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True. So you're talking about allocating resources (teams) across priorities. Which have to be prioritized. Which is the reality the article doesn't wrestle with at all.

There's more to making an argument than stating your conclusion forcefully and repeatedly. EDIT. In particular the author hasn't acknowledged the prioritization problem, hasn't exp…

Customers speak with their wallets, and OP doesn't like what they're saying.

Decisions are about tradeoffs. 2% of users staring at a broken screen is bad, of course. But what is the _cost_ of not using nested CSS? The responsible way to make a decision is t…

Those who pay no attention to history are surprised when things change. It's the temporal equivalent of never leaving your home town. Very provincial. Then one day change comes and…

I feel the opposite. Interacting with humans, I definitely pay a social tax - I have to negotiate the feelings of the people involved. With LLMs there is no social tax, I can be as…

If you allow a likely guess with no evidence to play the role of fact, you're just as bad as the AIs

it's "trivial" in the sense of "I can launch the app in 2 minutes," but "non-trivial" in the sense of "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good securit…

> Interestingly, there were no consequences for the execs that made this 'mistake' The article makes no such claim. What is your source? Absence of evidence is not evidence of abse…

This is good, however that first sentence needs to be removed, it's too factual and orients the reader too much.

This is very jumbled argumentation. Is his claim "nobody has proven LLMs are conscious" or "I can prove that LLMs aren't conscious" ? He goes back and forth. Proving a negative abo…

There are no countries that come close to actually paying for it. There are countries that pay for 5% of it, and in those, indeed they don't have significantly higher fertility rat…

Yes. Societies have been using their women's children as a positive externality for generations, but now the logic of capitalism and societal freedom has caught up, and now societi…

I don't understand, why post to HN a link to a Khan academy class that's at least 13 years old?

That's why I write my own assembly language. Compilers just atrophy your skills!

don't hate the player, hate the game

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the location of the ship of course is not secret. but there is finer grained data about the people, the devices and what they're doing that could be gathered. and inferences made f…

it's mind boggling. personal mobile phones have potentially anyone's software running on them and that can connect to the internet means that literally anyone could be tracking and…

"just" is doing a lot of work there. There's a stack, and everyone is fighting and racing to figure out which parts of the stack are commodities and which have protectable IP. For …

It's because of this hard problem that I'm thinking I should keep using Viktor (getviktor.com) instead of running this OpenViktor. The company may not do a perfect job of security …

it's not viktor.ai it's getviktor.com

Strongly agreed. However, some developers have trouble writing clearly and reading lots of text, and therefore prefer oral and interactive + real-time transmission of the informati…

Users are "dumb", and it's a dumb _system_ and dumb business that doesn't plan for that in terms of FTUE, business model, support model, and product flows. We product makers get to…

Cool question. What form would an answer take? We need some detection benchmark data thats invariant over the period of interest. I hope the data exists but I would be surprised. A…