quaintdev

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by quaintdev 4d ago
It's kind of ironic that US built the infrastructure(adtech, social media) to track people around the world on the Internet and now their own people are getting tracked in real life.
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by quaintdev 11d ago
Somebody needs to figure out how to move millions of people from one platform to other. Otherwise we will never get better platforms and our current techlords will keep getting richer.
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by quaintdev 14d ago
Sometimes I wonder if people will one day wake up and just ditch all the tech. That's seems to be the only way to be out of this mess.
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Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
14 points by quaintdev 15d ago|26 comments
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by quaintdev 15d ago
> I thought they would just check if the file hash exists on their end That would invalidate the hash on minor changes. Too much effort and not enough return.
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by quaintdev 16d ago
Google will stop paying them if they tried that.
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by quaintdev 21d ago
We ruined software development let's move on to hardware
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Ask HN: What new skills are you learning to hedge against AI
8 points by quaintdev 21d ago|4 comments
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by quaintdev 21d ago
It won't happen to me is what I used to think
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by quaintdev 22d ago
Same let us know people
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by quaintdev 22d ago
I wish his perkeep project was mature and stable.
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by quaintdev 22d ago
At this point just ditch Twitter.
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Freedom to Handcraft Software(rohanrd.mataroa.blog)
5 points by quaintdev 23d ago|0 comments
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
https://tangled.sh
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
https://tangled.sh
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
I understand this is not enough but I don't see a story here that paints AI negatively. If one is posted it gets removed swiftly. And I have seen this happen enough times that I'm considering taking periodic snapshots of the front
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
Offtopic. I have a concern that this forum is removing stories that have negative connotation on AI. Few days back, I posted an article[1] that was about how AI threatens natural resources for billions. This was from United Nations and it w
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
I was surprised to see IBM on that list
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
I remeber using this when it was Java applet. Now he has converted everything to JavaScript for everyone to use. What a legend!
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AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions(unric.org)
71 points by quaintdev 1mo ago|65 comments
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
Maybe they know something we don't. What if all frontier lab do this? Maybe this is actual cost of running these llm.
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AI Coding and Its Discontents(calnewport.com)
5 points by quaintdev 1mo ago|6 comments
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with it https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left...
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by quaintdev 1mo ago
I'm seeing this guy everywhere. He was on Bloomberg a day ago and then on another channel and now here. I'm curious why there are not more people like him voicing their concerns. Makes you wonder if he is completely wrong.
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by quaintdev 2mo ago
If we design a probe that travels at speed of light it would reach there in 48 years and it would send back what it's seen after another 48 years. It would take multiple generations of scientists to work on this project. The longest we
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Success Is 'Monotasking'(theatlantic.com)
6 points by quaintdev 4mo ago|0 comments
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by quaintdev 4mo ago
Yes this is the one.
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by quaintdev 4mo ago
Whenever this topic comes up I am reminded of the black and white picture of all the scientist of 19th century together. Each individual in that photo had contributed something to human knowledge. It feels like in 19th century we believed i
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by quaintdev 4mo ago
The other day I found a comment here on HN and I wanted to know if it's true. I asked Gemini and here is the conversation https://gemini.google.com/share/2c1089ac6fd6 You can't do something like this with sea
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by quaintdev 4mo ago
> But it's expensive, complicated and time-consuming to maintain - and both a source of and recipient of endless waves of spam and scams. It's an endless pile of data to hold onto, FOREVER, as well. They should let others do em

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