Hacker News: 8338550bff96

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Why LLMs still have problems with OCR"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:44:37 +0000

February 6, 2024... okay grandpa

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "German civil activists win victory in election case against X"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:40:58 +0000

How convenient does the law say that it has to be?

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "The Age of Agent Experience"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:06:44 +0000

There are no websites that I visit now that don't have a login that I would still visit if they suddenly started putting up captchas

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:29:09 +0000

Let us see how that works out for you

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:15:52 +0000

At what point is this just extortionary cash grab from U.S. tech companies?

Want to fund some expensive grand program? Find a reason to fine U.S. companies.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

8338550bff96 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:53:56 +0000

I doubt how useful it would be as an attack. As a single point of info it tells you next to nothing. As part of a composition of other indicators it would be the weak link in the chain probably just causing noise for the not un-likly scenario where the person you're targeting is using a VPN.

If it was any less specific we'd be talking about a deanonymization attack that outs whether or not a target is still on Earth.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

8338550bff96 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:41:21 +0000

Do you have any sources that you would recommend? So far, you're throwing out "got a source for that?" left and right and when you get a source you've nothing to say.

Just curious if you have knowledge about this subject or if you're just trying to block the conversation from going in directions you don't like

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:20:39 +0000

I would say that HTML is a programming language of the Declarative programming language paradigm.

For SQL you are not instructing the computer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that an execution engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

For HTML you're not instructing the renderer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that the rendering engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

If I'm wrong, I would be very happy to be corrected because I've argued this for a long time with people who don't know what a programming language paradigm is - so I'd like to know if I'm mistaken.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Agents Are Not Enough"

8338550bff96 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:23:34 +0000

Then is "agents" just non-spooky coded language for "cyborgs"

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast"

8338550bff96 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:12:02 +0000

Who cares what it is called? I care about the capabilities.

In my experience when people say things like this what they're just projecting insecurity

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast"

8338550bff96 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:05:30 +0000

I work on such a team too. I don't care what you call me - pay me

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals"

8338550bff96 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:53:21 +0000

None of this has to do with. AI. At all.

This is politics and policy

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week"

8338550bff96 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:57:44 +0000

Low and behold, no response. Only downvote. Because there doesn't exist a legitimate argument against is, so all that is left is to be mad

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week"

8338550bff96 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 03:30:22 +0000

They will remain bifurcated so long as some platforms censor political dissent while others do not.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care"

8338550bff96 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:10:13 +0000

I would rather have lazy devs that actually ship shit to production than slow devs that drag what I could get done in 1 day out for entire sprints because they only communicate with each other for 30min tops per-day to unblock each other.

That this comes at the cost of "understanding" needs supporting evidence. Most devs I know only know 1 or 2 programming languages and their own special silo corner of the tech stack.

You're not paid to be not lazy or to learn in the most fulfilling way possible. You're paid to ship software that works.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members"

8338550bff96 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:20:12 +0000

The levenshtein distance of the title is 50. Considering the title is 62 characters, I would say it is not accurate.

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Defibrillation devices save lives using 1k times less electricity"

8338550bff96 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:00:55 +0000

Best of both worlds

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

8338550bff96 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:51:20 +0000

Women actually deserve a constitutional amendment to protect their rights, not a court ruling of the most dubious jurisprudence. Because of Roe V. Wade the political will create a new actually applicable amendment was never pursued - a bandaide that eventually fell off.

Part of the problem is that most people lack the cognitive capacity to understand the legal argumentation of Roe V. Wade and how shaky it was and so they out of incompetence set themselves up as women's rights constitutional amendment obstructionists

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"

8338550bff96 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:35:34 +0000

I'll shut up when I see humans get 99.9% on anything. This seems an awful lot like non-meat brain prejudice where standards that humans do not live up to at all are imposed on other things in order to be worthy of consideration

New comment by 8338550bff96 in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"

8338550bff96 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:59:43 +0000

How do you distinguish between the real thing and a perfect simulation of the real thing?

You seem to be engaged in faith-based reasoning at this point. If you were born in a sensory deprivation chamber you also would have no inner world, and you wouldn't have anything at all to say about solving chemistry problems.

> Im actually surprised so many get fooled by the hype and are ready to declare a winner.

Find me one person that says something like this. "AGI is here!" hype-lords exist only as a rhetorical device for the peanut gallery to ridicule.