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AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs(noahpinion.blog)
2 points by firasd 3d ago|1 comments
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Randall Jarrell: Some Lines from Whitman(sas.upenn.edu)
1 points by firasd 24d ago|0 comments
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by firasd 1mo ago
I've been thinking a good way to understand the 'sociology' of information sharing is the structure of capital or prestige in an ecosystem For example, it's not an accident that software development is a very 'open&
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by firasd 1mo ago
Overall it seems we don't have good intuitions for what kinda work AI 'displaces'. Years of hand-wringing about programmers being put out of a job and instead programmers are the ones paying $200/mo for LLMs And on the f
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by firasd 1mo ago
In some ways a lot of 'work' may already be seen as an indirect form of UBI. Like if an American employee is making $60/yr sending a few emails per day, probably 50 years ago they'd have to do a very different type of jo
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by firasd 1mo ago
I wonder if there is cargo culting afoot There are definitely guys in some companies just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" and hence need a lot of orchestration tools but for the rest
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by firasd 1mo ago
What this page doesn't mention is 301 or 302 redirects. SEO has made "old URLs staying live" more of a widespread concern than it was at the time. And WordPress etc ship with inbuilt redirects upon slug rename So to a large e
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by firasd 1mo ago
Seems they use the nickname 'ScaleX' to discuss Theranos
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by firasd 1mo ago
Right I'm not saying that Zuck's staff doesn't know how to calculate MAU or ARR. I'm saying I'm not sure we can trust the 'median' (median on a scale of super-scrupulous to outright-dishonest) CEO is not c
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by firasd 1mo ago
A lot of 'numbers' startups cite are basically fake I think. Like if someone says we have this many users as a statement to TechCrunch you have no idea what they are actually calculating But there is a clear line that gets crossed
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by firasd 1mo ago
It's interesting that so much of the 'Anti-Big-Tech' movement over the last decade focused on tangential things like potentially forcing Google to sell Chrome or breaking up Facebook while Apple had this chokehold on the actu
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by firasd 1mo ago
Yeah... If you even say to Claude I want to make an app like github.com/user/repo it's not gonna just clone it and do some touch ups. Anything can happen of course, but my spidey sense says generally AI won't fork a proj
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by firasd 1mo ago
So the thing that drove this person to Gruber et al's notice is an RSS Reader that doesn't count how many new items are pending? It's the kind of thing that can get you significant mindshare among the last few people who use
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Rethinking do_action(): Events as objects, hooks as class names(developer.wordpress.org)
1 points by firasd 1mo ago|0 comments
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by firasd 1mo ago
This is basically the Bill Clinton move ('is there a relationship' can be parsed differently from 'was there a relationship')... Is there astrology in this app? No. Was there..? Yes. And the person complaining skipped me
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by firasd 1mo ago
My understanding is: your proposal is not very different from what Shopify is doing except they are tracking 'reserved units' (one per row) and you are proposing tracking 'orders' as the temporary state to then reconcile
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by firasd 1mo ago
Makes sense... if you are counting something in MySQL and now your counter is in Redis that's already strange But I guess the point is that even in the MySQL scenario the 'reserved_quantities' is almost like a temporary table
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by firasd 1mo ago
Yeah ‘old phones’ are pretty capable devices. I’ve wondered for a while if they could be used as an extension to your laptop like the old 80s PCs where you would plug in hardware. So ‘make it a server’ is the obvious way I guess, and then y
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by firasd 1mo ago
I've been experimenting with posting on LinkedIn and realized what the deal is. Basically it's a lot less hostile than other social media for people with no pre-existing audience: on Twitter you can post and nobody cares, in HN yo
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by firasd 1mo ago
Just looked into some Nemotron stats Looks like on < https://arena.ai > agent arena (grouped by lab) Nvidia is 15/15 (much worse than Thinky and Mistral) and on text arena it's 18/27 On < https://
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by firasd 1mo ago
Just realized that there are basically no American open models right now ever since the Llama series was abandoned. Basically Gemma and GPT-OSS I guess? Ah but Mira Murati's new Inkling is Apache 2.0 But it makes sense that if you&#x27
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by firasd 1mo ago
I've always felt it's a bit awkward to use terms like 'cyber', 'cyberwarfare' etc it's very Washington D.C. Cybersec would be a better compact term in my book
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by firasd 1mo ago
The problem is that getting your first user or first $1 is not particularly easier with even the best LLMs to help you. Distribution is brutal — Google doesn’t want to index new sites, Twitter doesn’t want to distribute lowbie posts, right
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by firasd 1mo ago
Yup as far as the folder taxonomy thing ISO YYYYMM works fine too Alphadec is just a timezone free UTC encoding that works down the millisecond so I also use it for snapshots eg myscript.py.backup.2026_P5G6_328054_Aug06.txt So then w
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by firasd 1mo ago
What, Exactly, Is a Clock? To understand atomic time, we must first understand something about clocks. A clock is, at its core, a marriage of two components: a mechanism that oscillates, or ticks with a steady beat, and a device that count
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by firasd 1mo ago
Hmm It’s hard to understand this .. like sure we can select instant but is there an actual model called 5.6 instant? Like is it on LM Arena and OpenRouter or available via API etc 5.5 instant is definitely A Thing it’s even name checked in
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by firasd 1mo ago
There’s no 5.6 instant I think — 5.6 Luna is gonna be the new instant tier model
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by firasd 1mo ago
I think it’s a misread to think the default ChatGPT model switching to GPT 5.6 Luna is some sort of desperation move. Keep in mind that Claude .ai never had this extreme stratification between the frontier models and the free tier (Sonnet i
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Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product(techcrunch.com)
3 points by firasd 1mo ago|0 comments
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by firasd 1mo ago
I'm saying AI researchers have a bias towards thinking what needs to happen is prompt -> [crunching tokens] -> response rather than prompt -> [orchestrates 5 tools] -> response In other words 'just add a calculator too

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