Insanity

Happy I never had to use Teams so far. Only heard bad things about it lol.

Messaging is everything!

Yup, and the ceiling could be at 11% or at 50%. But my bet is closer to a lower-range ceiling than an upper-range. Model's are no longer revolutionary, they are evolutionary, and the evolution a…

Maybe not a perfect example but it’s more lightweight than Java at least haha

It's been some years since I've seen The Office, but I thought David was the only somewhat reasonable person. Don't see how he would match up with the sociopath either, but my memory mi…

That's an interesting idea. But IMO the real 'token saver' isn't in the language keywords but it's in the naming of things like variables, classes, etc. There are languages th…

That relies on a programmer doing the right thing and knowing when to use the escape valve. From the codebases I've seen, I don't trust humans in doing the right thing and being judicious wi…

It's only going to get worse with the brain drain as a result of the layoffs. Which will increase the use of AI assisted coding and increase the number of outages related to this. Imagine having …

Whenever I see claims about AGI being reachable through large language models, it reminds me of the miasma theory of disease. Many respectable medical professionals were convinced this was true, and t…

RIP. His presentation on his billion dollar mistake is something I still regularly share as a fervent believer that using null is an anti-pattern in _most_ cases. https://www.infoq.com/…

Ok, I should maybe have said “I doubt we’d think it’s Okay to do this to humans”.

Yup exactly. And when animals are bred specifically for milk, they aren't treated well even before they are killed. Dairy cows need to be kept continuously pregnant / in lactation state thro…

Looking at the stuff China puts in their food (like the actual instant noodles), definitely a red flag if even they ban it. Generally I look at EU for what's good/bad to consume though. It&#…

> Farmed animals could live happy, healthy lives and then be culled in a humane way. Breeding animals _specifically for killing them_, no matter how they are killed, is not what I'd consider …

Sorry that you’re going through this. I got divorced after a 10 year marriage last year. Although it was amicable, going from a house (with a dog) to living alone is pretty tough. Other people have sa…

“Attention is all you need” was published 9 years ago, and gpt3.5 burst onto the scene 4 years ago. Progress is slower than people seem to think. Of course AI as a field is half a century old. But on …

Hadn’t seen that thread. Thanks for linking!

In “Ask HN style”, let’s say that software engineering does go extinct in the next X years, what would you do? I’ve thought about psychology. I know LLMs can work as pseudo-therapists but I feel like …

Just remember an ethical programmer would never write a function “bombBagdad”. Rather they would write a function “bombCity(target City)”.

That seems incredibly overpowered for a calendar lol. I imagine doing this with a kindle / e-ink display might also be more energy friendly.

That’s an amazing project. It’s kinda sad that nowadays most AAA games are so locked down that the player will never get into modding. For myself it started with Jedi Knight, and then eventually mods …

Yeah I definitely meant on days I feel off, and not that I climb every day haha. My body wouldn’t allow me to do daily climbs :)

That’s dark. But.. accurate.

Less severe than killing, you’re essentially describing the “broken windows” theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory …

Yeah I go bouldering even on off days to “stay in the rhythm”. And I do have honestly terrible days where I feel I’m struggling climbs of even a grade below my comfort level, but at least I went lol.

True for the empire, not true for the republic (which still took decades but not centuries)

'advanced culture' is in the eye of the beholder. At the time, Rome was an advanced culture and we have a bunch of details of their fall. Not to take away from your point - I agree and the c…

Your proposed solution is in itself a privacy nightmare. Imagine Apple having to know your entire network of non-apple users just to not mess up your videos with friends.

That’s not how it works. Being trained a ton of human text doesn’t mean you can complete the next token for a program that needs to be logically coherent. Imagine all your data is Reddit threads and n…