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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Complete nonsense. Even climate chance won't change the amount of rainfall we get over the course of the year. In fact, it will most likely be wetter due to it. But it will become more uneven, with droughts followed by torrential r
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Most Brits have no idea what's in the Online Safety Act since it expressly mandates the neutering of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps. And protesting is very difficult when everyone doing so is branded a child molester. Britain
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
And water is wet. Of course Brits are going to answer that they'd rather not have the government read their private correspondence. But at the same time there has been very little protest over draconian legislation in the UK like the O
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I recently saw this guy on HN who had written a web server for an Atmel AVR and also implemented a TCP/IP stack to boot. It obviously was far from feature complete, but it did work. He used SLIP to communicate with the "server.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
This is just an opinion and not a very sensible one at that. The Linux TCP/IP stack is one of the most scrutinized network stacks in the world and more than likely free of bugs that coud lead to a server takeover.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Tools like Resharper and IntelliSense make me more productive but don't inhibit my thinking, which is what LLMs seem to do.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I just means I'm gonna be filthy rich in a couple of years when most programmers have lost their proficiency and me never having used Claude or any other A.I. slop tool.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Yeah but how will this work in practice? IMHO people will just submit code they didn't write or understand. Maintainers should quiz the submitters on the code and if they fail to answer reasonably the PR is dropped with the comment: &q
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The real culprit is Microsoft's licensing which gives PC manufacturers a "discount" when they install Windows on all their computers. As soon as they deliver machines without it they lose the discount on all the Windows
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Although generally safe these reactors aren't totally safe. I'm concerned lax physical security will allow miscreants to blow them up and spread nuclear materials over a wide area. The ensuing panic would totally destroy any goo
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
A.I. is useful for this. But it would be even more useful if all new code were written in Rust or some other memory-safe language. A.I. could also be used to port C/C++ codebases to Rust, which isn't economically feasible at the m
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The current level of A.I. is akin to an idiot-savant and even today's A.I. companies are raking in half a trillion dollars in revenue. If "real" reasoning A.I. comes along their income could be in the trillions every year !!
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Similar to the uproar about Obamacare where the people with little or no coverage were protesting that it limited their choice of health care professionals? The right-wing will probably brand welfare and UBI "socialism" to defile
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I'm not talking about the current A.I., but "true" reasoning A.I. which can handle almost any task a human can. That day hasn't arrived yet, but I'm contemplating about solutions when it does.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
You don't need an exceptional IQ to deduce that useful A.I. will lead to an enormous concentration of wealth at a few companies and individuals. In fact, it's the reason current A.I. companies have valuations in the Trillions.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Do you believe people will be able to sustain their incomes at current levels if A.I. does most of the work? Maybe by some magical means they will, but I'm far from sure that the majority will be able to stay above the poverty line.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I had the same thought, but this is more or less how things stood at the end of the 19th century: most of the wealth was accumulated by the ruling class whilst the majority of workers were at the poverty line. If we don't tax these A.I
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Maybe not the current versions, but a truly intelligent reasoning A.I. will certainly start to replace a lot of jobs once it comes along.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The U.S. had a top tax tier of 95% in de 1940's.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
This is potentially much more upending since it would put hundreds of millions of people out of work and concentrate all wealth at literally a handful of individuals. We could lead this towards a beneficial scenario with proper taxation, bu
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I believe he still has the power to change things at Microsoft, but he dares not to since it would angry shareholders who want this Musical Chairs game to continue.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
If A.I. starts to replace jobs en masse I propose we tax the companies profiting from this at a rate of 95% so we can finance welfare and Universal Basic Income schemes. We need to be aware that said companies and the people behind them wil
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The strategic and economic importance of Europe is too great for even the U.S. to ignore. That's the reason I'm convinced the U.S. will always come to Europe's aid if the need arises. I'm pretty sure the Trump Administra
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I've noticed that in the last few days the number of articles about A.I. has gone down dramatically, probably because of this post.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I doubt that. The people I know who use LLMs write 85% of the code themselves. We might even see a "codepocalypse" where the companies using A.I. to write their code realize that the code is unmaintainable, developers that cannot
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Not true. Many developers will keep writing their own code, possibly outside the corporations that force them to use LLMs to do so.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Usenet is still here. I'm using it on a regular basis. The point is very few others are.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
If you leave the treaty are you still subject to international sanctions if you develop nukes? Me thinks not. That makes the treaty a paper tiger. The NPT was only useful when the lines were clear and larger nations would come to the aid of
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I'm deeply disappointed that many of the stories on HN are directly or indirectly about A.I. and LLMs. To me this is a complete turn-off. OTOH this seems to be the case everywhere in the IT landscape these days. Many people interested
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Me and my colleagues had been downloading preview versions for months and it was such a revelation compared to 3.11. Except, it was (under the covers) still MS-DOS based. I can remember having fun editing several bytes of the GDI.EXE or USE

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