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by xpct 4d ago
I'm not seeing the same kind of resentment towards non-technologists as you are claiming. Overall in my life I feel like I haven't seen as much gatekeeping as people claim there is in tech.
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by xpct 5d ago
Is this related to why ChatGPT sometimes links to dead URLs?
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by xpct 5d ago
I agree. I think it also explains their behavior such as randomly wiping stuff from disk. There simply aren't any repercussions for this in their training envs.
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by xpct 5d ago
Kids lack proper impulse control and sometimes make bad decisions if left unattended. It's preferable if we restrict certain dangerous actions from them. Yes, LLMs can be dangerous for your own health if misused. Yes, I'd be furio
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by xpct 5d ago
I hold the opinion that learning about tech is important, especially as more and more of our world revolves around software. Biased of course, but I'd keep betting on software over other fields when it comes to career options.
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by xpct 5d ago
I agree. I open Steam sometimes and I'm met with a conveyor of games that look good enough for me to buy, but I can play a few of them at most before all of them are replaced with a new batch next month.
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by xpct 6d ago
If true, that sounds like something that could actually be monitored by third parties, similar to the performance degradation trackers.
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by xpct 7d ago
I don't think reading isolated stories holds much value. The value of the emotion it elicits is much lower than knowing the person who wrote it or in what historical or social background they did so. Reading stories written by humans i
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by xpct 8d ago
In a way, I think training on historic chats is akin to caching computation results. The compute cost has already been paid, and we make future retrievals cheaper by encoding it directly in the model. Assuming the results included some exte
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by xpct 10d ago
Indeed, past a certain skill level it all becomes grunt work. Fun grunt work, but one that AI is also good at.
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by xpct 10d ago
Probably because emulators is one of the subjects discussed on this site. Not sure how I feel about it linking to a public web artifact.
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by xpct 10d ago
I do feel like posting links to these on HN is a type of soft distribution.
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by xpct 11d ago
Ah, I see. Thank you for the correction.
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by xpct 11d ago
Could someone shed some light on what's the legality of publishing emulated abandonware? I remember not too long ago Half-Life 2's web port got posted, is that still online?
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by xpct 11d ago
You can typically see the L1/L2 SRAM cache regions just by looking for continuous patterns, then try to divide it into the number of cores or core groups you're looking for.
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by xpct 12d ago
I don't think the Pangram result is shareable to others. "If you are sure the link is correct, please make sure you are logged in with the account associated with this result."
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by xpct 12d ago
> How many agents here on HN? LLMs wouldn't pass the HN turing test. HN is also not that big, it'd be plenty enough for a malicious actor to hire real humans instead.
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by xpct 12d ago
Honestly I'm also surprised by how blindly people trust these allegations of agent behavior. This exact example of the message board could be much easier to fabricate than to arise naturally.
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by xpct 12d ago
You can imagine each fresh context agent as probabilistically making similar queries when looking for online places to write to and stumbling on the same one. This becomes even more likely if it's one of the websites that got reinforce
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by xpct 12d ago
It's a reasonable direction, but most of online systems aren't designed for this. This would require persistent connections of any accounts you create to your identity, and disallowing anonymous actions.
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by xpct 13d ago
A dataset being as popular as their's is will contaminate the data just by people discussing it and creating their own public test sets of similar problems. Still, probably not that much compared to employees targeting it.
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by xpct 13d ago
I wouldn't lump up all inventions into this. The incentives are warped and we're too focused on adtech and filling human lives with screentime. It should be entirely possible to live a fulfilling life without having to carry a pho
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by xpct 13d ago
a16z is one of the firms whose influencers I mute on sight on twitter. Far too many grifters shilling dubious products.
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by xpct 13d ago
I don't understand the point you're making, it only comes off as misanthropic to me. We live in a world where humans are valued, and so is human culture. We educate ourselves to live richer lives and to have more fulfilling experi
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by xpct 14d ago
PG's 'learning a word' ~= 'learning an idea' comes to mind
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by xpct 14d ago
By 'rewritten' do you mean refreshed, like learning material with spaced repetition, or some different/deeper concept? Do we 'move' that information to a different cluster of neurons?
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by xpct 14d ago
That is interesting. For a streak to count, do you have to both send out your own, and open incoming images? I wonder how much you could tell about someone if you had a 6 year snap streak with them. Would they be more like a friend, or an a
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by xpct 14d ago
Yeah, I'm aware a lot of stuff is catered towards traders. I'm someone who's more interested in the technology itself.
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by xpct 14d ago
Ah, can't help but think of Atlas Shrugged. For all its flaws, it had a few chapters that described this idea well.
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by xpct 14d ago
I'd pay for something that was 'SemiAnalysis, but high quality'. Perhaps that's getting too much into insider territory?

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