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by djeastm 4mo ago
>this is clearly targeting either vibecoders or people with extremely limited experience in software From the PDF: >Launch energy is generated from ephemeral forces, like your founder’s friends, prospective buyers at your investor’s o
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Yours is an "ends justify the means" argument, but are you comfortable with the way these cuts were done? Would you approve so robustly of your own research being cut with a keyword search for government-unapproved terms?
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by djeastm 4mo ago
>using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources Would it? It seems like they can spend a few months extracting intelligence and "taste" from their engineers then get years worth of it back from the AI.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
>So you can then look at the diff and figure out what the vulnerabilities were. It doesn't even take reading or understanding the vulnerabilities at all. You just ask it to write tests and the tests themselves can be copied and past
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by djeastm 4mo ago
That reply is rather non-prescient: >Lmfao anthropic is basically done, I don’t think they’ll survive. By 2026, they are done.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
I'm not working on anything that interesting at the moment, but I just wanted to say that these threads are absolutely my favorite part of HN. Just so much creativity and hard work on display.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
There's always been a premium paid for custom work, though. OP just paid off-the-rack prices for a custom-made suit.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Quality of what's produced in that medium might be one thing. People reading for pleasure are usually reading works published by authors that have gone through some sort of filtering process for quality. Sure, it might be "trash
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by djeastm 4mo ago
It used to be called journalism
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by djeastm 4mo ago
That's pretty neat. Thanks
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Do you have a write-up on how it works under the hood or is it meant to be more mysterious?
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Similar is when people refer to themselves or others as "content creators" Not filmmakers or artists or writers... "content creators". Like they exist just to produce a continual stream of this amorphous "content&qu
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by djeastm 4mo ago
I think their metaphor is apt. Microsoft Copilot is, in modern terms, the "harness" that "co-pilots" the LLM it manages sessions for, with you as the "pilot". So you are still piloting the LLM. At least that&#x
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by djeastm 4mo ago
I wouldn't call that completely normal. It's certainly strict and controlling.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
It's especially frustrating watching congressional hearings. Since both "sides" are aware that the cameras are rolling and that they are there to score points/create soundbites (rather than actually learn from each other
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Our interest in a statement is piqued more when it challenges our worldview. It's impolite to a lot of people, but the attention economy rewards it. Edit: Looks like they changed the title to be less provocative. Good for them
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by djeastm 4mo ago
- Time is a scarce resource. Students do what they can to learn what they can, but if they're under the gun, they'll take the path of least resistance to make it to the next day (totally not like the business world, right?) - In t
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by djeastm 4mo ago
Isn't GP talking about PhDs here? If they're PhDs I imagine they've already had good enough GPAs/were smart enough to be selected for the program.
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by djeastm 4mo ago
I remember hearing (perhaps last year?) that the model companies have specifically tried to obfuscate the "thinking/reasoning" behind the decisions the models make so as to prevent cheaper models from training on the reasonin
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by djeastm 5mo ago
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin But as we all know in context Franklin was talking about the Penn family wanting to literally pur
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by djeastm 5mo ago
That's if everyone were acting perfectly rationally, but a world in which those three companies go bankrupt would have everyone panic selling every equity possible like it's the endtimes.
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by djeastm 5mo ago
Dumb question here, but would it necessarily mean the other stocks they might've bought (i.e. the rest of the market) will not get the cash infusion and will thus likely drop in valuation?
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by djeastm 5mo ago
>I think we need to completely reset our expectations of how the market works. Is this not just "It's different this time" thinking? I remember it being used all the time during the dotcom boom
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by djeastm 5mo ago
Funny you should say that. This is about Stanford: >In our tech-enabled, newly A.I.-powered world, students were increasingly fudging just about everything. They would embezzle dorm funds to spend on their friends and lie about having Co
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by djeastm 5mo ago
Did you know Theo Baker? He's got a book out about Stanford that says differently. >Cheating has become omnipresent. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t used A.I. to get through some assignment in college, yet the school was at
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by djeastm 5mo ago
I urge you to learn the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes: https://joslin.org/news-stories/all-news-stories/education/2... My family is unfortunately rife with Type 1. Even appearing later in life
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by djeastm 5mo ago
If you can find a positive AI story to submit I'll upvote it
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by djeastm 5mo ago
52-62 seems like a normal, or better than normal, retirement target, no?
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by djeastm 5mo ago
>barbarians I didn't realize people still used this word to apply to human beings.
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by djeastm 5mo ago
>primary resources are effectively infinite You just solved economics?

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