chromacity

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by chromacity 4mo ago
If that book was titled "hey mentally ill person, you should kill yourself", and if I was handing it out in front of a clinic, then yes, I'd probably bear some blame. Normal, well-adjusted people have genuine difficulty under
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by chromacity 4mo ago
Public schools are public schools. They're more or less compulsory and are just meant to try and get you to a point where you can contribute meaningfully to the society. Princeton is very much optional and is a school for future elites
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by chromacity 4mo ago
But that's precisely the evolution we've seen in the past 20+ years. For the sake argument, let's say that Fox News started it by more overtly embracing a specific political alignment for stories and opinion programming. Then
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by chromacity 4mo ago
I continue to be impressed by our collective willingness to engage with obvious AI slop, as long as it also talks about AI. Sincere question for any of the nearly 300 folks seem to be arguing about the article: why? The author couldn&#x27
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by chromacity 4mo ago
The usual explanation in these threads are "chargebacks", but come on. Payment processors could deal with chargebacks and disputes just fine. They suck for the seller, not the credit card company. What US companies are afraid of m
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by chromacity 4mo ago
If humans can find bugs, why can't humans write flawless code? Whatever the answer to that conundrum might be, LLMs are trained on these patterns and replicate them pretty faithfully.
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by chromacity 4mo ago
My reaction to the first demo (recipe) is that it was slower than typing the same thing on your keyboard. The second demo seems to be a wash: there's no time saved in saying "move this" versus "move crab". And an ap
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by chromacity 4mo ago
The main thrust behind their foray into hardware was that they feared being cut off. Whoever controls the terminal has the power to push users toward their own platforms (Bing, Microsoft 365, etc), and I guess they could see the writing on
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by chromacity 4mo ago
I think this is an odd article. It mixes together a variety of technologies that have little in common (gas discharge tubes, CRTs). It doesn't really say anything about the operation of vacuum tubes, their advantages, or disadvantages.
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by chromacity 4mo ago
> I wonder what gives them that "high confidence", as opposed to this being just a traditional zero-day? Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are a trio of companies that get to see most of what's going on the internet. I ima
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by chromacity 4mo ago
> LLMs are really good at translating to different programming languages. ...for which ample training data is available. > This makes sense, given that they are derived from text translation systems. ...for languages with ample traini
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by chromacity 4mo ago
No, come on. Have you really tested all VPNs in 2026 and picked the best one? You're posting 100% AI-slop articles and the internet is already overflowing with this content.
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by chromacity 4mo ago
This is an AI-generated article on an obvious spam blog that also features such bangers as "Best VPNs in 2026 for privacy and security", "Best crypto hardware wallets in 2026", etc. I'll still engage because I guess
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by chromacity 4mo ago
I think some of it is account farming, but some is just people buying wholesale into the idea that if you're not using AI for everything, you're gonna be left behind. On the Kagi Small Web list, there's plenty of hobby blogs
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by chromacity 4mo ago
We do precisely the same thing here. Here's a relatively recent post that, to me, seems obviously LLM-written. It just rattles off some management platitudes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650 It had 639 co
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by chromacity 4mo ago
This is a pedantry for the sake of it. If it's present by default and an attacker can trivially cause it to be loaded, it's the same as "on by default".
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by chromacity 4mo ago
You can make precisely the same argument for network services. Who knows, maybe you need telnet and UUCP and NFS and ftpd running on your system?... why should the distro maintainer decide? Well, because you probably don't, and it&#x27
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by chromacity 4mo ago
If this indeed works on all major distributions, I just continue to be amazed by how irresponsible the maintainers are. We're talking about optional kernel functionality that's presumably useful to something like <0.1% of their
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by chromacity 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure that I've seen more LLM mistakes than coworker mistakes at this point and I'm nowhere closer to enlightenment.
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by chromacity 4mo ago
One answer, as another person pointed out, is that LLM mistakes are just different . They are less explicable, less predictable, and therefore harder to spot. I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their
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by chromacity 4mo ago
HN sends tens of thousands of views to AI-farmed articles about why AI is good or why AI is bad. These articles get upvoted to the front page literally every day. They don't say anything interesting, but many of us just like having ou
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by chromacity 4mo ago
Another reason why I often skip them is that for "tech" products, the tours almost never cover how I want to use the product. Instead, they tell me how the vendor wants me to use the product. Browsers are especially notorious for
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by chromacity 4mo ago
Every EEPROM is basically that, and they're designed for data retention of around 100 years. I imagine it wouldn't be hard - embed two metal plates in glass?
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Why? If you have the money, the equipment, and the climate, what's stopping you from shifting agricultural production from one good to another on any scale you like? It's often as simple as the government saying "you know wha
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> This seems like an impossible requirement to meet for landlocked countries. Why? There's plenty of freshwater fish that are farmed around the world. Trout, tilapia, etc. > It's not enough just to label a country as produce
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Independent of that, the article is just a summary of a HN thread...
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by chromacity 5mo ago
All the other points raised in this thread aside, it seems like an odd thing to benchmark because a significant proportion of ER practice is dealing with emergencies, often accidental injuries. There's not a whole of diagnosing going o
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I've heard this a number of times, but how do you imagine this working? For every legitimate case of a "diverse set of viewpoints" on some hot-button political issue, you have hundreds of crackpots and trolls who want to talk
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> there's a good chance a nuclear apocalypse is imminent. Or that an excavator took out some fiber.
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by chromacity 5mo ago
For me, before I canceled, about 20% of the weekly "Release radar" list was obvious AI slop, with zero indication that it was happening and no way to opt out. It probably depends on which discovery channel you're using and wh

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