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by xpct 3mo ago
I don't know, I find it very hard to stay positive about our general direction in the last couple of years, and know few people in real life who don't share this opinion, in or outside of tech. And I'm also not entirely sure
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by xpct 3mo ago
I find the pro-AI and anti-AI somewhat inconsistent, where I had either side strongly reacting to my comments. I personally didn't expect so much support for Bun in this thread.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I think it just doesn't know when it's its turn to speak, and cancels itself out when it hears humans.
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by xpct 3mo ago
A cool test, until it hit's the my family's grandmas test :)
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by xpct 3mo ago
We're yet to see how this plays out, but a competing business model for creative work is emerging, where it's delegated to chatbots. Naturally, this would result in less creative work for humans.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'll admit fault for my remark, but I'll stand by the point I meant to express. Part of disagreement probably stems from what type of 'learning' we're discussing. In my view, at the broadest sense that we can define
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by xpct 3mo ago
> Read books yourself Not a parent, but I'm guessing this part is very important :)
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by xpct 3mo ago
If you can stomach older English novels: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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by xpct 3mo ago
> I love learning, but I hate reading. Correction: you love the feeling of consuming information, not learning.
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by xpct 3mo ago
Nauseating on so many levels. What are we celebrating, even? Authors themselves say that Claude does their work, so what is their input? It's been barely a year in production for what can be best described as a 'buggy mess'.
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by xpct 3mo ago
People that don't like writing now get to write by offloading it to an LLM, and this is the result. I miss the world where articles were mostly written by people who had the interest and patience to do it.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'll stick to games and movies, as I believe both have been moving in a similar direction, becoming more of an object to be consumed, rather than to be experienced. I've thought about this in two ways: it's either that (a) wh
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by xpct 3mo ago
Would be curious to hear from folks who do modelling: My first reaction from seeing the examples on the page, is that they are somewhat simple, almost standardized, or come from templates. They also don't look very time-consuming to mo
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by xpct 3mo ago
I can see it both ways. Paying 5 bucks for an add-on that's reputable and not having to think about it again may be preferable to shipping your own. It's not evident to me that one-shot-esque LLM programs will ever work as expecte
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by xpct 3mo ago
I don't think we should expect to short-circuit learning for everything. Fumbling in Blender for hours on end is part of the process and what makes you good at it in the long term, much like grinding exercises in math or physics.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'm quite fortunate to keep piling on knowledge without extrinsic rewards: the acquisition itself and the rewiring of my brain is what makes it enjoyable for me. I look up to people who are well-read and try to follow their example. Ma
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by xpct 3mo ago
My response was directed to your insincere characterization of Anthropic's actions. As we can see from the comments here, the public opinion hasn't settled the same way as the court case has, and that's why it's still d
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by xpct 3mo ago
In my experience, there haven't been many cases where I can't assign a core or multiple of them to spinlocks, if it's in my hot path. That said, I probably wouldn't ship spinlocks in consumer libraries or code I expect t
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by xpct 3mo ago
Interesting, I haven't heard this claim before. I suppose that claim made sense if their customers were big corporations, not so much when its the masses generating bootleg software copies.
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by xpct 3mo ago
Let's not sane-wash Anthropic's book theft. No, they didn't just 'scan' the internet, they created a tool for worldwide license washing and got fined an insignificant amount for it.
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by xpct 3mo ago
Is it so wrong to be doubtful of whether the field is still lucrative? We live in times of great change, it's only natural to be less assured when recommending a career path to others.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I find the operator point of view equally horrifying. Likely, they will run an OCR scan to blur any text seen through the cameras. Also likely, they would run a vision model classifying identifiable information: people walking past, hanged
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by xpct 3mo ago
So, the idea itself is fine. The timing at which it's introduced is what makes me nauseous. We're really trying to milk the agents in any way possible, aren't we?
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by xpct 3mo ago
5 years ago, we may have expected that robots would write APIs that utilized every HTTP code, what we got was a json with a stringified error field..
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by xpct 3mo ago
Yes, that's the path we're on. It may start with poor eastern Europeans, then gradually move to Africans who tele-operate on eastern European homes.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'm not just triggered by the wording, I generally just find it hard to read. That familiar feeling of having read multiple paragraphs where nothing of substance was said, and you realize the text was either heavily edited or generated
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by xpct 3mo ago
Once again, the text is riddled with LLM'isms. Is this the new norm nowadays? Looking at OP's submission history, it's evident that they are utilizing HN for SEO farming. A much more valuable discussion would be centered arou
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by xpct 3mo ago
In this case I'm seeing 'micromanaging' as something akin to automating a Tesla superfactory: machines complete each individual step, we get a working car at the end. Obviously, we'd have processes built that build machi
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by xpct 3mo ago
Interesting thought experiment, but I don't see why automating machines that build and repair other machines wouldn't be sufficient. At the limit, such a machine would be able to repair itself, or repair other long-running machine
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by xpct 3mo ago
Yes, phasing out physical discs is predatory. I'd like to also add that buying a console which can only run vetted games has already been predatory, and digital games are only the next natural step.

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