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by lich_king 7mo ago
Eh. It's different, but framing it as uniquely challenging seems silly. There are very few other jobs where you don't need to deliver any specific, measurable results for months or years. And your "career-ending" outcome
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by lich_king 7mo ago
You can read the actual bill here: https://legiscan.com/MT/text/SB212/id/3212152/Montana-2025-S... In essence, it doesn't really mandate anything; it says you should have a plan, and only for &
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by lich_king 7mo ago
If you're running your open source project or other hobby endeavor, you can do it however you want. People will either adapt to your style or leave. The same, with some caveats, applies to running your own company (the caveats being la
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Anthropic, maybe, but what is the philosophical niche of OpenAI? Their only consistent philosophical position about AI is "let's make more money".
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by lich_king 7mo ago
You realize that the reason you need to manage this organizational complexity is largely because the organization is so huge?... The reality is that you could run LinkedIn with far, far fewer people. You probably need fewer than 100 for cor
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> In practice this still doesn't mean 50 % of white collar can't be automated though. Let me ask you this, though: if we wanted to, what percentage of white collar jobs could have been automated or eliminated prior to LLMs? Met
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Almost every critique of the axiom of infinity is philosophical. I don't think you can just say "the axiom is sound, so what's your point". And you don't even get to claim that because of Godel's incompleteness
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Did you mean AbstractNeighborDispatcherFactory?
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by lich_king 7mo ago
We built LLMs so that you can express your ideas in English and no longer need to code. Also, English is really too verbose and imprecise for coding, so we developed a programming language you can use instead. Now, this gives me a business
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by lich_king 7mo ago
You break highlighting and copy-and-paste. If I want to share or comment on a piece of your website... I can't. I guess this can be a "feature" in some rare cases, but a major usability pain otherwise. I'm not a fan of a
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Mobile OSes don't allow random people to run code on your device. They allow you to install software you want and sort-of trust, which is conceptually close to the desktop model. There are some safeguards on top of that, but the primar
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by lich_king 7mo ago
People who are posting AI comments or setting up AI bots are... people. They can show their ID. If a website owner doesn't have a way to ban that specific human and the bad guy can always get another voucher, it's sort of meaningl
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Without the bindings this talks about, so it really couldn't do nearly as much.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I don't think it's "much smaller" once you aim for feature parity (DOM). It might be more regular than an implementation of a higher-level language, but we're not getting rid of JS. By the same token, was Java or Fl
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by lich_king 7mo ago
The web is fascinating: we started with a seemingly insane proposition that we could let anyone run complex programs on your machine without causing profound security issues. And it turned out that this was insane: we endured 20 years of se
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by lich_king 7mo ago
This is an LLM-written article. It also doesn't say anything . I get it that it's a cue for us to reminisce about childhood and say that LEGO isn't what it used to be, but we're being played for clicks. Open the article
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by lich_king 7mo ago
When someone tells you "you can have this if you pay me", they don't mean "you can also have it if you don't pay". They are implicitly but clearly indicating you gotta pay. It's as simple as that. In commo
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> The Wason selection task is the classic example: most people fail a simple conditional reasoning problem unless it’s dressed up in familiar social context, like catching cheaters. I've never heard about the Wason selection task, l
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> Precisely. “AI” contributions should be seen as an extension of the individual. That's an OK view to hold, but I'll point out two things. First, it's not how the tech is usually wielded to interact with open-source softw
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> My question on AI generated contributions and content in general: on a long enough timeline, with ever improving advancements in AI, how can people reliably tell the difference between human and AI generated efforts? Can you reliably t
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I get that it says something we like to hear, but it's a content-free post that's almost certainly LLM-generated to get clicks. Serious content mill vibes - here's their latest blog article: https://www.yankodesign
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> A high ratio of upvotes to comments is generally a sign of a high quality HN submission. I think that the parent is trolling, but I don't think what you're saying is true. Low number of comments usually means that no one unde
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> Curious, how many people do you need on a social network before you can find someone to talk to or before it is engaging enough for you? I don't think that's a meaningful parameter to think about? I'd say that on any soc
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Yes they are? E.g., https://api.backlinko.com/app/uploads/2025/11/bluesky-websit... This is also visible in your stats if you extend the time window. They had a peak in 2024 and are pretty much declining
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Bluesky is not just a shadow, it's on a pretty steady decline. Their DAU numbers are dropping every month. Which probably tells you something about the unspoken reason for this change.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
It is a zero-sum game in some sense, because you go where your friends or "influencers" are. Mastodon ended up losing its user base to Bluesky during the early Twitter exodus because many influencers and journalists wanted to have
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> Do you have experience with this? Or is it common knowledge? Just curious! I collect vintage stuff that sometimes comes with paperwork, usually after spending a decade or two stashed away in the attic.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I don't think there's a simple answer. For example, someone recommended black ink on white paper, but it really depends on the composition of that ink. Inorganic pigments last forever, but the ink used in black sharpies actually f
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Many HNers strongly argue that it's absolutely impossible to distinguish between AI text and non-AI text. Some of it seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to some of the occasional, one-sided stories of people who were accused of using LLMs
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I don't know what you're trying to argue about here. I meant "charitable" as in "not necessarily implying the thing critics worry about". The less charitable interpretation is that the implied thing is true but

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