noir_lord

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by noir_lord 4d ago
Same - 72 million if it gets you a government favourable to your interests is a cheap price for the kind of resources those famously altruistic billionaires can throw around. In the same week as the undercover documentary where one of the s
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by noir_lord 4d ago
Except A) he said none of that B) it's not actually relevant to what he did say. There is a vast range of ways you can regulate a corporation and only some of them qualify as communism . Germany has worker councils, it's still
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by noir_lord 4d ago
Regulation of corporations and the internal/external harms they do isn't communism. That's a hilarious leap.
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by noir_lord 4d ago
The worrying thing for me as a citizen of a European country (though one not now in the EU) is that we appear to be on a similar path though perhaps a little further back on it. It is not normal for a hard right/far right party to get
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by noir_lord 4d ago
Strategic hedge against the AI demand cratering or becoming satiated. You could make the same argument for why is AMD still making processors for the consumer market or APU’s for the PlayStation/Xbox current gen and more importantly ne
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Feels like another force desktop mode waiting to happen. I usually want the desktop site and zoom that the mobile specific version.
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by noir_lord 5d ago
AMD would step in, they where behind nvidia but they've been closing that gap for a while and the 9070XT is the current value king (in this fucked up market) for mid-high gaming and you can actually buy them. Demand for Nvidia cards ha
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Same boat, same reasons. Skills not exercised degrade as well, if you don't actually write code then your skill at reading and interpretting it degrades, you just become a "looks good" step. In theory if disciplined enough yo
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Not American but I've done the equivalent in my country multiple times, I'm a drop in the bucket but enough drops will eventually fill the bucket sometimes .
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by noir_lord 5d ago
> We want to be respectful Make telemetry strictly opt-in then, that's really the only respectful way to do it. Everything else is sophistry. Not singling you out either, too many projects do it by default, yours at least makes it o
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Oh we see it as a joke outside the US, just not a very funny one.
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by noir_lord 5d ago
> I would expect something more along the lines of developing laws around noise pollution or something. How do you think you as a voter who presumably aren't a billionaire (or CEO of a mega corporation) with politicians on speed dia
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by noir_lord 5d ago
No disrespect intended at all, I like HN and have used it for what feels like a long time and the moderation team that keeps it one of the more reasonable places to have a conversation on the internet (for the most part). That out of the wa
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by noir_lord 5d ago
DHH and Lex in one video - that'll be a fun 24:51 of my life I'm sure...
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Some blog posts could have just been a link to the related wikipedia page[1] and some are just clearly a re-written version of that (goes for "content" on YT from some of the better known history ones). It's still better than
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by noir_lord 5d ago
Someone posted a twitch conversation yesterday about this, I poked around on the page realised there was no open source version and noped out immediately. I'm sure it's a great product (it seems like planetscale do good engineerin
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by noir_lord 5d ago
> Also, if you're just there for a paycheck, you're probably not that upset at distractions. Not true, I've worked jobs where I was there for the paycheck, I'd still prefer that it be a stable working and environment
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Yep but I'm only the product if they get my money and/or data (and these days it's often the and term not the or). I simply chose to opt out of that as far as is reasonable without living in a cave by candlelight, it gets har
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Yeah I didn't word that well at all, at least you know it wasn't an LLM. I meant I don't really care, I keep half an eye on what they are up to (have to live in the same world as them) but I'm not really interested in
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Regular Firefox running on a Linux computer works just fine. I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything. My “smart” TV has never seen the network, nor is it ever going to, it displays pixe
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Humans becoming the adversarial network to the AI is indeed a Black Mirror episode worthy outcome.
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by noir_lord 6d ago
That and the sheer volume drowns out everything else. The S/N ratio entirely depends on whether you care about AI and I don't not really.
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Oh it absolutely will have issues (for example it'd hit Maintenance in a title because of AI), it was something I did in a fit of pique because I opened HN one day and ~2/3 of the stories where about AI/LLM's - great if
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by noir_lord 6d ago
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by noir_lord 6d ago
It's not just SWE's we just see it more in that pool because we mostly (we are on HN after all) swim in that pool. I've eaten dinner with Doctors (medical) where they've confidently spoken about a subject I am more exp
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by noir_lord 6d ago
> I also work at an intersection of tech, applied research and science. My experience has been different. It's been surprising how controlled my collaborators/coworkers have been with their reliance on AI. It's similar to
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by noir_lord 6d ago
I've played with a fair few local models, Qwen 3.8 27B is the only one I've currently kept around (Muse Glimmer came the closest but will vacillate wildly if pushed, Qwen doesn't seem to do that (as much), I don't use it
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Fun idea, I'd have asked it for the "Take over but let the humans assume they are still in control" plan. In the case of an ASI I expect that's the path it's going to take in the short term if it wants to ensure its
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Indeed, it's a lesson I learnt the hard way and is much like proofreading something you wrote, you don't see the errors as easily as someone else you asked to proofread it usually does (well until you hit Send then you usually see
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by noir_lord 6d ago
Dogfooding is useful certainly but it can also be a trap, as someone who is technical and knows how the software works both sides you can fall into the trap of avoiding triggering the exact kind of issues a regular user can walk into. Your

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