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by p-e-w 2y ago
Probably the most amazing thing about this is that he found himself in or near THREE highly unusual incidents in a span of 11 years: Two catastrophic bus accidents and a burning building. I don't know any other person for whom this is
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by p-e-w 2y ago
> There's literally a popular decentralized social network. No there isn't. Not a single one. There are a few federated social networks, which is a fancy way of saying that they are centralized networks that have (or can have
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Caveat emptor: "Zed downloads NodeJS binary and npm packages from Internet without user’s consent"[1] This has been an open issue for 5 months. When I noticed it, I couldn't believe my eyes and it was the last time I've
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by p-e-w 2y ago
> I do wonder what you actually mean by this. Spoke to an old friend on the phone recently, for the first time in 10 years or so. Within a few minutes of the conversation, he had used phrases like "As a father..." and "
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by p-e-w 2y ago
> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media. Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, tox
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by p-e-w 2y ago
> Real top-tiers programmers actually don’t feel threatened by LLMs. They should, because LLMs are coming for them also, just maybe 2-3 years later than for programmers that aren't "real top-tier". The idea that human inte
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by p-e-w 2y ago
According to the data provided by OpenAI, that isn't true anymore. And I trust data more than anecdotal claims made by people whose job is being threatened by systems like these.
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by p-e-w 2y ago
It's slow and expensive if you compare it with other LLMs. It's lightning fast and dirt cheap if you compare it to consulting with a human expert, which it appears to be competitive with.
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by p-e-w 2y ago
And yet no successful link aggregator has ever been "free" or "open" in a meaningful sense. Matrix, Lemmy, and many others exist, work well, are free from centralized control, and are well-known to the crowd that frequen
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by p-e-w 2y ago
If I wasn't familiar with that concept already, then I would probably assume that math is no more rigorous than psychology after encountering this thread. The exact disciplines are doing themselves a terrible disservice by muddying up
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by p-e-w 2y ago
I mean LLMs crush most humans (even many professionals) at coding/legal/medical/etc. exams. Ah, wait. That only counts as evidence of intelligence when humans do it, right?
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by p-e-w 2y ago
When are we going to define what intelligence actually means, so these discussions can start making sense? 5 years ago, it was still common to read things like "AIs will never be as intelligent as mice, let alone humans", today, i
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Schrödinger's Hubris, actually. The claim that a codebase of 420k lines contains "only one error" is of course absurd, and the members of this forum would laugh anyone out of the room who made such a claim about any other pro
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by p-e-w 2y ago
It won't fix the multiple "critical" accessibility issues[1] though, some of which require HTML changes for screen reader users. [1] https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https%3A...
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by p-e-w 2y ago
This isn't the first time these issues have been brought up though. Or even the tenth time. I've seen many small open source projects make accessibility a top priority, actively seeking feedback from visually impaired users, going
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by p-e-w 2y ago
That's a cool idea, but it's not a substitute for meeting basic accessibility and readability needs. HN violates the WCAG accessibility standards for text contrast (your browser dev tools will happily point out which text is affec
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Replace the outdated font stack with `system-ui` in CSS, remove all `font-size` directives, remove the gray-ish background, make the light-grey text slightly darker. This fixes many accessibility issues with not a single line of JavaScript
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by p-e-w 2y ago
The HN theme violates WCAG accessibility standards for text contrast[1] (which you can verify with your browser's dev tools), has paragraphs that are almost twice as wide as recommended for readability[2], uses font sizes that are unre
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by p-e-w 2y ago
This isn't true for my local (non-US) version of Google Search, but I have no reason to doubt that it is real and deliberate. The magnitude, sophistication, and sheer audacity of mass manipulation by tech giants nowadays dwarfs anythin
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by p-e-w 2y ago
The code of conduct consists of individual provisions, articles, and paragraphs. It should be easy (in fact, it should be a prerequisite for such actions being taken) to cite the specific provisions of the CoC that were supposedly violated,
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Power wants to avoid accountability, and therefore it avoids transparency wherever possible. No surprise there, and no different from what happens in corporate boards where consensus is established by board members glancing meaningfully at
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by p-e-w 3y ago
There is a big difference between selling and buying, and you can (legally) buy plenty of things that are illegal to sell.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> To me this just sounds like the Japanese police has ran out of real crimes to solve This has been true for the police in almost every developed country for decades. The function of police is to hurt people (by Stafford Beer, this is al
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's not defeatist to admit and accept that some things are ultimately out of our control. And more importantly, that any attempt to increase control over them comes with downsides. An open source project that imposes all kinds of rest
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias Indeed, that "bias" is a vital mechanism that enables societies to function. Good luck getting people to live together if they look at passerbys thinking &quot
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> but in the back of my mind I'm thinking, man, anyone could just code up some real nasty backdoor and the project would be screwed That's true of course, but it's not a problem specific to software. In fact, I'm not
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The consequences of robbing someone under threat of violence go far, far beyond them losing their property, even if they aren't physically harmed at all. Calling this making someone "uncomfortable" or "inconveniencing th
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by p-e-w 3y ago
At some point during the past 10 years or so, the world realized that document databases are actually a bad idea, and relational databases can do the same job better with just a few easy-to-implement QoL improvements (such as JSON operators
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Publicly traded companies make money by creating value and selling products or services. But their stock price is (mostly) independent of that. It is indeed true that at least with short-term trading, your gain is someone's loss,
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Saving that human life is the job of the institutions that we all sacrifice a huge portion of our resources and freedoms to. It's not the job of an individual to keep their property available in case a desperate person needs to steal i

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