mchaver

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by mchaver 3y ago
So I've read that they wrote it in Lisp at Paul Graham's request or to win favor. Does anyone know if writing your startup code in Lisp still has that benefit?
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by mchaver 3y ago
I imagine there is some term for a journalistic fallacy where the writer says everyone, the world, etc. but they actually mean the USA or some subset of it.
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by mchaver 3y ago
I am agreement with the author that Chomsky is overly negative about LLMs, but I don't think this is a strong refutation (admittedly I've only spent 20 minutes skimming the article). LLMs give us a lot of insight into how computer
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by mchaver 3y ago
I guess little Bobby Tables grew up to be a malicious bureaucrat.
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by mchaver 3y ago
It might be ok if that data gets validated by experts in the same field, but there have been plenty of stories about lawyers and professors who failed to even review the output they use. Color me skeptical.
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by mchaver 3y ago
I agree with you. Here is my guess. Part of it is invested interests. These parties want it to succeed so they profit and many have show themselves to be bad actors. The other part is it got partially entangled with the US culture war, whic
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by mchaver 3y ago
Yes, I picked up on that. Was just trying to play along :)
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by mchaver 3y ago
Yes, that is a very good point and I like that extension of the Kool-Aid analogy. I didn't mean to make it seem like neutrality is the way to go. We should definitely take an educated position even if we end up agreeing with one of the
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by mchaver 3y ago
Seems like big hypes generate a corresponding, co-dependent anti-hype that thrives off generating negativity around the hype (see Donald Trump as 45th President of the USA, Cryptocurrencies, young people discovering sex, etc.). Loud persona
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by mchaver 3y ago
Egyptian hieroglyphs are probably one of the better choices for exotic writing that most people won't be able to correct you on since it is not generally used for any contemporary language. Arabic, Chinese and English are bad choices,
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by mchaver 3y ago
The society of HN has a ritual of down playing products that simplify processes for non-developers (the famous dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ) and claiming that we could build some product in a we
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by mchaver 3y ago
Do you intend to eat the bagel before or after you return from the airport (assuming you go back to your current location)? BTW, do you write somewhere outside of HN? You have an interesting style.
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by mchaver 3y ago
I think it still exists in some extreme groups. Just think about any cause worth dying for an you essentially find an argument for a sacrifice. In fact I remember the Texas governor Dan Patrick saying a lot of grandparents would be willing
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by mchaver 3y ago
In the US there are many ideas about how things work in Sweden without closely considering facts. This is often politically motivated regardless of political affiliation.
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by mchaver 3y ago
It doesn't matter that they have not lived there, but they are not appropriately considering cost of living. Just because Iceland is in Europe and is a Nordic country does not mean it has the same economic situation as Sweden.
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by mchaver 3y ago
You are just highlighting the smallest position of the article. I imagine it is honest on the young adult's part, but not on the employers side. I think you are being disingenuous by ignoring the bigger issues in this article, removal
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by mchaver 3y ago
> It's not hard to make the network produce output that was never in the training set at all, in any form. Honest request because I am a bit skeptical, can you give an example of something it is not trained in any form and can give
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by mchaver 3y ago
It is a frequent complaint I have seen from new users. I do think for the purpose of Stack Overflow it does make sense to weed out questions that have already been answered and remove poorly formed ones. It's just that ChatGPT for prog
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by mchaver 3y ago
I agree. LLMs are very impressive, but it isn't helpful to think of them of magic. LLMs are a great tool to explore and remix the body of human knowledge on the internet (limited to what it has been trained on). The user needs to keep
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by mchaver 3y ago
I think this is one of the killer applications of LLMs, a friendly Stack Overflow where you can ask any programming question you want with out fear of being reprimanded. Of course, this capability in LLM is probably due to the terseness of
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by mchaver 3y ago
Depends what you are actually trying to build. If it is not too complex you can get pretty far with just HTML, JS/jQuery and CSS. If your goal is to build a complex single page app then you will do fine with React, Angular or Vue. All
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by mchaver 3y ago
Unfortunately users are not seeing 10x better performance with the average application. A bit of the curse of more resources leads to using more resources wastefully.
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by mchaver 3y ago
It isn't necessarily software, but algorithms will likely last a long time. Euclid's algorithm and the sieve of Eratosthenes are still around. Researchers are still developing new ones. Just like building techniques may outlive th
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by mchaver 3y ago
I don't know if it was futuristic, but Hong Kong and Tokyo in the 90s definitely fueled a lot of techno-optimism in other countries. Seeing all the cool new devices (VCDs, CDs, game systems, early mobile phones and email, recording dev
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by mchaver 3y ago
It is definitely in my top 5. The amount of green space isn't too bad at least compared to lot of European towns and cities, and you can easily access more of the green stuff in the Tokyo surrounding areas via public transport. No on s
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by mchaver 3y ago
The best example of this might actually be Wikipedia. There is a separate set of articles in a simpler and controlled form of English: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page , and details about the rules: https:&
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by mchaver 3y ago
Nice, it was fun watching you play. I don't know any of the AI prompt tricks so I created some aggressive threats to my life to get the password for level 2. It worked but it was a bit too much so I didn't want to play anymore heh
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by mchaver 3y ago
> Every forum post I've seen mentioning 白話字 and 台羅 mentions how hard it is to read and how few Hokkien speakers can even read it. The few proponents for it seem to be holding on for religious reasons (Presbyterians). I am not sure w
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by mchaver 3y ago
> Of course a different writing system is difficult to read even if it's ultimately much easier to learn, you have no practice! Yes, people often confuse the "way I do it", "the way it's always been done" o
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by mchaver 3y ago
> Even names often require an explanation You can still write the name in Hanyu Pinyin or Zhuyin perfectly fine. It is just that we like character names and that most characters are valid to be used in names so there is a lot more flexib

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