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by bad_username 6d ago
Every time I bring this phenomenon up, I hear from HN commenters that it used to be like that, but today it is solved by modern powerful models, harnesses.and workflows. I don't know. At work I still direct and review everything LLMs g
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by bad_username 6d ago
Not sure about that. Writing detailed specs you deal just with the inherent domain complexity. Writing code you also get accidental complexity that has nothing to do with the business, whuch not only piles on top, but tend to interact vexin
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by bad_username 8d ago
AI is a computer program. It calculates numbers from other numbers. By itself it does not "want" to do anything and "cannot" do anything. Before it becomes an agent in the universe (in the classical meaning), it requires
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by bad_username 8d ago
> how LLMs can develop new previously unseen biases for demographic groups, even when there are no differences between groups in the first place! In real life there ARE differences between groups, and models are trained on real life data
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by bad_username 19d ago
> X. Dev/prod parity Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible Notably, there is no requirement or recommendation that the dev environment be a single, shared environment. Development processes where this envi
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by bad_username 23d ago
Person outside the USA here (reasonable, hopefully). First off, it is too simplistic to try and categorize a political regime as "ok" or "not ok". A political regime, the problematics of a large country, and and a huge v
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by bad_username 25d ago
> Being poor has zero correlation with being “lazy”. This doesn't sound right. If that were literally true, and the level of industriousness didn't affect prosperity at all, why would anyone bother to work?
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by bad_username 29d ago
Health improvements are not measurable any more if you go below 5 mcg/m2 average level of PM2.5 particulates. For 50x reduction to be beneficial, you need to live in an area where the pollution is 250 mcg/m2, which is an extreme l
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by bad_username 29d ago
I believe that any simulation of consciousness is consciousness, so ethical implications apply. But I also don't believe fruit flies are conscious for any definition of that word.
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by bad_username 29d ago
The public discussion on Reddit is very heavily censored and probably already dominated by bots at this point.
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by bad_username 29d ago
> it's all people seem to care about. You shouldn't try to assess what people care about from what you see in the media, including social media. Focused thought and gigantic resources go into shaping the public perception of re
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by bad_username 1mo ago
> GitLab free tier has all I need ... their next tier is $29/mo, which is too much. Pay every Nth month, or M months per year :-) Use the free tier features throughout.
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by bad_username 1mo ago
> I often joke with my finance > My finance makes fun of me Your financial situation is very interesting!
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by bad_username 1mo ago
There has been quite significant progress. From my experience it has been largely solved for one significant use case which is chatting to frontier models about the reality as described by public knowledge. 2 years ago models would rely on
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by bad_username 1mo ago
What didn't help was the response to the pandemic by governments and the scientific establishment, that supplied an unfortunate and pretty devastating blow to public trust in these institutions.
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by bad_username 1mo ago
I think if all protesters really just protested (and nobody tried smashing ICE cars tail lights, physically blocking their vehicles, and damaging officers' hearing), that would go a long way helping prevent this. So the measure protest
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by bad_username 1mo ago
Even if the entire Germany stopped existing overnight, this would barely make a dent in global carbon emissions and planet destruction rate.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
Skills is just lazy loading of well-organized Markdown docs. The "lazy" part is the core part.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
> An agent that drives a real browser session with my real logins: seller dashboards, banking portals, government sites, ad platforms, .. What are some viable architectures for such an agent that are token-efficient, effective and conven
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by bad_username 2mo ago
Readers describe persistent "AI slop" sensation after 3.5 years of LLMs
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by bad_username 2mo ago
IKR? "Where's your Bitchat?" is a question better never uttered to anyone in person.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
> We are Linus, now Now, when we program with the artificial intelligences, we are exactly that same thing. We are Linus Torvalds, not always with the talent that he has, but the role we should assume, in the projects where we don't
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by bad_username 2mo ago
There you go : https://youtu.be/eiyfwZVAzGw
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by bad_username 2mo ago
Ending up in spam is not that bad, compared to emails simply dropped silently, without either party having any idea.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
> I'm either going to ask the AI how to do it First you have to know that "it" exists and is possible. A cookbook like this introduces readers to concepts and features they didn't know were there in the first place.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
Ah yes, CNN, the trusted and unbiased source on capitalism, and especially republicans.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
Suicidal empathy...
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by bad_username 2mo ago
"An index is not a horse" is not a phrase I'd expected to read today.
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by bad_username 2mo ago
> Microservices solve a real problem too, and it is mostly organisational rather than technical. When you have enough engineers that they are stepping on each other in one codebase, and enough teams that release schedules collide, splitt
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by bad_username 2mo ago
> About four-in-ten (39%) say a major reason they didn’t have children is that it just never happened. This sounds.... circular? The reason they didn't have children is they just didn't? This study is strange.

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