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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> Complex behavior can emerge from very simple rules. Indeed. You can observe emergent behaviour from, for instance, Conway's Game of Life, written in 1970. Redefining consciousness as "has emergent behaviour" is another t
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
It is easy to be sure because, despite their technically impressive outputs, the programming is child's play compared to biological programming. Recently it has become trendy to suggest that the human brain is "just electrical sig
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
It's marketing that some of them have started unironically believing.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Do you see Pokemon as encouraging a culture of accepting dogfighting/cockfighting rings?
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
You think most folks on HN are making $500,000 after taxes (being charitable and assuming "in a day" means a working day)? Moreover, does one commenter have to represent most folks? If someone makes less than $500,000, are they no
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Yesterday, with Astra Max, a very clear instruction to "remove the GUI editor pane and add <another component> to the existing sidebar" for a prototype I had it working on resulted in it deleting literally the entire GUI and
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
It's so funny to see a "compiler is magic" people encountering reality in the wild. No, an algorithm that must work for every single user of the language cannot possibly optimize for every individual's use case. It is
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
This is an embarrassingly idiotic article. They're comparing against the least intensive text model, ie some million parameter model nobody uses. Stable Diffusion is a 3.5 billion parameter model, while the GPT models a billion peopl
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Neither of those languages are obscure. If enough time passes that they become considered so, by all means there is no reason to condemn the names to an eternal graveyard.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> Furthermore, any C++ programmer who says they do not know C, knows neither C nor C++ (hence my preference in using C/C++ as a shorthand to encompass both and highlight the dependency of the latter on the former). Right, but this d
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Does it matter? Is the global namespace permanently depleted because of an obscure language that nobody has used in 30 years?
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Does one often use this basis for consuming autobiographies? I'd rather think the common cause for reading an autobiography is because it is interesting, or because the person is interesting, or notable to history in some way, and you
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
The other aspect is that they want fungibility. As a corporation, you use off-the-shelf solutions so that when you do your big layoffs every few years you can rotate in some other cogs who already know how to operate the standard solution.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> I believe the reason C is targeted specifically is because C communities are where this myth, and its religiosity (!), is the strongest. C being a low-level language is not a myth if, as normal people do, you consider assembly language
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
At my most charitable, I would give the author credit for knowing that assembly is not low-level by his own definition, but nonetheless intentionally misleads readers who do not know that assembly does not expose speculative execution instr
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> The article mentions assembly once. But it's not an argument about how assembly is "low level" It is, though: > Think of programming languages as belonging on a continuum, with assembly at one end The article explici
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
This article is so blatantly fallacious I can't even get past the first couple of paragraphs. Perhaps it makes a stronger case later in the article, but the early claims it makes invoke Meltdown/Spectre, eg. speculative execution,
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> For Millennials, authenticity, agency, autonomy, idealism, altruism etc all seem to be top of their list of desirable virtues – for better or worse, they are difficult to reconcile with Silicon Valley these days. (Nick Clegg) For bette
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> in-app notifications I would not describe a full-screen wallpaper, that is, the entire functionality of the software, to be a "notification".
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
A man trying to design a dating system to force women into dates is hilarious. One problem you seem not to have considered: what's in it for the woman? Why would she ever agree to this? To say nothing of how you would be excoriated i
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
If you want people to believe your project is not slop while using AI, the absolute least you could do is write the copy yourself. If you worked a long long time, morning to night, you can spend 10 minutes writing in your own words what y
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Anubis is significantly better than Cloudfare from a ux perspective because it doesn't require interacting with the page. Being gated by turnstiles and having to stop what youre doing while you're waiting is infuriating. To say
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
Are you using this satire to argue that a benchmark self-labelled AGI is as scientifically rigorous as climate change data, and not just a random marketing decision?
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
My definition of AGI certainly doesn't entail passing a benchmark that some random person arbitrarily labelled AGI to make it sound cooler.
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
> To be clear, you never owned the games To be clear, when I use the phrase "deny you ownership of your games", I'm talking in Common English, not legalese. We don't actually have to normalise this. Legalese aside, th
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
It has nothing to do with "their work", and the opposition to AI copyright usage comes much more from non-devs than devs. The actual answer is that people are anti-megacorporation and pro-individual. They are fine with copyright
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
> Their policy is exactly the same. It's not, though. Their ToS is the same. They reserve to right to deny you ownership of your games. Only Sony has been stupid enough to actually do it. Every ToS in the world is designed to scr
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
I didn't say it was. Do you believe that there's an upwards trend in global geopolitical stability, or even simply general well-being? If you do, we certainly don't share that opinion.
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
When you think about it, it's really quite a remarkable state of affairs for a nation to trust another nation so implicitly they give it physical control of (a non-trivial portion of) their treasury, in a sense. And now that is coming
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by applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
Google has experience working for themselves at scale. Your business should never rely on Google more than it is forced to. Even if it's not something they'll wind down, providing acceptable service to anyone is not on their age

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