notpachet

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by notpachet 4mo ago
But orangutans are where the protein's at!
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by notpachet 5mo ago
Another strong contender for humanity's epitaph
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by notpachet 5mo ago
Water Mafia
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by notpachet 5mo ago
In a shocking twist, it turns out that Mootools is the agents' preferred framework
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Light Phone is making its dumb phone more useful with third-party "tools"(wired.com)
1 points by notpachet 5mo ago|0 comments
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by notpachet 6mo ago
> Convenience is our Achilles heel More generically, our species' Achilles heel is our inability to factor in the long-term cost of negative externalities when evaluating processes that yield short-term positive results.
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by notpachet 6mo ago
Counterargument. The author is primarily looking at AI trend lines. Let's say our industry continues moving along alternate, equally compelling, trend lines: increasing global volatility, chaos in the energy markets, growing likelihood
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by notpachet 6mo ago
> Right now there are companies which hire software devs or data scientists to just solve a bunch of random problems so that they can generate training data for an LLM model. Sounds like Macrodata Refinement.
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by notpachet 6mo ago
I feel like there's a brute-force analogy to be drawn with the "Bitter Lesson" that we saw in AI development.
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by notpachet 6mo ago
> Which begs questions about whether closed source will provide any protection (it doesn't appear so, given how able AI tools already are at disassembly?) Disassembly implies that you're still distributing binaries, which isn&#
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by notpachet 6mo ago
I guess it hinges on your definition of "civilization".
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by notpachet 6mo ago
Sweet summer child.
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by notpachet 6mo ago
I tried asking Claude how do make this change, but... temet nosce is not in its DNA, what can I say.
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Ask HN: How to disable ANSI color sequences in Claude CLI?
1 points by notpachet 6mo ago|1 comments
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by notpachet 6mo ago
If you haven't tortured yourself on the Devil's Corkscrew switchbacks on the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon, on the hottest day of summer, have you really National Parked?? All joking aside, I disagree with the author rega
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by notpachet 6mo ago
They could just be writing for themselves, or their friends, or for people with the patience to read. You are making assumptions about how badly they want to reach your particular eyeballs. They might not care about trying to win over peopl
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by notpachet 6mo ago
> pettifogging Off-topic but just wanted to thank you for teaching me a new word. I try to always reply to HN comments that expand my vocabulary.
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by notpachet 6mo ago
> I can think of a few good myths for today’s “AI”. Searle’s Chinese room comes to mind, as does Chalmers’ philosophical zombie. Peter Watts’ Blindsight draws on these concepts to ask what happens when humans come into contact with uncon
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by notpachet 6mo ago
Downstream there is a post from one of the devs at Vercel (andrewqu) that built this. They say that this is by design. I think you should shift your base assumptions about the intentions of companies (and the individuals that work in them).
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by notpachet 7mo ago
Maybe something like David Duchovny's hyperbaric hand chamber from Zoolander[0], but with a mouse inside. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJH3pXLa8o0
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by notpachet 7mo ago
The narration is great. "But maybe... OLEICAT? no..."
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by notpachet 7mo ago
A Russian word for this is "пофигизм" -- the cynical belief that everything is fucked, so why bother.
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by notpachet 7mo ago
I don't understand how: > the state of the art today is not as good as the very best and > state of the art models completely surpass any individual’s productive output are not contradictory. If the models completely surpass any
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by notpachet 7mo ago
Cars are here and we're all choking on our own atmospheric excrement, so...
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by notpachet 7mo ago
> at least as well as the bottom 10% of programmers I don't think this is the flex you think it is... in my experience, the bottom 10% of programmers are actively harmful and should never be allowed near your codebase.
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by notpachet 7mo ago
I wasn't gesturing to the energy/environmental impacts of AI.
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by notpachet 7mo ago
I feel like we're talking about different things. You seem to be describing a mode of working that produces output that's good enough to warrant the token cost. That's fine, and I have use cases where I do the same. My gripe
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by notpachet 7mo ago
I can agree with that. So essentially: "Claude and GPT regularly write programs that are way better than what I would’ve written given the amount of time I was willing to spend ."
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by notpachet 7mo ago
> no one is going to care about anyone’s bespoke manual keyboard entry of code if it takes 10 times as long to produce the same functionality with imperceptibly less error. No one is going to care about anyone’s painstaking avoidance of
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by notpachet 7mo ago
> It's clear that doing it by hand would mostly be because you enjoy the process. This is gaslighting. We're only a few years into coding agents being a thing. Look at the history of human innovation and tell me that I'm u

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