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by hcks 3y ago
I read this exact advice often here on HN and I can’t help but wonder. Is the person writing it just repeating something they read? Is it just because they like the ´coding from first principles’ aesthetics? I mean let’s imagine that someon
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by hcks 3y ago
´all you need’ is going to become an anti-signal very quick
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by hcks 3y ago
Capping production is not non capitalistic, it’s literally standard practice for luxury goods.
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by hcks 3y ago
Is there a single open source LLM model that plays in the same league as GPT-3.5 ? AFAIK the largest available models are for non-commercial use only. This is a big limitation to the ´LLMs are entering their stable diffusion moment’ narrati
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by hcks 3y ago
That’s just the usual memes. Is this about « computer science » ? Then why isn’t there anything logic, algorithms, Turing machines, etc.. Is this « dev »? Then what’s the point of discrete maths?
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by hcks 3y ago
Yeah we know. It’s easy. Cost nothing. That must be why there’s literally 0 serious alternative out there.
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by hcks 3y ago
"You can write SQL queries in lower case"
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by hcks 3y ago
Empirically, all reasonings based on extrapolation of "resource depletion" or "increased energy usage" were wrong.
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by hcks 3y ago
Purchased with what money? People who migrated did so because ads are evil and 2$ per month is extortionate.
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by hcks 3y ago
Here comes the whining. Listen, nobody is preventing you from buying an Ubuntu-phone or whatever, root it, install Debian on it, play Tux Racing for 10 minutes and let it collect dust in your drawer for eternity afterwards.
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by hcks 3y ago
Reddit users and mods are not ´volunteers’. They’re consumers of a service. If anything the ‘disguise of free money’ was only convincing consumers that internet platforms were a right and free to operate. Now the balance is shifting in the
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by hcks 3y ago
At the same time it’s hard to understand something before you experienced it yourself. Something like a limitation of written communication.
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by hcks 3y ago
Here’s what I found: if you’re in need to monitor your productivity and implement productivity hacks, then you’re not working on something really meaningful to you.
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by hcks 3y ago
These are not startups, most aren’t even products.
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by hcks 3y ago
The idea of "greedflation" is strange, it seems to only be understandable if you start with the (unconscious?) assumption that workers cannot be the losers of inflation.
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by hcks 3y ago
2.5$ per user per month doesn’t seem insane at all
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s just a tiny minority of nerds complaining about how what they think is theirs has changed
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by hcks 3y ago
This Reddit strike is the most Reddit thing I’ve seen. I don’t even understand the issue in the first place, you can either use the official app for free with ads, or use a third party app for something like $2 a month.
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by hcks 3y ago
Yet another “compiling” course that puts all the emphasis on parsing. Rule of thumb: parsing/lexing shouldn’t takes more than 10% of your compiler course.
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by hcks 3y ago
Can we stop pretending the mods are some thankless workers when they literally do it to get power and status over some “community”.
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by hcks 3y ago
You’re aware that this is absolutely standard right?
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by hcks 3y ago
EDIT: I understood the joke of the article, my point is: who are they making a satire of?
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by hcks 3y ago
What point is this article trying to make?
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by hcks 3y ago
I don’t get this comment. You’re trying to make a snarky comment about the morality of shareholder capitalism but clearly IA is a better allocation of resources than “more realistic AAAA video games”.
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s always quite ironic to see hipsters today praise GOFAI systems and belittle the deep learning ´hype’, given that they were massively overhyped at the time and delivered next to nothing outside of some niches. Even funnier to see how so
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by hcks 3y ago
Literally just buy an Android and stop imposing it on others
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by hcks 3y ago
There is no "we". Google's purpose is not to advance peoplekind. The shareholders decide on the compensation of the CEO, that's literally it.
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by hcks 3y ago
Yes, but it also tells us that if Altman is honest here, then he doesn’t believe GPT-like models can scale to near level human performances (because even if the cost of compute was 10x or even 100x it would still be economically sound).
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by hcks 4y ago
Yeah I agree, here outside USA there is no such things. It’s totally an American craziness.
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by hcks 4y ago
Ah yeah, the famous Netherlands outback’s. Nearly 20km away from the nearest city.

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