roncesvalles

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by roncesvalles 5d ago
>I don't think intelligence needs to take the shape of human-like intelligence But then the word doesn't mean anything. Intelligence is almost by definition what we're like. If you think LLMs are intelligent, you have to c
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by roncesvalles 5d ago
I also believe this. Fable post-ban was never the same. At the least, whatever system prompt munging or pre/post filtering they did to strengthen the guardrails nerfed it.
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by roncesvalles 5d ago
LLMs are not intelligent for the simple reason that if you had as much knowledge as an LLM has, you would be churning out deductions and new discoveries every second. You'd be putting out Nobel-prize-worthy research every month. LLMs a
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by roncesvalles 5d ago
The notion that less foreign skilled workers means more jobs for Americans has infiltrated the discourse so thoroughly that it should ring alarm bells as to the future of this nation. It's probably the single most harmful mind virus in
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by roncesvalles 8d ago
Driving rideshare (Uber/Lyft) serves this exact social support role in America as well.
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by roncesvalles 8d ago
Very few people own desktops anymore. Generally people only buy desktops if they need to run a GPU, such as for gaming or running a local model.
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by roncesvalles 8d ago
Not many people run their local machine 24/7.
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by roncesvalles 8d ago
>Non legal background people trying to avoid going to a lawyer. They should definitely NOT use an LLMs. I used LLMs to replace a lawyer this year to great effect. I successfully advised myself as to the right strategy and drafted an immi
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by roncesvalles 9d ago
The distinction is even easier to make these days -- brogrammers aren't actually programmers. There is an emerging coterie of people whose entire approach to software startups is to vibecode an MVP, raise enough seed to hire a real pro
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by roncesvalles 10d ago
Don't you see that the same bureaucracy that adds friction to entrepreneurship also serves the purpose of protecting the incumbents? It is odious to start a company in the EU. There are many accounts of this on HN itself.
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by roncesvalles 10d ago
Reserve currency status entirely depends on whether the issuing authority has the ability to drop a munition (literally or figuratively) on the head of anyone who dares to counterfeit the currency. China's military and soft influence a
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by roncesvalles 10d ago
Every single point you've made is either straight up untrue or comes with caveats. I hate to quote Trump but, in light of Brandolini's law: "Wrong."
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by roncesvalles 10d ago
I just use Grok for anything "controversial" like that. I actually love that different LLMs have their niches. In a typical week I might use all of Claude, Gemini, and Grok, for different kinds of asks.
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by roncesvalles 11d ago
TFA answered it though. It's because neighboring tribes were always hostile, and they never developed food that survived long expeditions.
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by roncesvalles 11d ago
It makes sense because the downside is very high (the stranger wants to kill you) but the upside is not (the stranger has something cool to show you or trade with you). It's not like you'd go to prison for murder either. For what
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by roncesvalles 13d ago
"Write a blog article about <topic prompt>. Keep rewriting it until it passes Pangram as 100% human-written. <pangram_tool.md>"
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by roncesvalles 15d ago
>And then you can get rid of... maybe 8 of them. Negative. I might need them all some day.
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by roncesvalles 19d ago
I thought the webpage was a good read.
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by roncesvalles 21d ago
I define market rate to be the best rate that somebody will pay for your talent (minus Faustian outliers). "Above-market rate" is an oxymoron. If someone is offering to pay you above the prevailing best rate then obviously you&#x2
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by roncesvalles 21d ago
I think it still depends. More test can also result in more estrogen. There is selection bias in athletes who dope because they're the ones who happen to respond positively to it. There must be a graveyard of athletes who tried doping
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by roncesvalles 22d ago
Darwin took 21 years to publish his findings on evolution. In fact he couldn't finish the actual book that he had set out to write and published a summarized abstract instead, which is what we know as On the Origin of Species .
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by roncesvalles 22d ago
I ran some rough numbers a while ago and I found single-region GCP Spanner to be the most cost-effective relational DB option (out of the ones I looked it) if you don't mind that it can't scale to zero (min $65/mo), if sync
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by roncesvalles 22d ago
Nothing coming out of IBM is worth any attention.
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by roncesvalles 27d ago
The real test of this is whether a manager can fire their single most productive employee because he/she is ruining the social harmony of the team. I've seen managers in my career bend over backward to protect people who were outr
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by roncesvalles 27d ago
>Org pays market rate and has good benefits. This is so important. One of the things that kills company culture before the company even takes off is getting a sense from the founders that they're just trying to fool desperate/c
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by roncesvalles 29d ago
Also, Trump just had to say "I'm not Biden".
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by roncesvalles 29d ago
He was just very entertaining. I don't think there's anything deeper than that.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure mosquito populations in India have been evolving in response to those electrified tennis rackets. Mosquitos now are much faster, smaller, and have more evasive flying patterns.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
I have a feeling this is exactly what happened in Frankfurt. It very glaringly points to some failure in the healthcare system. Healthy working adults with access to healthcare don't just die of malaria. Two deaths means it's not
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
>to what extent these machines can have an experience comparable to mine I think it would be reasonable to conclude none at all. I'm not even fully convinced all humans have a conscious experience similar to mine, even though they l

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