coldtea

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by coldtea 2mo ago
Yes, taxi driving can be hard. There are jobs stressful on the mind too - and some of them have very low "life expectancies".
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Ah, the typical cheap HN reaction to a paper, along with "correlation is not causation", and as usual, for things already factored in into it.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> For from the look of it it doesn't look like an exceptionally hard job Define "hard job". Carrying heavy objects?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
No. I mean, this framing is not even wrong, it's merely absurd.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Understandable but why would you assume people will stop getting a taste for hacking just because LLMs exist? It's not a prediction, it's already the case. Like students coming into computer science degrees and letting the L
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> which tests/certifies most of their products through the independent 'U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)'. Which is some entity who cares, or who would approve plutonium as a school lunch if the factory paid enough?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> vs millions of people devoid of plumbing and basic products Quite the opposite: millions of people got electricity and plumbing in the USSR era, that lacked before. > The aftermath is still tangible: former satellite states are eve
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Many of us are alive solely because of technologies developed in the last 20-30 years A really really tiny percentage of us is that. Make it 100 years and you got something. 150 years is even better.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Thanks for your insightful comment. Not a knee jerk reaction at all.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
They're not "down to earth", just pedantic and pedestrian. Other than that, they're also notoriously with their heads in the clouds. That was the stereotype of the german culture compared to french, italians, and others
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> But I think it is a bit of an overblown fear that LLMs will just kill creativity and innovation in coding. Hackers will be hackin Hacking and a taste for hacking is a muscle you develop. LLMs will make most people not train it at all.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> because there is no system or proof of good taste, we cannot really say that one person's taste is objectively better than another's We can't say it in times of a general culture of confusion, like now. In times when th
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by coldtea 2mo ago
It does affect your ability to speak, and not necessarily only negatively. You lose more evolved vocabulary and formal grammatical structures, but you gain a liveliness and a colloquial dexterity that bookish people often lack. You can also
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by coldtea 2mo ago
That's by design, isn't it? It's supposed to be state representation, not per capita representation. The problem is that since the main government has amassed more and more power, instead of the main decisions being left to t
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by coldtea 2mo ago
That's somehow controversial? There are kiosks used for public browsing, where the user has access to full browser app window and can change elements. There are also ways to get around kiosk mode restrictions, or at least there were fo
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by coldtea 2mo ago
You'd be surprised
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That’s according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which fo
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Two answers to that: 1) That's on them (those not exporting their lists as backup). 2) Almost zero chance happening without warning anyway.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure all of them. Because they'll never shut it without advance warning, due to the backlash.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> because, barring major illness, you can reasonably assume that you will try to do what is best for yourself in the future. Regardless of major illness or not, people do stupid things, self destructive things, ill-thought things, impul
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Same as the regular, but configurable in lisp?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
That's because it's a tech vlog with posts that also serve as technical reference and tutorials and such like: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm There's a big audience for that that'
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> "I don't know how you read so much content" And then they spend hours every day doomscrolling and binge watching shit
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Push as in a newsletter alone isn't doing anything. It's the "show ocassional posts of you on an already captive audience of millions and especially readers with similar interests" (the whole Substack base) that does it.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> because you can in fact know some things about what one person, yourself, will do in the future. Nope. At best you merely know what your current self intends to do in the future. Whether you'll do them then, or whether you'l
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Which is trivial. Even once a month is enough.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Abbreviations carry unnecessary cost on the side of the readers. They do, but the parent's question wasn't about the abbrebation (for which I'd cut them some slack) but extended to: "Is that supposed to help? WTF i
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by coldtea 3mo ago
If you're not familiar with such overall big players, would anything help short of looking at some 101 first?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
SAM ALTMAN: “We are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish.” https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2081204789371621744
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Federal prosecutors won't even pursue cases unless they think there's a high chance of success. Given the incarceration rates compared to average western standards, that's a moot point. Even if they selectively pursue,

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