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by rocgf 2y ago
As it just so happens, I was struggling with this in Python recently and this post describes a better solution than what I came up with. > Essentially, if this is a feature you must have, Python seems like the wrong language. While I don
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by rocgf 2y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment, but it's is not necessarily the case that "the world has collectively decided to lose their minds with this AI crap". You only need a relatively small number of bad actors for this to be th
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by rocgf 2y ago
Conversely, if you don't want to use OpenAI and/or SO, you are free to do so. SO has no obligation to continue losing users for your whims. On top of this, you could say the same about any disrupting technology.
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by rocgf 2y ago
I don't think it's common for people to wait for flow to come in order to get things done. You can set up the conditions for it and likely reliable trigger it, but getting things done (or concentrating on a problem) is how you get
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by rocgf 2y ago
Tesla has absolutely not been the #1 selling vehicle in the world, especially not for years. With that said, I do largely agree with your main point.
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by rocgf 3y ago
We can't unless the whole world agrees to. It's simply impractical to limit your own progress when you have foreign adversaries not doing the same.
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by rocgf 3y ago
> Let me be more clear: individual programmers are improving AI for its intellectual amusement, but organizations use it for its disruptive powers. Two different groups of people, with a bit of an intersection. That's clearer, but I
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by rocgf 3y ago
There were plenty of people 'complaining' about Copilot and there are plenty 'complaining' about Devin. However, what can you really complain about? Technological progress? We can't just decide to ignore AI. Just to
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by rocgf 3y ago
If what you were saying was accurate and taken at face value, then we would see companies and products simply crumbling every few years, for seemingly unknown reasons. There is definitely some amount of truth to this but, by definition, it
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by rocgf 3y ago
As with everything else, it's all about incentives. If well-crafted software made more money, then all we'd have would be craftsmanship. But it doesn't. There is plenty of software which has to be reliable and without surpris
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by rocgf 3y ago
David Grusch is supposedly in the process of writing an op-ed in which he reveals more about his actual knowledge. He was not allowed to talk publicly about his actual involvement. As to "for the sake of national security", I am r
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by rocgf 3y ago
Whatever the truth may be, we now have people testifying in Congress - under oath - that the UFO phenomenon is real. David Grusch has gone through the official whistleblower process in order to make this happen, and there have been private
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by rocgf 3y ago
> You're talking to someone who spent N years, for uncomfortably large N, as a grad student in a philosophy PhD program, so it ought to be very obvious that I'm not a ruthless wealth maximizer. In fact, I still have student loa
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by rocgf 3y ago
> The rich also tend to have the power to write the rules themselves, for their own benefit. This is correct, and the 'poor' do the same, within the limits of their abilities. > This is not true at all. Individual businesspe
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by rocgf 3y ago
> In general, though, my issue is with the system, and defenders of the system, rather than with the beneficiaries of the system. Finally, we agree on something. This is exactly it. The problem is the system, which I am happy to change.
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by rocgf 3y ago
I don't think you're stupid or a liar, but there are two strong trends I'm noticing recently - playing the contrarian and a hate for the rich. To me, it is just an axiom that working harder is correlated with more wealth. Wha
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by rocgf 3y ago
You seem hell bent on pretending to not understand what I am saying. I'm sorry, but I will not be replying anymore.
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by rocgf 3y ago
Look, to be honest, I just think we have vastly different opinions and views on the world and how it works. There is absolutely nothing in your message that gave me any pause, and I think we start from irreconcilable positions. > I'
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by rocgf 3y ago
> Regardless of what other people mean by "hard work", what exactly do you mean by it, and how exactly do the wealthy work harder than everyone else? You get too caught up in the meaning of "hard work", as if your onl
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by rocgf 3y ago
I see this argument frequently and I never could understand quite where it's coming from. Throwing manual labor into the conversation is disingenuous since nobody would ever make the argument that some tech billionaire has a harder wor
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by rocgf 3y ago
Obviously not. As I said, I think taxation for anyone making say 500k+ should be comparable percentage-wise with any regular employee. That is indeed happening in practice, through the influence that money gives them, though not sure how th
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by rocgf 3y ago
I believe it is a coping mechanism for many people. Software engineering is a field in which many revel in its perceived complexity, the 'status' that comes with doing a job that brings so much to the table, yet is not understood
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by rocgf 3y ago
I definitely believe that wealthy people should be taxed at similar or higher levels than the average middle class employee, and I am definitely not some Elon fanatic. With that said, I do think that there is a reason they have so much mone
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by rocgf 3y ago
I think your comment (as well as mine) goes against the HN rules, but this is a brilliant joke lol.
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by rocgf 3y ago
It models the world around it, so it's fairly similar to what GPT does, especially with the newly-added image capabilities and stuff.
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by rocgf 3y ago
Yes, so that is the outcome that I would imagine as well - basically it will never fail. However, I have a virtually 100% success rate with the JSON feature in Langchain.
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by rocgf 3y ago
Not saying it's not useful, but you can achieve the same result consistently with just a few extra tokens in the prompt.
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by rocgf 3y ago
In the Netherlands, I almost never use cash and could live my life without ever having cash on me. There are some places (not many, but stil) that surprisingly don't even accept cash, like certain cafes and shops.
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by rocgf 3y ago
Anecdotally, in my circles, most truly thought that this won't have an impact in the compensation levels. Always struck me as incredibly short-sighted and your comment is actually the first I see that explicitly states what I thought a
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by rocgf 3y ago
I am amazed to finally see a comment like yours, I've argued this point in various contexts and I was treated like I am crazy.

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