dwroberts

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by dwroberts 3d ago
Also the thing that is infuriating is, do people obsessed with using AI for everything not realise that, they are surplus to the entire process? They are doing 'prompting' or whatever but the end goal will eventually be that they
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by dwroberts 5d ago
I think the usage of solved is silly. Things get automated, they basically never get ‘solved’. Will all these things get automation? Yeah sure. But the idea that they will be perfect automated solutions applicable in all cases is just marke
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by dwroberts 6d ago
Just to point out re: navier stokes - what was being proven was not a solver or approximations for it, but showing specific circumstances under which it actually returns incorrect (or numerically unusable) answers. Which had been suspected
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by dwroberts 9d ago
Although I’m fully expecting actor shenanigans in the full documentary, I think the section in the trailer might actually be her for real
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by dwroberts 14d ago
The whole ‘NPC’ thing is so juvenile and solipsistic. Believing other people have less mental agency than you doesn’t make you cool and edgy, it makes you come off as an idiot that needs to grow up (Note I’m not directing this at the author
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by dwroberts 19d ago
The thing is, what I’m asking about is not unrelated. It is the inverse situation - which curiously nobody seems to care about. And I say ‘curiously’ with some sarcasm, because it is very obvious why the focus is always disproportionately o
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by dwroberts 19d ago
What about people receiving astronomically high wages that vastly outstrip their labour value?
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by dwroberts 22d ago
This also stands out as strange to me: > interfacing with around 10 humans in the outside world: myself, my 5-person core game design team Like, really, there are 5 human designers on this game? What are they doing, exactly? (Or is this
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by dwroberts 22d ago
Why CSAM specifically? Isn’t it mostly going to be just vanilla fraud?
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by dwroberts 26d ago
Who is doing what you’re describing? The reason I can confidently freeze and offline stuff is because I’m not taking in whole frameworks, I’m selecting things carefully, and generally do end up reading at least most of the source And what ‘
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by dwroberts 26d ago
Updating every dependency for every kind of CVE is a brute force method for people and organisations that don’t understand the attack surface of the programs they’re producing
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by dwroberts 26d ago
I guess that’s more of a problem if you use all-encompassing frameworks, but normally the things I’m using are very small components where the CVEs either don’t exist or are inconsequential/unexploitable for the programs I’m building
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by dwroberts 27d ago
My experience has been that it has a major advantage, in that freeze + offline actually work properly. You can collect the dependencies you need once, put them in version control and never ever talk to remote registry again
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by dwroberts 29d ago
> How it is made should be irrelevant in the process. No? If you are employed (or requested in this case I guess) to offer your expert opinion, the expert they want to hear from is you, not someone else you farm your work out to - whethe
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
I was not trying to say anaesthetics are actually the cure, it’s an example of the kind of elimination that has to be done to prove something is actually effective. Look up how double blind tests are done on things that involve surgeries (e
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Firstly it’s not curing anything, it’s yielding some improvement. But secondly: what surgeries are performed on people with Alzheimer’s disease, let alone ones where cognitive improvement is even going to be monitored or noticed afterwards?
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
The problem with this stuff is (as the article mentions) is that it’s going to take a while to figure out whether any benefit is just temporary. I would guess that there are a lot of variables to eliminate too - eg is it possible that just
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Is there some evidence that he made similar claims? Otherwise you’re making kind of a tasteless comparison with someone you presumably don’t know anything about
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
It’s not tier 1 it’s under local news
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
The tests I could find for ‘choreographed programming’ were 1-2 lines long and demonstrated absolutely nothing, certainly nothing as elaborate as the research text is stating. This is just slop
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
> This is intended to handle the increase of calls that are related to one incident, so callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive i
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Obviously insults and attacks are unreasonable, but I think the tag injection etc should be an expected one if you’re posting on HN right? Like somebody is going to try it for kicks and I wouldn’t say it’s even necessarily malicious
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
One thing that grates with that style of comment though is the implication (whether intended or not) that the link/post author wasted time and could have just had an LLM do it instead. And I think it’s important that we make clear that
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Dean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explains better in its lede text than what I just wrote: https://www.nyt
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Yeah I actually read this more as them scrambling because Jeff Dean is leaving? Because that is the role he is taking up
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
I agree, it has now become a cliche buzzword that product managers slap on boring non-technical things to make them sound important. Isn’t there even a bug tracker that some company calls an ‘issue OS’ or something absurd?
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
They reference gravity in this paragraph and I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean > Not only is it very hard to create interfaces that have limitations, but a bad decision is not just precedent – it’s code that can be copied and reu
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
The link is 404 but not just the repo - the author’s entire account appears to be gone
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
Can someone explain why we’re not using it to solve the obvious big conjectures/problems though? If this stuff is solved, why isn’t Riemann the first thing to go? Even if it means a fund of several hundred $k to let it churn on it.
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by dwroberts 1mo ago
But it says that the agentic authoring step patches the migrator when things get stuck. So while the execution of this stuff is deterministic, its actual content is not.

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