HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Autious

10 karma · joined September 2, 2012

submissionscomments
Autious··on Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
I've been pondering this too. Just making a dialect of a language so different the llm's would fail. And then never release any descriptions or examples of it so there won't be any data to steal.
Autious··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Yeah, I'm curious about which ones are a problem. I could see there being some incompatibility, and the details are more interesting than sweeping statements.

Some regulations would have to be normalized and agreed upon between the countries for trade open up. Can't have different quality standards and ways of evaluating and declaring them.

Autious··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there.
Autious··on Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
Steve Jobs didn't invent the PC. It's reductionist and offensive to single him out and thanking him for that.

Computers didn't "figure out the maths". People did the math, the computers did the calculations.

Human knowledge is nowhere complete, it's silly to think so, and by extension it's silly to think the LLM's have anything near a complete knowledge set.

They don't even have access to all of current human knowledge, much less so future knowledge. A lot of text and information is locked away from the public internet and the internet altogether.

Not all types of useful ideas for applications have been invented, that's ridiculous, there are plenty of ideas that people haven't had yet. There are however a massive amount of shitty copies of the same shitty ideas.

Autious··on It used to be hard
Yeah i also want to know what the adaption is. Because so far all I'm seeing is removal of the natural incentive to build deeper understanding of the systems. So in the future only the people who are really curious and want to know for knowledge sake are going to know enough to deal with the blind spots of the automatons.

Knowing how the things the LLM's are touching appears to be the only skill of value. Because using these things are trivial for anyone who is familiar with computers, what adaptation and catching up is there beyond waiting and observing what works and then just applying that?

"But the LLM's will know everything" well then we aren't needed at all, just put it on a loop and leave it running. At this endpoint there's nothing to adapt to, only direct means of allocating necessary resources to yourself for subsistence.

Autious··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Sweden has 14 sick days no questions asked before you need a doctors note. The German way of having to call your doctor for a flu note is a little odd to me. You do loose the first day's pay (the meme is that too many people were off sick when there was a world cup finals or something), and then 80% pay.
Autious··on Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
I agree. I had such a strong revelation reading C Programming Language book, and the Lua Programming Language book (which is suspect is heavily influenced by the C book). It's so clear and concise while not skipping important details, answering all of the readers questions that come up. Kerningham et al really knows how to write and the value of doing so well, respecting the reader.

There's just so much shitty technical documentation out in the world.

Autious··on Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
I love reading docs. It's the best way to get as close as I can to understanding the intent and context of a piece of software. I feel like adding an LLM between myself and the original text for anything else than search is just adding risk and noise.

Am I the only one feeling this way?

Autious··on Twitter hands over messages at heart of Occupy case
It sounds like the user had removed the tweets from his account to hide them from public viewing. (I might be wrong here, not the point)

But, is there some law or other reason that Twitter would continue to store tweets that have been removed by its users?

Autious··on WebGL around the net, 23 August 2012
I've often heard that WebGL is very well a large security issue, and i've read about some rather frightening examples that could easily be extended to do severe damage.

But i don't understand how it could be fragmenting the Web in any way worse than what has been before and what might come as an alternative.

It's a fun addition, enabling hardware rendering on platform widely used, in a potentially simple way for the end user.

On top of that it's surprisingly open, enabling it to be implemented on almost any machine or OS.

It's still in its infancy and works like shit, with a bunch of browsers either having experimental, incomplete or a complete lack of an implementation (and a lack of interest thereof).

Still, i wouldn't want to have something like this go any other way.

I'm sincere in my question, because i don't want to fuck around or fight with people, i'm merely curious. How would you prefer it to be? Even if it's just a vague ideal?