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by koboll 4y ago
Unbelievably frustrating to be a junior or mid level engineer working with a senior dev who does this, watching it happen, maybe even arguing back and being overruled.
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by koboll 4y ago
I wonder if Goodreads is next under the guillotine.
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by koboll 4y ago
Wait holy shit this is at least partially true though? https://openai.com/blog/will-hurd-joins
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by koboll 4y ago
Forgotten Realms is definitely its own universe with its own canon and everything, and apparently the movie is pretty faithful to it.
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by koboll 4y ago
The point of a corporation is to be a legal person that is considered as a physical person in various ways for purposes of a lawsuit. That's literally why it has the Latin root corp, meaning body, in the name.
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by koboll 4y ago
Programming languages are stupidly information dense indeed, but if that's the most major roadblock, I don't see why throwing more compute at the problem won't eventually solve it. GPT-4 is already handling a very stupid amou
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by koboll 4y ago
It honestly seems sort of like a straight path toward an LLM that can hold a whole codebase in context and can produce new functionality on command. Fundamentally, software is just taking inputs and producing outputs; we will almost certain
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by koboll 4y ago
This basically matches my experience in trying to get it to do the right thing. BEING VERY EXPLICIT AND ANGRY WORKS TO REINFORCE A POINT. Specifically telling it to not do a thing it will otherwise do is often necessary. The only part that
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by koboll 4y ago
>Someone wrote this, someone can change it, and anyone in the git log can be held accountable for what they did Uh, not really, no. The whole point of neural nets is they independently discover novel and unexpected ways of predicting the
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by koboll 4y ago
Any Web 2.0 system's basic premise is that it provides a space where humans can be humans. The bedrock assumption is that people can POST things that a server will instantly and automatically display publicly, and that the server owner
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by koboll 4y ago
>The reality is that most people, EVEN technical people, don't actually understand the Internet. Nothing gives me Gell-Mann amnesia quite like the comments that get upvoted on HN posts relevant to the particular area in which I work
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by koboll 4y ago
The problem is that with modern ML-based recommendation systems there is not really an "algorithm" at all. Which is probably the reason that particular promise from Musk never actually went anywhere.
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by koboll 4y ago
One time about a year and a half ago I Googled the correct temperature to ensure chicken has been thoroughly cooked and the highlight card at the top of the search results showed a number in big bold text that was wildly incorrect, pulled
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by koboll 4y ago
How exactly do you go about explaining something like "I live in another state but I'd be happy to fly in for 1-3 days a month" on a resume (Asking for a friend)
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by koboll 4y ago
I had both of these things. Loved CyLandia so much, nearly got addicted to that game at one point. The only problem is I never knew or even heard of a single other human being in real life who had one...
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by koboll 4y ago
>As long as you are taking the GLP-1 inhibitor drugs you will lose or maintain weight, but as soon as you stop you will gain a lot of weight back. Sounds like the opposite of a disaster for pharmaceutical companies. Well, on the upside,
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by koboll 4y ago
If it was truly 'inevitable' it would be priced in
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by koboll 4y ago
Yep. He said just now that Twitter is "in the fast lane to bankruptcy": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604626103326253056
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by koboll 4y ago
It's not obviously not doxxing to post publicly available information about the locations of aircraft. It never has been and it never will be.
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by koboll 4y ago
I guess by thing of the past soon I don't mean ChatGPT will literally end coding challenges immediately, but whatever comes next (analogous to DALL-E 2 -> Stable Diffusion -> Midjourney 4 -> ???) probably will. For junior posi
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by koboll 4y ago
Have you tried asking it your company's tech interview coding challenge questions yet? I have, and I'm pretty convinced coding challenges are going to be a thing of the past soon. Either that or there will need to be extreme anti-
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by koboll 4y ago
This comment is just silly. So you think a job at a startup is more secure? You think a job at a smaller company is more secure? BigTech layoffs might make news because they're Big but plenty of smaller companies will be laying off as
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by koboll 4y ago
The entire industry is shifting to WFH. I can tell because of the beeps. I swear in 1 out of every 5 or 6 calls to a customer service line I hear an intermittent beep go off every few seconds in the background. I used to think it was a call
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by koboll 4y ago
Okay, let's take a look at the context where the multiocular o was used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O I see that near it, there is an ef (Ф) with a very tall stem. Why should that not be included as
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by koboll 4y ago
Sure it's possible, but there should be a higher bar than "it's possible it's used more than once" for meriting inclusion in the standard keyboard of billions of devices worldwide.
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by koboll 4y ago
You are conflating backward-looking inflation (money has gotten 10 percent less valuable over the past year) with forward-looking inflation (we should lend at 12 percent interest because we expect money to get 10 percent less valuable over
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by koboll 4y ago
Honestly it probably deserves the Pluto treatment: decertification as a character. One historical use in the 1400s doesn't merit a character and never did.
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by koboll 4y ago
Well, there are two classes of criminal. The petty crimes are committed by a small but very vocal minority of homeless people who are severely mentally ill and/or severely addicted to meth/opiates. They can afford to live here bec
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by koboll 4y ago
Some of these charts are atrocious chart crimes. This one is particularly bad: https://i.imgur.com/hfHmvhP.png
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by koboll 4y ago
This entire line of argument over whether we are in a technical recession is pointless and dumb. We are in a uniquely weird economic situation that is clearly bad but less bad than a typical recession, and it would be improved if inflation

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