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by gspr 3mo ago
Fine, replace "low" with "too low".
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by gspr 3mo ago
> GPUs aren’t scarce. There is just a lot of demand, so prices have gone up. What does "scarce" mean to you? I'd wager that to most reasonable people it means "available in a supply that, measured against demand, is l
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by gspr 3mo ago
I've had the opposite experience. Inspired by a recent HN post where someone made the world's dumbest browser by having an LLM read HTML and draw the rendered page, I thought I'd do a fun art project and take it a notch dumbe
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by gspr 3mo ago
Thank you. I dread where we're heading.
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by gspr 3mo ago
It's a wonderful place. It feels like HN, but with the Silicon Valley attitude dialed way way way down, and with a much narrower scope (politics, economics and entrepreneurship are all off-topic, for example).
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by gspr 3mo ago
Sure, if you're able to accurately determine angles between the Earth's tangent at your location and the satellites. That's how you'd navigate using the sun, moon and stars. I suspect those natural celestial bodies are m
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by gspr 3mo ago
For one, it's bound to teach us something about our brains. And while I'm not usually an optimist, I actually find it more likely that we'll take active steps to stop the evil applications of this if research like this is out
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by gspr 3mo ago
> I watched few of them and it does nothing for me? It's so cool that you have an MRI handy to check such things.
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by gspr 3mo ago
> Again, your doctor is more of an authority than you on medicine. It'd be hubris to think you'd understand the field better, no matter how smart you are. You are talking to strangers on the internet. When I go see my doctor, I
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by gspr 3mo ago
It is true that it is pretty common in large companies. It is also true that it feels very hostile to some people (myself included).
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by gspr 3mo ago
> (Make claim that something is "critical".) > (Get challenged on that.) > omg you don't know anything, being without the thing is primitive and everyone sophisticated uses it. You can see how you can be accused of n
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by gspr 3mo ago
Of course. What's your point?
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by gspr 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767422
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by gspr 3mo ago
> When you say "If you are forced to slopcode" you are implying that LLMs (or humans who operate the tools) can only produce slop with it. No.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Huh? You can accept things that are forced onto you, due to needing to earn a living, while still acknowledging that the things that are forced onto you are bad. All I'm trying to say here is that slopcode is generally a bad idea. If y
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by gspr 3mo ago
I'm a bit more pessimistic. > In ten years we'll be drowning in subtle bugs introduced by the unreliable garbage that is machine-generated code Yes. But replace > and the industry will hopefully have learned to never rely on
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by gspr 3mo ago
This conversation does not exist primarily for your benefit though.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Indeed. I wouldn't call everyone who uses LLMs to generate code a slopper. But I'm afraid that there are so many sloppers that they pose a real danger to the ecosystem, especially considering the amount of code they generate. A vo
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by gspr 3mo ago
Sure. I did not mean to throw shade at people whose professional survival depends on doing this. I'm merely trying to establish that it's bad . A lot of HN seems to be cheering for the badness. That is, to me, unfathomable.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Then you don't have time to maintain the codebase. Sad, but sometimes true.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Alternate take: in ten years we'll be pulling our hair out cursing at the world over how we could possibly accept "10k lines added, 8k lines removed" as the normal everyday churn of software development. We'll curse the
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by gspr 3mo ago
If you can't fix them without LLMs, then you can't fix them. You probably shouldn't be trusted with maintaining the codebase in the first place.
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by gspr 3mo ago
I think you're wrong. And I think that FOSS is our last best hope to keep software under the control of the individual. The sloppers are diving head-first into a world where not knowing how a basic idea translates to code is embraced.
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by gspr 3mo ago
> What confuses me about this stance is that LLMs are basically indistinguishable from any mid-to-low-tier dev. I disagree. Behind an LLM sits a developer. They steer the LLM. For them, directions to the LLM is the preferred form of modi
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by gspr 3mo ago
> But the problem is that the whole core identity mechanism is built on asymmetric crypto, that is safe now but will not be safe in the future. And because it's in that core layer, you cannot just "upgrade" your crypto. Al
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by gspr 3mo ago
> It could be so cool. Decentralized, medium-agnostic, meshing. The spirit of the old web, transported partially via LoRa radio, partially via fiber and partially via pigeon (optional) without you as the user noticing. I dream of these t
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by gspr 3mo ago
Very interesting! This one finally answers my question! In summary: (1) It's not an American thing at all. I was wrong. (2) It's not new. I was wrong. (3) It has its roots in authorities charging or threatening to charge someone
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by gspr 3mo ago
You can even combine arXiv and peer review very neatly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744030
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by gspr 3mo ago
One growing role, especially in mathematics, is that of a host for "overlay journals": https://www.insmi.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/epijournaux-en-mathema... I really like the idea. In short: arXiv, HAL and sim
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by gspr 3mo ago
> Because it's a common phrase? I know it's a common phrase (albeit sa uniquely american one? Never heard this from e.g. Brits). I'm asking how it came to be that way when it seemingly makes no sense. > Same as "ge

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