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by necovek 5mo ago
The problem with the premise is that there are people who are great at appearing genuine, authentic and interested — without being so. One usually says they would make great salespeople. How do you tell a difference, and does it even matter
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Sounds like we are in agreement: LLMs are a great help to an already good engineer. But also to the original Simon's point that using LLM does not a good engineer make — how we make one is still on us with 10+ years (I've got &quo
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I'll be explicit: Claude is just another tool in your SW engineer's belt. If you believe Claude makes you a good engineer and you previously weren't, I am saying that's not true and you still are not a good engineer even
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While I agree with the general sentiment, I would not classify Dolby as a "patent troll" — they still do invest in research and developing products, right?
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So does your IDE, your choice of programming language, your OS even — but does it define you/make you a good software engineer?
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If building software (and even programming, as the basis for it) was just an expression of logical thinking, we would have cornered it long time ago IMO. But then again, logic is really a lot more discrete and well defined and easily expres
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That sounds like a good reason not to listen to Eric Schluntz, who both overestimates the ability of LLMs today, but also has a vested interest in it being so. I am sure Anthropic is full of smart people who are making Claude work well for
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I am amazed that anyone ever needed a "sprint" to "add an endpoint". It usually speaks to the approach you are taking, but I also believe sprint-based planning leads development teams to make work fit into it instead of
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This is not about detecting AI generated content but detecting HN posts which mention/discuss AI.
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I am not surprised others had a similar idea well before me: I'd just keep it as a "lens" into HN, and not a new thing. As always, it's all about execution: we just need someone to do it.
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I was thinking of making an alternative frontend to HN with GenAI stuff filtered out — using GenAI to do it, obviously (both build it and use it to filter things). But mostly as a social experiment to test how fed up are people with AI-in-o
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This would assume there was excess profits to begin with. The jury still seems out on that one.
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This seems to confirm one of the premises of Capital by Marx, as this only works while there is inequality in the global market. As purchasing power in China grows, their labour costs grow because they start demanding similarly unpolluted
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Only if I was paid $2M for a visit and it fixed any plumbing issues along the way.
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Isn't the relative increase more of interest? If someone was only owning 10% of the market, and they've only gotten 8% (percentage points) of the 20%-not-GH LLM-related increase, they'd still be seeing a very similar spike co
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The example was great for someone like me: I'd rather read through and follow excellent instructions by clicking through commands to understand the value of this command-driven tool. If you want to look through a video or something,
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Note that you can have them be energy efficient (triple glazed can even beat hard walls with regular insulation), but reflective ones which do a better job of avoiding greenhouse effect also let less light in, and how effective that is depe
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Depends on the set-up. Does you setting the stage, costumes and directing the photoshoot done by someone from fiverr with good camera and knowing how to use it not make you one?
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As someone with full-height windows at home — depending on your climate (continental Europe here, so similar to NYC or Boston, with below freezing in the winter and 40C/104F in the summer) — might not work too well. You lose space for
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Sure it has: automatic exposition and focus, HDR image blending... These used to require more thought and are now done for you. You still sometime override it, and an artist more often than a non-artist. A tool is let to make a set of choic
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It obviously does not follow since it precedes AI in "automating ... art" by 150 years. What happened to art since? We got artistic photography on top of paintings as well. It did not become widespread right away as people were mo
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The argument is whether models of today, suitably trained on pre-17th century data (if comparable quantity was available) would be able to "invent" calculus et cetera. If we believe today's models are sufficiently capable to
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The kiosk ordering at McDonalds is made to adjust the defaults which is slower than the mode I described: if automated, that would be a screen to choose the item, and then add things into it from a list — fewer screens, faster ordering. Eve
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Yes, the photographic camera really destroyed the whole genre of photorealistic paintings and portraits!
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I guess you are in a tough one right now, because BS is all around ;)
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I believe there is a point: we simulataneously ingest words, but also glyph shapes and learn acceptable variations between them (eg. serif vs non-serif, large x-height vs small, curlier or more elegant, playful letters...) — all of these co
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Let's stick to comparing language skills to language skills: at least in my experience with my two kids, they learn word formation patterns before they turn 2 — easy to notice because you see them make mistakes on exceptions. LLMs need
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A billion seconds is around 34 years, so I'd say we live for two billion seconds. But that's a good way to look at it: in 2B seconds, how many experiences can we get?
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Bigger portion of the payout for those that do?
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You missed the core of my point: humans operate, including in the real world, on much less training data. Give a human a shopping cart and ask them to push it backwards, and they'll figure it out in a few minutes even if they've n

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