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by not_a_bot_4sho 3mo ago
Yay, John!
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by not_a_bot_4sho 3mo ago
> I think we're mving towards humans no longer needing to understand a codebase, and letting AI drive it. I can see this being true for non-critical software like entertainment, media, and so on. Definitely not true for systems wher
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> The Pirate Bay is considered one of the worst pirate sites now I'm curious. What are the best sites nowadays? Still torrents, right? I used to be in the know but switched to legit things a while back so I wouldn't have to exp
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Living there with local wages and taxes?
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
I wouldn't call MacOS 'free' given it has very strict requirements for proprietary hardware.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Nice, this comment broke my composure.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Sounds like the viewers were highly unlikely to have clicked through. Cost the advertiser a view but lost the conversion. Useful ad for Facebook. They made money on it. The advertiser didn't.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> overpaid manager class Ugh. Tell me you're early in career without telling me. Sophomoric take.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Thanks!!
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> I don't know the particulars, but if what's going on in WA is like what's going on in my California town, I don't think it's reasonable I was driving on a WA highway going ~47 mph (I made note of it for reasons
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Same. But with the callout that SpaceX (via xAI) is trying really hard to be a giant.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Far too much of this bombardment is self inflicted and very much related to smartphone use.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> I'm not sure how many times this has to be restated. This strike me more as a repeated internet myth more than anything else. There is near endless opportunity for purpose-specific robot forms.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> This isn't about children, and never was. This is 100% about children. At the moment, there is world wide pushback on children using social media. Ex countries pursuing this right now: Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Indonesia,
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
"The Department of Defense is the country’s largest employer, with more than 2.1 million Military Service members and over 811 thousand civilian employees." From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Doc
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
I was going to say, isn't React something to hold against Meta? Being intimately familiar with it, I don't consider it a positive contribution to the world.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
No one is stealing anything here. Cursor users are willfully providing it by using their product. Not unlike uploading a personal photo or video to social media -- that's not yours anymore. You gave all rights away when you put it on t
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
One of my grandparents had AD and became strangely lucid one day, a couple weeks before her death. It was like she finally woke from a years long fog. I remember it vividly because I got to tell her I love her and she smiled and said it bac
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
I'm curious. What did you build? Sounds like you might have an interesting "Show HN" post on your hands
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
It's not impossible to comply with. It will just take additional effort to ensure compliance. For example, they can put this burden on enterprise customers to verify and attest citizenship. This is commonly done today for some types of
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Add a Trump son to the Anthropic board and all friction is gone
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
I added some brief commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507278#48511524 (or just refresh parent comment replies to see it) It scratches the surface really but hopefully provides a helpful starting point
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Back with some papers. (Apologies in advance; I typically don't edit/format comments much here, please bear with me.) Notable papers describing performance improvements with prescribed roles and personas: - ExpertPrompting: Instru
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
> Was that ever actually shown to be effective? Is it still? Yes! Personas demonstrated measurable improvement in a few different ways, with caveats of course. The common intuition is that personas influence token space in beneficial way
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Interesting. My pixel experience has been the opposite; very polished and pleasant. 10A. Wonder why the variance?
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
I've seen plenty of crashes over the years. Primary in one private repo where gc and pruning triggered unexpected exits for a fixed duration of time. That said, stability overall has been nothing short of fantastic. And I can't an
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
This is uncomfortably true.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
As I read this, looks like a single run per task. I'd be interested to see best out of N like 5 or 10 to start.
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by not_a_bot_4sho 4mo ago
Strictly from a linguistic perspective: what a terrible and dumb term ('magic') to try and introduce into physics. How does gravity work? Magic!

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