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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m sure there was some planning commission process involved with the development of these sites. I’m curious if anyone has bothered to look at those meeting minutes to see if there are some material misrepresentation of the water and power
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
The history is kind of weird. Graydon was ejected out of his own language and then a machine took over. That is really unusual, and I’m not sure there is an analog anywhere.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m a little perplexed why every time something in rust compiles, there’s a blog post about it. I was under the impression Ada, especially when using provers, has been around much longer and is more robust. I just can’t decide if the massiv
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
So why do we never hear of US sponsored hackers attacking foreign businesses? Or Swedish cyber criminals? Does it never happen? Are “Chinese” hackers just the only ones getting the blame?
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
No doubt. I’m sure NYT sees an opportunity to buy a few more years of life support by pickpocketing the conductor of the AI gravy train. When Sam Altman and the Sulzbergers fight though, as a normal person, my hope is that they destroy each
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I thought that was Google. Regulators pretend not to notice their monopoly, they probably get large government contracts for social engineering and surveillance laundered through advertising, and the “don’t be evil” part is they make some o
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Were you under the impression that federal procurement was all above board before? I’ve got some bad news. Your options are corrupt procurement or corrupt procurement with a 15% administrative surcharge of make-work patronage jobs for someo
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Ukraine could go through 1M drones in 2-4 months. This isn’t a strategically meaningful stockpile. I think this is just to address our military technology deficit and get drones into training exercises and evaluate vendors. I don’t expect t
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
No, but I’m pretty sure a Civil War history teacher’s opinion isn’t the source you want.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
It was on the front page, and, no, it wasn’t a labeled editorial. If you feel the need to research this to defend their honor, it would have been around fall 2005. I don’t assume their journalism has improved in the past 20 years, and I’m O
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
5% wrong is an extremely charitable take on the NYT. I once went to a school that had complementary subscriptions. The first time I sat down to read one there was an article excoriating President Bush about hurricane Katrina. The entire art
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
You’re absolutely right! Just given that behavior, I’d say there’s a pretty good chance that there is some real mental illness there.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
So A doesn’t X because that’s what B does because Y? I think before you excoriate the hacker news commentariat for their midwittery and hubris that you should proofread these arguments. There are many things that live, but, as we imagined i
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
I would not call the California strategy on drugs a success.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
I would entertain the possibility that there are at least some who cannot or will not avoid that kind of destructive behavior. The only thing you can do for them is deny access. I know that nobody asked for a lecture on 12 step, but number
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
Obstruction of justice. At least for us. For the more fortunate, maybe it’s just a “creative interpretation of law.”
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
My take is more optimistic. This could be an off ramp to stop putting critical business workflows in spreadsheets. If people start to learn that general purpose programming languages are actually easier than Excel (and with LLMs, there is n
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
I would expect GIS professionals to use ESRI or QGIS. This is an interesting showcase. It seems a little too simple given the variety of options for geographic projection. I’m not quite sure what the value proposition is, but it’s interesti
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
JFK did the same thing. Most people believe that succeeded. Obtuse, out-of-touch leadership can lead to some very interesting results when it doesn’t fail.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
There is very, very little written work that will stand the test of time. Maybe the real bitter lesson is that training data quality is inversely proportional to scale and the technical capabilities exist but can never be realized
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
“The quality if such texts…” Indeed. The humans have bested the machines again.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
Perhaps, but I prefer it this way. The 10 horsepower wig is an underserved market.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
Well, to be fair there were a lot of guys doing exactly this sort of thing except they were writing their hobby projects by hand. I don’t take any technical blogs about someone’s secret sauce seriously at all. Programmer blogs are marketing
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
$5.75/hr is well below outsourced rates. It’s $1.40/hr if the agent runs without stopping. If I hired a human consultant for a project of any size, I could easily spend $10,000 or more on just scoping and contract approval. Humans
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
The most insightful part of your comment was that you needed a throwaway account to preserve your HN social credit score to take a completely moderate and constructive position.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
LLMs are infrastructure.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
There are thousands of nuclear weapons that cannot be stopped in play. NATO is actually behind in missile capabilities. That leaders are not frantically negotiating a settlement makes me wonder if the survival of their constituents is not a
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
In the defense of the language models, the bugs were written by humans in the first place. Human vetting is not much of a defense.
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
New prompts in the same session are dangerous because the undesired output (including nonsense reasoning) is getting put back into the context. Unless you’re brainstorming and need the dialogue to build up toward some solution, you are much
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by stocksinsmocks 1y ago
Isn’t that true in other countries though?

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