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So reading this, I know it’s probably a human posing as an LLM. But the problem with formats like this is that I don’t actually know. If a human said this to me in real life, and I…

What regulations would you suggest would be the software equivalent of a fire code? What kind of penalties would apply for not meeting these regulations? Who would be responsible f…

GPUs do have a use in warfare though. I mean, LLMs are basically offensive weapons disguised as software engineers. Sure, LLMs can kind of put together a prototype of some CRUD app…

Importing might be banned until the US loses access to its main source of GPU manufacturing. And what are the US going to do about it? Defend Taiwan? With missiles made with compon…

Nuclear wasn’t completely replaced. The graphs you link to show that Germany’s electricity generation have dropped to the level it was at in the year 2000, and that’s before the la…

That assumes that once a golden goose dies, there’s an infinite supply of replacements. There’s a reason we’re comparing these companies to a mythical creature after all: if sustai…

> If your intention is coding something complex, you should try a model finetuned for that Is there any consensus as to the models most suitable for coding complex things?

Yes, it does, but some of us actually consider this to be a feature. The issue with reversibility is that it’s not just reversibility - it’s also the power for the authorities to t…

Thank you so much for this post, and Hello from Tokyo! I'm currently working on an old fashioned website editing app, with a UI styled after today's note taking apps. I'm hoping th…

This is an issue with more than just the tech industry. It’s an issue with modern society itself. Take the GDP, the number that when it’s first derivative goes negative, we shout “…

There’s nothing that makes it inherently impossible to put bills this way in cash, though. For example, in Japan, you can pay bills by taking them to the local konbini - which is p…

To add to this point, it’s quite likely that the vast majority of JavaScript developers are using generators and symbols, whether they realize it or not. The reason is that your bu…

I’m in the same boat here. I had a list of ~15,000 blog readers at some point, but gave up sending emails when most services wanted to charge me $1000~$2000/year, even when I only …

This treatment is based on the work of Dr John Sarno - who I first heard of here on HN almost 10 years ago. And of all the wonderful things I’ve discovered on HN, Dr Sarno’s work i…

The issue I imagine here is that calling the bank can be costly both in hold time and in phone fees. If banks were able to remove this disincentive to call by ensuring that their p…

> The mystery that remains is where does the money go? A share buyback just shifts the decision of reinvesting profits from the firm to the investor, so when Apple buys back shares…

Coming from someone who grew up in a car culture city, learned to drive at 18, bought my first car at 19, and drove most days of the week... I'm much happier without a car. I don't…

Was just thinking that we're probably due for a major release sometime now that Concurrent Mode seems to be starting to mature a little (disclaimer: it's still experimental, don't …