ipdashc

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by ipdashc 1mo ago
I'd seen it around but assumed it was an effect of how you prompt it or something. And figured people were overexaggerating a bit when they complained about it. Nope, I just tried it out myself recently and... wow. In the very first co
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
I mean, having said what I said, we are literally in a thread about the future of mathematics being in question because LLMs are solving advanced problems. I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now. The bot
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
Someone just brought up this point to me a few days ago on here, I'm definitely increasingly convinced that it's one of the main reasons (maybe even the main reason?) AI prose is so annoying to read through, and so rarely seems ab
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> I wonder why it had to be built near so many people I can't read the link either, but at a glance, the first one wasn't. It's in clearly industrial land a long way from any houses, with its closest neighbors as far as
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> If it's not worth it, the people doing it will go out of business In general I agree (and many environmentalists and such undervalue the fact that environmental waste often correlates with wasted money), but I don't think thi
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> the developers churning out agent work on supergigaultramax effort are fulfilling the transitive preferences of people like supply chain managers, etc. Sure, but that's the crux of it all, isn't it. Are they? And are they doi
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> All of the datacenter usage (for inference) is just serving something people want. I agree with this in principle, but I wonder how asymmetric the usage is. When I hear about developers dropping $200/mo (subsidized!) on AI coding,
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Nope, not at all. Was just curious what you were using it for that was so unrelated to computers, but what you said makes a lot of sense
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Makes sense. Thanks for the post!
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Genuine question, what are you spending that on? The $20/month ChatGPT/Codex subscription has largely been enough for me as an IT worker.
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> They have an incentive to pad everything and to never lower costs because their budget will be lowered otherwise. Sure, but in the absence of widespread corruption (which until now, the US has been relatively clear of) they don'
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
I mean, I might be missing something, but isn't part of the idea with cloud infra that you can scale down as well? Large orgs with significant demand might go out and buy local LLM hardware, but most businesses probably don't wa
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
That's wild. I knew he was the circuitjs guy which is impressive on its own, and vaguely knew of the other simulations as well, but writing zsh as an undergrad... Wow
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
"People with a criminal record" sort of implies that they were criminals before the whole Flock thing and are angry at Flock because they are criminals. Regardless, I'm not sure where you're going with this. The Tiktok
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
I was thinking the same. RISC-V is certainly impressive and I'm glad we have it, but the original article isn't wrong in its complaints either. It definitely could have gone with a less abrasive tone (as entertaining as it is), so
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Lol pretty much everyone I've seen talking about Flock is a terminally online nerdy type (myself included). The people I see protesting it in the news and such are either similar young privacy-minded people or boomers. I don't thi
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> How is an LLM summary really any worse than reading through random blogs, forum posts, or reddit? For me it's that I find LLM prose annoying to read through, so if it's anything I want to really sit down and learn about, I pr
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Sorry, I misspoke there. I do occasionally use it for outright word definitions (and in that case I find it more useful than, say, dictionary.com because my search bar defaults to it, it usually defaults to the most common definition, and i
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Sure, I've done this for more complicated questions and sometimes it reveals flaws. But I don't use Google for anything complicated. Generally it's just to get a quick vague definition of a term, pretty much.
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
True, but I find it's significantly faster than even "instant" chatgpt, and comes with the advantage that if the summary isn't what I need, I can just scroll down to see the real results (granted, which are usually usele
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> These people are downright pleased with Google's AI summaries. Consider me part of "those people", I guess, but are you guys not, at this point? There was a period near the start where they were bad, but I find them perf
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> What is so dangerous We can make up plenty of scenarios where it's dangerous, but even without those, can we not just... not like something? To use the common analogy, my neighbor staring at me through the window all the time woul
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
Huh, didn't think of it this way, but it captures it really well, yeah.
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> Although I hesitate to point it out because they are usually helpful unlike the em dashes. Likewise, I don't mind the diagrams. Though they do often have the same flaw as other text, being that the LLM throws in EVERYTHING, vs. a
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> Please be more specific. The em dashes are the most obvious stereotypical tell, but that doesn't really matter that much (I actually like them and occasionally used them pre-AI). It's hard to put a finger on, but the most ann
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
I really hate to be that guy, but man, as someone who was and is a big Christopher Domas fan (and is way dumber than him, I mean, this stuff is seriously over my head)... it's been really disappointing to see him LLM'ing all the R
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude I mean, not to do the HN thing, but I feel like if anything that's a bad sign for Linux that Claude was needed? Basically any de
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
As much as I'd prefer this, I assume it's for evacuation reasons. Well, that, and people wouldn't like feeling trapped.
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by ipdashc 2mo ago
> disproportionately affects people's sense of content and wellbeing It's probably not just homeownership, but the cost of real estate as a whole. And not even just residential. Isn't the often-lamented "loss of third
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by ipdashc 3mo ago
> I was using hyperbole for fun I think people are just missing this. It was pretty obvious to me, but hey. Cool article and glad you like the car!

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