sema4hacker

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Which of my HN comments get upvoted?
2 points by sema4hacker 9mo ago|3 comments
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Yes, after wandering through a few pages trying to find an example that actually did something, I gave up and moved on.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Maybe a lot of the budget is already going to a second level of workers checking the redacting workers' work.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
TL,DR: A device that inputs waste heat to force pressure differences in hydrogen, outputting electricity.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Any time "secret" is in the title, it's not.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Seems like you already received plenty of good advice. It's time for you to move on.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
I developed and shipped one product with monthly releases for decades and always simply bumped the version by one: 1, 2, 3.. Anything fancier doesn't really tell you exactly what features changed when, so a table in the documentation s
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
The only assistant I want is one I can interact with solely by voice. In other words, a replacement for a human secretary.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
I have to believe that before starting implementation, they never put mockups in front of focus groups. Otherwise they would have immediately learned no one wanted it.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Before you read this, read "The Elements of Programming Style" by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Has private equity ever done anything good for anyone outside of the investors?
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
> I was refreshing one of our services. Part of this process was to migrate codebase from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3. My first question was: why?
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
> The total payload is under 200KB. Just out of curiosity, how big was what you considered Claude's best attempt to be?
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
In the 70's a Brazilian programmer told me his method was to make his best guess how long something would take, double it, then promise that amount plus-or-minus 50%.
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
Evoking a vibe is what artists try to do. Visually enticing buyers of your product is what graphic designers do. Either use a designer or copy from the millions of expertly designed sites that already exist. You'll have to change it
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by sema4hacker 9mo ago
"Splitting the universe of intellectual tasks" would be a gigantic job. Various AI implementations already fail at so many tasks it seems reasonable for skeptics to claim the AI is not yet thinking, and the burden is on the imple
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
This is two-wheelers, not cars.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
If HN, Reddit, email, Slack and everything else is down for a day, I think my productivity would actually go up, not down.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
A number of the new icons were recently critiqued at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838372
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
Any time you hear a vendor is being selected "without competitive bidding", you're probably not getting the best solution.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
I'm amazed that city, county, state, and federal tech projects never want to clone best-of-show systems instead of starting from scratch. City needs a web site? Clone the best one you can find amongst the tens of thousands of cities
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
In that thread, someone suggested "Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors [instead of Megalopolis]". I think $10k each in 10k promising screenwriters would be even better.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
I wouldn't call "release a smell" equivalent to "beg for death".
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
You're suggesting mixing with the right-brainers, who can drive the left-brainers crazy, and vice versa.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
They're visual, but disconnected pieces, not a "guide to how the fire spread".
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
This 13-year-old article lists problems after a language has been implemented. Well before that happens, a big red flag would be the creator created the language more for the challenge of designing and implementing a language, rather than
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
What good is zooming if you can't pan or scroll?
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
Not 11.6%, not 11.8%, but 11.7%.
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by sema4hacker 10mo ago
I think we're quickly getting to the point where for any task you need done there will be at least 9 different AI tools online to do that task.

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