HighGoldstein

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by HighGoldstein 8d ago
> In practice, KYC does little to stop any of that Source? The fact that it's not infallible doesn't mean that it's ineffective.
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by HighGoldstein 19d ago
Not every tech worker is making top-tier US salaries. For some (I suspect not few) people on HN that $20,000 Mac is almost a year's salary.
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by HighGoldstein 22d ago
"You say we should improve society yet participate in it, curious"
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by HighGoldstein 23d ago
I find it somewhat funny that the author starts by talking about how Moore's law enabled inefficient software and that we then had to make it more efficient, when almost all software today is horrendously inefficient compared to even 1
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by HighGoldstein 24d ago
Inefficient allocation of work aside (where you end up with people doing nothing, despite I suspect a substantial amount of work in the backlog), I think the mindset of "just reduce devs so there's not so much context switching&#x
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by HighGoldstein 24d ago
Can you elaborate?
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by HighGoldstein 1mo ago
Do you believe half the human population should have the same rights as the other half? I'd say this is rather basic, yet the subject of much disagreement.
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by HighGoldstein 2mo ago
The EU isn't monolithic, you could probably do this fairly easily in someplace like Poland where there isn't a bureaucratic hell and a large supply of skilled workers and engineers. But of course, Poland and co. are the "less
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by HighGoldstein 2mo ago
Decade? We're 4 years in since ChatGPT released publicly and have gone from "Wow this thing is stupid" to running coding agents on auto mode, and the Chinese labs have been around for even less time. The US providers may lose
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by HighGoldstein 2mo ago
> Do. Not. Buy. LG. > There are a lot of decent alternatives. Can you name them? Dell and Samsung are the main competitors for displays as far as I'm aware, Dell tends to be hit-or-miss when it comes to monitor features and quali
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by HighGoldstein 3mo ago
The PS5 (which is realistically the main competitor) has the caveat that to get even something as basic as multiplayer you need to pay a $10-20 monthly subscription, so you can multiply that by however many months you plan to own it and add
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
At some point I was thinking that maybe I am too hard on the AI and that humans routinely produce exceptionally stupid code, however after a while I've realized that this is only partially true. AI produces a class of mistakes that hum
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
Yes, which goes in line with the argument that claiming that it's "the most deployed" as proof of superiority or suitability for any use case is equivalent to claiming the same for Internet Explorer. It's the most deploy
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
The reason SQLite is the most deployed is that it's used by Android.
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
Sandboxing doesn't necessarily mean isolating the extension from all potentially dangerous functions, you can have a permission system so that for example a color theme extension can't modify files.
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
Considering how many AWS and non-AWS services go down at least partially when us-east-1 fails, this reads somewhat like "Don't worry that the steering wheel and pedals aren't working, your engine is still running on cruise co
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
The Greek term would be decatetrahedron.
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
> That's the problem though. Thinking your product will get by on looks when it's clearly outcompeted on performance, price, availability and longevity. That's not just optimism, it's delusion. May I present to you th
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
> Haven't most people looked around and asked themselves where are all the 50+ engineers? They basically don't exist in large numbers. I'm not discounting ageism in the industry, but how popular of a career was it 30+ year
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by HighGoldstein 4mo ago
> P.S. I also live in Poland, not Polish. I also lived in Berlin, and I dont think the salaries are always so different. Anecdotally this is also my experience. Several countries in eastern Europe have vastly lower taxes, and as a result
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by HighGoldstein 5mo ago
An article without telltale signs of an LLM is indistinguishable from an article written by a human, so yes.
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by HighGoldstein 5mo ago
Do we? Or are we born with pre-training (all the crucial functions the brain does without us having to learn them) and a context window orders of magnitude larger than an LLM?
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by HighGoldstein 5mo ago
> They do see those use cases. It's not surprising that they focus on the enormous number of other, negative use cases. It's misleading to describe the medical use cases as "more important" - yes, they are, in the sam
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by HighGoldstein 5mo ago
> I think it's what led to Google's downturn. What downturn is that exactly?
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by HighGoldstein 5mo ago
> "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are
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by HighGoldstein 6mo ago
Essential services (banks, government services, public transport) generally still support SMS as an alternative to their mobile apps when there's no completely offline process.
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by HighGoldstein 6mo ago
Wild guess, touching this with a 10-foot pole risks validating his claims. If they sue for breach of NDA, it means his claims are factually correct, and if they sue for libel and it goes to court, they may be forced to submit documents they
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by HighGoldstein 6mo ago
I could've sworn I saw a comment like this in 2016 when Tesla was blowing up
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by HighGoldstein 6mo ago
If you hold the belief that the Trump administration (and Trump himself personally) have not commited a rather long list of crimes openly, you are either willfully ignorant or complicit. I do not care if this statement irritates you in any
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by HighGoldstein 6mo ago
> A connector of any kind reduces signal quality. Like the M.2 connector? > Data lines need to be longer Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard storage device?

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