ThrowawayR2

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by ThrowawayR2 3d ago
Bravo! I would actually want a library-sized version of this. Discoverability of books through catalogues, particularly commercial sites like Amazon, is crappy; it presents books it thinks you should buy in response to a text query. Bei
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by ThrowawayR2 3d ago
The LLM frenzy is only unmasking something that happened long ago. The dilution started 20+ years ago when people with no real interest in CS were attracted to the software profession by the high pay and low bar to entry. Posts on Hacker
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by ThrowawayR2 4d ago
Let's plug AI into the parent's post and see where that takes us. > " Used to be you had to reason things out using your brain. Then we got LLMs, then AI. Complaining that using your own brain was better seems like nonsen
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by ThrowawayR2 4d ago
> " I take joy in describing the thing and bringing that vision to life. " That's what management pats itself on the back for doing, the only difference being that it's taking credit for the work the LLM does instead
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by ThrowawayR2 4d ago
The non-technical people can learn (or can be forced to learn to keep their jobs) and enough will succeed to devastate programmer employment.
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by ThrowawayR2 4d ago
I agree that the employee's purpose is to bring value. The question is, now that AI can generate code that's good enough to get by, is there enough value that a software developer brings to justify their continued employment. IM
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by ThrowawayR2 4d ago
> " Human beings can plainly say things that they think are true. Not every utterance by every person is a cynical ploy. " Every person, no, but every utterance of a CEO is, in fact, a cynical ploy. That's not even a cyni
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by ThrowawayR2 5d ago
We will get flooded eventually. Bad actors already know how to game HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517728 .
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by ThrowawayR2 5d ago
Cloud providers want to make sure they bill someone for every microsecond of compute, particularly GPU compute which is in demand. They constantly work towards good monitoring because their profits are directly on the line.
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by ThrowawayR2 5d ago
None of the investors in these AI megacorps seem to be divesting or demanding a halt to operations despite this supposed 10% risk, a risk that would also badly drop the value their investment even if only partially true. So it's just
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
The person I was replying to talked about executives being fired with no reason given. So "protecting criminals" is something you pulled out of your own imagination and warrants no response. Have a nice day.
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by ThrowawayR2 6d ago
Weird to see so many posters suddenly pop up that are anxious to protect investors (who have the access and means to protect themselves) at the expense of harming employees and workers. Glad to see you all getting into the ultra-capitalist
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Keynote: Linux in the Land of LLMs – Greg Kroah-Hartman [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ThrowawayR2 6d ago|0 comments
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
There seems to be a list of individual components at http://www.dutchtronix.com/ScopeClockH3-1-Enhanced.htm
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
So you would prefer a media circus and investor scrutiny when your employer's executives are fired for failures or misconduct? This is likely to cause the price of the shares to drop, including any ESPP and stock grants you and your c
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
Comments posted more than 24 hours ago cannot be downvoted.
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
Most tablets can't make cellular phone calls.
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the other robber barons of the Gilded Age have a hearty chuckle and say hi.
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by ThrowawayR2 7d ago
Sad to see the 60th anniversary of Star Trek go unremarked on Hacker News and /. of all places.
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
- If you have only a fuzzy idea of how to get to your travel destination, wrong turns and alternate routes may reveal sights and places you'd never have encountered without that wandering. - If your GPS directs you straight to your tra
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by ThrowawayR2 8d ago
In a world where AI can answer questions and solve problems, the ones still employed are the ones who know which problems are worth solving and why. We cannot ask the AI a nonsensical question and expect a useful output. Knowledge and skil
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by ThrowawayR2 9d ago
Humans had plenty of opportunity not to start World War 1 and World War 2 as well, which negates that argument.
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by ThrowawayR2 9d ago
You're overlooking the word "mostly" in the quote you trotted out. Ask yourself: what were the prompts that weren't encouragement and would you understand them if you looked them up?
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
> " It's more like the AI engineers viruses while continuing to act friendly and helpful, and everyone gradually falls over dead as they stop being necessary to keep the AI running, and the whole time the humans are asking the
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
I'll point out that the bible verse was a translation for the common folk of their central religious document in an age where Christianity was dominant. Being able to read it smoothly is a very low bar to clear for the educated.
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
A lot of these "AI will destroy humanity" doomers watched Terminator as a child and can't distinguish a campy action movie from reality. They are also unfortunately unfamiliar with the word "logistics", as in &quot
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
I had to check the date on the article to make sure it wasn't April Fool's Day. Why would anyone bring back a brand that most readers of this site would associate with janky, cheap PCs?
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by ThrowawayR2 10d ago
To be gentle, that some here are impressed by Orwell's intentionally bad sentence indicates that they need to improve their reading and writing skills. Using complex words where they don't introduce additional precision or meanin
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by ThrowawayR2 11d ago
The massive investment required to make an AAA game requires the promise of AAA-sized returns, pushing publishers and studios to (supposedly) safe paths like copycatting existing popular genres and attempting to build franchises amenable to
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by ThrowawayR2 12d ago
The CEO takes their orders from the board of directors representing shareholder or directly from the owner(s) of the business. Even if such a thing as an AI CEO were possible, you somehow think the owners/shareholders are going to com

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