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by pton_xd 3mo ago
"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion." These people really have not
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authoritative reference. Take it with a grain of salt, and
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
This is going to create some kind of maladaptive social issues with heavy users, just like sexual dysfunction from pornography addiction. These people won't be able to bond with regular people, or maybe even their own family, after a w
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
> A novel is a bunch of words > What's valuable in a novel (or a poem) is in the words. Even if the words are a lie? Misleading? False? I'm not even talking about LLMs. What if it's propaganda designed to influence your
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
They interpolate data in an XYZ dimensional space. The implications of that is beyond our comprehension. I have a hard time believing that all novel concepts yet to be discovered are contained within that space, though.
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
Curious if this can be combined with AI-generated videos that "maximally drive a targeted brain region" (another post on the front page of HN today). These poor kids don't stand a chance... to not learn something!
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
Product and service reviews are completely useless now too, and have been for a while. Restaurant ratings are pure noise, everything is 4 stars and there is absolutely no correlation to the quality of food or service. None of it is real. It
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
I don't understand the EU's position on privacy. On the one hand, they enacted GDPR to give you control over access to your personal data. On the other, they need access to all of your data.
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by pton_xd 3mo ago
> We should all keep in mind that foreign interests, primarily China, are astroturfing to drive resentment in the USA against AI and datacenters. I'm pretty sure the economics of it for the average citizen takes care of the resentm
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
1-on-1 interviews with a LLM sounds like it'd go over about as well as AI customer service.
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
How do you merge changes to a texture, mesh, audio file, etc?
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
Resolve elevated errors, don't stop until you are finished.
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
Amazing. Next year you'll need to be nice to Claude and praise the geniuses working at Anthropic to maintain full productivity.
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
Those newspaper tech job ads have been going on for at least the last... 20 years. When you see those, the company already has the role filled, they just need a justification for the visa. "We tried to find a US worker but failed!&quot
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by pton_xd 4mo ago
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating. Ok, but there's also nothing wrong with celebrating not using AI.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
Tax the tokens, I actually like that idea. It'd be like a gasoline tax -- drivers pay for infrastructure maintenance. In this case, token consumers would pay for the increased burden on the grid.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
> Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products. Just to clarify for anyone not paying attention -- Anthropic has written postmortems detailing their Claude Code monitoring and how they "coordinated wit
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
Fair but my point is simply, if a gun kills a person it's functioning as intended, but you can't say the same about a chat bot.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
The purpose of a gun is to kill things, whereas the purpose of a chat bot is to help people. They're not really in the same category of tool.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
If "Open AI" was their ethos, it was lost immediately. I'm not sure what the ethos of Anthropic is.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
LMGTFY was rude. You'd never send that to a coworker, unless you were close friends and wanted to rib them a bit for having a brain fart.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
This is completely off topic now but, "it's worth being precise about ..." is a much stronger AI-ism than the usage of the word genuine.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
How is the censorship when asking for "dangerous" actions like writing a port scanner?
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
> I can’t help but read the logic as not being too far off from: “libfoo switched to being developed using emacs instead of vim so we can’t trust it anymore” So let's say they up the ante and set up a cron job to rewrite the entire
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
Well I'd get that either way if I write it myself. Also I was joking, I'd never do that; feels gross. But I suppose it is a legitimate "productive" use of AI.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
> how many problems that you work on have many existing free solutions but you neglected to use that code and decided to spend days doing it yourself? Only when the existing free solutions are licensed with something like GPL. Now I can
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
We'll just move to a higher level of abstraction; thinking will be like efficiently coding in assembly, no longer necessary in today's world.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
Anthropic just needs to buy Zig! Problem solved.
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
> If you're talking about your jobs, nothing is going to happen. That reminds me of when I first moved out of California and away from the tech scene after being immersed in it for some 10-odd years. People just don't talk abou
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by pton_xd 5mo ago
> Now, even though their parent company does some shitty practices with their other software (claude code), it's a stretch to assume this will also translate into making Bun worse: Being worried makes sense but I remain optimistic a

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