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hace 1 horadiscuss

Do you think that ChatGPT is when people on hacker news first became aware of the GPT series of models?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1594339200&dateRange=custom&...

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hace 2 horasdiscuss

IP infringement is not theft. There’s a whole “you wouldn’t download a car” meme about this.

Intellectual property has always been a made up idea that has been abused for years by big companies far in excess of its societal value. I’m not sad that the force of IP restrictions seems to be weakening, but I am surprised to see so many people in tech that previously were pretty lassez faire on IP to suddenly take it so seriously now that it’s become a useful means to criticize AI companies with.

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hace 18 horasdiscuss

Yup. There’s infinite latent demand for software, we just don’t know yet.

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anteayerdiscuss

  > discovered the "life hack" of having an extremely inadequate network

The article covers this. Ambulance providers are strongly incentivized not to join insurance provider networks, and as a result more than 80% of ambulance rides in the US are “out of network”. So the inadequacy of the network is probably not the insurer’s fault.

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anteayerdiscuss

How dare you point out that 2015 is 11 years ago.

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anteayerdiscuss

But the bitter lesson is explicitly about scaling compute. If increased human involvement counts as “Scaling” the thesis becomes incoherent.

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anteayerdiscuss

The quality of sol on effort=none makes me think this test is saturated or they are benchmarkmaxxing this exercise.

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anteayerdiscuss

Real engineers don’t eschew powerful engineering tools because of what their political tribe says about them.

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anteayerdiscuss

iPhone bug: double tapping on a letter zooms in the viewport with no way to zoom back out, permanently breaking the page.

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hace 3 díasdiscuss

For one, you’re not using TypeScript server-side. Whatever execution engine you are using is executing transpiled or JavaScript.

And yeah, I don’t know who in their right mind is starting projects in TS/JS/python these days except when they don’t have an option.

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hace 3 díasdiscuss

Presumably it did not make it to the other Room.

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hace 8 díasdiscuss

Strongly agree here. claude-code’s memory system is occasionally useful but much more often harmful, pulling in obsolete info that muddies the waters about current tasks. I’ve frequently seen Claude’s own memories severely mislead it.

My guess is that has something to do with the training process leaving models unable to differentiate between “what’s happening now” and “what happened before”. Perhaps if making inferences from memories was actually part of the training process things would be different but my sense is that as an inference-time-only feature this just gets the models confused.

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hace 9 díasdiscuss

Do you not say your words one-at-a-time like everyone else? Otherwise I can’t see how my comment is “wrong”

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hace 9 díasdiscuss

Yeah, and you’re just a next-word-sayer.

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hace 9 díasdiscuss

  > Anything an AI spits out is pretty much by definition something that either exists in their training set or which can be trivially deduced from something in their training set

What? Have you used modern frontier models? I find it very hard to believe you could interact with them much and maintain this level of misapprehension.

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hace 10 díasdiscuss

Anything requiring bipartisanship can be gamed with synthetic parties, the legitimacy of which will surely be deemed a nonjusticiable political question.

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hace 11 díasdiscuss

  > no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century

What on earth do you mean? The practical way is the same as it always was: subsequent amendment. The fact that it requires consensus is a feature.

This reads the same way as people who say things like “we just have to accept that Congress is broken and can’t pass new legislation.” Like hell we do!

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hace 16 díasdiscuss

HN automangled the title, should have a “how” at the beginning. The change makes the headline sound like this is news, but it’s just a description of neutrino detectors.

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hace 19 díasdiscuss

  > I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity

Conflating things in this inflammatory way is a big mistake. Using a technology employers want you to use is not betraying your friends. Not everything has to be a culture war front.

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hace 28 díasdiscuss

Of course it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still

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