lacewing

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by lacewing 4mo ago
> Personally, I do not know a better alternative. For a long time, traditional encyclopedias had a much better track record on topics related to politics and society, simply because their editor selection process largely eliminated singl
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by lacewing 4mo ago
The page mentioned in the article seems to focus on "AI Data Centers". Looks like it's a much smaller set of hyperscale stuff, not every telco building with a bunch of racks. However, "user reports" on that map clea
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by lacewing 4mo ago
I don't know what you're saying. This is the second or third HN post I'm seeing this month along the lines of "how dare AI companies flag my code as AI-generated". I just don't remember similar complaints about
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by lacewing 4mo ago
"Sent from my iPhone" But of course, owning an iPhone early on was seen as prestigious. Using an LLM is... not? Many people really don't want the world to know. For blogs in particular, the urge to have an LLM generate the en
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by lacewing 4mo ago
I'm old enough to have owned a number of homes in a number of jurisdictions, so I'd caution that these numbers will differ significantly depending on where you live. For example, insurance is hugely influenced by fire risk, so a
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by lacewing 4mo ago
This is an AI-written story. It exists to get upvoted and reshared, so overly-dramatic language is the point.
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by lacewing 4mo ago
US real estate in many desirable metro areas is bonkers too. And yet, Canadian engineers want to move to the SF Bay Area...
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by lacewing 4mo ago
On some superficial level, sure: you have to follow the rules because if you don't, it won't end well for you. But the reason for these rules isn't just self-aggrandizement. Ultimately, the court is there to implement a pro
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Commendable accuracy, too: https://godbolt.org/z/s9haz611Y
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by lacewing 4mo ago
> Tricky things like privately held companies, maybe we solve that one later So I spend 30 minutes to set up an LLC and then transfer my assets to that LLC. Now, I don't hold the assets; I hold a stake in a privately-held company. U
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by lacewing 4mo ago
I don't think there are many people in the West who profess love for the UAE. But there are several reasons why it's not as disliked. First, it's a monarchy, and monarchies are harder to parse, given that many European countr
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Not being a single-party, notionally communist dictatorship may be helping with the image too? I don't know, spitballing here. I think the default approach in the West - and that's not a US-specific thing - is to treat exotic fa
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by lacewing 4mo ago
> I have been thinking this for quite a while now, electric planes will kill a lot of rail routes Why? If you have an existing rail network, trains are bound to be cheaper than planes and can get to more places (including convenient cent
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by lacewing 4mo ago
They used to be. They are not. Try Pangram, you'll be surprised.
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Would it shock your conscience to learn that Microsoft security operations probably have contacts with the Redmond PD and that they occasionally discuss concerns? The existence of a mailing list or something of that sort isn't particul
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by lacewing 4mo ago
And as much as there are still people on HN who insist that AI text can't be detected algorithmically, it's worth noting that the original story is marked 100% AI by Pangram. So it's not just this person seeing things.
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by lacewing 4mo ago
> Why wouldn’t people read it? The problem is not writing - the problem is finding an audience. And that's precisely the issue here. For a while, the internet allowed you to find an audience, just like that. Start a blog / podc
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by lacewing 4mo ago
There's plenty of things that are ubiquitous but not well-liked, so I don't see how "it's not going away, get over it" works as an argument. Many people won't be getting over it. Traffic jams are here to stay b
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Right, if you're a software engineer, the realization that the two theorems are nearly-equivalent really takes the air out of a lot of the existential philosophizing around Gödel's incompleteness. Gödel's argument basically s
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by lacewing 4mo ago
This is, quite obviously, just one person's perspective on life. But it's a call to action, so let me ask you this: what do you propose? From your response, I see two takeaways: don't try to be creative because this only help
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Anthropic and OpenAI don't do PR this way. This is not a side project for a publicly-traded BigCo. The bulk of their valuation hinges on being first to AGI / best at AGI.
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by lacewing 4mo ago
> The AI answers provide tons of source links. A lot of the time, the answer itself is good, but the links are spam blogs and Tiktok videos. I don't think there's a real connection between how the text is generated and what &qu
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Why? It's clearly not yet a tool that can deliver new math at a scale. I say this because otherwise, the headline would be that they proved / disproved a hundred conjectures, not one. This is what happened with Mythos. You want to
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by lacewing 4mo ago
There's no one correct way to parse integers. Do you want to support 0x prefixes? Is a leading zero an indicator or octal, a zero-padded decimal, or a syntax error? Are you willing to accept a leading "+"? Are leading whitesp
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by lacewing 4mo ago
> These cloud providers need to step back and observe how terrible they've made these products. They don't, because the allure of effortless scaling is hard to resist: everyone thinks of themselves as the next tech unicorn. And
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by lacewing 4mo ago
No one is surprised that Google is putting AI in more places. Yes, the bar is high: announcing a new video generation tool or another personal agent doesn't sound amazing because both Google and its competitors already have that tech i
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by lacewing 4mo ago
This is a weird, evidently AI-generated article that is a middling taxonomy of how open-source projects die, but none of this strikes me as "dumb". They're just things that can happen if you're coding as a hobby. Yeah, y
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by lacewing 4mo ago
Again, I don't think any of this matters. People were not coming there to have "information communicated to them". They were coming there for the satisfaction of knowing the results before everyone else. And FiveThirtyEight c
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by lacewing 4mo ago
I don't understand why this is surprising. People didn't go to FiveThirtyEight to marvel the science behind it. The science was just supposed to give you what you came there for: the actual election results. In the end, it turned
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by lacewing 4mo ago
It's worse than that. They train their models preferentially on what they consider to be high-quality data. But if you look at the usual "references" on search queries, they're often just a post-hoc BS justification that

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