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New comment by csneeky in "We Will Not Be Divided"

csneeky — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:38:55 +0000

Claude is better for much than GPT atm. You really think the government is going to hamstring the engineering of weapons and intelligence capabilities by not using it?

New comment by csneeky in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

csneeky — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:33:52 +0000

Bluster followed by a "we can't do it now but we will... soon". Whoever has the best model can do what they please you'll see. I work with these things daily as an engineer (been doing this shit for 25 years and wow it's like mana from heaven these days). Believe me no one is going to screw with themselves by not using the best one and right now Anthropic has it.

New comment by csneeky in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

csneeky — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:57:08 +0000

Is it really the case companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will repeatedly visit this archive and slurp it all up each time they train something? Wouldn’t that just be a one time thing (to get their own copy) with maybe the odd visit to get updates? My take is the article is about monetizing unique training info and I see them being paid maybe 10-20 times a year by folks building LLMs which is maybe nothing and maybe $$$$ I don’t know.

New comment by csneeky in "After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase"

csneeky — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:13:31 +0000

Costs more to incentivize people who are already flush with cash to work harder and keep working for you. It’s the prize waiting for anyone here later in life if you kill it and earn the right to join those ranks. Keep your head down and bust your butt at work and it’ll come. No one ever bitched and moaned their way there.

CIA Recruiting on X

csneeky — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:38:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cia-expands-online-recruitment-informants-china-iran-north-korea-2024-10-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726241

Points: 3

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New comment by csneeky in "Officer who ignored NYPD's 'courtesy cards' receives $175K settlement"

csneeky — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:30:43 +0000

I've been given one by a member of the NYPD twice in the past couple of years. I've politely accepted it, put in my desk drawer, and I do not carry it. Always bothered me. Police culture in this city is fundamentally broken.

New comment by csneeky in "Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover'"

csneeky — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:55:46 +0000

And what of the rooster mascot?

New comment by csneeky in "The diminishing half-life of knowledge"

csneeky — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:27:23 +0000

Darwin

New comment by csneeky in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

csneeky — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:39:26 +0000

Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing. If the money isn’t there for the builder they are either not leveraging their relationship to the thing correctly, or the thing does not have the value the builder may think it has.

New comment by csneeky in "ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse"

csneeky — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:29:01 +0000

Pretty sure I’m a machine that’s drawn all my conclusions by statistically analyzing all the input I’ve received since birth… I don’t really know how else I would learn what I have… and I don’t understand how being “just that” is what differentiates modern approaches to AI and my brain.

New comment by csneeky in "ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving"

csneeky — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:45:17 +0000

- "All it can do is assemble patterns according to other patterns it has seen when prompted by a request"

Sounds pretty much like everyone I know.

New comment by csneeky in "Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)"

csneeky — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:45:50 +0000

Fact: functional programming takes more time to learn. It's not full of people that are "smarter' or "snobs" it's just full of people that have taken the time and invested in educating themselves to get to the point where they can do it well. It's not "better", it's just a useful tool for certain types of problems. I'd advise any young engineer to just learn how to do both "imperative" and "functional" programming well and avoid getting dogmatic about it. The vitriol here is in dogma here to be sure

New comment by csneeky in "Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up"

csneeky — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:18:54 +0000

Was going to comment but found myself clamming up and deleting it.

New comment by csneeky in "Expiring vs. permanent skills"

csneeky — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:13:58 +0000

I love that the article focuses on interpersonal skills... too often the knee jerk reaction (as software engineers) is to view "skills" through the narrow lens of engineering (various computer science topics, competency in a language, mathematics, etc).

As I've grown I find soft/interpersonal skills to matter more and more and in many ways, now that I'm a seasoned engineer, trump the hard skills in terms of what impacts my career trajectory. I'd advise any junior/intermediate career software engineer to take the advice from this article seriously.

Ask HN: Platform owners should charge a fee to use it?

csneeky — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:55:45 +0000

Just curious on general thoughts here since Apple has this thing with Epic going on and, generally in the history of software, other platform owners have charge a fee for releasing software on top of a platform.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24151929

Points: 1

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New comment by csneeky in "Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well"

csneeky — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:38:38 +0000

The link leads to nothing? Has been removed? (Sorry if late to the game but seems no one has mentioned this yet)

New comment by csneeky in "Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development"

csneeky — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:21:41 +0000

After working on more than 20 green field projects over the 25+ years I've been a software engineer I can tell you that yes... all SDLC management tools suck at times, but also can be a great part of something very productive. It's how much they are tailored to the needs of the team and how practical their consumption is. I've been a part of projects where JIRA is a nightmare and part of projects where it is a blessing. Same goes for Trello, Asana, Confluence, "just github", etc.

I've also used JIRA where it is ONLY managed by the engineers and also when it is owned and managed by large teams of non-engineering stakeholders.

My 2-cents: When a project isn't going well it's the team that is deficient, not the software, in 99% of cases. Most of these tools can be customized (and combined with other tools if needed) to create something that works... and this varies on a project by project basis. It's not about the tool... it's about how pragmatic and adaptive a team can be as they apply them. Panaceas do not exist in this problem space.

New comment by csneeky in "Places for true un-politicized news about the US?"

csneeky — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:59:42 +0000

In that case then maybe the question "Where can I find news that requires the least amount of cognitive load to consume?" is more appropriate... this is also a little defeatist.

New comment by csneeky in "Places for true un-politicized news about the US?"

csneeky — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:51:19 +0000

I hear you on Reuters maybe that was an unfair inclusion (it is certainly not sensationalist news) but still...

New comment by csneeky in "Places for true un-politicized news about the US?"

csneeky — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:41:34 +0000

Thanks for the allsides link. If it's what they claim that's a good one.