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by gtowey 9mo ago
> A few of the examples are that he describes the subprime crisis as originating in Clinton-era home-ownership reform that pressured government lenders to essentially back many subprime mortgages (expanded during the Bush-era). But I thi
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by gtowey 9mo ago
It's not about banning design patterns. It's about removing the harmful results they produce. Can you imagine if gambling were allowed to be marketed to children? Especially things like slot machines. We absolutely limit the reach
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by gtowey 9mo ago
There's you problem, you care about accuracy! It's time to accept the new way of working, just change your reality to match the copilot version and boom, you save time fixing its mistakes! In fact, why have the meeting at all? Jus
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by gtowey 9mo ago
> Working with an LLM is kinda like working under stage hypnosis. Another post on HN likened it to gambling, in the way that slot machines work. Each time you prompt, you could hit the jackpot! But usually you end up with some mediocre o
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by gtowey 9mo ago
It's not just naive. TV and movies serve as propaganda for the police state.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Information asymmetry could be said to be the defining problem of our age.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
> “Just one year after completing (the program), I’m in my own place, halfway through a business degree, focused on building a stable, secure foundation for my daughter and myself, and working toward becoming a nonprofit leader who suppo
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by gtowey 9mo ago
"political opponents to suffer at all costs" is just the smokescreen to cover up the real goals which is "oligarchs steal everything."
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by gtowey 9mo ago
> No one needs to be competent at their job anymore That's actually the whole point. Placing incompetents in positions of authority means they know absolutely to whom they owe their loyalty. Because they know they would never have t
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by gtowey 9mo ago
The value extortion plan writes itself. How long before someone pitches the idea that the models explicitly almost keep solving your problem to get you to keep spending? Would you even know?
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Ah yes, just what everyone scaping by paycheck to paycheck with no housing security is thinking: "I should go to therapy" Why, once they do that they'll be pulling themselves up by their boostaps in no time!
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by gtowey 9mo ago
My theory is that graffiti is tied to the feeling of lack of agency in one's life. Everyone wants to "make their mark on the world". Some of us get to do that with an interesting career, building a family, getting involved in
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by gtowey 9mo ago
No, the idea is that storing cars takes up a lot of public space. Each parking space is basically a tiny garage. Why do we give away garage space for free to car owners? Storage for your vehicle in a busy city shouldn't be subsided by
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by gtowey 9mo ago
And you will be labeled a terrorist for doing so, regardless of intent.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
> I hope this gets tested in court and declared unconstitutional The rule of law has left the building. The SC is willing to rubber-stamp nearly anything right now. Waiting and hoping for common sense to prevail is what allows authoritar
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Not even remotely close. Compilers are deterministic. People who write them test that they will produce correct results. You can expect the same code to compile to the same assembly. With LLMs two people giving the exact same prompts can ge
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by gtowey 9mo ago
It turns out "vote with your dollars" doesn't work when the same 3 companies own everything.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Wouldn't the solution to make the door so different handles can fit on both sides and then the installer can simply put the correct handle on each side as needed? Surely that is just as much of a manufacturing efficiency improvement.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
I'm curious, what stopped you from learning the information you needed to complete these bigger projects before LLMs?
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by gtowey 9mo ago
> Their goal might be be to acquire, dramatically cut costs, and then run the product for as long as they can at a profit before breaking it down and selling it off In the 80's people who did this were known as "corperate raide
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by gtowey 9mo ago
They are in the sense that most of them are buying cars that represent their identity. For example nearly every pick up truck is an "auto enthusiast", because almost none of them are used for their primary purpose more than a few
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Corporations always operate at the lowest morality level of any member of the company. Lots of executives can say no to dark patterns, but it only takes one to say yes. Then that exec gets to report the successful revenue boosting metrics.
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by gtowey 9mo ago
Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!
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by gtowey 9mo ago
In my 20+ years in the tech industry, the most important thing I have learned is that writing code is the least significant part of being a software engineer. You write code once, but then it's modified endlessly. Supporting and using
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by gtowey 9mo ago
You kitchen contractor will never cook in your kitchen. If you leave the decisions to them, you'll get something that's quick and easy to build, but it for sure won't have all the details that make a great kitchen. It will be
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by gtowey 9mo ago
>Because we want to work and not tinker? It feels to me like every article on HN and half the comments are people tinkering with LLMs.
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by gtowey 10mo ago
I am uncertain if space aliens will abduct me as I sleep, but it would be insane to factor that into my daily decision making. This is where it would help if the government would do the responsible thing and quantify the probability and tal
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by gtowey 10mo ago
Yes, the systemic issue is that money equals speech which means there is no way individual citizens can compete with the influence giant corporations can bring to bare. Essentially oligarchs own both parties and the media. One party is wil
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by gtowey 10mo ago
I understand what you mean, but I would modify this statement a bit: There are no successful economies without information exchange . Discovery can happen without advertising -- if you consider that the main feature of ads is that it'
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by gtowey 10mo ago
This is why instead of specific legislation that winds up being a cat-and-mouse game with companies, the practice of creating specialized agencies with a general charter and delegating the specifics to them is often employed. But it's

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