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by dougmwne 3y ago
I’m assuming that this represents a massive pivot into LLM assistants and these jobs were in support of the legacy system which will be deprecated soon.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
So he says, but LLMs will tell you that too.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yes, they seem to handle emotion, humor and ambiguity better than Data or any computer ever on the shows. 24th century technology, today.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Emu Edit is awesome. I think we have officially brought this scene from Star Trek to life. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXX0dKw4SjI&pp=ygUII3Npbm50ZWs...
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Very strange that Orlando ranks so highly in walking trips. I can only assume that the data is thrown off massively by the theme park visits. Probably the same with Las Vegas.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
> … who produce some thing valuable for the community. I think you are cleaning up his values. He clearly seems to be pointing to a few people who produce novel ideas and creations as opposed to the mass of people who never create much o
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by dougmwne 3y ago
There’s certainly a kind of moral hazard here, and one that humanity has a terrible track record with. If an AGI has human-level capability, but is unconscious and non-subjective, then it’s just a really incredible tool. It would not be the
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I suppose it depends on your premise. Is your AGI like a GPT-20, something that takes human input and intention and completes the mental labor like having a team of 1000 expert humans? Or is it more like a superintelligence that has its own
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Wow, solid evidence that HN is turning into a bunch of cranky grouches! I suspected, but never thought the sentiment trend would be this clear. I propose we fork the site and send out an invite for HNGoodVibesOnly for anyone whose post his
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Silly clickbait title, but newsworthy all the same. This looks like the first instance of a successful ballistic missile interception in battle and not a test. I feel a chill because you never know what payload a ballistic missile is carryi
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The dating of this site is so strange. Why would there be continuous pyramid building at this site for 25k years? How could a culture maintain some kind of cohesive activity over such a long time?
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Waymo was founded nearly 15 years ago. Cruise was founded 10 years ago. I think at this point we have to admit that driverless is not going to happen for several decades, if ever.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I fundamentally disagree. Tech appears to still be in the middle of a decades long information technology revolution. Mobile may be complete, but it was just the latest in a series of computing revolutions. Several more waves appear to be b
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Who knows what this even means. Breakeven including launch costs? Breakeven on only satellite operation costs? Breakeven when you exclude all satellite and ground infrastructure costs? Breakeven when you exclude all costs except Elon’s ego
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Isn’t this kind of like saying “Adding a blur filter makes people look younger.”
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I don’t base my opinions on what I read in the media. I don’t think that reflects any reality anymore. The media is addicted to doom and gloom. Having spent significant time in both continents, I believe regular people have it better in the
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by dougmwne 3y ago
And in some ways you never get all the way onto the treadmill in the US. Even very well paid people can be one layoff or diagnosis away from disaster and there’s a constant undercurrent of anxiety as a result.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yup. I spent some time in Portugal this summer. I just got back to Florida and went to a LGBT bar last night. There was a guy at the door in head to toe tactical gear, just hanging out. For a moment I wondered if it was some early Halloween
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I split my time between the US and Europe and I am quite sure low and middle income Europeans have it better. Quality of life is a pretty subtle thing to measure. It’s not directly tied to the number of square meters in your home or how ma
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Back in the day, our IT guy in his 70’s pulled this trick on someone’s hard drive to recover a critical last minute presentation. The story became a staple of office parties. See you on the other side John.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Human ego and economic incentives.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Most can’t. Some might.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I’m almost 40. Climate change was everywhere when I was young. It will be everywhere for him also. It’s not your choice if he knows or not. He will know.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I agree ultimately of course, but climate change will not be the death of humanity, just the end of our current moment and the beginning of a new one. I don’t think it’s to be feared. There will be suffering, but we already suffer. When the
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Live in a rich country. Be wealthy. Don’t live too near the equator or too close to the sea. Live in an area with plentiful water and know how to purify it. Diversify your investments. Consider a stockpile of long lasting dry food to get yo
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by dougmwne 3y ago
My career, which I’m very proud of, is bringing technology to charities that are working to solve the biggest problems of our age. My biggest hobby is to constantly travel the world as a digital nomad and experience all its glory. I love me
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think you seriously overestimate how much other people care about things that do not affect or interest them. It has nothing to do with how you describe your work. The only person that might be interested is another software dev. Adjust
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Of course the skeptic tradition is strong here at HN and the article title invites this. But I think he could possibly be right. Windows is in a terrible spot. IOS brought a clearly superior computing paradigm that brought billions to the m
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by dougmwne 3y ago
There is a theorized “Eddington Limit” that stars can only grow to a certain mass before the power of their fusion reactions counterbalance gravity and they blow off additional matter instead of absorbing it. It’s approximately a few hundre
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That’s not suppressing since the Pi is usually several process node generations behind.

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