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lucianbr

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    There is hardware attestation that prevents a perfect sandbox from being possible. Unless you know how to build a sandbox that can simulate a TPM with a key inside that only Google…

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    For me it's the rythm. It's a list of chapters, each with a list of subchapters, plenty of bulleted lists, and paragraphs of close to equal size with sentences of close to equal si…

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    Comment #49061355

    Gee I wonder if anyone on HN might have some ulterior reason to write such a statement, without it being true.

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    Comment #49061067

    > The "interesting new phenomenon", obviously, is the potential of the generalization of what expressed in the title. Why is this thing so difficult to name and you need to describ…

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    Comment #49058511

    > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's proba…

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    Comment #48960107

    What's the difference between using GPT to write the prompt to GPT, and "thinking"? The LLM uses the first tokens to predict more tokens, and then uses those tokens to predict even…

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    Comment #48758555

    My entire point was that some people are able to change their position.

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    Comment #48748882

    > Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence I'm sure some atheists could be convinced. The rule "all atheists will reject e…

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    Comment #48520604

    I do review, if only whatever I do was the norm for everyone :) Do you see lots of posts about new compilers and languages and language features on HN in the last year? Maybe I jus…

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    Comment #48517158

    > better compilers, more ergonomic languages If anything it seems wide deployment of LLMs would go against this. When nobody writes code by hand anymore, who will care about the er…

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    Comment #48503571

    I wonder if a probabilistic compiler would be fine for the people arguing this. One that sometimes produces machine code that does something else, and sometimes produces machine co…

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    Comment #48501003

    Lots of people seem to think that you don't need to learn how to [scan a network], all you need to learn in this brave new world is how to prompt the agent to [scan a network]. Rep…

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    Comment #48189767

    If the other people in the org are using LLMs to a similar degree, any question to which an LLM can provide a good answer to will never get sent. How useful are the draft replies t…

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#O... > After news broke out of Volkswagen cheating on diesel emissions, multiple other vehicle manufacturers got caught f…

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    Comment #48060758

    It starts with some things that minimize the lawsuit area, but over time it transforms into a habit of lying. It's company policy, you know? Don't question, just execute.

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    Comment #47937997

    Obviously most CEOs think it's going somewhere where AI is the most important thing, and you must use a lot of it, for everything. If you just insist on putting AI in everything, y…

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    Comment #47846242

    What was I avoiding with those?

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    Comment #47846167

    > you don't have a culture where Yeah, and? Not everyone is in control of the culture of the organization they work in. I suspect most people are not. Is everyone on HN CEOs and CT…

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