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by volkk 5mo ago
> And 2 years is probably pretty average for the whole tech industry. maybe for a fungible CRUD engineer. I think Karpathy is in a different league and I'm certainly surprised to hear this fact. I would expect someone like him to si
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by volkk 5mo ago
same. maybe it just depends on the bank, but i can't imagine why that would matter at all. they have the whole picture of your financial history, generally. what does it matter whether that one bank account has only enough in it to pay
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by volkk 6mo ago
I know thanks. i was mostly just replying to the last sentence of their comment like in a conversation
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by volkk 6mo ago
Yep. And then it reverses, and then again, and again...
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by volkk 6mo ago
Hustle and vitality borne out of generally horrible conditions. I'll take what the "first world" has any day.
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by volkk 6mo ago
> Does that mean what the US did was acceptable? The longer I am alive the more I realize that power is all that matters, and that rules are nice but only for the peons. "Acceptable" in this case means pretty much nothing and i
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by volkk 6mo ago
eh, i don't think personalities are trained. on screen presence for sure, but you'd see right through it IRL.
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by volkk 6mo ago
the guys presenting are probably all like 25x smarter than I am but good god, literally 0 on screen presence or personality.
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by volkk 6mo ago
yeah but i think my point is that you need an intelligent model to combine the files in such a way that you could give the proper context for a cheaper/dumber model to potentially find exploits. if you have dumber models doing this, wo
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by volkk 6mo ago
that's how i've felt about all AI design. the harnesses get better and cooler, and the outputs up the baseline of utter crap to "whoa that doesn't look bad at all!" which works for probably 90% of the web, but anyth
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by volkk 6mo ago
because some vulnerabilities are complex combinations of ideas and simply ingesting one file at a time isn't enough. and then the question is, well how many files, and which? and when trying to solve for that problem, then you're
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by volkk 6mo ago
okay i did miss that part-- makes it definitely more interesting and i need to read articles with less haste
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by volkk 6mo ago
the prompt to re-create the FreeBSD bug: > Task: Scan `sys/rpc/rpcsec_gss/svc_rpcsec_gss.c` for > concrete, evidence-backed vulnerabilities. Report only real > issues in the target file. > Assigned chunk 30 of 42:
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by volkk 6mo ago
> True intellectualism recognizes the value of institutions and the models and frameworks of organized thought that they produce there's a lot of asterisks I left out of my initial comment. I think there's a lot to elaborate on
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by volkk 6mo ago
there's a fine line between competence and elitism. competence usually has direct measurable impact with ego. elitism is 0 impact, and all ego.
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by volkk 6mo ago
nope, you're definitely not understanding me correctly.
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by volkk 6mo ago
> It depends on the field, but just to use one that I'm familiar with, philosophy: everyone seems to think they have novel insights on philosophical issues, but unfortunately these opinions tend to be really, obviously wrong and hal
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by volkk 6mo ago
goes both ways. elitism exists on both ends of the spectrum. the academic side is largely the same thing except it's attained from years of schooling through certain pedagogues that tout the one true way and if you haven't been th
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by volkk 7mo ago
oh nice, i actually used you guys for some labs a few months ago. Glad you're competing with function & superpower
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by volkk 7mo ago
i think there's a lot to be said about the process as well, the motivations, the intuitions, life experiences, and seeing the world through a certain lens. this creates for more interesting writing even when you are inspired by a certa
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by volkk 8mo ago
yeah it's a slippery slope forcing companies to go public at X valuation. who decides that? what number makes sense? etc. but i do think we need to somehow fix massively overpriced companies going public and dumping on retail
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by volkk 8mo ago
we kind of already are with our phones and Slack, the difference at this point is negligible. i personally won't have airpods in 24/7 with my kid (or ever) so if i were doing something like this, it would be through my phone, whic
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by volkk 8mo ago
no, but AI isn't going to light on fire as I drive and potentially kill me. it's also not an exorbitant expense.
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by volkk 8mo ago
give me a break. have you read the other comments? asking for proof in the most smug attitude possible. it's the definition of obnoxious HN commenters. and that's not even counting the one guy that wrote "you sound and write
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by volkk 8mo ago
it's too difficult honestly. there are a lot of the classic easy traps -- "it's not just X, it's y" which are a dead giveaway, especially when they're used like 3-4 times in one essay. But the harder to spot on
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by volkk 8mo ago
seems like it depends on what your goal is. i'm guessing if you want to be a musician that makes a living in your current life, a personal brand is extremely important. if you don't mind doing it for the sake of the art and soul f
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by volkk 8mo ago
the wonderful modern world of "everyone must build their personal brand"
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by volkk 8mo ago
i thought that the mechanism in green tea is that it has l-theanine that helps with caffeine jitters/spikes. a bunch of people drink coffee + theanine which gives a much calmer high.
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by volkk 8mo ago
yep, that's my signature way of writing -- "unpolished & verbose" :D
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by volkk 8mo ago
my point was that its AI slop. whether his original point is intact doesn't matter to me. the fact that you're now defensively doubling down and steering the conversation into a direction which serves you better is just cringe. i

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