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by lazystar 1y ago
the situation is ripe for a new gesture protocol of some kind :pray:
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Samer Baroudi, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, insists this is for your own good. > > "This offers a safer alternative to other bring-your-own-AI scenarios, and empowers users with Copilot in their daily jobs
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by lazystar 1y ago
maybe chatgpt can help us understand it better
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by lazystar 1y ago
geez. I never said legislation wouldnt be a good thing, i only suggested that it might not be needed. good lord HN.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Why is there not legislation for this already? Cars that dont kill their drivers are more likely to have repeat customers; i.e. other factors besides legislation will force car manufacterers to shift their designs back to this approach
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by lazystar 1y ago
100% agreed - the lack of choice is terrible, and society is better now that women have more freedom. I think what people look back and get nostalgia for is the fact that it was possible for one adult to stay at home full time. Now its not
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by lazystar 1y ago
welcome to hacking, i guess. this is the real working experience that youll need in the industry
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by lazystar 1y ago
my favorite part of joining a new team is reading old merge requests and tickets that have a summary of "the reason is based this slack conversation" and then have a link to a slack conversation from a year ago... in an org that d
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by lazystar 1y ago
isnt this what assembly devs would have said about c devs, and c devs abput python devs?
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by lazystar 1y ago
ooo charge advertisers for % of time that their mcp context is influencing the response that gets generated. insiiidious. you wouldnt even know it was an ad.
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by lazystar 1y ago
well, then it comes down to which skillset is more marketable - the delegator, or the codong language expert. customers dont care about the syntactic sugar/advanced reflection in the codebase of the product that theyre buying. if the
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by lazystar 1y ago
great read, thanks! > No, the Prairie is a brutal Mad Max patriarchy this is the hard truth about tribal societies - a peaceful tribe is rare because they're at risk of being wiped out in a single day by an experienced warfaring tri
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by lazystar 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860731 well here's a discussion from a few days ago about the problems thia sycophancy causes in leadership roles
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by lazystar 1y ago
and the LLM probably responded with "You're absolutely right!" to every idea they asked about.
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by lazystar 1y ago
sunsetting in the monroe, wa area. only a month left to live out here, gonna miss it dearly
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by lazystar 1y ago
ya know... i wonder if this is how a religion is formed. at the start, science was about identifying and explaining the things that were true, observable, and agreed upon by all. anyone who was present at the birth of an event that caused
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by lazystar 1y ago
the timing's somewhat ironic. reading between the lines... the offshoring push would have started after the 2017 research and development tax thing hit the USA in 2022, and IIRC that tax was rolled back a few weeks ago in that big bea
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by lazystar 1y ago
> in which case that’s ignoring that it’s going to happen regardless we dont know the long term effects that llms have on a society that does not have these regulations in place. having europe as a backup in case the usa falls apart is
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by lazystar 1y ago
counterpoint: is a "SOTA LLM" a net benefit to society as a whole?
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Hopefully this exposure will help him out. looks lile he took down his site after some other commentators in this discussion noticed some discrepencies in his resume. specifically his claims of having a PhD and a JD. Con men never lea
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by lazystar 1y ago
is the word "forever" in the fine-print somewhere?
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by lazystar 1y ago
please. pilot puts everyone to sleep but himself, turns everything off, then does a flyby of his hometown and then puts himself to sleep? the only one more obvious is the german one.
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by lazystar 1y ago
is the GCP free tier in the room with us now? in all seriousness, would love a link.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.
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by lazystar 1y ago
still, it at least shows that there's been issues with the locking mechanism in the past. inadvertently bumping something that was assumed to be locked is a simpler theory; i find it hard to believe that a murder suicider would take th
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by lazystar 1y ago
https://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/NM-18-33 well hold your horses there... from the FAA in their 2019 report linked above: > The Boeing Company (Boeing) received reports from operators of Model 737 airplanes that the fuel
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by lazystar 1y ago
ive seen that work at smaller size companies (sub 2000 employees) but with a caveat - it causes some political stress for the recipient. jealous teammates are less likely to work with you after you get a bonus. and FAANG size companies don
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by lazystar 1y ago
followup - got downvoted hard on this, so i reflected a bit on my opinion here. i think its cognitive dissonance on my part, and its definitely a flaw in the new tipping model.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> A robust performance evaluation process does this just fine this assumes that an org is able to perform a robust performance evaluation. i posit that the lack of a quality-based incentive, like tipping, decreases the accuracy of an or
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by lazystar 1y ago
..and then you start visiting other coffee shops with higher quality/lower cost, right? you, the consumer, are not alone in this behavior - so this causes a pattern where skilled baristas have a higher rate of exodus from that coffee

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