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by ergl 27d ago
> Is anthropomorphizing a real problem? The paper argues that pretending that the so-called thinking traces represent real reasoning can lead users into trusting wrong answers, if the thinking traces appear convincing enough. Researchers
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by ergl 2mo ago
On my knees begging that the developers of AI detectors use them on their own writing and that at least pretended to mask the obvious LLM cliches in their blog posts.
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by ergl 3mo ago
You're right, understanding things is so 2025.
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by ergl 3mo ago
The market has been creeping into more and more facets of our lives, with delirious results: social networks are the market mediating family and friendship, dating apps are the market mediating meeting strangers, etc. I wouldn't expect
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by ergl 3mo ago
A summary of HN comments, posted on HN to generate even more comments. Very meta.
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by ergl 4mo ago
> These people didn't get promoted or hired because of nepotism. A lot of them moved up the engineering ladder and are familiar with how software engineering works and the incentives involved. Good one!
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by ergl 5mo ago
I'm sorry if I have offended you. You probably have a great deal of understanding and knowledge about Git, and this book might be a good resource. I'm not asking you to do anything differently, and yet I think it's important
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by ergl 5mo ago
> The book is definitely LLM assisted authoring yet it also has great content, so not sure we can immediately jump to shaming it entirely for being slop. Personally I have an extremely hard time reading text like this and it makes me los
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by ergl 5mo ago
The author works at OpenAI, so it's no surprise that they've stopped noticing how grating this kind of structure is to read.
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by ergl 5mo ago
Surprise, surprise, another piece of LLM-generated slop on the front page of HN. From chapter 1: > When Git slows down, engineers adapt in bad ways. They stop asking questions the history could answer. They batch work to avoid sync cost.
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by ergl 5mo ago
I feel I have a much more adversarial relationship with articles, comments and blogs online. I've been seeing old colleagues or acquaintances that I used to admire start to publish clearly AI generated blogs and I've noticed that
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by ergl 5mo ago
> those of us in the space are aligned with America irrespective of who's in the White House "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department"
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by ergl 5mo ago
Do you have any more platitudes to add so I can fill my dismissive HN comment bingo card?
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by ergl 6mo ago
The real travesty here is that a hospital has a CEO.
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by ergl 6mo ago
I'd be curious to know why you decided to bet on weather patterns in the first place. Seems like a very roundabout way to lose money.
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by ergl 7mo ago
From the bottom of the linked article: > Full disclosure: iFixit has an ongoing business relationship with Lenovo, and we are hopelessly biased in favor of repairable products.
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by ergl 7mo ago
I hope OP took more effort in making Viva understand the problem than the obvious zero effort it took writing this post, given it is completely AI generated.
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by ergl 7mo ago
I would suggest reading into the history of South Korea after the war. Nothing suggests to me that it was a good outcome. As a small sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
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by ergl 11mo ago
> Fascism rose in Spain, and Italy, and was defeated. Someone forgot about the 40-year long fascist dictatorship Spain was under
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by ergl 1y ago
996 can only be celebrated in a deeply rotted culture without worker rights and labor protections. Embarrasing.
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by ergl 1y ago
This article is akin to pondering if people should cook their own meth because the dealer they used to have is now selling adulterated stuff that's less powerful.
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by ergl 1y ago
This is literally an ad.
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Haveli Investments to buy Couchbase for $1.5B(reuters.com)
3 points by ergl 1y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 1y ago
You don't need ordering guarantees for diffs: apply them out of order and the final result should be the same (that's one of the key properties of CRDTs).
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by ergl 1y ago
> Other big constraints are: marriage, religion, and choosing to go the VC vs. bootstrapped route in a SaaS business. This gave me a chuckle. On of these is definitely _not_ like the others.
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by ergl 1y ago
> If you were offered 7-figures USD to do these kind of hours from anywhere in the world, would that make a difference? Depends, if your work schedule leaves you so drained that it leads to extreme burnout and eventual depression, along
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by ergl 1y ago
Jornada partida doesn't tend to apply to office workers and white collar work in general. It's common to see it in small shops, but it's in steep decline even in those areas.
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by ergl 1y ago
It might be helpful to read what "local first" means in this context: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
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by ergl 1y ago
https://archive.is/DJpFG
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Accused Tech Spy Says Deel's CEO Recruited Him with Offer to Be Like James Bond(wsj.com)
1 points by ergl 1y ago|1 comments

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