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by km144 1y ago
Are you a paid user? I haven't seen a model selector in years.
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by km144 1y ago
How would I even know? I haven't seen which model of ChatGPT I'm using on the site ever since they obfuscated that information at some point.
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by km144 1y ago
Theories are hard because the world is complex. I guess that sounds trivial but it really should be said more often. There is no silver bullet with these things, because the systems are so complicated that it is hard to reason about how one
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by km144 1y ago
A lot of the time, multiple devs working on a single branch can be avoided via different decisions made upstream about work that needs done. If my job included more git wrangling as one of my daily tasks I would probably hate my job.
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by km144 1y ago
My thought is, if a GUI like GH Desktop makes it hard to use Git, then your workflow is too complicated. Version control doesn't have to be complicated. But a lot of that is upstream decisions about how you structure your work as a tea
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by km144 1y ago
How about... greater benefits to people who are unemployed? I mean, UBI is inherently a poor policy for "mass unemployment scenarios", because there is no feasible scenario in which the majority of people are unemployed. To give U
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by km144 1y ago
Probably the most HN-coded response I can imagine to someone asking why you would possibly want 12 vacuum cleaners.
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by km144 1y ago
Housing, healthcare, childcare, and education have become more expensive. These are the biggest expenses for most people and are necessities. So the percentage of income available for other expenses has definitely decreased. Not sure about
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by km144 1y ago
> Is there more we can add to the AI conventions markdown in the repo to guide the Agent to make fewer mistaken assumptions? Forgive my ignorance, but is this just a file you're adding to the context of every agent turn or this a fo
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by km144 1y ago
I think that is a fair perspective. When I say "to what end" I am mostly implying the "end" of a product for the market. I think writing in particular is always a thing where if you tell people you do it as a hobby, they
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by km144 1y ago
I feel that when making a claim like that, the burden of proof is on you to explain how AI makes the world a better place. I have seen far more of the opposite since the advent of GPT-3. Please do not say it makes you more productive at you
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by km144 1y ago
Creative works carry meaning through their author. The best art gives you insight into the imaginative mind of another human being—that is central to the experience of art at a fundamental level. But the machine does not intend anything. Ba
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by km144 1y ago
Garry Tan is inexplicably cringe and annoying
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by km144 1y ago
Yeah, I think it makes more sense when you consider that the former (boss complaining to direct) is something that should seem obviously bad to even non-managers, but handling the reverse situation correctly is also critical. It's conf
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by km144 1y ago
I'd argue it is actually more of a broad trend i.e. the boom in computer science enrollment over the last 20 years has been driven mostly by people chasing a better return on investment in the increasing cost of the average four-year d
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by km144 1y ago
I actually think prestige is a contributing factor for CS as well. People assume you must be smart to be a software engineer, and FAANG companies are prestigious to normal people because they have name recognition. Definitely not on the sam
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by km144 1y ago
Probably that's just how we were wired. I'm probably often guilty of invoking an appeal to nature [1] when it comes to these things, but it's striking to me how few people who exist in modern society have the capacity to ackn
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by km144 1y ago
Maybe automated testing of all forms will just become much more ubiquitous as a safeguard against the worst of AI hallucinations? I feel that would solve a lot of people's worries about LLMs. I'm imagining a world where a software
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by km144 1y ago
Reddit at least used to have a form of value as a recommendations engine—searches for "best x site:reddit.com" would yield anything from decent to fantastic results depending on the product. But even that is completely useless now
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by km144 1y ago
Every system can be translated can be translated to text though. If there is one thing LLMs have essentially always been good at, it is processing written language.
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by km144 1y ago
Well as a member of gen-z, I'll happily agree with you if that makes you feel like less of a boomer. And I think it mostly has to do with attention. The capacity for focused attention has been deteriorating at a societal level for quit
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by km144 1y ago
Degrees are a filtering mechanism. In almost all fields/positions they are a weak signal of aptitude, not a strong one. But there are no strong signals of aptitude before the interviewing process at the very least, and most of the time
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by km144 1y ago
Isn't the problem precisely that uncertainty though? That we have many data points showing that a rotting banana skin will not spontaneously gain sentience, but we have no clear way to predict the future? And we have no way of knowing
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by km144 1y ago
It's not that deep bro, he just said he likes reading old books
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by km144 1y ago
> If you love coding, it’s not just about outputting features faster - it’s also about preserving the craft and joy of problem-solving that got you into this field in the first place. This is nonsense. The author implies importance of sk
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by km144 1y ago
Your point does not engage with the question raised in the comment you're replying to. Would you like to live in a society where criminal justice is secondary to immigration enforcement? One where we deport people with acute conditions
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by km144 2y ago
The true absurdity of this timeline is that everyone is behaving as perfectly rational players, which is absurd when you look at the current presidential administration, particularly in light of recent events.
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by km144 2y ago
I mean, there are probably only a few places on the internet with more people who believe their insights into other disciplines are profound simply because they understand how computers work than the HN comment section. So we should all be
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by km144 2y ago
Sure, but it's also entirely the wrong policy solution for the problem as it has been laid out.
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by km144 2y ago
I think you're missing the value of rubber-ducking with the chatbot on a fairly well-defined/well-known problem in a somewhat specific/novel scenario—this is the vast majority of software development being done today. Dependi

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