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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I don't think it's applicable to DRM because you eventually need the decrypted content: DRM is typically used for books, music, video, etc., you can't enjoy an encrypted video. I think eGovernment is the main use case: not su
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
From my experience, you can't trust the agent to do the entire thing unless you set up very heavy linters, quality control systems (e.g. SonarQube) and a long etc. of things because AI tends to produce pretty bad code: repetition, unus
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
I think part of the deeper issue is that contributing to an OSS project has become a rite of passage, a way to strengthen your profile. If you need to have contributed to look good but you don't really care about the contribution its
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If the problem is that we don't trust people who use AI without understanding its output, and we base the gate-keeping on tests that are written on AI, then how can we trust that output?
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
> The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. I stopped reading at this point, as this is utter non-sense. I mean, it's a beautiful idea, but any person with more than two neurones knows that real
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
That still doesn't necessarily mean that prices won't be impacted indirectly. Let's say Amazon (or any other AI behemoth) builds a mini-nuclear plant to feed the electricity of their data center (as has been touted). Let&#x27
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
which of the two L's?
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Hype will come down once scalability problems start to show up. It's the same with every new technology: people get excited from the results of their PoC not realising that a PoC is smaller in scope and therefore has better chances of
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
This resonates so hard with me. I was self-employed for over eight years, since I was the one who had to deal with all messes I always made sure that things were as simple as sensible (but not simpler). I made a good career out of it. Then
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
> I've done everything you're supposed to do and more. By the sound of it, everything except reporting it? Winning SEO just means appear before them in search results, but the fake page shouldn't just lose the race, it sho
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Photography is a copyrightable art, but don't say that most of the work is actually done by a machine. Or even by the engineer who built the machine. You could argue that the photographer just presses a button and, perhaps, airbrushes
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
have you worked in a 10-15 year old codebase? because I honestly doubt that LLMs can cope with that.
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
I love the concept of Cognitive Debt. I think it ties nicely with the idea that AI is creating Tactical Sharknados: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048857
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
"The problem with buses is that they are slow" At least in Los Angeles, the main problem with buses (for me) is not that they're slow, but that they're disgusting. They're always dirty, and the people who ride it ar
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Facebook said they'd always be free for everyone, now they offer subscriptions. Netflix said that they'd never have live TV, or buy a traditional studio, or include ads in their content. Then they did all three. All companies use
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
As someone who ran his own business for over eight years paying close to 30% tax (and is soon going to do it again), I have very mixed feelings about companies using tricks to reduce their tax burden. I mean, I like it when I do it, and I f
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
I was having the same intuition, but you verbalised it better: the notion of having a definitive yes/no answer is very attractive, but describing what you need in such terms using natural language, which is inherently ambiguous... that
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
My own take on this: the article talks continuously about the price of software, but misses the point of quality. If price was the only variable, then software development in US/Europe would have been wiped out decades ago in favour of
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There Is No Product(sidu.in)
2 points by youknownothing 8mo ago|3 comments
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
There is a lot of philosophical manoeuvring here but a common argument is that governments aren't supposed to be so much efficient as effective. It's not about maximising use of resources, but maximising outcomes. Companies alread
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Putting everything that DOGE has done, am I the only one who thinks that there is a teeny, tiny conflict of interest in Musk naming a department pretty much the same as one of the cryptocurrencies that he supports (Dogecoin)? Isn't tha
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
This is a thought-provoking idea but, even if true, I don't think it will gain much traction. We humans like to be right and earn awards for our predictions. A Nobel wouldn't feel quite the same if given to someone who just happen
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
I think AI is going to make this even worse, because now every person and their mom think that they can create a prompt carefully enough so as to create a new library with their own philosophy.
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AI and the Age of Probabilistic Programming(abrahammarinperez.com)
1 points by youknownothing 8mo ago|0 comments
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
there is also the matter that, at one point, people stop differentiating between communication media, the boundaries between email and texting disappear.
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
It used to be said that the reason the Internet evolved so well was because of the basic principle of "be strict when you send, but tolerant when you receive". Clearly Google has forgotten this.
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
Not my PM (in the US). My PM would try to avoid anything that is not absolutely necessary and therefore ask developers not to develop anything that isn't a MUST. I know that we like making fun of Europe for their alleged lack of inno
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
This wasn't a problem until it was done by a Chinese company, when American companies (Meta, X, Google, etc.) spied on us we saw it as a triumph of entrepreneurism.
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
This is just one data point, but I once talked to a person who worked for YouTube. I asked him if he had children, he said yes. I asked him if he let them use YouTube Kids and he said "no way, that's completely banned at home&quot
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by youknownothing 8mo ago
I see many people comparing the production of code through AI with compilers: just another layer of abstraction. They argue that, in the same way that creating high-level languages that were compiled to assembler meant that most people didn

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