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Comment · 1 day ago
I mean the initial translation kind of works too.
Comment · 12 days ago
And the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly? I don't see any knock on effect from that dirty laundry being aired, other than entertaining the masses with new scandal and signaling to the rest of the world that the US is not to be trusted.
Comment · 13 days ago
sourness is a pointy quality. sweetness is more rounded and smooth.
Comment · 2 months ago
When hn first started taking llms seriously maybe, 2-3-4 years ago (?) one of the most interesting recurring comments was that the real research goals in the field would be reducing cost, doing more with fewer parameters, making lean models, and generally improving efficiency. Of course, those research goals run counter to the need to raise capital and do massive real estate land grabs for data centers, so they are not being prioritized by the top firms running the bubble game.
Comment · 2 months ago
Wow, I feel this deeply. I work with bad software. It is bad because people built it using tools that were designed to "make coding easier". I feel a cold chill imagining the level of institutional cruft that could be allowed to build up with unrestrained ai coding.

With that said - the process of fixing those old mistakes is greatly aided by llms... but you still need to understand what you are fixing, and understanding why giant blocks of code are copy-pasted everywhere, or why convoluted hacks evolved over time as reactions to bizarre underlying untreated bugs is, imo, ultimately a human/organizational/processes problem.

Anyway I think you are bang on.

Comment · 3 months ago
Because it is AI generated semi-hallucinatory marketing material.
Comment · 4 months ago
Am I the only one who sees this as the only viable solution to shutting down foreign interference through social media ? We certainly can't rely on the companies themselves doing it. Fifth column warfare is a thing and we are a ripe target.
Comment · 6 months ago
My understanding is that this is the opposite of what is typically understood to be true - organisms with less truthful (more reductive/compressed) perception survive better than those with more complete perception. "Fitness beats truth."
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Wow. It begins. ActivityPub could change the shape of the future web completely.

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