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New comment by tauwauwau in "The bottleneck was never the code"

tauwauwau — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:02:39 +0000

/s Oh noooo, it's like they're turning into managers... Now that machine can do their job better than them they've become as unimportant as you always thought they were, always pretending to be banging keyboard where it used less brain cycles than highly important work like posturing in a meeting did. Anyone can bang a keyboard even a machine can do that now, it can surely never replace important work of you having to 10 meetings. Lets replace all of them with machines and us meeting lovers can run the company with the machine produced work that we never have hope of understanding.

I agree with this sentiment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033534

New comment by tauwauwau in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

tauwauwau — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:07:48 +0000

Law doesn't seek to punish but to rehabilitate. Act of taking freedom away from the criminal is violent enough. Treating them badly is just a sign of unfair/poor society that cannot maintain (afford to keep) it's promise to be civil to all citizens.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

tauwauwau — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:43:06 +0000

> but the LLM is not sensing actual photons, nor experiencing actual light cone stimulation

Neither is animal brain. It's processing the signals produced by the sensors. Once the world model is programmed/auto-built in the brain, it doesn't matter if it's sensing real photons, it just has input pins like a transistor or arguments of a function. As long as we provide the arguments, it doesn't matter how those arguments are produced. LLMs are not different in that aspect.

> nor generating thoughts

They do during the chain-of-thought process. Generally there's no incentive to let an LLM keep mulling over a topic as that is not useful to the humans and they make money only when their gears start turning in response to a question sent by a human. But that doesn't mean that LLM doesn't have capability to do that.

> Its "world model" is several degrees removed from the real world.

Just because animal brain has tools called sensors that it can get data from world without external stimuli, it doesn't mean that it's any closer to the world than an LLM. It's still getting ultra processed signals to feed to its own programming. Similarly, LLMs do interact with real world through tools as agent.

> So whatever fragment of a model it gains through learning to compress that causal chain of events does not mean much when it cannot generate the actual causal chain.

Again, a person who has gone blind, still has the world model created by the sight. This person can also no longer generate the chain of events that led to creation of that sight model. It still doesn't mean that this person's world model has become inferior.

New comment by tauwauwau in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

tauwauwau — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:00:58 +0000

I pray for souls who are considered to be management material.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years"

tauwauwau — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:14:32 +0000

Relevant, dangling cloud resources.

DEF CON 32 - Secrets & Shadows: Leveraging Big Data for Vulnerability Discovery - Bill Demirkapi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXgcWuv-Ug&t=288s

New comment by tauwauwau in "Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'"

tauwauwau — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:19:48 +0000

Other than agreeing with "spacemadness", I wanted to point out a small correction. Original argument was about 5% of total employees, not only new hires.

New comment by tauwauwau in "My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally"

tauwauwau — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:13:45 +0000

I don't even know what to say to this other than that you are right that it does sound stupid and it is stupid. A software developer should not be afraid of learning software, learning new things is fundamental in our work. Comparing an IDE with basic editor like vi, really, that may have worked out for you since you started 20 years ago when that worked, but it should not be the advice today.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'"

tauwauwau — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:58:12 +0000

I'm not sure I'm familiar with that one.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'"

tauwauwau — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:57:49 +0000

There are some questionable parts of this anime as it's old and a lot of anime from that time is like that, however, it's one of those anime that got what being a hero is about. Only one that I can think of in recent times is My Hero Academia. If that doesn't sway you to watch it, I think Gigguk included Onizuka as one of the top 20 most badass characters in anime a few years ago.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'"

tauwauwau — Sat, 11 May 2024 14:04:02 +0000

Here's a list of some old and new ones, that an old fart might enjoy

Monster (Chasing a serial killer)

Ergo Proxy (Can't describe it)

Samurai 7 (Sci-fi variant off 7 samurai)

Last Exile (Post appocapltic world with lots of flying machines)

Kino's Journey

Mushishi

Time of Eve

Gargantia

Baccano

Durarara

Psycho Pass

Arslan Senki

Sunaboju (Desert Punk)

Witch Hunter Robin

Hunter x Hunter (old not new)

Texnolyze

Darker than Black

Black Lagoon

Great Teach Onizuka (One of the old and best)

Gintama (Comedy, It's at the level One Piece and Naruto disgusing as Comedy, you have to get past 30 episodes)

Kabaneri of Iron Fortress (Just for animation quality)

Beck (Music career)

Golden Kamui

Terror in Resonance

Ping Pong Animation (Don't let the animation fool you, it's one of the best stories)

Area 88 (Story ends abruptly, watch at your own risk)

Ashita no Joe (Old anime, boxing genre)

Valkyria Chronicles (War story)

Scissor Seven (Comedy, Chinese, assassin, in a strange world)

Shura no Toki (Martial arts, 3 generations)

A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese cultivation genre, 3D good animation, faithful adaptation of one of the good novels in this genre)

Swallowed Star (Chinese cultivation genre Sci-fi variant, great 3D animation)

New comment by tauwauwau in "Tell HN: You can't search your WhatsApp without exposing yourself to metaAI"

tauwauwau — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:40:56 +0000

Whatsapp shows a search box now at the top of the app. Placeholder text in it says "Ask MetaAI or search". Previously search meant search in Whatsapp contacts or chat history, however now since the MetaAI is also taking input from same text box, we are sending our search strings to MetaAI, even though they might be for local search.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta"

tauwauwau — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:47:19 +0000

I had to do it in one project. It's not trivial, but also not too difficult. Getters were easy, setters required different types of values. After handling various date type values for setters it worked fine. Occasionally I would see an exception for fields generated by APIs like Lombok, which needed to be excluded from my setter list.

I didn't like that I had tobdo it, but it was easier than getting several approvals to get Sonar rules changed.

New comment by tauwauwau in "Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off"

tauwauwau — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 03:17:24 +0000

Its discussed in a recent Planet Money podcast

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...

New comment by tauwauwau in "Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript"

tauwauwau — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:01:34 +0000

I have no dog in the game, I love plain Javascript as my second programming language and have limited knowledge of TypeScript. That said, please look at the large set of CLI tools that have already been created in Javascript. It's not inappropriate language for the job by any means. Even portions of NPM and Node are written in Javascript. Grunt, Bower, Angular CLI etc. are just a few examples of CLI tools in Javascript.

New comment by tauwauwau in "A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized"

tauwauwau — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:50:26 +0000

I watched it a long time ago. I just put it here because it presents the idea visually, not because I support or even understand it :)

New comment by tauwauwau in "A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized"

tauwauwau — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:12:31 +0000

Putting it here, as it seems relevant.

Veritasium: Parallel World Probably Exist: Here's Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXTPe3wahc

New comment by tauwauwau in "Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents"

tauwauwau — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:42:03 +0000

Seems relevant,

Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics (6 Episodes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd39/episodes/player

Episode 1: You've Got Good Genes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd36

New comment by tauwauwau in "The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies"

tauwauwau — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:49:01 +0000

That is the premise of TV Show Omniscient, I found it interesting. They dont broadcast everything, but data is shared with appropriate authorities

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11542920/

New comment by tauwauwau in "Podman Desktop: Same functionality as Docker Desktop but open source"

tauwauwau — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:46:26 +0000

https://bugmenot.com/view/developers.redhat.com

New comment by tauwauwau in "American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record"

tauwauwau — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:41:11 +0000

I'm not able to find the video, but here's what was discussed in it

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reaga...

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.” -- 1970, Roger Freeman, a Hoover Institution economist and a key educational adviser to Nixon

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ684842.pdf

Once elected, Mr. Reagan set the educational tone for his administration by

• calling for an end to free tuition for state college and university students

• annually demanding 20 percent across-the-board cuts in higher education funding

• repeatedly slashing construction funds for state campuses

• engineering the firing of Clark Kerr, the highly respected president of the University of California

• declaring that the state “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity"

Reagan also tried to end department of education

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-29-mn-13948-...