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maplethorpe
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
Costs will continue to come down. That's how technology works. They will continue to come down further and further until they cross the threshold and become negative, and when that happens, instead of it costing you money to use GPT 5.5, you'll actually receive money! LLMs will become magic money generating machines, and I personally can't wait.
maplethorpe
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
Why are the leading models capable of regurgitating full copyrighted works such as "Harry Potter" and "On the Road"? Did they hire someone to type those out for them?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
maplethorpe
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
I wanted to know my real score so I intentionally picked the answer most likely to be wrong in those instances.
maplethorpe
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
Not always. I once got accused of cheating at University because my take-home assignment was so much better than my in class work. At home there was no pressure to perform. I could practice and try things.
maplethorpe
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
It was a "Keurig", and I had to put a pod in it and wait a few seconds. Is that not espresso?

I make espresso at home by grinding/tamping it myself so I admittedly don't know much about the pod version or whether that still counts as espresso.
maplethorpe
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
I did go to an American coffee house while I was there. It was called something like "Phil's" and there were no lattes to be had.
maplethorpe
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
Really? The Last time I was in an American office, there didn't seem to be any milk around. They had an unrefrigerated bottle of "creamer" next to the coffee machine, but I was too scared to try it. I'm still not sure what it is, or how I'm supposed to use it.
maplethorpe
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
> I’ve been trying to ask people a different question: sure, we’re more productive now but to me, the AI era is only serving to plunge us deeper than ever into producing more, more, more, faster, faster, faster. And for what? What’s it all for?

Many devs here have stated that the fun part for them is seeing the end product, not the act of creating it. Using AI is an act of need satisfaction.

Unfortunately, cloning a GitHub repository or downloading a Squarespace template doesn't hit the spot, because you can see exactly where the code came from, so your brain knows you were not the one responsible. AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance. You can now happily clone that repository or download that template without the feeling that you're cloning someone else's repository or downloading someone else's template.
maplethorpe
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
On the other hand, one of my recent launch posts received comments such as "this is the sort of thing that is now possible with AI!", when I didn't use any AI at all.
maplethorpe
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
This still means that 40% of consumers aren't turned off at all. That seems promising for AI bulls.
maplethorpe
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
The fact that anything I post online will now get slurped up by a machine and regurgitated for people who have no idea it was my work that made their prompt come to life.
maplethorpe
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
I get where you're coming from, and I agree to some extent, but I do think our tendency to weight criticism more favorably than praise (as if praise is "chaff" and criticism is automatically valuable) can be dangerous. This negativity bias unfortunately led me to adopt less-than-optimal ways of working in my younger years, because I assumed the people offering me criticism knew what they were talking about, when this wasn't always the case.

So while criticism can be valuable, I think it's worth reflecting an equally critical eye back at the person who is offering it, as upon closer inspection they may not be worth listening to at all.
maplethorpe
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
I'm sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation, people often say I act like an alien pretending to be a human. Maybe it's just the price I pay for being an inquisitive person.
maplethorpe
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
One time a project I made appeared at the very top of the front page. It attracted many negative comments. Some saying it was barely usable. Others saying I'd built it wrong, and offering half-baked advice on how I should have done it instead. That project later went on to get me lots of work and recognition, and even won me a few industry awards.

HN posters tend to be overly critical, often tripping over themselves to demonstrate how they're smarter than the creator of whatever it is they're commenting on. In my experience, they rarely are.
maplethorpe
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
I might be the only person at my job that doesn't use it, but it feels like I'll be found out by upper management sooner or later. Maybe I'll need to use a library I'm unfamiliar with, I'll take longer than expected to grasp it, and then people will start asking questions. Every time a manager puts a random call in my calendar, I'm worried it's going to be about this.
maplethorpe
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
This is good PR for them. They get to tweet about how scary and powerful their models are in the lead up to their IPO.
maplethorpe
·قبل 29 يومًا·discuss
People talking about "flow" and using AI as a "tutor" are missing the point entirely. The beauty of AI is that you don't need a tutor anymore, and you don't need flow. It's like asking how best to use a combustion engine to improve your horse riding ability.
maplethorpe
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You're conflating engagement farming and rage-baiting. Engagement can be both positive and negative. I can't find any online sources that agree with your definition.

Here's one that I think sums it up pretty well:

"Engagement farming refers to a range of deceptive practices on social media designed to artificially inflate engagement metrics such as likes, shares, comments, and followers."

"Engagement farming employs various tactics to exploit social media algorithms, with the intent to appear more popular than actual user interest would warrant. Examples include posting controversial content to provoke emotional responses, repurposing successful posts without originality, and using automated systems for mass liking or following." [1]

If you don't think this is happening on HN (especially to mass downvote posts) you're naive.

[1] https://www.isme.in/engagement-farming-prof-sriram-prabhakar...
maplethorpe
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
HN rewards engagement in the form of upvotes. If you make a post or comment with the intention of getting upvotes, you're engagement farming. I hate to break it to you, but there are many people doing that on this website.

Why do you think all engagement farming would result in downvotes? You think HN posters are so keen at sniffing out bad actors that they would never reward them by accident?

It feels like you're being willfully dense about this. I can see why the other person accused you of being AI.
maplethorpe
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> Why would anyone "engagement farm" on HN? That's crazy.

All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments.

You seem like a smart person. I'm sure you can think of some reasons why that might be useful.