Hacker News: gitremote

New comment by gitremote in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

gitremote — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:28:55 +0000

Nonprofit organizations are not the same as companies.

New comment by gitremote in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

gitremote — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:40:49 +0000

ICE arrests U.S. citizens, which is bad.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ice-apprehension-o...

New comment by gitremote in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

gitremote — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:58:19 +0000

The decline of the US government is the faster than "Europe", because it's been declining rapidly in a few months. The US government currently has a monthly quota for ICE arrests. ICE agents racially profile people and ignore non-white people telling them they are US citizens because they assume they are lying. Non-white US citizens need to have papers on them that prove their status (US citizen), or else might be disappeared. The US government now bans immigrants from a list of dark skin countries but fast-tracks White South Africans for immigration. It politically persecutes their political opponents and ignores the rule of law. It is preparing for war with Venezuela, which would conveniently tie up US resources as Russia positions itself for entering Europe.

The UK is rapidly declining as a close second, but calling it "European" (especially when UK citizens see themselves as non-European) is just a lazy generalization.

New comment by gitremote in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find"

gitremote — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:43:17 +0000

In layman's terms, it's the age of monopolies and oligopolies. We don't have enough market competition.

Perhaps large corporations successfully lobby the government the pass laws that boost their profits while stifling smaller competitors.

New comment by gitremote in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

gitremote — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:56:23 +0000

Why would the Chinese government want to regularly launch cyber attacks against US infrastructure, except it's been happening for years? US security companies and governments have been defending against it for years and have even cataloged the state-sponsored attack groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat#Chi...

It's very easy to think other people are being paranoid when you're ignorant about the topic.

New comment by gitremote in "Is it a bubble?"

gitremote — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:20:22 +0000

> We have always agreed that a natural language compiler is theoretically possible.

No. Nobody here except you agrees with this. The distinction between natural languages and formal languages exists for a reason.

New comment by gitremote in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

gitremote — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:39:45 +0000

Neural network research and development existed since the 1980s at least, so at least 40 years. One of the bottlenecks before was not enough compute.

New comment by gitremote in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

gitremote — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:20:10 +0000

I've been doing API development for over ten years and worked at different companies. Most PMs are not technical and it's the development team's job figure out the technical specifications for APIs we build. If you press the PMs, they will ask the engineering/development manager for the written technical requirements, and if the manager is not technical, they will assign it to the developers/engineers. Technical requirements for an API are really a system design question.

New comment by gitremote in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

gitremote — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:12:17 +0000

My company mandates AI usage and logs AI usage metrics as input to performance evaluation, so I use it every day. It's a Copilot subscription, though.

New comment by gitremote in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

gitremote — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:18:53 +0000

PMs wouldn't be able to ask the right questions. They have zero experience with developer experience (DevEx) and they only have experience with user experience (UX).

New comment by gitremote in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

gitremote — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:52:48 +0000

I believe they are arguing against vibe-coding categorically by pointing out that high-level programming languages are for human expression. It's a reductio ad absurdum against the logical conclusion that follows from vibe coding as a premise. If vibe coding is like a using a compiler, why not just translate English directly to machine code or lower level languages?

New comment by gitremote in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

gitremote — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:44:26 +0000

Software development jobs must be very diverse if even this anti-vibe-coding guy thinks AI coding definitely makes developers more productive.

In my work, the bigger bottleneck to productivity is that very few people can correctly articulate requirements. I work in backend, API development, which is completely different from fullstack development with backend development. If you ask PMs about backend requirements, they will dodge you, and if you ask front-end or web developers, they are waiting for you to provide them the API. The hardest part is understanding the requirements. It's not because of illiteracy. It's because software development is a lot more than coding and requires critical thinking to discover the requirements.

New comment by gitremote in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

gitremote — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:34:11 +0000

> And training is the main money sink, whereas inference is cheap.

False. Training happens once for a time period, but inference happens again and again every time users use the product. Inference is the main money sink.

"according to a report from Google, inference now accounts for nearly 60% of total energy use in their AI workloads. Meta revealed something even more striking: within their AI infrastructure, power is distributed in a 10:20:70 ratio among experimentation, training, and inference respectively, with inference taking the lion’s share."

https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-convers...

New comment by gitremote in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

gitremote — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:17:07 +0000

All the models are pre-trained on the same one Internet.

New comment by gitremote in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

gitremote — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:42:01 +0000

> What you're describing seems more like a advertisement problem, not a product problem.

It's called "false advertising".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising

New comment by gitremote in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

gitremote — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:41:29 +0000

It's not an argument by analogy. It's a reductio ad absurdum on the generalization that reality always lies in the middle but not always at the exact middle.

New comment by gitremote in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

gitremote — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:49:12 +0000

Flat-earthers: The earth is flat.

Round-earthers: The earth is round.

"Reality lies in the middle" argument: The earth is oblong, not a perfect sphere, so both sides were right.

New comment by gitremote in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

gitremote — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:39:00 +0000

> Reality lies in the middle

The argument to moderation/middle ground fallacy is a fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

New comment by gitremote in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

gitremote — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:02:54 +0000

> When Chatgpt3 came out we all declared that test utterly destroyed.

No, I did not. I tested it with questions that could not be answered by the Internet (spatial, logical, cultural, impossible coding tasks) and it failed in non-human-like ways, but also surprised me by answering some decently.

New comment by gitremote in "Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s"

gitremote — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:30:51 +0000

Yes, they're amazingly good given they didn't have copies of the original posters, Internet access to get reference images, or even VCRs at home to play the movies themselves.

The clickbait title is about "Africa" and "bad", but it's specifically about Ghana and awesome.