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New comment by seg_lol in "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users"

seg_lol — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:06:12 +0000

Thank God! And here we were stressed out that LLMs might democratize access to tech and knowledge.

All of those biases are still there even for the harvard bio. If from the exchange it thinks you might be presenting as something you are not, output degradation.

That said, in the beginning of my prompts I tell it exactly the persona of the target audience for the answer. Otherwise how would it know if it is explaining to a 5 year old or a phd in an adjacent domain?

As always the problem is the training data and how these models don't get to decide how they interpret the training data.

New comment by seg_lol in "Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images"

seg_lol — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:26:34 +0000

And so does every satellite operator.

New comment by seg_lol in "Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership"

seg_lol — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:58:50 +0000

Automating work in a work simulation game so you can relax.

New comment by seg_lol in "Looks like it is happening"

seg_lol — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:58:13 +0000

If someone mentions Sabine Hossenfelder and it isn't to expose her as a rage-bait intellectual dark web grifter, then it puts that person in a suspect light.

New comment by seg_lol in "Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived"

seg_lol — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:32:40 +0000

OMG, I'd love to fix that date picker. It is just so horribly broken, it causes me PTSD.

New comment by seg_lol in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

seg_lol — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:54:08 +0000

Google3 was already PPC clean when they did that. Not as impressive as made out to be.

New comment by seg_lol in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

seg_lol — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:32:16 +0000

Frankly, you have a pretty good chance of displacing windows right now. You should go for it.

New comment by seg_lol in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

seg_lol — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:24:30 +0000

I cannot believe there has been no mention of things like n8n, activepieces and windmill in this thread. SaaS will utterly collapse in 18 months.

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

New comment by seg_lol in "Turn Dependabot off"

seg_lol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:57:36 +0000

Be wary of upgrading dependencies too quickly. This is how supply chain incursions are able to spread too quickly. Time is a good firwall.

New comment by seg_lol in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

seg_lol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:30:41 +0000

Spoiler, that attorney supplies the list of people to charge.

New comment by seg_lol in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

seg_lol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:03:35 +0000

> We can't actually write laws to solve real problems because real problems are hard.

Not making excuses for politicians, but nearly all big bureaucracies start exhibiting this same behavior. It is the lamp post fallacies of problem solving.

New comment by seg_lol in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

seg_lol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:42:50 +0000

They have much much less time than one would think. Their ads business is about to go into freefall, this will cause the whole company to spiral.

New comment by seg_lol in "Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models"

seg_lol — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:34:19 +0000

NVidia has to spend the money while the music still plays. NVidias money doesn't exist. Nothing has meaning, the value of money depends on who holds it.

New comment by seg_lol in "What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]"

seg_lol — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:22:07 +0000

How about we agree on the ABI and everyone can have their own C compiler. Everyone C's the world through their own lenses.

New comment by seg_lol in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

seg_lol — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:21:02 +0000

> I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process

New comment by seg_lol in "AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going"

seg_lol — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:56:38 +0000

https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by seg_lol in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

seg_lol — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:05:16 +0000

I just disabled webgl on my firefox and it worked fine.

Your problems could be caused by a whiny fan. Here is the source https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

New comment by seg_lol in "I built an AI that explains what your developers did this week"

seg_lol — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:47:13 +0000

> cofounder used to ask me every Monday: "So... what did the team actually ship?"

Nice, subtly asking folks to work the weekend, "actually shipping". Did said cofounder also "ship" on the weekend.

New comment by seg_lol in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

seg_lol — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:34:14 +0000

They should have used base64 encryption.

New comment by seg_lol in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

seg_lol — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:50:00 +0000

Replace the C levels with AI. The C suite is am impediment to innovation and progress. They are the office politics mentioned in this entire thread. The person with the vision and the strategy is a random person out there that doesn't even work for your company. Hell, you could have done it.

> The point is: Technology companies are not immune to human failings, ego, protectionism/turf guarding, bad decisions, bad management, etc.

They only accidentally succeed in spite of those things. They have those things more than existing businesses precisely because having too much money masks the pressures that would force solid execution and results. When you have 80% profit margins, you can show up drunk.