NathanKP

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I asked it to stop talking down to me(nathanpeck.com)
2 points by NathanKP 8d ago|0 comments
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by NathanKP 1mo ago
That is a significant leap in logic. A vibecoding tool is not a McDouble. Nor is Chris Kempczinski the same person as Dario Amodei. The biggest difference is that there are only so many ways to eat a McDouble, but you can actually wield a v
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by NathanKP 2mo ago
I suspect you are greatly overestimating the average organization's ability to run a Git server themselves and keep it secure, while also overestimating how evil GitHub and LLM's providers are.
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by NathanKP 3mo ago
> Starlink residential service is about 10x slower than my home fiber connection at the same price. How is this technology going to compete with data center level infrastructure even in an optimistic scenario? Where I live in New Zealand
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by NathanKP 3mo ago
It's easy to see the benefit in DC's in space if you look at a few ingredients: 1. The recent Iran drone attacks on AWS data centers 2. Growing anti-AI and anti data center sentiment at home, plus Larry Fink (ceo of Blackrock) in
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by NathanKP 7mo ago
Agreed. The "Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph" stood out to me in specific. There is no way that any human driver is going to report backing into something at 1 o
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by NathanKP 8mo ago
Bingo. I elaborated on this idea more in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884246 People are acting like a space data centre would be running a traditional workload. No, it's probably running a militar
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by NathanKP 8mo ago
My dark theory is that the goal is to run an AI overlord in space such that it is difficult to counter it from Earth. If you assume that these people aren't completely stupid, then there is some reason why they want this workload runni
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by NathanKP 8mo ago
So far in this thread the majority of Hacker News users have decided they don't like the tone of your comment, therefore they have downvoted your comment. If you don't see the irony, let me point it out: this is a real time demons
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by NathanKP 8mo ago
You are getting downvoted for tone. By tone I mean the polarizing terms like: "cesspool of stupid opinions" and "low-thinking idiots", etc. When social communities allow the type of tone you are using, that is precisely
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by NathanKP 9mo ago
No. This is a real issue. If a robot is fully AI powered and doing what it does fully autonomously, then it has a very different risk profile compared to a teleoperated robot. For example, you can be fairly certain that given the current st
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by NathanKP 10mo ago
"the disconnect between a solid economy and an anxious public" Maybe... the economy isn't actually as solid as he thinks?
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by NathanKP 10mo ago
In case anyone else is wondering about practical ways to reproduce these effects, I did some quick searching: Most chocolate / cocoa products are processed in a way that destroys 80%-90% of the flavanols. You either have to buy special
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by NathanKP 10mo ago
This is coming from Swiss Re, which is the world's largest insurance company for insurance companies. Basically you pay an insurance company premium so that if you have a health emergency the insurance company will take on the cost of
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
I'm more fascinated by the question of whether it scales up... imagine much smaller and more efficient electric engines for cruise liners and cargo ships.
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
You'd be surprised how technical farming can be. Us software engineers often have a deep desire to make efficient systems, that function well, in a mostly automated fashion, so that we can observe these systems in action and optimize t
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
I'm right behind you on the escape to the mountains idea. I've actually already moved from the US to New Zealand, and the next step is a farm with some goats lol. That said... I don't necessarily hate what AI is doing to us.
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
Yep, it's just a question of whether on average the "new thing" is more good than bad. Pretty much every "new thing" has some kind of bad side effect for some people, while being good for other people. I would argue
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
> It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness Most peo
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
Running stuff on an underpowered Raspberry Pi is a good way to sniff test whether an infrastructure or software setup is sane. Powerful computers can hide horrible decisions for a long time, while less powerful devices make it immediately o
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by NathanKP 11mo ago
> Objects that need new hard drives every 3-5 years to store, replenished on a constant cycle The replenishment of these hard drives is baked into the cost of S3. If there is a major disruption of hard drive supply then S3 prices will de
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by NathanKP 1y ago
ChatGPT 5 still says "My knowledge cutoff is June 2024" There is a reason these models are still operating on old knowledge cutoff dates
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I just ended an eight year stretch of working for AWS. I quit in order to move out of the United States to New Zealand, so indirectly I quit over RTO. I wanted to work outside of a US hub city, even if it would have required relocating to A
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by NathanKP 1y ago
The graph showing the difference between home price index, and consumer price index does not consider that many of the items in the consumer price index are heavily subsidized by the government. For example notice the item categories in the
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I've seen this regularly on fringe articles that are clearly being manipulated. I don't have direct links right now, but things I have seen in the past: * A sketchy online university that was clearly manipulating their Wikipedia p
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I think the explanation is simple: there is a direct correlation between being too lazy and demotivated to write your own code, and being too lazy and demotivated to actually finish a project and publish your work online. The same people wh
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by NathanKP 1y ago
To be clear I did not have a 95% acceptance rate. I'm saying that in the final published repo, 95% of the lines of code were written by AI, not by me. I discarded and refactored code along the way many times, but I did that by also usi
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by NathanKP 1y ago
> if you are accepting 95% of what random output is being given to you I am not, and don't expect to be able to do that for many years yet. The models aren't that good yet. I would estimate that I accepted perhaps 25% of the i
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by NathanKP 1y ago
That is interesting. So far we are just using the task list to keep track of the list of implemented tasks. In the long run I expect there will be an even more rigorous mapping between the actual requirements and the specific lines of code
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by NathanKP 1y ago
False. In order to maintain high quality I often rejected the first result and regenerated the code with a more precise prompt, rather than taking the first result. I also regularly used "refactor prompts" to ask Kiro to change th

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