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by thegrim33 4mo ago
Wow, color me shocked, another 100k upvote super account posting economy doomer porn to hacker news.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
The gold standard was used from before the US existed as a country to after the entire country and all cities had been built, and it was driving buggies around on the moon. Seemed to function pretty decently.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
Well, that assumes that if you just keep throwing more data and compute at large language models you'll end up with something akin to AGI to control those robots. Which is far from guaranteed.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
I still vividly remember being on vacation with some friends, 15 years ago now, and them telling me they were holding off on buying a new car because everyone would be using driverless ride-share taxis soon.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
>> Spontaneously Generates >> can be easily manipulated to produce So .. not spontaneously generated.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
"Automating Myself Out of Development" .. "I’m neither an AI-fanatic" Clicks through bio, clicks into their linkedin .. wow, who could have ever guessed .. they're the CTO at an AI company whose sole product is tr
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
Really annoying when people take 50 year old C code and modern C++ code and just drop them into the same bucket and refer to them as if they're the same thing. The CURL example they give has multiple modern C++ solutions that accomplis
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
This giant rube goldberg machine, that he apparently has almost no control of, that cost $12 to run, all to make a 2 line bug fix in code the he himself owns because he's at a point where he doesn't know what's in his own c
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
>> I've written before how conservatives' yearning for "simpler times" is really just a wish to be a child again Conservatives, whose core ideals are personal responsibility, individual freedom, and limited governm
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
Yes, and Curiosity weighs 899kg, whereas a single SLS launch can put 26,988kg of robots, cargo, and humans into trans-lunar orbit.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
And the "people in the past said things were worse, so therefore it's impossible for things to ever actually be worse" line is just as old.
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
If you accept as premise that popular online forums such as HN are manipulated for geopolitical gain, then just think it through. Who benefits from spreading that narrative? Who benefits from trying to slow down AI development, stop data ce
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
If a significant portion of the population doesn't trust an election system, it's not a functioning system. It makes absolutely no difference whether those doubters are 100% correct or 100% wrong in their beliefs. If there's
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
"I was afraid" .. "hurt a lot" .. "I hope that" .. "that feels" .. "I'm conflicted" .. "I'm confused" .. "I'm afraid" .. "human touch" .. "I
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
The supreme irony is that this extremist, partisan, embarrassing trash, being posted on a Columbia subdomain, thinking they're the "good guys", is more of a sign of the end of civilization than anything its contents tries to
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by thegrim33 4mo ago
The extreme cognitive dissonance in these types is so odd - on the one hand, they claim that CEOs are these money-hungry evil tycoons who want to get as much out of their employees as possible, yet on the other hand, they also claim 4 day w
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
So if I'm a game dev that lives in the US outside of California, do I have to care about this? Or do I have to explicitly block Californians from buying my game if I don't want to be affected by it?
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Because the average person is incapable of telling that it's AI generated
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
I came up with an analogy the other day - The 'camp 1' people in the pre-LLM days were probably the ones that often just copy+pasted code from SO they didn't really understand, but since the code seemed to work when they ran
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
What's interesting is the creator of the site has listed on their linkedin that they're ... wait for it ... a co-founder at some generic AI startup with the goal of using AI agents to automate away manual jobs.
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Is the theme that any direction US tech advances in results in a persistent campaign of negative hit pieces aimed at trying to halt/destroy any achievements? Written by "journalists"/publishers that have never, and will
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
"None of these claims is older than February 15, 2026" All of the models they tested were trained on data from before February 15th ... being asked specific questions about things that happened after they were trained.
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
An AI-generated article which summaries a pre-print release which surveyed 15 people at 15 companies about their thoughts on whether the arrangement was working for them. Of those 15, a grand total of 6 (unidentified) people at 6 (unidentif
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Intelligent people in general have a better understanding of their knowledge, the limits of it, and uncertainty in that knowledge. If you ask them something and they don't have an answer that they know is objectively true, they'll
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
The author wants them smashed. The point of the article is to attempt to normalize and provide justification for the behavior, so that more people feel OK doing it.
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
"Forced to ban adult content by payment processors" If you go through and click all the links and hunt down the source, the final source underlying it all is a comic author who says, without quoting anything, or any proof, that th
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
When I saw this headline my mind automatically interpreted Nextpad++ as Notepad++, I had to stop and fully parse through the headline before realizing there was actually an 'e' in there instead of an 'o'. They really cho
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Of course your claim of 5-50x velocity is not born out in any metrics which track industry software velocity and you need to bend yourself backwards to come up with reasons to explain why they aren't.
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
That's surely a professional, non-sensationalist, title that's appropriate for university professors.
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Yet, another day, yet another article hyping up AI tooling. 99.999% chance the author works for a company selling AI products. Let's see .. Click through to their blog's main page. Click their LinkedIn link, google their current e

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