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by throw5 1mo ago
Some European countries, including UK, have enough of a strong network of local supermarkets and department stores that Amazon is simply not necessary. I have not used Amazon in the last five years. Most of my family and friends rarely use
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by throw5 2mo ago
In the UK, most people simply get Bupa dental insurance. A basic plan costs like 25 pounds per month. Affordable I'd say. Many people spend more than that on beer and public transport. I know that does not help someone who has become h
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by throw5 2mo ago
> I am able to see my PCP and dentist within a week if I want. I read a statistic that in Europe and Canada you have to make those kinds of routine appointments months in advance. Can you share a reference for that statistics? FWIW, I li
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by throw5 2mo ago
Never underestimate the power of hubris.
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by throw5 3mo ago
Related petition to be debated in parliament: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757233
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by throw5 4mo ago
All fair points. Sorry, I spend a lot of time on regional forums, and I had a brain malfunction and forgot that when I write on HN, I am writing on a worldwide forum. Sorry for the unnecessary nitpicking. Re non profit, I do donate to a few
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by throw5 4mo ago
> It’s like calling surgeons extortionists for having the gall to charge for treating you. Yes, ideally that should be free and available to all What do you mean by "should be"? Surgery is free and available to everyone. So w
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by throw5 4mo ago
I don't know if there is another industry that behaves this childishly. There might be. But good grief, how much more juvenile can ours possibly get? AI-generated images with obviously nonsensical text is something I never thought I&#x
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by throw5 4mo ago
I am sure I am not alone in observing that starting around 2020... may be even a few years earlier... Google seemed to hire a lot of middle managers. I personally knew several managers who did not seem to contribute much beyond "organi
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by throw5 5mo ago
I mean no disrespect. This is more of a rant at how things are today. It is telling that over-complicated solutions have become so common that, for the current generation of devs, Kubernetes is the obvious way of doing stuff and a simple sy
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by throw5 5mo ago
Way to find something negative in everything. Congratulations on derailing what was otherwise such a nice thread. Well done. Not everyone in this world is always on edge like you. It is OK to be cheesy sometimes. Humor exists for a reason.
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by throw5 5mo ago
You should read the original article by Dawkins that this piece is critiquing: https://archive.is/Rq5bw I don't know if the original article casts him in a better light. I think it does not. But it is still worth readi
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by throw5 5mo ago
> What can "own" possibly mean in this context? This sounds unnecessarily reductive. By "own" I would mean that I can re-read the book again and again and again as many times as I want as long as I take good care of t
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by throw5 5mo ago
I really had fun with this one. You know what would make it even cosier? Being able to choose a small avatar for ourselves. The mouse pointer as your icon feels a very impersonal at the moment. Having avatars would make it feel more like we
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by throw5 5mo ago
> Lots of negativity in the comments and while I'm as distrusting of VC funding as the next guy I think competition in this space is something we should encourage, and bootstrapping that is hard if not impossible at this point. What
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by throw5 5mo ago
> Please don't give your users a nickname like "tanglers", groups come up with their own nicknames. What prompted this? I can't see "tanglers" in the OP. Did you see them calling their users "tanglers&q
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by throw5 5mo ago
> There's a growing demand for single user or smaller scoped apps where giving LLM agents direct access means velocity. The failure/rollback model is much easier with these as long as we have good backup hygiene. This makes no
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by throw5 5mo ago
> Nobody seems to care or notice. I'm watching in disbelief how nobody is pointing out the article is full of inaccuracies. I don't know. I finished my graduate studies in math a few years ago, and pretty much every textbook by
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by throw5 5mo ago
> That is simply not the theorem. > The article is plain wrong. > This does not excuse the article from reversing the meaning of the theorem. What's with this hyperbole? Even the best math books have loads of errors (typograph
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by throw5 5mo ago
> The main SDL maintainer is paid by a US for-profit company, Valve. They don't necessarily share your EU = automatically good attitude. I'm not sure how one follows from the other. I am paid by a US for-profit company. But I s
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by throw5 5mo ago
Why are these projects still on Github? Isn't it better to move away from Github than go through all this shenanigans? This AI slopam nonsense isn't going to stop. Github is no longer the "social network" for software de
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by throw5 6mo ago
Yes, how dare someone take an idea, develop it, and publish it outside the algorithm-driven rage pit. Truly terrible behavior! /s Expanding a thought beyond 280 characters and publishing it somewhere other than the X outrage machine is
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by throw5 6mo ago
> This article is describing a problem that is still two steps removed from where AI code becomes actually useful. But it does a good job of countering the narrative you often see on LinkedIn, and to some extent on HN as well, where AI i
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by throw5 6mo ago
Does any one of this help me if Claude runs `git reset --hard`? If I am working in a sandbox, I have uncommitted changes in a sandbox and if Claude runs `git reset --hard` on those uncommitted changes in the sandbox, I've got the same
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by throw5 6mo ago
This! The safeguards need to be outside LLM and they need to be deterministic. Now I wish I could reject `git reset --hard` on my local system somehow.
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by throw5 6mo ago
Yes, if something is reproducible and undesirable, it is a bug and RLHF can reduce it. I'm not disupting that. "reduce" is the keyword here. You can't eliminate them entirely. My point is that fixing one bug does not eli
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by throw5 6mo ago
Yes, exactly. People often overlook that, even with guardrails, it is still probabilities all the way down. You can reduce the risk, but not drive it to zero, and at scale even very small failure rates will surface.
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by throw5 6mo ago
> It is meaningless to say that because the author was able to reproduce it multiple times. I don't know how that refutes what I'm saying. The behaviour was reproduced multiple times, so it is clearly an observable outcome, not
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by throw5 6mo ago
> Just by a thing being common in training data doesn't mean it will be produced. That's not what I said at all. I never said it will be produced. I said there is some probability of it being produced. > False, it goes a
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by throw5 6mo ago
Isn't this a natural consequence of how these systems work? The model is probabilistic and sequences like `git reset --hard` are very common in training data, so they have some probability to appear in outputs. Whether such a command i

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