative that d
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by andy99 1y ago
I agree that next word prediction, while technically correct, doesn’t capture the full nature of what LLMs are optimized for. And the article gets it wrong. In fact they’re optimized for sycophancy and human preference, to produce plausible
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by andy99 1y ago
lol who is using pip so much that .36s of startup time matters to them? This, if presumably uv can do nothing slightly faster, is an absolutely meaningless benefit
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by andy99 1y ago
Possibly for some workflows, though personally I find the emphasis on speed baffling and a big part of the reason I don’t find most of these uv testimonials credible. I’m a regular python user across multiple environments and I’ve never con
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by andy99 1y ago
FWIW I asked the same question last time a uv thread was posted (two weeks ago) - got some legit answers, none that swayed me personally but I can see why people use it. Also lots of inexplicable love for it https://news.ycombina
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by andy99 1y ago
It’s definitely an issue for learning the language. Obviously after working with python a bit that doesn’t matter, but fragmentation still makes it more of a hassle to get open source projects up and running if they don’t use something clos
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by andy99 1y ago
It’s funny because I actually think we’re quite possibly kicking off a dark age where almost nobody thinks or writes for themselves anymore and real knowledge (or wisdom if you like) is gatekept by big companies. It’s a parallel to the medi
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by andy99 1y ago
Hot take - I’m sure this is true for early adopters. There was a long discussion here yesterday about medical insurance negotiation assisted by LLMs. Longer term, there is a real danger that asymmetry will increase. Using LLMs appears to ma
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by andy99 1y ago
I’m in my mid 40’s, and have been using computers since the mid ‘80s. What generation are you from?
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by andy99 1y ago
I understood “taste” here to mean opinions. It’s not “good taste” it’s just “some taste”. IMO there are many ways to express taste that are not tinkering, such as preferentially selecting things and my personal favourite, complaining :) Nev
553.
by andy99 1y ago
How about the Reddit style feigned offence?
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by andy99 1y ago
I’d like to tinker with that font, it burns my eyes to try and read the words styled like that, maybe that’s the intent?
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by andy99 1y ago
Edit: just saw an earlier better comment saying the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737190 Countries with “free” also healthcare ration it and don’t cover everything. Socialized insurance is still insuran
556.
by andy99 1y ago
Not sure what the OP meant but I too feel locked into them. I dislike both the company and in some cases the product, but they currently provide the least bad option - almost certainly for laptops and probably for phones.
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by andy99 1y ago
This is a problem everywhere now, and not just in code. It now takes zero effort to produce something, whether code or a work plan or “deep research” and then lob it over the fence, expecting people to review and act upon it. It’s an extens
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by andy99 1y ago
Do you have a point or are you just trying to feel smart with a low effort remark? I’ve included the reasoning behind my view.
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by andy99 1y ago
I don’t think people consciously operate this way, but it’s a question of incentives. A society that emphasizes family and supporting elders will have more kids, one where the state has a bigger role fewer. It’s not a conspiracy but a nudge
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by andy99 1y ago
I actually think the opposite, even if this study doesn’t appear to support it. Socialism is a major factor why people have fewer kids. If the state is going to take care of you, it replaces family in this regard, and there is less incentiv
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by andy99 1y ago
While it’s interesting work, so far my experience is that AI isn’t good enough (or most people aren’t good enough with AI) for detection to really be a concern, at least in “research” or any writing over a few sentences. If you think about
562.
by andy99 1y ago
Why is that Nature’s problem? I can see granting organizations penalizing recipients that don’t disseminate their work openly. But do you think a company should not be allowed to make a business of publishing papers at a profit?
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by andy99 1y ago
Canada already isn’t economically independent. Diversification is fine, especially if it saves costs that can then be deliberately redirected towards improving sovereign capabilities. Right now we have the worst of both worlds, we pay top m
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by andy99 1y ago
That sounds correct though more fundamentally we don’t know what intelligence or consciousness are. It’s almost a religious question, as in our current understanding of the universe does not explain them but we know they exist. So regardles
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by andy99 1y ago
I think the bigger issue is people confusing impressive but comparatively simpler achievements (everything current LLMs do) with anything remotely near the cognitive versatility of any human.
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by andy99 1y ago
This reminds me a bit of a private group that did a big study (I thought in SFBA) looking at the amount of microplastics in different stuff, for example delivered food. Just thinking about it because of the startup he mentioned and I was wo
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by andy99 1y ago
The one I forgot is drink as much water as possible. Usually I try and work a bit, and will listen to music and relax with my eyes closed (I can’t usually sleep much unless in business class which is not common)
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by andy99 1y ago
As a fairly regular traveller - drink little or no alcohol - if flying west, stay up to a normal bedtime - if east, don’t sleep in I usually end up breaking qt least one of these, but they do work and imo are basically all you need
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by andy99 1y ago
We didn’t have internet when I was an early teen and I would read physical encyclopedias before bed. If academic study is on one end of a spectrum, lots of Wikipedia is maybe in the middle, pretty accessible and simple enough to keep clicki
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by andy99 1y ago
Yeah I stopped really looking at replies when I realized it was just a bunch of people telling me that falling in a nuclear reactor pool isn’t that bad and to go read the XKCD again if I don’t get it.

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