palmotea

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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Software development is like plumbing really, so a good manager of a pipeworks and plumbing company might actually make a good manager for software companies as well. No, wrong again. Some software development tasks are like plumbing
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company Correction: for the investors .
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Humans WILL anthropomorphize the AI Especially with current-day chat-style interfaces with RLHF, which consciously are designed to direct people towards anthropomorphization. It would be interesting to design a non-chat LLM interaction
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> So much of Management (both mid and executive) still considers Software as if it were an assembly line; "We make software just like how Ford makes cars". Code as a product. Which, it should be noted, is the dumbest idea ever
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Similar if I could recall all of my organisations confluence pages. Id probably be a lot better at my job. Same with all the slack history. All the hr documents, press releases, meeting transcripts. Theres practically no end to useful
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by palmotea 6mo ago
When do they start passenger service?
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> More likely, the story is designed to make the public believe that US propaganda is actually aimed at the "foreign adversary" rather than at the US population. Or some kind of cover story to distract from the real technology.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> China will win purely because idiocracy China will win because its leaders didn't drink the capitalist kool-aid, which mean they can use capitalism as a tool instead of being controlled by its dysfunction.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
>> Once you get the hang of it you can make peoples days genuinely better effortlessly, by just saying the positive thing that you're thinking. >> "How are you today" → "Better, now you're here" --
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> But if you read a book about influencing people and suddenly start complimenting people’s hair, time for some introspection. The book's also apparently about winning friends, as well. And the excerpt above seems to be about gettin
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> In psychotherapy patients tend to prefer talking to AI than a human therapist and rank the interaction higher. Even if your statement is true, it's questionable. People also tend to prefer hearing what they want to hear to heari
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> However it was very much a nurse or MD taking the symptoms and an MD pre-digesting the data for to the AI. Excellent. We should be striving for a world where humans are meat puppets for machines.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> That doesn't mean LLMs, which cannot tell how many r's are in strawberry, will replace anyone. But most of us live in America in 2026. There are a lot of interests that don't give a shit about you who would love if you
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Unless you had access to unusual books they didn't really talk about conspiracy theories per se. Definitely remember at least one mentioning "the men in black" (with a picture) and government coverups. > They were ver
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by palmotea 6mo ago
I don't really agree. I remember getting books from the library in the early 90s that talked about UFO conspiracy theories. There was a lot of weird stuff on TV, before the X-files, like In Search Of (which I think was from the 70s).
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by palmotea 6mo ago
If you're talking about nuclear war, I don't think you could expect Polymarket to pay out in the aftermath. So anyone betting on one would be pretty dumb.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. 1. I think the logic behind this particular concept flawed. What&#x
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Simplified keypad > The keypad layout removes clutter and makes commands and shortcuts easier to see, so you can work faster with fewer steps. I don't see it. I compared a screenshot of one of these to a older T-84, and it look
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I don't really worry. I watched TV basically my entire childhood growing up in the '80s, in the height of stranger danger where I largely was not allowed to go outside. It was a lot worse than this. I watched game shows, Hoga
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> What good is a technique to defeat obfuscation, if it requires you to already have the information deobfuscated? You misunderstand the goal, which is to prove that an unlicensed copy is stored in the system. It's like a scenario w
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by palmotea 6mo ago
It's not cheating, it seems like a technique to defeat obfuscation to show the content is there in a complete or near-complete form, which proves it was copied.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> The Bittorrent ecosystem is still very much around. The point is: When Napster was around, everyone was running it all the time from their dorm rooms; it was ubiquitous. Now most people run something like Spotify or Netflix instead; pi
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Because having access to the condensed knowledge of humanity might be more valuable for society then having access to Lars Ulrich's shitty drumming. Under the current copyright regime, nothing's stopping you from condensing t
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I wish the blog mentioned more about why exactly training for nerdy personality rewarded mention of goblins. Since it's probably not a deterministic verifiable reward, at their level the reward model itself is another LLM. But thi
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Is it? I don't think so. I mean, they're projecting $750 billion in 2026, and apparently they spent $450 billion on them last year: https://about.bnef.com/insights/commodities/ai-data-center-b... . $
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Its already being used in warfare though. What I mean is theoretical to the common person. They don't have killbot drones hunting them down, and are unlikely to have that experience anytime soon. But most people have jobs, most pe
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them. You seem to be assuming an always-rational market, run by the mythical homo economicus. But as they say "t
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Wow, that's pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> That's true but in reality I think people are far more afraid of AI in terms of how it is being used in warfare and policing. Automatic target detection and deployment of drones, or even how it might simply make their role at work
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I find it quite interesting that peoples talking on a website called "hacker news" find it fine that a company selling you an OS make it harder for you to install app not approved by them I'm trying to get outside the my

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