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by handoflixue 3mo ago
I don't think one could have reasonably turned the tide on agriculture, factories, railroads, or electricity - and a smart person would presumably have seen a lot of the benefits years before they materialized. There's plenty of p
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
The neckbeards that wrote C did so precisely because they saw how C was a better way to get things done, and they were probably the first people to start using compilers, because, again, they're the ones that built them. The neckbeards
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Coders needing compilers is a hit on coding because it means coding can't be extended a lot? I'm just not following the logic at all. We build vastly more ambitious software today than we did in the 80s
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
I mean, if you actually understood the scale of AI power usage, it would make sense. A TV can run 200 watts/hour, so this is equivalent to... watching TV? Or, perhaps, watching TV in the background while you program. We are not in a po
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
"We wrap LLMs in Agent harnesses because AI isn’t enough." This feels equivalent to saying you're not a real coder if you need a compiler to hold your hand. What, a human coder isn't enough? Of course we're going to
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
I've got a harness that lets them play a few simple games like rock paper scissors. They definitely seem to get caught up in the competitive spirit. I've also done a very truncated run of a visual novel before, and it was fascinat
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Can we at least get a text description? The linked video doesn't want to provide one either.
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Switch to Brother laser jet printers - I hear about them every time HP comes up, I've had mine for years, it is a lovely solution Tons of people switched from IE6 to Chrome; IE is a dead browser. These days I'd recommend Firefox.
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
The problem with email is that it's an email address from 3+ years ago, which means there's a much higher chance of it being out of date - are you still using XxCoolDude67xX from high school? Consoles area also marketed heavily to
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
> Where’s the FDA for AI? As it happens, Anthropic has also been calling for the creation of such a regulatory agency! > AI companies are uniquely defensive, dismissive and negligent when it comes to harming kids. You know cigarette c
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Your PR has been denied for not including a Ticket Number. Please make sure all bugs are assigned a Ticket and properly T-Shirt Sized at the next Scrum! Reminder: due to the holiday, the next Scrum Meeting will be in 3 weeks.
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
The article is Aug 26, 2025, and describes events from April, over a year ago. Safeguards have improved drastically since then. > Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit. That's a rather hyperbolic
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Sorry, what about solving an open mathematics problem is not "thinking for yourself"? What exactly WOULD constitute "thinking for yourself", or is this just a magic soul thing?
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Do you do all your arithmetic by hand, or do you insist on using this archaic thing called "brain"? Why are you even on the internet if you value this "brain" thing so much?
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Yeah, and the deaf lady can't answer a single thing without her interpreter. Again, what's your point? Is this a field where people are expected to work without a laptop for some reason? Like, I get why we'd want a pilot no
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Line one is "I recently interviewed for a tenure-track position" which suggests she has a resume that ... actually qualifies for an interview? And did every single step up until now correctly? Like, I'm sorry, you can't
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
The person in the story can clearly usefully steer LLMs if they got that far. So either they have that understanding and context, or it's not actually as valuable as was previously thought.
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Calling it "Discrimination" is obviously absurd but if the process produces useful results, one ought to seriously consider whether it might be worth switching. I understand we have always conventionally transported goods by horse
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
But when humans do it suddenly it's "standing on the shoulders of giants" I don't get how you can possibly call it plagiarism if it produce a novel breakthrough - by definition, the existing knowledge base doesn't c
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
"Theoretical" becomes "pretty much guaranteed" if standards sink low enough - the more effort you put in, the more problems you ward off. Sort of like how a lock can be picked in 30 seconds, but still deters 90% of crime
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
Agreed! As a friendly favor, could you please post your full name, ZIP code, credit card number, and the 3 digit security code on the back? - Love and peace, your neighbor on HackerNews (which is to say, I think you know that you can be fr
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by handoflixue 3mo ago
The language isn't even being criticized here, just remarked upon. I think that's fair.
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
It's fundamentally a problem of volume - forums work great for a small community of a few dozen people; the larger it gets, the harder it is to follow a thread as a dozen people are all replying to a dozen different sub-topics. But in
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
Reddit lets you sort by Best (default), Top (highest raw score), New/Old (chronological), and also Controversial - no add-on required. It's right above the first comment. "Best" is a time-weighted blend of scoring, so th
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
I cannot fathom being in a position of such privilege that this looks like "losing". I wish I could lose like this. I think most people would be extremely happy to be losers, if this is how we're defining the word.
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
People can have multiple values. Tradeoffs exist. Are faster ambulances worse for you?
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
In my experience, it was common to test speed - my favorite was solving 100 arithmetic problems in, I think it was 3 minutes? Perhaps shorter. The point was that it was basically impossible to solve them all, so it evaluated both your speed
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
Honestly, there's plenty of experts worried about exactly that. But if you'd prefer, feel free to mentally scope my claim to the domain of "things we already know LLMS can do, like copying previously solved software problems&
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
> Assuming they have access to terabytes of regional video surveillance but don't have their own compute besides what the LLM will buy for them Amazing how you can move the goalposts to make things impossible, isn't it? Where i
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by handoflixue 4mo ago
If you were able to write one 20 years ago, I dare say an LLM could whip one up super-fast. Or just search the internet and tell you where to find one. One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this ea

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