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by gortok 14d ago
No, Election Day is not a paid holiday, or even a recognized holiday. Public schools are generally out (at least the ones used as voting precints) but folks have work, and typically most "in person" votes are cast after 5pm (after
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by gortok 28d ago
Vibe-coded projects, where the intent is to replace editing source code as the means of change with editing prompts as the means of change, is one of those situations where the intent of how the project incurs change conflicts with how soci
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by gortok 1mo ago
The part that astonishes me is that in the year of our common era two thousand twenty-six that it's not universally offensive and reviling to post an AI-generated response to another person. If I'm reading something on the interne
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by gortok 1mo ago
So how’s using Azure to power GitHub going? Seriously. It seems like there’s an issue every other week. It would historically be normal to provide post mortems, and maybe I’ve missed them but seems like there are almost weekly issues and no
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by gortok 1mo ago
This article lacks a soul and reeks of being AI-authored. I bring it up because the more we tolerate that and the more we reward that behavior on HN, the more we will get that behavior.
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by gortok 1mo ago
First off, billionaires. Although once the Overton window shifts enough maybe we can include them? Second, all of them. And the idea would be to tax high net worth (HNW) individuals. Not on their salary, because part of the game is that cap
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by gortok 1mo ago
If riches were obtained solely by pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. However, the behaviors or methods that got that person their riches matters, or should matter, especially if it’s unethical or
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by gortok 1mo ago
Billionaires will do anything but pay taxes.
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by gortok 1mo ago
Sauce for the goose. Legitimately we should have had this day one for a whole host of reasons (not the least of which is the issue of inadvertently using output from generative AI as training data for Generative AI). But bigger than that is
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by gortok 1mo ago
The folks that would use an LLM to make their release notes are not the folks that care enough about their release notes to put any more effort in. And practically speaking, I don’t see a LLM being able to do this. Perhaps a specialized lan
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by gortok 1mo ago
I was like “how can you tell?” And then I read the article. I realize for folks that need to write release notes that it’s not fun, and it’s hard to write well, but using AI to do it just makes it worse.
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by gortok 1mo ago
I’m not looking to argue about your position, but I think the inciting incident in the OP shows evidence that LLMs are “dumb” even when they have the sum total of written language and code at their training disposal. In this case I would ex
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by gortok 1mo ago
For a long time I was anti-licensure in tech; now with the bar being lowered to next to nothing, it seems as if licensure is more important than ever — not to protect this trade (though it will do that, and that is a benefit), but because t
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by gortok 1mo ago
Turing-completeness is a necessary pre-requisite for being able to fulfill the requirements of a Turing machine, nothing more. In the same way that cell division is a necessary condition for life, but cell division does not mean a given l
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by gortok 1mo ago
We can chalk this up as another example of over-exhuberance by what folks believe LLMs can accomplish vs. what they actually are. LLM-based “AI” is able to use its vast corpus of inputs and calculate the most statistically likely output in
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by gortok 2mo ago
But we don’t want to have to give you our email.
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by gortok 2mo ago
Having reviewed the comments I don’t see any indication of why it would be flagged for the discussion.
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by gortok 2mo ago
Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https:&#x2F
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by gortok 2mo ago
Thanks. One glaring issue I see is that right now police can’t ask you for your password in the USA (a violation of the right against self-incrimination). They can however get a search warrant for your device and your biometrics, and would
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by gortok 2mo ago
I would love to see what you’re referencing, can you provide a link or citation to that quote?
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by gortok 2mo ago
> I think there’s a lot of social media influence from nation state competitors going on to try and slow SOTA development in the US. This comes cross as unbelievable, and at worst a fantastical statement, as someone who lives in Northern
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by gortok 2mo ago
I do not know how to use a Passkey in a way that won’t impede how I log in to systems. I’ve been in tech for 26 years, and I understand the Public/private key behind what a Passkey is. Here’s what I don’t understand: I access a website
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by gortok 2mo ago
I’m going to give you just one way that a business could do just what I’m saying. Did you know there are whole businesses that lend money through ‘receivables financing’? Basically if you have outstanding invoices, you can get the money for
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by gortok 2mo ago
I’m speaking of things I have personally witnessed; but won’t go into more detail than that, for various reasons.
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by gortok 2mo ago
Public IPO as Ponzi scheme/shell game is a time-honored tradition. You can operate at a loss so long as you can get folks to bet they’ll get a return. The more people you can convince, the better you can do for yourself without being
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by gortok 2mo ago
This is one of those vanity blog posts, a “look at us, we’re open” blog posts without actual openness, or rather, limited openness where it helps their image and not openness that could backfire. Businesses don’t operate based on revenue.
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by gortok 2mo ago
One major issue that the author ignores is that while we’re all having AI analyze our conversations or when we use it instead of search, there’s a chance it will provide an “answer” that is not correct, and literally drummed up out of thin
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by gortok 2mo ago
I don’t know if it’s because of the weasel words in the article or the extensive use of passive voice in the article, but this article feels in part like it’s AI generated. I am exhausted with having to figure out whether someone wrote some
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by gortok 2mo ago
I worked for a hardware startup ten years ago now, and a big problem that was rampant at the time (and seemingly has only gotten worse) is that basically the Contract Manufacturers (CMs) in China take the BOMs and plans they’re given, and s
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by gortok 2mo ago
I’m using the term “stochastic parrot” exactly as the author of the paper did, and incidentally an interview with her was on HN yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805401 To wit: > Another one is that “stoc

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