xeckr

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by xeckr 3mo ago
Literally the first time I used ChatGPT, within days of release. It wasn't so much panic as amazement. It took HN a surprisingly long time to come to terms with the fact that professional SWE as we knew it was coming to an end. In 2023
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by xeckr 4mo ago
time to vibecode vista from scratch Ig
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by xeckr 5mo ago
I remember retracing QR codes on graph paper to pass time in grade 12 physics, this was back in 2013/2014.
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by xeckr 6mo ago
Cops bust in searching for his drugs, then accuse him of invasion of privacy and humiliation...
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by xeckr 6mo ago
"NOT approved!" "The user said the exact word 'approved'. Implementing plan."
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by xeckr 6mo ago
Bad timing.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Brilliant. They're repackaging the argument governments have long made about E2EE being dangerous to children.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Too bad that would hurt their bottom line.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
How do you square (heh) this with Jack Dorsey axing nearly half of Block's headcount?
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Blatant strawman.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
I think the part about China is just about projecting alignment with the USG in hopes that this will result in Anthropic being treated more favourably by the current administration.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Now imagine you run a mowing service with 4 employees. Suddenly an unbounded number of people appear on the job market who are ready to work for your company at a 5% the cost of your previous employees. Best of all, they become more compete
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Show HN: A RL suite that teaches LLMs to introduce typos at just the right frequency for the output to appear more human.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
Wow a human in 2040, very optimistic take.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
The strawberry/seahorse emoji meme is like a century old in AI-time.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
True, though stochastic gradient descent replaces all that human guesswork with predictable scaling laws. The hyperstimuli of the tomorrow will be nothing like what we recognize today as entertainment.
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by xeckr 7mo ago
>I think it reveals that comparisons to heroin use in arguments against TikTok are hyperbolic and disconnected from reality, by empirical data. I don't think that follows from your premises. Who is overstating the evils of heroin? P
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by xeckr 7mo ago
There's an AI behind the video feed optimized for keeping your attention for as long as possible. That is quite different from making your media more engaging. The logical endpoint of optimizing AI for viewer retention is something tha
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by xeckr 7mo ago
>only 23%–38% become addicted Wow, only Russian roulette with 2 bullets odds?
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by xeckr 8mo ago
It freezes sometimes, but I love it.
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by xeckr 8mo ago
Cool idea! I got 50%. Without looking to deeply into it, it seems to me that the two double jeopardy rulings contradict one another somewhat?
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by xeckr 8mo ago
Fun fact: the Chinese central bank is not at all independent, but one-party rule prevents monetary policy from becoming incoherent as a result of short-term political interests tied to the election cycle. An independent central bank fixes t
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by xeckr 8mo ago
Indeed, the singularity has come for the University, and now the University's death rattles are heard in the form of academics writing opinion pieces desperately trying to grasp at anything that might save their privileged position, se
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by xeckr 8mo ago
>As an example, ask an LLM to do some 10th grade math. Inspect the thinking process. It can regurgitate the process and the rules but cannot perform them. It seems to me that the solution is just RL to get the language model to delegate
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by xeckr 8mo ago
I'll go with <3
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by xeckr 8mo ago
Looks like we get these for about 60 days for periods lasting 11 years.
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by xeckr 8mo ago
>I enjoy having the worlds knowledge at my fingertips. I enjoy being able to video-call my family from anywhere in the world at any time. I enjoy never being lost cause I always have a map showing where I am. I enjoy having group chats w
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by xeckr 8mo ago
Ha, I'm applying for medical school after seeing that AI will quickly overtake 100% of my software engineering skillset, if it hasn't already. There goes my moat...
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by xeckr 8mo ago
If there is a mechanism by which the English language can lose letters over time (such as þ or æ), why wouldn't there be one by which it gains it? It would make even more sense, after all we lose letters because we write those sounds u
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by xeckr 8mo ago
I suspect that the arrival of ChatGPT caused traffic to the MDN Date API documentation to go down by at least half.

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