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by dpark 5d ago
Two decades. It was founded in 2005
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by dpark 6d ago
I’m surprised we aren’t seeing it more already. LLMs suddenly make it reasonable to maintain multiple native apps. I’d love to see this start to supplant Electron and its ilk on the desktop.
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by dpark 6d ago
The part that keeps me coming back is when it writes a feature I need with an hour of direction instead of two days of my time.
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by dpark 7d ago
I agree with the other commenter. Your English is perfectly good. Your subjective experience is your own and I can’t disagree with that. I’m working from a place where my employer pays for my tokens so I’m also not spending anything except
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by dpark 7d ago
My point is that the analogy is inherently bad. The fact that LLMs are somewhat inconsistent doesn’t make them like gambling.
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by dpark 7d ago
You went off on a tangent and I responded. None of this is actually relevant to the topic of whether LLMs are “basically gambling”. > In what way was amazing no-traffic "a reward"? What system was rewarding you for what change
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by dpark 7d ago
> the relief of finally remembering the name felt like, well, hitting a jackpot I understand the joy of success but I fail to see how this is gambling. I could have an equivalent conversation with a friend (more likely about a movie in
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by dpark 7d ago
> A constant predictable reward is boring, less engaging. Perhaps but predictable outcome is a very desirable quality. No one wants a hammer that sometimes drives nails and sometimes doesn’t. All of the current harness engineering work
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by dpark 7d ago
> most people don’t use ai this way though How do they use it? Surely no one is just repeating the same prompt over and over (except as a Ralph loop perhaps, which is automated). I’m really struggling with the notion that most people j
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by dpark 7d ago
I don’t see much similarity beyond the most superficial. If you sit at a slot machine and pump quarters into it, each “turn” is independent. You spin and you win or lose. It’s pure chance and there is no destination. You execute the exact s
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by dpark 7d ago
This is not my experience with current AI models at all. But regardless you are not describing anything that sounds like gambling. You are describing a weird hallucinogenic experience.
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by dpark 7d ago
I see this sentiment pretty regularly, and I don’t get it. Variable rewards is not sufficient to establish that it is “ basically gambling”. Everything in life is variable reward. You invite a friend over, they might accept or they might n
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by dpark 8d ago
They absolutely are. But this doesn’t mean that they won’t unwind those couplings. It just means it will be hard and take time.
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by dpark 8d ago
> But it also can't show how conscious awareness may affect quantum wave function collapse probabilities, allowing free will to migrate to the deterministic timeline in the multiverse that most supports its well-being. That’s true
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by dpark 8d ago
> taping batteries to your skin Don’t give them more ideas. Someone will be selling bracelets with batteries in them soon.
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by dpark 8d ago
> It seems plausible there may be some adaptation to the electrical properties of being at the surface This is like saying it’s plausible that wearing a bracelet with a small magnet in it will have health benefits. It’s pure woo. There
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by dpark 8d ago
I suppose that’s also reasonable, though this particular repo also hosts evals and other content related to the skill. So a gist seems like it would be an addition, not a replacement.
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by dpark 8d ago
A public repo is the easiest way to share something like this.
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by dpark 8d ago
The reality seems to be that for decades Europe gave only lip service to decoupling from American tech infrastructure, but in the last couple of years America has gone from being seen as a strong ally to being a major risk. It will take tim
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by dpark 8d ago
Consider that three people have given you substantially similar feedback about your “candor”. Your attempt at a “personal voice” here comes off extremely fake. Compare your proposed “candid” message with the actual candor in your message at
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by dpark 9d ago
> Do you think personal responsibility travels uphill or downhill? This is trying to be pithy but it’s not. Every leader from the CEO down has responsibility for their area of control and influence. > It’s not a job for people who
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by dpark 9d ago
You keep talking about “taking responsibility”. Unless the person taking responsibility is also taking action, which you aren’t even proposing, then it’s just words. It’s more sugar coating. “It’s not you, it’s me.” > This is a 'pu
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by dpark 9d ago
That’s not candid. It’s candy. It borderline infantilizing and buries the message under a bunch of saccharine. I can practically see the fake smile plastered across the face of the manager saying this. I would be insulted if my manager sent
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by dpark 9d ago
I think the real point is that this is a random email that Gates sent to some execs sharing a bad experience with the product, and some people on HN are trying to take it as a much deeper thing than it really is. A leader should be able t
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by dpark 9d ago
> sending the org into a reactive frenzy I don’t see an actual “reactive frenzy” here. I see that Gates started a conversation with the execs he believes are responsible for fixing this mess. And again, these are execs being paid mill
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by dpark 9d ago
> It's basically 'user rant' - not what one would expect from a leader. It is absolutely a user rant, but it's entirely appropriate for a leader to call out "this is not okay; this is a garbage experience"
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by dpark 12d ago
Sometimes you don’t want everything hanging off the main domain, because if DNS gets horked everything goes down.
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by dpark 17d ago
I’m left wondering if we disagree about what the problem is. The problem here is not merely that Anubis is inconvenient to humans. It’s that and also that it’s not very effective for blocking bots. Anything that makes it easier for humans
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by dpark 17d ago
He didn’t describe a solution. He described a (crappy) workaround for humans. But the fact is that this cannot and will not stop bots. The people running bots can do the same, even faster.
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by dpark 18d ago
If you expect your users to mostly work with both mouse and keyboard, it can make sense. Dropping stuff from the tabbing order means that the stuff left is is quicker to tab through. I find it mostly annoying. Tap to click, though, that’s i

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