WhyIsItAlwaysHN

Well I bet you didn't have to convince them to leave messenger back then.

It's not that they are not capable of figuring out something more complex. It's that it's hard to convince non-tech savvy friends to switch apps and it becomes much harder if the alternative needs setup or feels unfamiliar .

I had the same thought today. I had no fights in HN since years of being on here, but there's much more aggression recently.

To put it simply, I need a messenger app to talk to other people. Most people I talk to are not programmers or very tech savvy.

Putting them on Signal requires me to convince them to download an app from the play store, with thr same name. The app is very similar to messenger or whatsapp and they're used to the functionality already. So many of my friends made an account so we can talk.

Anything more involved and they stay on meta's garden. Any successful messaging app needs to prioritize "normies" to get users.

Definitely try to take a break from negative news and online discourse.

This is just a discussion on a news site. Neither of us wants to bring in a dystopia.

You can argue about the risks of a brain interface and maybe I will agree. But just dooming and being dismissive makes the world less bearable today rather than a future hypothetical.

Good luck

Well let's get some more capacity then. I don't see any good brain to computer interfaces developed yet.

That's what I'm saying though. It's a new challenge to make the mathematician a net positive again.

We can consider what makes a human a net negative in the loop and augment humans with tools to collaborate.

I think there's still challenges.

The main one I see is the question of how we can use an LLM as humans to produce something harder than the LLM can by itself.

I like to think of it with an analogy. Suppose I was granted the privilege of having a world renowned human expert as my personal assistant, but she had no initiative of her own. How could I collaborate with her?

I would definitely need to keep learning more to understand what she says. I would also need tools to augment my ability to follow along and she would need tools to bring knowledge down to my level of understanding.

One might argue humans are unnecessary in the above process, but I think that's just failing the challenge of keeping up. So I try

I think you're blaming the wrong people. Most of the censorship I've seen is coming from ad funded platforms wanting to please corporations. Independent artists create all kinds of offensive content.

Unless you mean that there is less slurs and jokes against minorities, which is an improvement tbh.

This is trivially false, the text gets transformed into activations for the weights. If there is reasoning it's in the connection pattern of the weights.

The fact that the output produces one token at a time does not mean that the LLM's internal state is processing just the next token

Try considering this with some nuance. Many people likely do not know that cows grieve or their bubble of habits and upbringing prevents this fact from reaching them. A story that brings empathy towards any animal is a step towards less suffering for all animals.

The continue keyword is also important, or alternatively the condition to run it.

I often fail to notice it on the first look of some snippet of code

I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point.

If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.

I think this is good in general for being able to see what happens in the code of a PR, but probably more so to seniors.

If anything will be missing from juniors it will be the ability to run code in their heads if they've only written code via AI.

Is this just an ad for the product? How is this connected specifically to junior engineers? Is it implying that they cannot debug code without this kind of tool while more experienced people can?