noir_lord

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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Strategic hedge against the AI demand cratering or becoming satiated. You could make the same argument for why is AMD still making processors for the consumer market or APU’s for the PlayStation/Xbox current gen and more importantly ne
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Feels like another force desktop mode waiting to happen. I usually want the desktop site and zoom that the mobile specific version.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
AMD would step in, they where behind nvidia but they've been closing that gap for a while and the 9070XT is the current value king (in this fucked up market) for mid-high gaming and you can actually buy them. Demand for Nvidia cards ha
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Same boat, same reasons. Skills not exercised degrade as well, if you don't actually write code then your skill at reading and interpretting it degrades, you just become a "looks good" step. In theory if disciplined enough yo
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Not American but I've done the equivalent in my country multiple times, I'm a drop in the bucket but enough drops will eventually fill the bucket sometimes .
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> We want to be respectful Make telemetry strictly opt-in then, that's really the only respectful way to do it. Everything else is sophistry. Not singling you out either, too many projects do it by default, yours at least makes it o
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Oh we see it as a joke outside the US, just not a very funny one.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> I would expect something more along the lines of developing laws around noise pollution or something. How do you think you as a voter who presumably aren't a billionaire (or CEO of a mega corporation) with politicians on speed dia
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
No disrespect intended at all, I like HN and have used it for what feels like a long time and the moderation team that keeps it one of the more reasonable places to have a conversation on the internet (for the most part). That out of the wa
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
DHH and Lex in one video - that'll be a fun 24:51 of my life I'm sure...
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Some blog posts could have just been a link to the related wikipedia page[1] and some are just clearly a re-written version of that (goes for "content" on YT from some of the better known history ones). It's still better than
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Someone posted a twitch conversation yesterday about this, I poked around on the page realised there was no open source version and noped out immediately. I'm sure it's a great product (it seems like planetscale do good engineerin
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> Also, if you're just there for a paycheck, you're probably not that upset at distractions. Not true, I've worked jobs where I was there for the paycheck, I'd still prefer that it be a stable working and environment
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Yep but I'm only the product if they get my money and/or data (and these days it's often the and term not the or). I simply chose to opt out of that as far as is reasonable without living in a cave by candlelight, it gets har
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Yeah I didn't word that well at all, at least you know it wasn't an LLM. I meant I don't really care, I keep half an eye on what they are up to (have to live in the same world as them) but I'm not really interested in
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Regular Firefox running on a Linux computer works just fine. I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything. My “smart” TV has never seen the network, nor is it ever going to, it displays pixe
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Humans becoming the adversarial network to the AI is indeed a Black Mirror episode worthy outcome.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
That and the sheer volume drowns out everything else. The S/N ratio entirely depends on whether you care about AI and I don't not really.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Oh it absolutely will have issues (for example it'd hit Maintenance in a title because of AI), it was something I did in a fit of pique because I opened HN one day and ~2/3 of the stories where about AI/LLM's - great if
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It's not just SWE's we just see it more in that pool because we mostly (we are on HN after all) swim in that pool. I've eaten dinner with Doctors (medical) where they've confidently spoken about a subject I am more exp
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> I also work at an intersection of tech, applied research and science. My experience has been different. It's been surprising how controlled my collaborators/coworkers have been with their reliance on AI. It's similar to
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I've played with a fair few local models, Qwen 3.8 27B is the only one I've currently kept around (Muse Glimmer came the closest but will vacillate wildly if pushed, Qwen doesn't seem to do that (as much), I don't use it
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Fun idea, I'd have asked it for the "Take over but let the humans assume they are still in control" plan. In the case of an ASI I expect that's the path it's going to take in the short term if it wants to ensure its
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Indeed, it's a lesson I learnt the hard way and is much like proofreading something you wrote, you don't see the errors as easily as someone else you asked to proofread it usually does (well until you hit Send then you usually see
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Dogfooding is useful certainly but it can also be a trap, as someone who is technical and knows how the software works both sides you can fall into the trap of avoiding triggering the exact kind of issues a regular user can walk into. Your
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
So not in the basement behind a sign saying "Beware of the Leopard" but could also just be "Allow your content to be used to train our models: <Yes|No>". Could be worse I guess.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Is there a description of what "Improve the model for everyone" actually means or is it just a straight up *Dark* pattern?
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> A supercomputer put in charge of the Saturn reclamation project that accomplished zero work over nine years, subsisting entirely on forged progress reports, fake invoices, and keeping its human supervisors bribed or in states of electr
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It's been tried, they feed the evaluation into the LLM and get it to commentate. The results are absolute garbage (as you would expect) since the LLM's really don't understand chess or how to play it, someone posted a bench

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