unclebucknasty

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Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
5 points by unclebucknasty 2mo ago|9 comments
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> The question I hear is "why shouldn't we be pulling over stolen cars?". It's a much harder one to answer than the straw man questions we set up for these things. The "why shouldn't we be pulling over stol
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
Sounds about right. Tangentially, but related: I'm old enough to remember when the spirit of your comment was pervasive on HN.
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> LLM prose is annoyingly dense, and the useful information gets lost in a bunch of noise. This problem doesn't get talked about enough and is second only to the hallucination problem IMO. AI produces so much noise to wade through
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
I've (elsewhere) written about this diminishing return effect on LLM utility in relation to increasing expertise. The question: what's the net positive gain of turning people who know nothing in a given field into sub-novices, whi
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
Interesting premise, but there's not much real world meaning here without stats on the percentage of agent-offered commands that are actually dangerous. If that number is something like 10%, then we have a really big problem. But, if i
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
This reads as hype of the kind: "well, we can't reliably do these rather mundane things with AI, but we're going to run it extra hard and extra long in some novel way, and it will do amazing things". The issues are with
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by unclebucknasty 3mo ago
> This is a jaw-drop moment for me every single time I observe someone else using the web and quickly clicking "accept" There's a mismatch between the velocity at which people visit sites and the time it takes to navigate
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by unclebucknasty 3mo ago
I'm sure the marketeers would love for the public's assessment of complex versus easy to conveniently shift per their release cycles; or for the public to simply forget their prior marketing.
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by unclebucknasty 3mo ago
Recent releases have said something to the effect (paraphrasing here): "Use <less expensive or older model> for everyday tasks and <other non-critical stuff>. Use <more expensive or recent model> for complex coding t
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by unclebucknasty 4mo ago
> it's the real lesson that should be learned here I believe the real lesson is that we need to fix government. Too many things that people assumed to be codified were actually only ever enforced by social contract. Until now, we&#
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by unclebucknasty 5mo ago
> That's at best a misunderstanding...bad-faith... No. Analyze the thread more carefully, particularly the original comment to which I replied. Should help any good faith reader to see that it's the opposite. > That is 100%
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by unclebucknasty 5mo ago
You've restated your flawed assertions, you continue to reassign the roles, and you're conflating Congress with political appointees. > The problem scientific institutionalists face is that they've squandered a lot of publ
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by unclebucknasty 5mo ago
The statement, "everything is just people" begs the question. That question is about appropriate roles. No one is debating that Congress has the power of the purse. That is one of their primary roles. They appropriate, but obvious
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by unclebucknasty 5mo ago
Many of us did vote for sane ideas, like allowing scientists to make decisions about science. For instance, we knew RFK Jr would be a disaster and here we are, dealing with a resurgence of preventable diseases. In fact, "unelected bure
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by unclebucknasty 6mo ago
> I guess Fidelity doesn't want to help fund hate groups Your "guess" is not the stated reason. FTA: > “Consistent with our grant-making standards and practices, the organization is not an eligible grant recipient duri
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by unclebucknasty 6mo ago
> They still get more engagement on X than on Bluesky. Is this the right metric? Or would having 98% of their impressions lopped off by the platform factor in? What if they were 100% suppressed? Would it still be "political" f
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by unclebucknasty 6mo ago
Arguably is an understatement. Perhaps you're considering only the European theater, but even that would have been significantly more challenging for Russia without the U.S. tying up (and degrading) Axis resources and manpower througho
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
All of this, and highlighting this part: > You would be faster by the fact that you know that it's correct and you don't have to review it. Helps greatly with mental load. I keep thinking maybe it's me who's just not
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
> a strong and thorough idea of what you want, broken up into hundreds of smaller problems, with specific architectural steers on the really critical pieces. Serious question: at what point is it easier to just write the code?
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Ask HN: Does vibe coding hurt good software engineers?
2 points by unclebucknasty 1y ago|1 comments
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
https://archive.is/Oq6Tw
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'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'(theatlantic.com)
31 points by unclebucknasty 1y ago|15 comments
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Vibe Code or Retire(infoworld.com)
4 points by unclebucknasty 1y ago|2 comments
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
> There was a time when Musk and his fans were riding a wave of enthusiasm, but with Tesla and Starship problems they've dialed it back. That's the thing though: those stans were (and still are on some other platforms) very vo
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
> It's not a left-right thing. Even apolitical stuff gets downvoted. Comments about health, obesity, diet tend to get a lot of downvotes... Well, everything has become political though, right? I mean, you mentioned health, but th
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
> HN goes through its phases I've definitely observed this over the years, but there has also been a fair bit of consistency in the form of certain through-lines and more balance. In any case, what I'm describing is a pretty s
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Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed a recent sentiment shift on HN?
11 points by unclebucknasty 1y ago|19 comments
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
> for one reason or another. Exactly that. It was never that it straight-up didn't work. It was just that there was some issue. I first encountered it with a TV that literally had a dead pixel. From there, the next 3-4 purchases
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by unclebucknasty 1y ago
And each one of those items would somehow have a dead pixel.

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