Hacker News: throwaway2214

New comment by throwaway2214 in "AI is coming for your children"

throwaway2214 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:36:31 +0000

this is the same in any field, 99% of human content is terrible, including this comment (and your comment)

the thing is, we need the other 1%, but when in absolute numbers it is small, you can still kind of find it, but imagine you have to look through 1 billion books to find one good book, it is as good as this 1% disappearing

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81"

throwaway2214 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:45:33 +0000

having read his manifesto multiple times, I think its better to read Ellul's books (particularly Propaganda and Technological Society)

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site"

throwaway2214 — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:19:41 +0000

why do you think if we can not understand the dependency chain, the regulators and the auditors can?

New comment by throwaway2214 in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 21 May 2023 09:32:13 +0000

none of this makes any sense

in 2 years i will just run local llm and not touch google/microsoft models with a ten foot pole

the internet will be full of generated garbage and rendered useless

New comment by throwaway2214 in "LSD: Not Even Once"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:56:03 +0000

haha i have most of the negative symptoms and never had any drugs what so ever

> Continuous anxiety about literally nothing. I felt like a student who didn’t do their homework, and was dreading their teacher calling on them - for 24 hours a day.

this one is most fun :)

kind of like the end of the world is coming and you are supposed to do something but you dont know what, but you know its the most important thing that has to be done

New comment by throwaway2214 in "TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids"

throwaway2214 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:00:05 +0000

if their parents give them heroin, will we turn blind eye?

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Teacher failed kid for essay because an AI-detection tool flagged his work"

throwaway2214 — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:44:04 +0000

'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.'

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Bing AI can play chess"

throwaway2214 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:40:08 +0000

you assume they just reproduces the training set, but when they get big enough they start to "understand" things, when the input is really big it actually can never "guess" the next word in the batch, so it has to "learn" concepts

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Jupyterlab Desktop"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:13:48 +0000

the jupyter desktop plus whisper and gpt might be the new way we use computers, like iron man's jarvis :)

New comment by throwaway2214 in "GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices"

throwaway2214 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:08:14 +0000

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 15:53:52 +0000

shutterstock just introduced shutterstock AI partnering with dall-e

they will get it back quite quickly

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Official Warning: Zero3K"

throwaway2214 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:26:42 +0000

You probably are considered abusive to someone, you might not even know it.

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:49:09 +0000

i used to care great deal about this, but recently i gave up

why do you even care? most of your files are either on apple's computers or google's computers

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Stable Diffusion macOS native app"

throwaway2214 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 10:21:01 +0000

what do you mean? you can open an issue on github and there are build instructions in the readme

New comment by throwaway2214 in "EmailTriager"

throwaway2214 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:55:04 +0000

you mean now? ads and cookie warnings and spam

New comment by throwaway2214 in "AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines"

throwaway2214 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:01:14 +0000

maybe not search engines, but it has totally replaced stackoverflow and google for searching for docs or even wikipedia in some sense (e.g. make alpha blend between two argb uint32 pixels)

google has been going progressively worse to find what i need, sometimes i even have to go to second page, wasting time clicking on bullshit markov chain seo sites to find out how to parse date in whatever new language i am learning

with chatgpt: parse a date from string in the v programming language, try googling that

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Evolution of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus protocol"

throwaway2214 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:10:57 +0000

this line of thinking is quite difficult to get by in the modern world, same applies to vaccines, or to your car, or to the food you eat the browser you use, etc, in fact if you randomly look in your room right now it is very likely that you will be shocked (e.g. the complexity of the HDMI cable)

New comment by throwaway2214 in "NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto”"

throwaway2214 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:23:01 +0000

like brexit?

you will be surprised what would happen if USA switches to direct democracy

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms"

throwaway2214 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:19:16 +0000

the dutch are closing 3000 farms because of too much nitrogen

nothing is as easy as it seems

New comment by throwaway2214 in "Poll: Have You Caught Covid?"

throwaway2214 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:50:23 +0000

wow this poll shows how many standard deviations the hackernews audience is away from the norm