dsjoerg

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by dsjoerg 4d ago
Uh I was literally on math team
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by dsjoerg 1mo ago
Some people are in business to get paid by creating actual real value all the way down the chain to the ultimate customer. Those people are the ones you'd rather work for, and those are the ones who will care about "science purpo
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by dsjoerg 2mo ago
True. So you're talking about allocating resources (teams) across priorities. Which have to be prioritized. Which is the reality the article doesn't wrestle with at all.
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by dsjoerg 2mo ago
There's more to making an argument than stating your conclusion forcefully and repeatedly. EDIT. In particular the author hasn't acknowledged the prioritization problem, hasn't explained what factors might go into the necessa
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by dsjoerg 2mo ago
Customers speak with their wallets, and OP doesn't like what they're saying.
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by dsjoerg 2mo ago
Decisions are about tradeoffs. 2% of users staring at a broken screen is bad, of course. But what is the _cost_ of not using nested CSS? The responsible way to make a decision is to consider both sides of the tradeoff.
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
Those who pay no attention to history are surprised when things change. It's the temporal equivalent of never leaving your home town. Very provincial. Then one day change comes and they're all shocked pikachu face.
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
I feel the opposite. Interacting with humans, I definitely pay a social tax - I have to negotiate the feelings of the people involved. With LLMs there is no social tax, I can be as blunt as I like. But there are other taxes to pay with L
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
If you allow a likely guess with no evidence to play the role of fact, you're just as bad as the AIs
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
it's "trivial" in the sense of "I can launch the app in 2 minutes," but "non-trivial" in the sense of "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good security practices."
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
> Interestingly, there were no consequences for the execs that made this 'mistake' The article makes no such claim. What is your source? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Or, are you just making things up that
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
This is good, however that first sentence needs to be removed, it's too factual and orients the reader too much.
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by dsjoerg 3mo ago
This is very jumbled argumentation. Is his claim "nobody has proven LLMs are conscious" or "I can prove that LLMs aren't conscious" ? He goes back and forth. Proving a negative about consciousness would require a se
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by dsjoerg 4mo ago
There are no countries that come close to actually paying for it. There are countries that pay for 5% of it, and in those, indeed they don't have significantly higher fertility rates.
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by dsjoerg 4mo ago
Yes. Societies have been using their women's children as a positive externality for generations, but now the logic of capitalism and societal freedom has caught up, and now societies would rather collapse than support women and familie
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by dsjoerg 4mo ago
I don't understand, why post to HN a link to a Khan academy class that's at least 13 years old?
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by dsjoerg 5mo ago
That's why I write my own assembly language. Compilers just atrophy your skills!
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
don't hate the player, hate the game
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
the location of the ship of course is not secret. but there is finer grained data about the people, the devices and what they're doing that could be gathered. and inferences made from that data. i would only allow this data to leak
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
it's mind boggling. personal mobile phones have potentially anyone's software running on them and that can connect to the internet means that literally anyone could be tracking and gathering who knows what data from your operatio
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
"just" is doing a lot of work there. There's a stack, and everyone is fighting and racing to figure out which parts of the stack are commodities and which have protectable IP. For example, years ago someone might have said:
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
It's because of this hard problem that I'm thinking I should keep using Viktor (getviktor.com) instead of running this OpenViktor. The company may not do a perfect job of security either, but I figure they'll do a better job
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
it's not viktor.ai it's getviktor.com
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by dsjoerg 6mo ago
Strongly agreed. However, some developers have trouble writing clearly and reading lots of text, and therefore prefer oral and interactive + real-time transmission of the information. Those developers, I suppose and hope, are discovering
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by dsjoerg 7mo ago
Users are "dumb", and it's a dumb _system_ and dumb business that doesn't plan for that in terms of FTUE, business model, support model, and product flows. We product makers get to think about our one little product all
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by dsjoerg 7mo ago
Cool question. What form would an answer take? We need some detection benchmark data thats invariant over the period of interest. I hope the data exists but I would be surprised. Another way to come at it would be mortality data. But that h
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by dsjoerg 7mo ago
AI is teaching some people that best practices actually matter.
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by dsjoerg 7mo ago
True but also, the bot is right
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by dsjoerg 8mo ago
Fails to make a prediction. Not even wrong!
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by dsjoerg 8mo ago
What work DO you want the humans to do? The endless complaining and goalposting shifting is exhausting

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