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by johnfn 1y ago
> This is more or less a completely imagined issue. The most dangerous form of transportation is personal vehicles, and its not even close. Sure, you can make that argument. I can even agree with you. But you're not going to convinc
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by johnfn 1y ago
Have you used busses or the metro recently? My girlfriend refuses to ride them because they are dirty, uncomfortable, and most crucially, unsafe. And although I am an ardent supporter of public transportation, I tend to understand her side
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by johnfn 1y ago
Sure, but even then the perspective makes no sense. The common argument against AI at this point (e.g. OP) is that the only reason people use it is because they are intentionally trying to prop up high valuations - they seem unable to under
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by johnfn 1y ago
> To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor. It requires succinctness. But with the current community, I'm afraid they'll never figure this out. I couldn't disagree more strongly. This has nothing
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by johnfn 1y ago
You're giving people a lot of credit. Often when I ask for justification for stupid decisions I get dumb rationale that makes no sense, or no rationale at all, or something very clearly made up on the spot.
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by johnfn 1y ago
This sounds fantastic. I found myself nodding along the entire time as the author's experience matched mine. I'm really surprised it isn't more popular here on HN; I can only think that most people haven't really used Cl
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by johnfn 1y ago
You might also find it amazing that people work with colleagues and give them feedback!
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by johnfn 1y ago
It's an interesting premise, but how many people - are capable of evaluating the LLM's output to the degree that they can identify truly unique insights - are prompting the LLM in such a way that it could produce truly unique insi
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by johnfn 1y ago
Oh yeah I totally remember Segway hitting a 300B valuation after a couple of years.
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by johnfn 1y ago
It's never a slam-dunk with AI-generated content, but some of the signs I notice are: - Constant bulleted lists with snappy, non-punctuated items. - Single word sentences to emphasize a point ("It was disciplined. Technical. Foren
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by johnfn 1y ago
It's pretty clearly written by GPT.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Very much the same. The best luck I ever had was when I forced myself to do zone 2 for a month or two before really getting into it.
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by johnfn 1y ago
My solution to getting bored is to run harder. Zone 4 heart rate is really the sweet spot for me. It's intense enough that I don't get bored - it's like all the energy that would typically make my mind look for stimulation ge
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by johnfn 1y ago
So we should hold my grandmother responsible for the phishing emails she gets? Hmm.
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by johnfn 1y ago
I believe you that it was unintentional (and I'm sorry for implying that it was!), but I still think the carpenter was upset because you implicated him. Just to prove I'm not crazy here, I asked GPT as a neutral third party, which
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by johnfn 1y ago
Upvotes are a lagging indicator. Despite all the leaderboard scores presented, etc, no one actually knows how good a model is until they go use it for a while. When Claude 4 got ~2k upvotes, it was because everyone realized that Claude 3.7
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by johnfn 1y ago
That's fair enough. But don't you think carpentry could be considered a loud profession, like the other ones you listed? I imagine carpenters as banging nails with hammers all day. :P
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by johnfn 1y ago
The point of the story is that someone tried to strike up a conversation with OP and he responded by effectively saying "your job is loud and obnoxious", and it's presented as if it's a win. It doesn't really seem l
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by johnfn 1y ago
You don't think carpentry falls into the category of "professions that make loud noise outdoors"?
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by johnfn 1y ago
Maybe because he was trying to make small talk and you insulted his profession?
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by johnfn 1y ago
Fortunately some other HN readers are currently working on a browser extension to get a local LLM to argue with the enterprise LLM until it gives you your money back.
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by johnfn 1y ago
The way I think about it is this. There are roughly two groups of people: - Some people will not care / be dismissive of what I have to say. I probably don't want to talk to these people much. - Some people will be interested! I p
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by johnfn 1y ago
Anyone can get 10 tok/sec - just tell the model to output the entire file with changes, rather than just the delta. Whatever LLM you're using will have a baseline error rate a lot higher than 2%, so you're going to be reviewi
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by johnfn 1y ago
But lenses already do the same thing, just with a worse syntax. do notation already rewrites a lot of messy Haskell into cleaner Haskell. It's not that different!
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by johnfn 1y ago
But there's nothing 'verboten' about this in Haskell! Haskell could allow for the exact same syntax, and do the exact same thing behind the scenes. Oh but no, LENSES of course, you must rewrite obvious code in the most obtu
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by johnfn 1y ago
Been writing code for 25 years, 15 professional. Still enjoy it just as much.
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by johnfn 1y ago
immer.js allows you to do foo.bar.baz = 1 without side effects.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Everyone is like "Haskell is such a cool language, it's so much more clear concise and understandable than that stupid language you like so much" (their words, not mine). Then you ask them how they write `foo.bar.baz = 1` and
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by johnfn 1y ago
You really are saying, on Hacker News, that "negatives must not be allowed?" Hacker News, probably the most negative news site on the Internet, the place that hates everything, the place where the Dropbox 'Show HN' post
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by johnfn 1y ago
I think this is the most reasonable answer on the thread. As amusing as it is to see everyone come up with zany solutions, it is most likely something boring like this.

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