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Post by danaris »

Marsymars wrote: post #517
danaris wrote: post #221

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Yeah, the Condé Nast buyout really crippled what was an amazing independent tech news site. The sad thing is, I don't know of anywhere else that comes close to what Ars was before.

Does anywhere else even come close to the Ars of today? (For the sake of this question, assume a best-case response to this LLM-hallucinated article.) I'm genuinely asking - I subscribe to Ars - if their response isn't best-case, where could I even even switch my subscription and RSS feed to?

I'm in the same boat, sorry. I don't subscribe, but I do have their RSS feed in my regular reader, and I don't know of any single site that's better.

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Post by bravetraveler »

Terr_ wrote: post #215
adamddev1 wrote: post #207

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Excellent observation. I get so frustrated every time I hear the "we have test-suites and can test deterministically" argument. Have we learned absolutely nothing from the last 40 years of computer science? Testing does not prove the absence of bugs.

Don't worry, the LLM also makes the tests. /s

Trading pesky things like accuracy and employees for compute/shell games; money-concentrating machine go brrrrrt

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Post by embedding-shape »

hluska wrote: post #553
embedding-shape wrote: post #386

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> - it heavily promoting the popular-online side of a very controversial subject Any specific examples? I took a quick browse but didn't find anything that fit what you're talking about, and what you're saying is a bit vague (maybe because I'm not from the US). Could you link a specific article and then tell us what exactly is wrong?

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Huh, what are you referring to? Why does it matter so much what I think and say?

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Post by shantara »

anonymousiam wrote: post #504
mbreese wrote: post #314

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I think the fact that they one of the last places surviving from that generation of the Internet says a lot. The Condé Nast acquisition may have been a tragedy, but they managed to survive for this long. They’ve been continuously publishing online for about 30 years. It’s honestly amazing that they’ve managed to last this long. Yes, it’s very different than it was back in the day. You don’t see 20+ page reviews of op…

100% agree. I still have Ars Technica and Slashdot in my RSS feed list, but both are paused. Every now and then (maybe once a month) I'll take a peek, but it's rare that I'll find anything really worthwhile. About 10% of the content is slanted to push their desired narratives, so objectivity is gone.

I still had Slashdot in my RSS feed, purely out of inertia. I don’t even interact with it much other than occasionally marking it as read. This was the push I needed to unsubscribe from it.

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Post by everdrive »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #299
murderfs wrote: post #288

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You see the same sort of thing around here with people complaining about the death of Google Reader on anything that even vaguely mentions Google.

I don't see that.

HN has also been taking a turn lately. Part of it is a large influx of new users, part of it (I suspect) is just a growing disenfranchisement with the technology scene. I'm partly to blame for this as well. I've tried to stop commenting most of the time since my first and strongest response has just been to express my anger and frustration at the direction most technology is taking.

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ffsm8 wrote: post #594
quickthrowman wrote: post #453

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> You might notice that these real engineering jobs also don't have a way to verify the product via tests like that though, which was my point. The electrical engineers at my employer that design building electrical distribution systems have software that handles all of the calculations, it’s just math. Arc flash hazard analysis, breaker coordination studies, available fault current, etc. All manufacturers provide th…

Okay, honestly asking: do you really think your outlined simulation meet the same bar as automated regression tests like > E.g you technically don't need to look at the code if it's frontend code and part of the product is a e2e test which produces a video of the correct/full behavior via playwright or similar. > Same with backend implementations which have instrumentation which expose enough tracing information to d…

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Post by dotancohen »

direwolf20 wrote: post #599
hluska wrote: post #526

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What are you talking about? This had absolutely nothing to do with Israel until you injected that.

Israel is a perfect example of what's being talked about — a bully that acts like a victim to gain sympathy so it can bully you further. GP is Israeli, so of course he thinks of Israel.

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Post by dotancohen »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #574
dotancohen wrote: post #569

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> already people were accusing Israel of genocide It's not like the death tolls reset on that day. Israel can have the moral high ground when they stop killing huge amounts of people. Calling them out isn't blood libel. Stop making that argument.

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Post by cubefox »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #598
cubefox wrote: post #597

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No, I didn't say that at all. I said they are biased, that "they make things much more negative (= less positive) than they are", which is a very different thing. Basically, I'm saying they report x-10 rather than x (that's bias), and you are replying with "so the value of x they report is always negative or 0." No. Wrong.

Oh that was the person earlier in the conversation, okay. So you haven't really been specific at all. I don't know how I could even try to check if a vague claim like that is right or wrong. But since they apparently have positive spacex reporting and only say other things are negative then I'm skeptical of significant bias.

Again, their SpaceX reporting might be "positive", but that doesn't mean it has positive bias. Apart from that, I previously said the non-SpaceX reporters are strongly biased. Anything about the SpaceX reporting isn't relevant for that.

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Post by dotancohen »

direwolf20 wrote: post #600
dotancohen wrote: post #491

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I'm not from the US either, but I see much vitriol against their current president and his policies. And not a single article in support.

When one side says it's raining and the other side says it's sunny, it's not the journalist's job to represent both sides. It's their job to look out the window.

Agreed.

And when I look at the issues being discussed, I do not see something so clear as rainy or sunny. I see one side of contentious issues - issues with good arguements for both sides.

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