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Can Chatbots Do Memfrob?

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1 points·by tuveson·2 months ago·0 comments

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tuveson
·14 days ago·discuss
I mean this does exist in baseball, kinda, but there’s incentive to not do so since it gets the opposing team closer to scoring: https://www.mlb.com/glossary/standard-stats/intentional-walk
tuveson
·20 days ago·discuss
If we accept the “LLM == compiler” cliche (which I don’t, but whatever), then isn’t posting a repo of LLM-produced code equivalent to posting a repo of compiler-produced assembly? Why not just post the prompts and leave it at that? I have about as much interest in reviewing the output of someone’s compiled program as I do looking at the results of their prompt.
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
Sure VB ignores case, but what I want is for it to compare each method against a dictionary of similar terms. And maybe calculate the Levenshtein distance between all terms if it’s not found, and just assume it’s the closest one. You could also assume that full-width characters or similar-looking glyphs are equivalent (BASIC was pre-Unicode, so I can forgive them for not including that).
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
Yes, I say “funny” because it would be impractical and weird, definitely not a good idea. It’s already a bad enough that so many popular languages don’t (and can’t) check if a field or method is misspelled at compile time…
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
I’ve often thought it would be funny if instead of an error message for stuff like this, a language could be designed to be “typo-insensitive”. If a method or function call is similar enough to an existing one or a common one from other languages, to just have it silently use that.
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
But if the US isn’t the first to put an AI on the moon, we’ll lose the AI space race!
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
I mean, you can be tired of both the frivolous complaints and also tired of having a moron for a president. I’m tired of people complaining about stuff that is symbolic and unimportant like the ballroom but I’m much more tired of every competent person in government being fired and replaced with alcoholic podcasters.
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
I thought Future put out a new album.
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
What we need is some sort of Common, business-Oriented suBset Of the english Language that can be deterministically translated into something that the machine can understand, but also be read and understood by non-technical stakeholders. Such technology is a pipe dream, but one can dream…
tuveson
·2 months ago·discuss
I’m remember when CrowdStrike caused that huge outage, he basically blamed Windows / Microsoft for it. I kind of stopped taking him seriously after that. I more-or-less agree with his point of view, but he seems more interested in selling outrage rather than journalism.
tuveson
·3 months ago·discuss
No bonobo wars though
tuveson
·4 months ago·discuss
Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.
tuveson
·4 months ago·discuss
My company has an on-premise instance of the old Jira and is migrating to Jira Cloud, and the cloud version feels way slower to me.
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
Over here we spell it "uze", so I think there's still some ambiguity.
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
You were the one who changed subject to be about “switching jobs”, presumably because that issue has less to do why companies want to hire non-citizens in the US. Up until that point we were talking about employees advocating for rights at their current jobs, which is the main thing undocumented workers or people on work visas have to worry about. You were clearly trying to go for the “just change jobs if you don’t like your employer” thing, which is why you changed the subject (and then accused me of doing that, for some weird reason).

Anyway, two for the price of one, since you’re demanding it: https://www.adhrb.org/2025/02/discrimination-against-migrant...
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
Sure, anyone who tries to get you to sign one of these: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627682297/regulators-investig...
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
Take it up with your fellow “caps” then, they’re the ones that support expanding this category of workers that have fewer political rights. The labor unions clearly only about immigration issues insofar as it relates to trying to weaken labor laws.
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
I encourage HN readers to read your username before replying to this comment. And also to consider why self-identifying capitalists like yourself might want a large cheap labor pool of people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions.

For what it’s worth, I think it should be very easy to become an American citizen. I think these companies benefit from that not being the case. They’d call ICE on native-born citizens for trying to unionize if they could.
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
It’s all fun and games until you have to be like “blastoise deleted our database backups”
tuveson
·7 months ago·discuss
Or maybe it's like someone saying homecooked meals and professional chefs are outdated because McDonalds exists. Homecooked meals are cheaper and healthier, and professional chefs still make better food. I don't think McDonalds is about to disappear, but I'm pretty sure those other categories aren't about to become obsolete any time soon.