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by benterix 1y ago
It was definitely edited by AI or written on the basis of initial information. Which is a pity because I'd love to see the original, it has more value for me.
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by benterix 1y ago
Yeah, I tolerated the AI tint in this article only because it was very informative otherwise.
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Well, Paul, show us the code and let us judge ourselves instead of using the old "trust me, bro" rhetoric that doesn't work any more.
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> What makes you look at existing AI systems and then say "oh, this totally isn't capable of describing a problem or figuring out what's actually wrong"? I wouldn't say they're completely incapable. * They c
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by benterix 1y ago
I would agree with you if they were significantly better, now these tools can just drive you insane.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152
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What is funny is that these poor Github employees wouldn't have to go through this shit[0] if they hadn't been bought by Microsoft. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152
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by benterix 1y ago
> And TypeScript of course runs natively on browsers As a backend engineer I was thinking, "Whoah, the frontend is moving so fast that browsers support Typescript natively!" But it turns out the author is either uninformed, or,
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by benterix 1y ago
Ah I see your point, and I agree. We've seen how it plays out in places where greedy entrepreneurs brought waves of immigrants to do sub-minimal-wages work and what effects it had on the society, so I agree about the consequences. Howe
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> Rather sooner than later, IMHO the sheer amount of global compute capacity available will be enough to achieve that task. Brute force, basically. Doesn't take much imagination other than looking at how exponential curves work. Onl
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Oh but as a person whose cognitive capabilities are highly dependent on the amount of sleep I get and as someone whose situation forced me to reduce my sleep hours at some point, I can fully relate. It's one of the problems you can be
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> their reputation will be forever ruined and they'll lose all corporate and government business forever Unfortunately this is not how it works. A cynic in me would say just the opposite, looking how Crowdstrike is doing now after c
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by benterix 1y ago
> somewhen the next 10-20 years, the AGI milestone will be hit You seem quite confident for a person who doesn't offer any arguments on why it would happen at all, and why within two decades specifically, especially if you claim it
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> google is plugging gemini to all their queries Not to all, definitely. I haven't figured out what is the differentiator here but many queries are excluded.
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Well, combine that with holograms and you have a personalized strip club in your home.
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Yes, I agree the council approach is the most reasonable option. But while you're right about mistakes being inherently human, there is a huge difference in both quantity and quality. Humans often err in details, LLMs can make false cl
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by benterix 1y ago
I don't follow. SOTA models have access to tons of existing research. Basically orders of magnitude more than a human could read during a lifetime. And yet, they fail to produce anything new. Hey, even a simple "generate me an inn
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> Who is to say our brains aren't just very high parameterized biological floating point machines? That is the true Occam's Razor here, as uncomfortable as that might make people. I believe it's quite possible that what is
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> In the US that means either dealing with ACH at scale, which is a challenge, building a new card networks (which is hard) Which is why someone has big interest in keeping it this way as in Europe practically every country solved this i
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by benterix 1y ago
No, it's enough that they do basic geoblocking just like streaming and other companies.
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I remember the story of RMS. In her cancellation piece, Selam Gano equalled RMS with Epstein. Many media outlets repeated false accusations. Some of them are still online (Gano finally deleted her piece). For example, Vice says[0]: Richard
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by benterix 1y ago
No, this is not just American problem. I live in Europe and being a male I make sure I don't talk to any children or minors (I mean I don't talk first, if someone asks me for the time I can answer quickly and go away even quicker)
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> I mean think about it if there was only 1 country on the whole world. Then we would be safe. This is the logic behind the old-style Jihad. Also the Chinese emperors used the same argument when conquering smaller kingdoms. Unfortunatel
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Although I upvoted you, it's a variable that you control only to some extent. At some point you will have an enemy that is irrational, power-hungry and unwilling to negotiate.
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by benterix 1y ago
Although I agree with you in principle, after having seen what Putin is doing in Ukraine, I believe the original message would reach the target better than yours. To add to the confusion, you can have military intelligence assess your poten
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by benterix 1y ago
No, 44k for a bus driver is in Germany. I also saw job offers for SWE in Germany at 35k, though... To make a solid argument we would have to compare medians. My loose impression is the median for regular SWEs in Germany is around 60k and fo
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I guess it depends on the type of contract. I checked the job offers on https://germantechjobs.de/en and it seems 80k/year is in the middle for many for these (I ignored job offers where they start with 45k for a senio
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I would insist something is wrong here. 3k a month for an SWE seems on the lower end, really. I'm pretty sure you could get 4k just by switching jobs without too much effort and staying at the mid lever. 5k should be possible for senio
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I thought a lot about this. In life, we have things we have to do (work, chores) and thing we like to do (could be anything, also work, why not). So the problem appears when you start to feel that you spend your life on things you have to d
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Really? We must have been reading two different HNs. I have the impression that posts appreciating work-life balance get more upvotes that the ones trying to sell you "your career is the most important thing you have" narrow outlo
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> Who else would spend the time and effort to figure out you leaked your stipe key to your front end? Sure people have bots to do that, but it’s kinda unbelievable someone would run such a bot on their vibe coded website. I could offer s

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