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by kentm 1y ago
Not sure why you quote it, that's pretty huge. I'd call any double-digit percent increase on a billionaire's wealth huge.
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by kentm 1y ago
Sure, but there are scenarios and architectures where you do want the workload to jump around, but just to a subset of hosts matching certain criteria. Kubernetes does solve that problem.
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by kentm 1y ago
As evidence of this point, “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was originally “Bush Derangement Syndrome”. I have to roll my eyes anytime someone mentions TDS seriously. Although Trump has a cult of personality that Bush did not have; you didn’t h
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by kentm 1y ago
I think you missed geraneum’s point. They’re saying that the military is still going to need oil even if industry decarbonizes
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by kentm 1y ago
You could post what you said exactly that got you fired here in this thread.
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by kentm 1y ago
Which ones specifically?
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by kentm 1y ago
News organizations should not uncritically repeat press releases like these. It is an ethical failure to do so.
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by kentm 1y ago
> Stop what? Showing ads? Using abusive advertising practices and being reasonable about the number of ads shown.
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by kentm 1y ago
> It's worse than creators not making content, they move their content to be lower rung click bait garbage to maximize ad-views. They will do this whether or not people use ad-blockers. We've seen this happen before; someone w
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by kentm 1y ago
The people that are against "unsafe" vaccines do not do the proper research to determine whether a vaccine is actually safe. These people claim that safe vaccines, like the COVID shots, are actually unsafe because they googled up
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by kentm 1y ago
No, you're trying to draw an equivalence with the Fed here, and its not at all valid. The current US administration fired the BLS commissioner for a bad jobs report and is actively suing news outlets (and installing "fairness che
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by kentm 1y ago
Yes. It was a big news story that the administration yanked visas and green cards for pro Palestine protestors.
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by kentm 1y ago
To play the devils advocate, being able to memorize patterns and recognize which patterns apply to a given problem is extremely valuable. Tons of software dev is knowing the subset of algorithms, data structures, and architecture that appl
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by kentm 1y ago
I agree but the problem is that the average developer uses an LLM is to avoid doing so. I know we’re all carefully examining the LLM output here on HN but that’s not how I see a lot of developers work in practice.
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by kentm 1y ago
> where one moment of inattention by one person I'll get a lot of pushback for this, but the main problem are ecosystems that encourage using packages published by one person. I call these "some person with a github" pack
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by kentm 1y ago
Machines don’t typically make clothes that are not wearable. An LLM will produce content that is incorrect.
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by kentm 1y ago
Mechahitler, the South African genocide debacle, explicitly checking Elons Twitter feed, “You get your news from infowars” system prompts, etc have basically made Grok not a real option for me. I do not want to use a product that is specifi
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by kentm 1y ago
I’m referring to actual people I have worked and interacted with so no not made up. They’re not engineers and shouldn’t have been labeled data engineers. They have some other value to the company, presumably, but trying to repackage them
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by kentm 1y ago
People who can utilize the tooling to process petabytes of data efficiently aren’t the ones that are catching flack. The people I’m thinking of basically run massive inefficient SQL queries and then throw their hands up when it runs slowly
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by kentm 1y ago
Yep, I specifically asked my company to make sure my job title was not “data engineer” when working on data infrastructure, because there was a growing trend of using it to mean “can write some sql”. Likewise, we had to steer HR away from “
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by kentm 1y ago
At some point it becomes easier to just write the code. If the solution was 350 lines, then I'm guessing it was far easier for them to just write that rather then tweak instructions, find examples, etc to cajole the AI to writing work
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by kentm 1y ago
Good idea! We can have some sort of standard grammar that we use to prompt the LLM such that it deterministically gives us the result we ask for. We then constrain all prompts to match that grammar. Some sort of language describing progr
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by kentm 1y ago
There was some post that comes to mind of an example of this. Some project had a security issue reported that was not a security issue, and when asking questions it became extremely obvious that someone was just feeding the conversation in
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by kentm 1y ago
It seemed like a normative statement, to be honest, so I misunderstood your point.
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by kentm 1y ago
Yep, this is still a thing. In the past year I’ve been throttled due to hot partitions. They’ve improved the partitioning so you hit it less, but if you scale too fast you will get limited. Hit it when building an iceberg Lakehouse using pr
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by kentm 1y ago
The things they talked about are so common that I think it’s disingenuous to call them edge cases.
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by kentm 1y ago
But, if we don’t build the Torment Nexus then someone else will anyway!
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by kentm 1y ago
I just want to double-check. Is your contention that being right wing is sufficient justification to lie in order to destroy someone’s reputation? I have no love for the right wing but that’s a morally repugnant stance, id it is indeed the
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by kentm 1y ago
There’s actual studies that show that you can be deluded about positive usefulness. There was a study that showed people using AI thought they were being 20% more productive but actually had lowered productivity. Even productive people do n
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by kentm 1y ago
To be fair, there are a lot of people (especially on Hacker News) in group 2 convincing themselves that they are in group 3. And people in group 1 see that and think that group 3 is a lot lot smaller than AI acolytes think.

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