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by aphyr 4mo ago
Welp. Glad to see Li Shen's using the last fifteen years of my work to automate away my job. :-/ -- edit -- I've seen clients and some colleagues working on things like this, and I can't seem to put into words how dishea
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by aphyr 5mo ago
Yup. The only major changes here are fonts and twocolumn. https://gist.github.com/aphyr/6f0cd6910ccfe2cd7828d1ade2eac5...
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I've put considerable time into this, including speaking with Ofcom directly. The guidance Ofcom issued for small site operators last year was that they did intend to target "one-man bands", and that there would be no guidanc
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I would! I grew up in a low-density suburb near Portland, then lived in small-town Minnesota, Madison, SF, Chicago, and Cincinnati. I didn't own a car until my 30s, and I currently drive about once a month---camping, Costco, lumber, th
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I talked about this in the colophon of the piece, but perhaps you'd like an example? This is Pandoc Markdown--basically Markdown, a little bit of YAML front matter, a smattering of inline LaTeX, and some very small shell scripts. Here&
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by aphyr 5mo ago
If you enjoyed reading these and would like more, very few folks read sections 2, 4, or 6. They might be up your alley: 2. Dynamics - https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies... 4. Information Ecolo
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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?(aphyr.com)
745 points by aphyr 5mo ago|773 comments
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by aphyr 5mo ago
Thank you for this--I remember reading this paper when it came out, but forgot it by the time I wrote this section. Will add a citation.
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by aphyr 5mo ago
> I think you can combine 'Incanters' and 'Process Engineers' into one - 'Users' I wanted to talk about this more but couldn't quite figure out how to phrase it, so I cut a fair bit: with "incanter
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs(aphyr.com)
274 points by aphyr 5mo ago|179 comments
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by aphyr 5mo ago
Thank you <3
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I have not read Hamming yet, thank you!
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I put... I'd guess around 60 hours into editing this piece, and had review from a dozen-odd friends, and I am still finding and fixing errors. I imagine that asking an LLM for a copyediting pass probably would have been helpful, but
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by aphyr 5mo ago
Thank you for this! I really wanted to go deeper on human factors, and I think there's a lot to be said about CRM and sociotechnical systems design, especially when ML gets used for decision support. Ultimately wound up truncating that
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by aphyr 5mo ago
> It personifies the tool as a colleague with agency, Er, just to be clear, I am not personifying these tools. This entire section is a critique of the attempt to frame LLMs as "coworkers".
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by aphyr 5mo ago
There's a copy of Das Kapital on the shelf behind me right now, though I don't count myself conversant enough to go super deep on class critique. Figured I'd point a few very vague fingers in that direction and let folks wi
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by aphyr 5mo ago
Yes. For more on this, see section 2: https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies...
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I am, oddly enough, the chief executive officer of two (trivially small) tech companies.
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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work(aphyr.com)
290 points by aphyr 5mo ago|219 comments
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I actually wound up geoblocking the UK based on Ofcom's February 2025 presentation for small services providers--they said that they intended to target "one-man bands" who (e.g.) failed to perform a child risk assessment or a
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by aphyr 5mo ago
It's been weirdly uneven. Sections 1, 3, and 5 did well on HN; 2, 4, and 6 sank with essentially no trace. The distribution of views is presently: 1. Introduction: 33,088 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648 )
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety(aphyr.com)
330 points by aphyr 5mo ago|181 comments
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Psychological Hazards(aphyr.com)
3 points by aphyr 5mo ago|0 comments
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The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances(aphyr.com)
283 points by aphyr 5mo ago|169 comments
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Information Ecology(aphyr.com)
10 points by aphyr 5mo ago|1 comments
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by aphyr 5mo ago
I read a fair bit about Eliza when I was young, but I don't recall if any of those were from Weizenbaum himself!
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture(aphyr.com)
141 points by aphyr 5mo ago|108 comments
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by aphyr 6mo ago
You're right, that is longer! I get why though; `filter` is a clojure.core function name people don't necessarily feel comfortable shadowing, and the Clojure and Spark versions make it clear what's a symbol in local scope ver
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by aphyr 6mo ago
I was kind of surprised by this one--I know the MariaDB folks and have worked with some of them before. They made significant changes to fix the Repeatable Read issues we found in the last report, so I know the team cares about safety. Ther
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Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2(jepsen.io)
117 points by aphyr 6mo ago|16 comments

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