miyoji

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by miyoji 3d ago
Past performance is no indication of future success. It doesn't matter what's been successful in the past, these things can change. Communism was considered more successful than capitalism for a large chunk of the 20th century (be
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by miyoji 3d ago
> Doesn't this just boil down to planned vs free market economy? Not at all. Market vs planned economy is about how the economy is set up. Are there businesses that offer products that you can choose between? That's a market ec
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by miyoji 9d ago
Because all the important ones have been true since 2022 and will be true forever, because they have nothing to do with LLM capabilities and instead are focused on LLM nature.
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by miyoji 13d ago
Because bad behavior tends to scale with company size, not because smaller companies are more virtuous, but because they just have less power to do harm than bigger companies. Imagine that there were only two companies, and they each had 50
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by miyoji 17d ago
Yes, programmers are exactly like everyone else in this way.
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by miyoji 21d ago
> all of us waiting for government bureaucrats to realise that UBI is a right You'll be waiting forever, then. This isn't something that you can wait to be given to you, it must be taken . Or, put much more eloquently by one o
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by miyoji 22d ago
More fun than the kind of person who spends $10 on a rag, though.
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by miyoji 27d ago
Owning a slave that does all those things still doesn't make you a carpenter.
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by miyoji 27d ago
> Software works 80-90% of the team exactly as it should. Either you work in a non-standard field, or your standards for software are way too low. What software gets to fail 80% of the time? If your ecommerce checkout software fails 1 in
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by miyoji 28d ago
> Vote for who you think is the best candidate at the time That is definitionally not avoiding politics. I think you misunderstand what politics is, at a fundamental level.
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by miyoji 28d ago
Counterpoint, via Kurt Vonnegut: > I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this
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by miyoji 1mo ago
No, I did read it, and I think I understood it. My summary in my own words is that you find that LLMs can massage your writing and reduce the stress of communication. Did I believe it? Well... You have an account on HN dating back to 2013 w
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by miyoji 1mo ago
Yes, the original prompt is 10000% better than the AI output, because it shows me exactly how much the author (you?) cares about this topic and how much effort they're willing to put into communication, which is barely any at all.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
The HN guidelines prohibit a lot of behaviors that remain unmoderated, you can see it in any thread that goes over 80 comments.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
> I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. Oh gosh, I can't imagine why that might be, could it be the histor
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by miyoji 1mo ago
> you will either have to take my word for the quality of the product, or spend tens to hundreds of hours of effort in trying the approach for yourself You're acting like everyone here doesn't have hundreds of hours of experien
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by miyoji 1mo ago
The word is "management", not "leadership". This comes across as a LinkedIn post filled with vague notions and weak writing. The conclusion also completely contradicts a previous point, which is that managing an LLM is n
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by miyoji 1mo ago
Why does anyone look up anything before going there? Maybe no one should have a website, everyone should go check everything out themselves in person like the telegraph hasn't been invented.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
> Nobody is saying, "man I would love to go to this coffee shop but I can't find their website". Me, I'm saying that, and I've skipped going to coffee shops and restaurants because they don't have a website,
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by miyoji 1mo ago
My favorite intellectual conservative sparring partner became a progressive.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
It's a prerequisite, but so is breathing. It's necessary but not sufficient. The bar I like to use is pretty simple: do you know who represents you in Congress (I am American so this is my bias, but substitute your country's
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by miyoji 1mo ago
"I’m not against extremist ideas on principle. I have my own, the main one being that animal welfare is a much larger urgent catastrophe than most people believe."
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by miyoji 1mo ago
The good part of this: don't fall into the trap of believing the proposition "an idiot disagrees with me, so I must be right". That's solid advice, idiots believe countless true things and geniuses believe innumerable fa
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by miyoji 1mo ago
You're failing at basic reading comprehension. The "you" there is obviously referential to employers, not a direct response to an anonymous internet commenter.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
As I said, most people who live in the United States don't have public transportation and walking as commuting options.
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by miyoji 1mo ago
Meditation is impossible when navigating the stress of traffic. Driving isn't exercise. Sunlight filtered through car windows doesn't provide vitamin D. Fresh air doesn't exist on a highway filled with brake dust and car exha
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by miyoji 1mo ago
Commutes are uncompensated labor, so you're advocating for a pay decrease for both yourself and your coworkers. Pay me for my commute and I'll gladly work from wherever you like, just recognize that I would get more done if you we
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by miyoji 1mo ago
This is ridiculous. "Trickle-down economics" is just another name for "supply-side economics". You can also call it "voodoo economics", as George H.W. Bush did. They're all referring to the exact same fail
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by miyoji 1mo ago
> people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so I'm sorry but this made me laugh out loud. That isn't true at all, this has been going on for years . This conversation[0] from six years ago has
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by miyoji 1mo ago
What? Do you think that public opinion drives prosecution decisions? If that were true, no one would go to jail for marijuana possession.

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