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evil-olive
7d ago
> If you don't log into the app for months > After 90 days of countdown, 21 days of warnings, and 14 days of grace, the envelope opens vs > it needs that company to still exist and be honest on the day it matters > there&#x
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evil-olive
12d ago
based on reading through the transcript, this appears to take 10 minutes to say "it doesn't store the entire file as one file, but instead breaks it up into chunks with erasure coding" godawful clickbait garbage.
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evil-olive
18d ago
> But until now, each machine needed a separate Herdr client, usually in a different terminal tab. You had to remember where each agent was running and switch between those tabs to check on them. That was the bottleneck. is it, though? I
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evil-olive
23d ago
emphasis added: > NBC News' Tom Llamas speaks with Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Alexander Koch about how the robots work and the challenges of making them fully A.I. powered. sounds like it's another "oh, it's to
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evil-olive
27d ago
by focusing your question on "what is China doing?" you're already buying in to the framing that this propaganda is pushing - that Chinese people are sneaky and deceitful and we should be worried about what they're doing
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evil-olive
27d ago
> X said Thursday night. this is a news story reported as unambiguous fact, but only based on claims from a single source. and that single source has a pretty strong motivation for why they might lie or exaggerate the claims - X runs AI
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> At this point, I do not see much value in sitting alone and building more projects just to prove that I can build software. did you see value in doing this, before LLMs? if so, why?
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> pro tip: if you don't understand a word that appears, and it turns out to be physics jargon, perhaps take a step back and consider the person may actually know what they are talking about. if you're going to be condescending
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> you just construct a parallel lock next to the existing ones that can remain in use. are you aware that they did that already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project and that it took almost 1
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> The operation as currently described is so inefficient, even for the 1960's! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal Construction began: 1 January 1881 Date completed: 15 August 1914 > The energy releas
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> But don’t call them Enron. Enron caused the Enron crash. it needs to come from the Enron region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling creative financial engineering. > It’s highly unlikely that fraud at that level is being p
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> I've been using it as an internal tool on many projects that's interesting, because your LLM decided to put this in the readme: > Things that didn't work - kept in the repo on purpose. ...which is not what I'd ex
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evil-olive
1mo ago
initial commit 50 minutes ago, containing 12k lines. "Show HN" really needs a dedicated subcategory for vibe-coded slop.
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evil-olive
1mo ago
> taking full responsibility ... is uncomfortably risky I look forward to someone building an agent, getting criminally charged for actions it takes, and then trying to use this argument in court. "your honor, I'm uncomfortable
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evil-olive
1mo ago
egregious AI slop. you even had your LLM generate you a "launch kit" [0] with posts for HN, multiple subreddits, Linkedin, and X, with a four-week recommended posting schedule. 0: https://github.com/schapman1974&#x
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evil-olive
2mo ago
> Go still has not yielded a correct implementation of Raft or Paxos while there are dozens in Java, C++, and Rust. Antithesis found some more bugs in HashiCorp's Raft implementation recently[0]. the source you link to contradicts y
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evil-olive
2mo ago
> And, of course, I had an AI throw together a few images of what a Grand National version of the new Electra could look like. I know you hate it, I know it’s wrong, but like a bucket of deep fried crispy chicken, I just couldn’t resist.
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evil-olive
2mo ago
again - who decides the system prompt? "it generated a complicated math proof" doesn't mean anything in this context, because the prompt was uncontroversial, it was "try to solve this math problem". you have your
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evil-olive
2mo ago
> an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity. I'm sorry, but come on. this is ludicrously naive. who writes the system prompt? who'
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evil-olive
2mo ago
that's a study published in 2023, analyzing data that ended in 2018.
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evil-olive
2mo ago
for context, 2 days ago: Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 )
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evil-olive
2mo ago
> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM? yes, an LLM can write you a web crawler. whose hardware are you going to run it on? what is the bill for that storage and compute going to look like, just
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evil-olive
2mo ago
> The energy would be better spent on zoning and building code reform. you've constructed a false dichotomy here. the government of a city with ~8 million people is capable of doing multiple things at the same time.
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evil-olive
3mo ago
US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections - 613 points, 305 comments, 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924
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evil-olive
3mo ago
> The goal is to make Postgres easier to change from the inside uh-huh, sure. you want to show off "look what the LLM can do / look what I burned a bunch of tokens on"? you want to brag about how your LLM-generated slop is
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evil-olive
3mo ago
> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data wow, if you feed a bunch of burger recipes into an AI, it's able to output b
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evil-olive
3mo ago
there are at least 100 threads on /r/askreddit and similar places about "what's your favorite short joke" and all of these LLMs have that in their training data.
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evil-olive
3mo ago
> It all happened today. Only 15-20 pics total think about the distribution for "number of pictures a new Instagram user posts on their first day" then think of how far of an outlier your behavior was.
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evil-olive
3mo ago
yeah, I'm also getting some cartel / illegal-or-should-be-illegal anti-competitive practice vibes from this coordination of having the "Alliance for Automotive Innovation" push out the message. because do I believe that
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evil-olive
3mo ago
article from Reuters instead of a 12 minute video from some random lawyer in Michigan: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa... > A group representing major automakers warned on Tuesday t
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