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Ask HN: What's your thoughts on the impact of AI on the engineering job market?
1 points by herval 3y ago|1 comments
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by herval 3y ago
This is so going to happen. 100% margin for the kindle content
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by herval 3y ago
I think what you're describing ("the long tail") has been a phenomenon for a decade or so - tons of youtubers, tons of bloggers, tons of twitter personalities, etc. I see it as a good thing, people definitely want to consume
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by herval 3y ago
except it's dropshipped right to your eyes, all the time, everywhere
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by herval 3y ago
idk why you're getting downvoted, but I kinda feel the same too. I've been gradually abandoning all social media sites bc it's all hustlers and fake antics (fake news, fake tiktok 'hidden cameras', fake articles, fa
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by herval 3y ago
> The reality is they are likely the ones making any money by building up a following making these promises. The typical scheme that gets people rich since "Rich dad, poor dad", but now it's exponentially easier to do. It&
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by herval 3y ago
Was Pixel ever a big player in the Android market? I get the feeling Xiaomi and Samsung are the actual competitors Apple cares about
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by herval 3y ago
Stephen Wolfram's theory is that everything is a massively parallel computation. Pretty fascinating stuff https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
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by herval 3y ago
In this case, it’s a hardware maker company, so I’d say it’s expected? There’s tons and tons of startups doing software-only agents for your phone too
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by herval 3y ago
“Alexa, buy an iphone 15”
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by herval 3y ago
To be fair, all of that seems quite easily done with an app - your phone should be more than capable of running those models. I’d imagine something like siri or alexa isn’t evolving as fast since the server side cost at their scale would be
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by herval 3y ago
You obviously completely missed the point
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by herval 3y ago
True, I’m not very used to internet debates lasting longer than one or two low effort replies, so I became dismissive too. Apologies. I don’t really have hard data that proves the impact of the internet at a macro level, just anecdotal stuf
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by herval 3y ago
Tangent to all that - whether the US reputation will change or not, it’s becoming clear the russian military reputation is way, way overestimated. I’m curious what effect this will have
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by herval 3y ago
WW2 is an exceptional case in that it’s one of extremely few wars where the winners and losers are universally acknowledged
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by herval 3y ago
Would you mind providing some “clear and internationally acknowledged” sources for the Korean War that stated it’s still ongoing or that Afghanistan was an undisputed loss?
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by herval 3y ago
that's quite a restrictive view of how much the internet changed _everything_ across the planet, from culture to work
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by herval 3y ago
I mean, has _any_ change in _human history_ impacted those considerably? This argument is like saying we live the same way the cavemen did...
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by herval 3y ago
what
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by herval 3y ago
> And yet, 70 years later, things have certainly changed, but we're living in the same world with the same general patterns and limitations. With LLMs I expect something similar. Not a singularity, just a new, better tool that, yes,
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by herval 3y ago
Technologu obviously accelerates change, but you might be overcycling on it and underestimating how much society changed all the time, especially compared to today’s standards. There’s big swaths of the world where you quite literally see a
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by herval 3y ago
It really depends on the pocket of people you choose to analyze, and their geographic location. That’s all true even today
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by herval 3y ago
> Generative AI is capable of distorting reality, but I would argue that it is not the primary purpose of the tool What is its primary purpose?
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by herval 3y ago
Also created entire new genres of music, and enabled artists that don’t have a good voice but can do cool music. I don’t know why anyone sees it as a bad thing
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by herval 3y ago
There’s very few places in history that remained constant for more than a single generation. Technology-wise, things obviously move faster today than a thousand years ago, but if you take in consideration the constant cultural shifts, wars,
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by herval 3y ago
Information that the power structure of a country that’s been controlled by the military twice sees as a threat to democracy, perhaps? Unlimited free speech absolutists just want to see the world burn
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by herval 3y ago
Who’s “they” and what exactly are they “banning”? I haven’t seen much outside the political disinformation sphere and some abuses of power around politicians protecting their own image. What aren’t you allowed to say today in brazil?
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by herval 3y ago
> Let's take a small example. We have 20 bins. You are going to put 3 things in those bins, with each thing getting its own bin. Now imagine a number of these bins _can hold zero things_ (not 3). Eg in a world where all bins are the
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by herval 3y ago
I don't think people "like" it as much as hate elicits a response from your brain, like it or not. If people had perfect self-control, they wouldn't do it. IMO it's somewhat irresponsible for the algorithm makers to
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by herval 3y ago
in the end, that scandal was the open web's official death sentence :(

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