skippyfish

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by skippyfish 2mo ago
It's 100% AI-generated, including nonsense illustrations. And it's just so pointless too - there are many good, better-illustrated, and better-explained human articles about the same circuit.
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
I very much doubt that. We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation and it hasn't really changed the nature of human expression. I don't see my friends getting wildly creative. I mostly see it used for spammy blogs, spammy book
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
I know that we're discouraged from meta-comments, but what is going on in this thread? It's a nearly 800-page book about the art of programming. A huge amount of work on a topic that should be dear to our hearts. News for hackers,
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
No one is writing purely for themselves. It's something we like to say, and there's some value in writing down your thoughts - but deep down inside, every blogger is dreaming of having a positive impact on other people's live
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> I use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to put them in my rss though. Every Substack has an RSS at /feed.rss.
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Counterpoint from someone who's been publishing on the internet for decades: no one will visit your website. It's as simple as that. You need a push mechanism to reach readers. RSS could be it, but it's too niche. Social medi
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
ACM has been leaning heavily into AI-generated content for their journals in the past year, and this article is no exception: it appears to be 100% AI generated and full of LLM verbiage. There's something hilarious about that, but also
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
With respect, the way you talk about corrections makes me suspect you weren't working in tech in the US at the turn of the century. A "correction" in this model isn't a reasoned and gradual re-evaluation of the market ca
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> Ya, there are already three pure ad hominem comments here with no examples. You should probably understand Thomas' comment in part as a reaction to Zitron attacking Thomas in a pretty low-brow fashion, essentially for saying &quot
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> I do think the valuations are quite and they would need to meet the reality, but don’t think there’s gonna be a crash or we’d ever go back to pre-AI era. It would more or less would be a correction to valuations. Something to consider:
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
That's like saying "politicians are crooked, so every bad thing you can think of about politicians must be true". It doesn't and we shouldn't fall for it. In fact, the one industry where enshittification is widely e
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
It's not just emotions, it's also a matter of time and uncertainty. I was in a buying situation where my old lease was expiring soon, I had a second kid on the way, and the last thing I'd have wanted is to buy a place where I
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
The page is entirely AI-generated and each piece is written with the same silly thesis (things used to be better and then they ruined everything). I see why this works, but it's frankly disappointing to see so many smart people fall
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Indoor GPS reception is spotty, especially in urban / high-rise environments, so I don't think that's a realistically marketable product. Not unless you some have some window- or balcony-mounted probe, which would then requir
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
I can't decide how I feel about this article. On one hand, it's great. It's great that the author wanted to get something done, and thanks to the marvels of modern tech, they could do it with very little effort. But on the ot
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
That's not relevant at all. I'm asking for human-written text that gets flagged by Pangram as AI-generated, not an artificially-constructed case that contains AI text (and was explained by the founder of the website as essentially
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Discourse as we know it doesn't work if the cost of producing an infinite supply of arguments is essentially zero, while the cost of reading them and arguing with them remains high. Unless you want my LLM to get back to your LLM. And t
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Large displays are not driven by a general-purpose CPU that bit-bangs a single serial data line, and never were. They're driven by separate circuitry with direct memory access, often integrated on the die of chips meant for these appli
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
I'm asking the parent about their claim. I already have an opinion about the parent post, in which the author is claiming to have not used an LLM to author a 2025 essay that's illustrated with completely unnecessary AI art. Althou
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Can you share your experiment, so that we can draw our own conclusions? I've been paying for Pangram for a long time and have not seen it misbehave even once. I've seen many people attack it, but when I looked more closely, their
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, I think this goes beyond impractical, it's doomed from the get go. In my book, impractical means "I built a cuckoo wristwatch". Beyond impractical: "I built a cuckoo wristwatch but ther
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
Well, that's sub-$0.50. But yeah, CH32V003 is in that ballpark, and some of the cheapest Microchip and Infineon products are around $0.20. It's almost never worth it to buy the cheapest chip unless you're making a million of
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
You can buy sub-$0.50 microcontrollers. But even at $5, I don't know why you'd want to run models on them, it's an environment constrained to the point of being useless for this task. And I hope it stays that way, I don'
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
If you say "yes," you're also not doing science (anymore). Therein lies the problem with this take: most of science isn't done with the objective of getting to any specific finish line, and this is particularly true for
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
The fact this is AI-generated aside - I guess that's to be expected - it's a clever position to take if you completely ignore the realities of LLM-produced writing and imagine some fantasy world where AI blogs bring us profound
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
There's very little that wasn't possible before LLMs, because, well, you still had humans. There are many things that the models promise to make a lot cheaper, if you're willing to accept trade-offs, but these trade-offs can
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
If you work for a tech company, I can practically guarantee that it bans a lot of lawful behaviors on its platforms. Paypal bans or restricts online dating, cigarettes, and firearm accessories. Youtube demonetizes swearing. Facebook prohibi
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> raining a SOTA model takes a huge amount of resources and expertise Writing books, building Wikipedia, and answering questions on online forums takes a lot of resources and expertise that scraping didn't. So at the very least, we&
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> Civil breach of contract. Anthropic's TOS explicitly say you can't do what Kimi is alleged to have done. Ah yes, I remember when Anthropic crawlers abided by the TOS of the websites they slurped up. All your other points are
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by skippyfish 2mo ago
> I think the explosion in the popularity of Lean probably means that tactic-based proofs have won The number of mentions of Lean in HN submissions aside, how do we gauge that? HN has odd trends like that - a decade ago, we loved everyth

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