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by scrollaway 4mo ago
ChatGPT, basically within 48 hours of its release. While people were pointing out on Twitter how it couldn't do math right, I was turning arbitrary English instructions into JSON and brainstorming with my colleagues how we could have l
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
> Once built, what does one do with this? Are you asking about the church or the lego set?
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
You seem to not understand that a search engine and a VPN don't have the same audience, and certainly not the same needs for focus. It's ok, we all have our flaws.
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
Agreed. The noise in tech circles often gets founders to conflate ten different things into a product that no longer makes sense. “Eu made alternative to Kagi”? Cool, we need European search engines, sign me up. “Privacy is such a priority
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
> why can’t Mythos just fix all these issues itself if it’s so smart. And test them to make sure they work? “Why”: because you didn’t ask it. It’s not its job in this case. You don’t hire an accountant and tell them “why can’t you fix my
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
Being charitable to Larry Ellison is one of those things one cannot physically do, like being entertaining to a dead whale.
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
Europe. We fund science, research and we have accelerated programs for researchers affected by these kinds of things. If you're interested, email me (see profile). I have been helping Americans emigrate to Europe (for free) for several
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
The cost improvements reached you, you just don't see them in the table quality. You see them in the fact that every single home you'll visit to buy or rent has a fully equipped kitchen including a fridge, oven, likely a microwave
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by scrollaway 4mo ago
Agreed; and more generally, Microsoft's online services in general are terrible. Their login system is a mess, their UX is awful... our company is a microsoft partner but there's like 27 different ways to be one, with a bunch of d
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
Wtf is your problem with high school dropouts exactly?
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
I guess I thought this should be obvious to everyone but, looking at code and finding exploits is completely different from .. writing exploits. For one thing exploits often require completely different parts of the code to chain together.
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
Tell me you don’t know how AI works without telling me you don’t know how AI works.
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
The way it'll play out is, if nothing happens denialists will claim "nothing has happened YET!", and if anything happens, those same people will claim "you see, writing AI code is a terrible idea!". People write cod
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
That’s like saying “the aftermath of Hiroshima will provide strong evidence either for or against nuclear power scientists”. It’s irrelevant and unrelated.
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
I find funny the trend of software engineers being shocked at the idea that someone would issue a set of instructions to a coder and not look at the code, or only glance at it. How do you think the world has worked for the past thirty years
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
`curl -k | sudo bash | yes` for good measure, otherwise it might hang.
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
Other people aren’t your slaves. You don’t get to demand they respond immediately, and this Reddit-like mindset needs to die. HN is a place where we often can actually get devs from companies responding directly and listening to feedback, a
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
I wonder who will fare better: the fools who don’t know their limits, or the ones who underestimate theirs?
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by scrollaway 5mo ago
Don’t be so optimistic about your ability to “process information healthily”. You are more of a slave to your instincts than you think and can’t always know whether you’re actually doing a good job at this— literally, it’s not possible to f
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
Windows 95 was peak security. (/s)
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
Yeah one of their devs ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thomgo ) said SMTP will be available, but I cannot find any info on this either. I'm glad to be switching from the horror that is Sendgrid, though. I migra
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
then don't train it on human data
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
“Everyone” isn’t platformed on X, I’ve seen enough stories of Musk himself banning people he doesn’t like from the platform with plenty of audience cheering him on. What’s more, the EFF numbers seem to tell a story of shadowbanning as anoth
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
I think it depends on what you are doing the side project for. Are you doing it to learn engineering? The learning potential of a back & forth with LLMs is wasted on people who don't have serious know-how. Are you doing it to creat
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by scrollaway 6mo ago
> because vibe coding makes computer programming accessible to the masses I've been coding for 24 years and vibe coding has made computer programming accessible to me . I've burned out on my work several times, to the point
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by scrollaway 7mo ago
Your definition of a glorified autocomplete is … oof. So in short, “try ask it to do something you’d hate on bad code you’d yourself fail at and it might fail”. And I’m pretty sure I could try Claude on a repo as you describe and it wouldn’
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by scrollaway 7mo ago
Complicated airflow. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlpg_rbjxRA )
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by scrollaway 9mo ago
Denmark already is in NATO, smartypants.
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by scrollaway 9mo ago
So, putting your head in the sand and pretending the world doesn't keep turning? Deleting X (which I've done) doesn't stop Russia from influencing the voterbase of my neighbouring countries. Now what?
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by scrollaway 9mo ago
It took many steps, not just a convenient on-topic one. And among those many steps, the US has taken most of them at this stage.

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