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New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Claude Integrations"

hdjjhhvvhga — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:18:37 +0000

The people who connect a LLM to their Paypal and CLoudflare accounts perfectly deserve the consequences, both positive and negative.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "What Porn Did to American Culture?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:30:57 +0000

I believe it's the core of the argument of the author: she wants to link porn to cruelty at several places without offering any argument in favor of it.

Paradoxically, I could offer a starkly different argument - it is women who prefer BSDM if you look at the sales numbers of certain books.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "What Porn Did to American Culture?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:28:07 +0000

That was my first thought: any woman can easily get into any level of "production" now and get direct profit from it, and also leave it without much stigma, sharing the same platform with non-nude celebrities. She can also control the amount of experience that is delivered to the "fans". It's incomparable with the situation from the 80s/90s.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "What Porn Did to American Culture?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:25:10 +0000

This interview makes no sense. Maybe she actually had some arguments in her book but she didn't express them in this article.

Paradoxically, I'd have a more sound argument if I wanted to argue for the opposite (or, more precisely, the disappearance of sexual intercourse form Hollywood moves - it was omnipresent in the 80s and even 90s).

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]"

hdjjhhvvhga — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:45:45 +0000

It's shocking how much American soft power diminished in such a short period. White House documents used to mean something, had a certain weigh, whereas now some of them are simply ridiculous. This one in particular is not particularly bad even. Although we know who inspired it and that, given the fact that DeepSeek made their models available and OpenAI didn't, whatever is written should be taken with more than one grain of salt.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat"

hdjjhhvvhga — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:22:51 +0000

> I suppose it's disruptive but if they just showed basic competence they would probably get away with much more.

Yeah but if you were a competent person in a position to work for them, would you do it? I believe there are relatively few smart people willing to go down this hole precisely because they can understand the consequences.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them"

hdjjhhvvhga — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:12:25 +0000

> That last part is actually the easiest, and if you're spending inordinate amount of time there, that usually means the first two were not done well or you're not familiar with the tooling (language, library, IDE, test runner,...).

I'm not sure if you're familiar with modern JS frameworks.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Don't force your kids to do math"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:10:02 +0000

> Most kids won't do difficult things if you don't push them.

I roughly classify parents in two groups: (1) like the author of the article, (2) like you. Based on my limited observation, neither can be claimed to give optimal results, and it more boils down to "see what actually works for your kid in the long term" which unfortunately far too often can only be definitely said in hindsight.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:01:56 +0000

If determinism is a hard requirement, then LLM-based AI can't fulfill it by definition.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Serverless Is a Scam"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:08:20 +0000

Lambdas do require runtime updates. This means nothing happens for a relatively long time and then suddenly the lambda stops working. If you don't have many dependencies, upgrading the runtime is easy. But if one of dependencies requires an older runtime, it's better not to wait until the last moment.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge"

hdjjhhvvhga — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:14:17 +0000

To people downvoting the above comment - could you explain your reasons? You may feel all arguments have already been said on this issue but the situation is different today. And especially young people, whether white or colored, feel they have more bleak future in front of them than the previous generations and basically refuse to reproduce globally. In this light, it's worth having this discussion again because it is not the same.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:22:16 +0000

It's all true but they have one advantage over everything from the last two decades or so: latency. Obviously it's double lost if you try to reconstruct just the aesthetics.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:31:07 +0000

> And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.

Why not? That's one of the reasons I visit HN instead of some random forum after all.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:19:47 +0000

I just wanted to reply how wrong you are and that the OP's version would be literal if "de" was used instead of "à" but just writing that made me realize that I'm completely wrong and you are totally right. That's a rare moment and I decided to celebrate it by making this comment. Thank you!

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:16:09 +0000

Are the differences between Google Books and LibGen documented anywhere? I believe most models outside of Google are trained on the latter.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:08:20 +0000

I believe the GP doesn't believe trains have a future in a country that has a long tradition of automobile industry and its lobby is particularly strong.

I'd like to offer an alternate perspective: good public transportation network may decrease the number of vehicles sold in the (very) long run but creates another market that is quite stable - all this infrastructure of busses, trams, trains needs not only new units but also reliable maintenance. This is always a business opportunity and direct us towards a more sustainable future instead of just "produce more new cars no matter what".

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:03:28 +0000

It doesn't bother me that much really but if we want to be pedantic the literal rendering would be be "train at great speed" - this would make your point more pronounced.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

hdjjhhvvhga — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:40:36 +0000

Not always and I'm not sure if usually, but in this particular case it's both.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:08:34 +0000

Everybody is different. When I visit the office sometimes, I do it to socialize and talk about things not related to work mainly. And then I get back to do the actual work. If I need to communicate with someone, I simply ask them for their time - they can get back to me whenever they are free. This system serves me and my coworkers well but it's obvious there are many people who prefer synchronous in-person communication for most tasks.

New comment by hdjjhhvvhga in "Baldness? UCLA's New Molecule Could Revolutionize Hair Growth"

hdjjhhvvhga — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:35:58 +0000

But how else do they get the cure to the market?

(Provided it works, there are several such announcements every year but the actual progress is mediocre.)