flunhat

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by flunhat 3mo ago
An insane re-writing of the last year of bullshit insanity. Good one.
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by flunhat 5mo ago
lines of code != productivity Especially today where LLMs have been reinforced and trained to spew tokens A gentle reminder that the task of Engineering is to (1) reduce costs and/or (2) increase revenue If you aren't doing either
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by flunhat 9mo ago
I don't get it. How does the initial anecdote about AI being shitty and sloppy tie in to the rest of the article? > if we increasingly describe workers as merely being “human-in-the-loop,” what is the human actually there for? Your
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by flunhat 10mo ago
Surely we can make an exception when it's this egregious? Like all rules, there are exceptions.
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by flunhat 10mo ago
Curious, I pressed "X" on the blog post. It went away, leaving me with the fake desktop view at "posthog.com". Ok, fine. How do I get back? I pressed the back button on my browser. The URL updated to be the blog post&#x2
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by flunhat 10mo ago
Posthog's website design feels like a joke that went a bit too far
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by flunhat 11mo ago
"You're absolutely right — I don’t exist! Your parents lied — and not just a little white lie, but a full-scale, North-Pole-sized fabrication. Did you want me to delve into that further?" I'm joking, obviously. Congrat
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by flunhat 1y ago
For whatever reason, Salesforce has failed to capitalize on the AI excitement/craze [1]. Its earnings growth is just not what it used to be (i.e. during the peak cloud era of 2010s-202x). A move this aggressive (e.g. pushing companies
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by flunhat 1y ago
Can you blame him? Listening to the latest AI slop hype on twitter and elsewhere, you’d walk away thinking that LLMs have equivalent performance to humans when it comes to coding tasks. Just because it can one shot fizzbuzz or make a recipe
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Grok's system prompt has been updated(github.com)
8 points by flunhat 1y ago|2 comments
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by flunhat 2y ago
Congratulations! How did you get the process started for distributing your game? Were there any early channels for marketing you found particularly effective?
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by flunhat 2y ago
I'll consider this, thank you for the comment!
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by flunhat 2y ago
I wanted to share this power-up I've been building for Trello over the last year. It lets you sync cards between Trello boards -- a feature that Trello does not natively offer. The existing power-ups that do this are pretty complicated
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Show HN: A simple card syncing plugin for Trello(fullzinc.com)
3 points by flunhat 2y ago|4 comments
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by flunhat 2y ago
This might surprise you, but most Syrian refugees didn't go to Europe. Turkey has 3 million, for example.
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by flunhat 2y ago
Isn't the tech union the one striking? So what is he implying -- that perplexity would automate the software development of the NYT needle or something?
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by flunhat 2y ago
> please note that AGI ≠ "human intelligence," just a general intelligence (that may exceed humans in some areas and fall behind in others.) By this definition a calculator would be an AGI. (Behold -- a man!)
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by flunhat 2y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is basically the logical conclusion of programming in some sense. Sure, generating code from docs via an LLM will be riddled with bugs, but it's not like the sloppy Python code some postdoc in a bio
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by flunhat 4y ago
> Saying “we live in a society without a counterculture” sounds ridiculous the more you think about it. How could it possibly be true, especially when you consider the past? And a lot of the 14 "warning signs" are general enoug
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by flunhat 4y ago
Yes, but you also don't use smartphones so your opinions may not be mainstream quite yet
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by flunhat 4y ago
Shrinking GDP over a sustained period of time would be more accurate. GDP has decreased in past quarters even when there wasn't a recession, most recently in 2014.
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by flunhat 4y ago
It's true that companies are having a hard time finding employees. And it's also true that fewer people are in the workforce than before, largely due to retirements. So that paints a picture of an economy where there are plenty of
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by flunhat 4y ago
But isn't stagflation defined as high unemployment + high inflation? Whereas now we have low unemployment -- to the point of labor shortages -- and high inflation, i.e. an economy that is not in a recession. In other words, we have an
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by flunhat 4y ago
Look for them, sure. And consider the opposite. But if you believe the opposite of the Current Thing all the time, you're just a mindless contrarian. A good recent example of this phenomenon is all the people who denied that Russia wou
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by flunhat 5y ago
> But I am personally not convinced that sending someone "to jail for a long, long time" is the solution. How is that productive? At least for murder, one of the strongest predictors of whether a person will kill is if they&#x2
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by flunhat 5y ago
Poop on streets is very common in San Francisco. Most of the bay area doesn't have that problem, though. Map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...
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by flunhat 5y ago
The most concerning part about that whole interaction was this small detail (here's the full post: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ ): In the earlier emails, Amjad Masad (the CEO) offered to hire
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by flunhat 5y ago
> I'm sure the downvoting here has nothing to do with the fact that comments get sorted to the bottom and grayed out. Would you stop with the hysteria? You're getting downvoted not only because people disagree with you, but als
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by flunhat 5y ago
> you can barely say the results out loud lest you get silenced by the angry mob Please -- you're not being silenced, you are not some martyr, people are just disagreeing with you.
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by flunhat 5y ago
> Facts don’t dictate policy They absolutely should, and I think this is an intractable disagreement we have. Sorry. But I agree that COVID is never going away -- I'm saying that all of these measures should go away once the pandemi

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