lp4v4n

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by lp4v4n 21d ago
I honestly didn't read the whole article, but I think that this kind of experiment leads to a misleading way of seeing things. I met a few architects/team leaders who wouldn't write almost any code and just technically oversa
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by lp4v4n 27d ago
It's hard to explain my relationship with Emacs, but starting it is the first thing I do when I turn on my computer. I don't use it much for development these days, but I always have a bunch of buffers open and I do a lot of resid
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by lp4v4n 29d ago
How could this be anti-ethical? You're just running a very complex algorithm in your machine.
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by lp4v4n 29d ago
Would we be able to have a "digital human" when we reach the level of creating this kind of brain mapping for the human brain? Honestly I think we're still discovering how powerful neural networks are and certainly they can d
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
>rust programs are a lot of times faster [...] than C and C++ counterparts Troll post? Or has fanboyism really gone this far?
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
I agree with you, it doesn't take long to identify the itemized style that LLMs use and it's always incredibly annoying. I would rather read the original thoughts of the engineer, grammar mistakes and stylistic imperfections inclu
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
I don't know about the cost-of-living reality in the flyover states, but are you sure you're taking into account the 5x multiplier that kids represent for that specific example? I think that just in terms of food expenses, having
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
This article itself is AI slop, of course this is not surprising coming from a website called "ai-updates.net" which I get the impression that might be entirely vibe coded too. I feel that maybe in the future HN will have to imple
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
The worst of all is that people will still argue that, in this day and age, labour has not been completely devalued and that you are wealthier than your grandfather. That kind of story was not uncommon at all in the past, today you would ha
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
I have come across a lot of AI-generated youtube videos lately, most of them about trivialities and clearly aimed at a not very critical audience. A few of them also contained hallucinations. I think a lot of people might be creating AI gen
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
It certainly doesn't feel like craftsmanship has gained any kind of higher social standing in our time though. The Zeitgeist of the modern times seems to be one of 'try to do the cheapest sellable thing while paying people the lea
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
Regular people are somehow preparing themselves for this outcome, have you seen what has become of the fertility rate in most advanced countries?
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by lp4v4n 1mo ago
I'd be interested to know if the same amount of leniency shown here would be applied if we were talking about ads depicting violence against elected politicians.
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, right? It seems to be the modus operandi of corporations in general: they commit any kind of infringement they want and then later they go for a settlement with a value that's, o
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
I'm not sure the customs official knows where you came from (unless they explicitly ask, of course), because in my experience normally you get off the airplane and join a common queue. I think your passport counts a lot more when it co
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
The pessimism in the comments here is entirely the reflection of the times we're living in. Technology got weaponized against the average citizen. It has become a synonym for unemployment, enshittification, mass surveillance and social
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
It was the same thing with blockchain, who here remembers the peak delusion of IoT + smart contracts replacing human judicial systems and crypto making central banks useless? LLMs are of course a form of progress, the same way blockchain wa
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
I understand what you mean but speakers and recording equipment destroyed the economics of paying people to play music a long time ago. It's another way of looking at the problem. Smartphone cameras and easy-to-use professional equipme
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
>They don't have Claude write assembly because there is no training corpus on people making CRUD apps in assembly. I'm disputing this. You can have a training corpus in assembly as big as any other language: just feed the compi
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
I'm not a Haskell developer and I hadn't heard of this company "Scarf" before. As much as I respect this guy who tried to work and push an alternative ecosystem, it's hard for me to shake off the impression that, ra
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by lp4v4n 2mo ago
It's been my impression that classic literature is going the same way as painting and other forms of high art. It was certainly a great display of human intellectual prowess and artistic capacity in bygone times when the world moved at
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
In my opinion, no jurisdiction in the world would be able to approve AI as an inventor on patent applications. And for a very simple reason: you could easily overwhelm any intellectual property bureau just by having your AI drown them in AI
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
Very interesting insights, thanks for this. Indeed "be a graphics programmer" nowadays sounds like "be an assembly programmer". A kind of time waster for a nerd with too much time in their hands.
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
I was going to comment exactly this. I think they are predicting that free-software projects are in freefall and no longer attract good people. I recall reading a Linus Torvalds interview in which he said that Git's killer feature was
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
>These are not, in fact, physically sub 1 nm, despite the bombastic claims. Why? What's their real size? Not doubting you, just trying to understand and also trying to assess how exaggerated the marketing is.
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
Technology got weaponized against the average citizen. It has become a synonym for unemployment, enshittification, mass surveillance and social erosion. The whole leadership of the AI industry, with almost no exceptions, sounds like a bunch
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
Dijkstra passed away in 2002, sometimes I wonder what he would write nowadays given that the world took the opposite direction of everything he deemed as correct in software development.
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
He is just being solipsistic and talking to a small circle of wealthy and well-connected Gen Zs that he probably knows in real life or who are part of his acquaintances. Or do you really think that people with his level of wealth remotely c
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
>The popular image of a denial is an insurer overruling a doctor on whether a treatment is needed. That is the exception. Only about 5% of denied in-network claims were turned down because the care was deemed not medically necessary. The
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by lp4v4n 3mo ago
At this point I honestly think this is a bit by design. There is a crazy amount of land in the world, but either it's too expensive or you're not allowed to build over it, or a combination of both. Houses have been built for mille

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