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by layer8 4mo ago
Also: 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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by layer8 4mo ago
The context was “Everyone does use the internet for everything today” and “most people don't even realize how the internet is running literally everything”. You don’t need the internet for your phone to have a battery charge.
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by layer8 4mo ago
The cellular phone network doesn’t require the internet to work.
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by layer8 4mo ago
> Any long-winded answer to a question is immediate out and has been for years. That’s a bit ironic, given the typical output of LLMs.
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by layer8 4mo ago
I don’t think that’s it. AI mobile apps support voice conversations. And low literacy is rather a motivation for using AI to generate and summarize text.
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by layer8 4mo ago
Because dropping a table effectively requires an exclusive lock on the table during that whole operation, affecting parallel transactions.
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by layer8 4mo ago
Classic is based on votes from older accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists It tends to filter out trite topics and lower-quality submissions, though I have the feeling that it has become less effective for that in re
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by layer8 4mo ago
Businesses are started without VC capital all the time, especially outside of the US and SV circles.
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by layer8 4mo ago
He probably signed advertising contracts.
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by layer8 4mo ago
It’s a crutch, it’s rarely as good as from an experienced translator or native speaker, and often distorts the original to some extent. It can be the lesser evil when someone doesn’t know the language well, but it still tends to be a subpar
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by layer8 4mo ago
It’s appalling that it is at the top of the front page. (Edit: At the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/classic , at present.)
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by layer8 4mo ago
Impressive collection, but surprising it hasn’t burned down yet with all those lit candles on bookshelves.
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by layer8 4mo ago
The issue is that we didn’t have these kinds of incongruent animations twenty years ago, and nowadays they are the norm, worsening user experience.
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by layer8 4mo ago
It’s highly uncertain what will happen in 950 days.
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by layer8 4mo ago
Read up here for example: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/...
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by layer8 4mo ago
The C standard doesn’t guarantee that arbitrary integer values converted to a pointer and back result in the same integer values again. It only guarantees the other direction, that a valid pointer to void , when converted to uintptr_t an
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by layer8 4mo ago
I disagree under the following circumstances, which in my experience is the common case: You don’t know from the outset all relevant considerations that go into implementing something. Coding yourself is an exploration process of those cons
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by layer8 4mo ago
Trump and friends are only interested in investments they can personally make money from.
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by layer8 4mo ago
> The real story here is that this may be the beginning of governments restricting the availability of strong LLMs to the public, to you. That would also significantly dampen the commercial incentives to develop such strong models, given
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by layer8 4mo ago
I don’t agree that machine translation has raised the floor, because even LLM-based translation can get pretty bad when it isn’t provided with the necessary context. And the average quality level I’m encountering has dropped since machine t
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by layer8 4mo ago
That’s not how it works. Value for users doesn’t translate 1:1 into value for businesses, nor are either necessarily willing to pay for value. That’s why things enshittify.
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by layer8 4mo ago
I’m not gravely irked by it, but it does sometimes distract you from the content of the blog post you just read. Similar to “you might also be interested in […]” footers and the like. I’d prefer writings to not be bookended or interrupted b
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by layer8 4mo ago
> My perception is that there is less interest in open source, and in coding in general. The main reason I love coding is that it is a challenge, and I think this is actually the same reason why a lot of people prefer to give money to an
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by layer8 4mo ago
I wonder if “Just 3 words: you’re not alone” would have been acceptable. :)
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by layer8 4mo ago
It’s unfortunate because we are seeing more poor translations in all domains, and users suffer from it. It’s part of a general enshittification of things. There are few contexts where low-quality translations don’t constitute a degradation
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by layer8 4mo ago
I see the difficulties more in other areas, such as technical translations, specialist books, user manuals, and translating UIs, where contextual information and a back and forth with the client is needed to clarify details, and (for user m
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by layer8 4mo ago
Translators already started losing jobs due to machine translation a decade ago (e.g. DeepL), before LLMs. Remuneration going down made it more difficult to make a living as a translator already then, even if you still received offers.
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by layer8 4mo ago
What’s unfortunate is that the market that is willing to pay for high-quality human translation has shrunken considerably.
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Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX surge after biggest IPO(reuters.com)
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by layer8 4mo ago
One hypothesis is that the brain began too look (and eventually plan) farther ahead with land animals, because you have a much farther view in air than in water. On land there is more evolutionary pressure to change one’s behavior regarding

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