archagon

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   by archagon 6mo ago

   I can't imagine most people working on gain-of-function virology expect it to make the world worse.
2. 422.▲
   by archagon 6mo ago

   Many engineers want nothing more than to eventually become managers. So this is not surprising. But your job is not what it was before.
3. 423.▲
   by archagon 6mo ago

   I think it's much better for society for companies to overhire than underhire, especially when they can easily afford it.
4. 424.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   I think the media and politicians are reflecting popular sentiment, not the other way around.
5. 425.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   “You cannot give me anything, because all that you have is stolen.”
6. 426.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   Sorry — this community immune response is the future. Quit posting slop or get left behind.
7. 427.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   And people love to roleplay as nihilists because it means they don't have to be responsible for anything.
8. 428.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   Well, perhaps it's time to reconsider your perception of Bluesky and Mastodon.
9. 429.▲
   by archagon 7mo ago

   How is it insane for a news source to endorse political candidates? This has been a routine function of newspapers for over a century.
10. 430.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    What makes you think they are shrinking and losing relevance, other than feels?
11. 431.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Absolutely not. Today's Twitter is an absurd MAGA echo chamber. Here's Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak... Are you that user that replaces all your c
12. 432.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Musk’s account is the most engaged and followed account on Twitter. So Twitter is de facto his global soapbox. (And most of the other top-engaged accounts are MAGA accounts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has
13. 433.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    (Sorry, this was a joke, not a snipe.)
14. 434.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Same set of interests? Clearly Raph is Satoshi.
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    by archagon 7mo ago

    I gotta say, that's really fucked up. Like, I'm Russian, I hate what Russia is doing, I think support for Putin in Russia is far higher than it has any right to be, but I'd never casually throw out a "bomb them all, they
16. 436.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    I believe the mods have integrity based on their past comments, but the silent disabling of various user features is highly questionable at best. I'm pretty sure my flagging/vouching/possibly voting privileges got silently re
17. 437.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    “You cannot give me anything, because all that you have is stolen.” Shocking that the show predates AI.
18. 438.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Compilers are an abstraction. AI coding is not an abstraction by any reasonable definition.
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    by archagon 7mo ago

    I mean, no, why would it be? There is so, so much to talk about in programming other than AI. Meanwhile, the current HN front page feels like 90% LLM spam: the complete antithesis of what I used to come here for. I personally can’t wait for
20. 440.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    You well on the path to AI-fueled psychosis if you genuinely believe this.
21. 441.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    So many insecure AI boosters in the comments slandering and mocking the author. And yet the upvotes clearly indicate that the sentiment in the article resonates widely with the community. Well, there’s not much of a point leaving a comment
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    by archagon 7mo ago

    No, it won’t dissuade them. But when we finally get the chance to legally beat the shit out of these companies, I want to reserve my place in line. Alternatively, they can learn to trust me on this and simply exclude/evict my code from
23. 443.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    This user keeps creating new accounts, getting downvoted, and replacing the content of their comments with a period. Why???
24. 444.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Traditionally, large corporations have taken very conservative legal stances with regard to integrating e.g. A/GPL code, even when there's almost no risk. If my license explicitly says "any LLM output trained on this code is
25. 445.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    > I've been looking for a copy-left "source available" license that allows me to distribute code openly but has a clause that says "if you would like to use these sources to train an LLM, please contact me and we&#x2
26. 446.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Hah! Is your cat bed ergonomically adjusted?
27. 447.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    From my vantage point, it looks like they’re getting on unicycles as clown music starts to play. And they’re the ones yelling at me .
28. 448.▲
    by archagon 7mo ago

    Empathy hijacking. If the chatbots framed their responses as “beep boop, I’m a robot, here’s an estimated answer to your query” then we likely wouldn’t have this problem.
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    by archagon 7mo ago

    I'm not sure I'll be fully anti-AI in perpetuity: the future is hard to predict. But it's certainly becoming clear to me that we need "-noai" variants of programming communities.
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    by archagon 7mo ago

    Splitgate 1 felt a lot like UT2k4 combined with Halo to me. Really fast, really fun.