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My agent / skill files always tell it to trust neither the code or the test and to reason about the test failure which seems to work pretty well.

In another project without my rules I’ve noticed I have to tell it to set up data for playwright tests instead of skipping if none exists.

If I was building this in a system design interview I would use whisper, NLP, and “classic ML” classifiers with deterministic results. I would not want an LLM in the loop at all. Facebook and Google have been able to target you better than you could even perceive for years.

LLMs are slow, expensive and inconsistent. More importantly It’s not the right tool for the job.

Really feels like more “oohhh look at how important and scary LLMs are”.

*edit* PS, my company does marketing, communication and trade surveillance for FINRA registered broker dealer firms. If the CCO or anyone else with admin access wanted to monitor for someone talking badly about them they absolutely could update their list. No LLMs in the loop, very scalable, affordable, auditable and reliable. LLMs are just an interface not a solution for analysis.

Fair. Didn’t think the DoW did much R&D or manufacturing. Would think the standoff would be with Anduril, Northrop, Boeing, Booze, etc.

Genuine question, how could Claude have been used for the military action in Venezuela and how could ChatGPT be used for autonomous weapons? Are they arguing about staffers being able to use an LLM to write an email or translate from Arabic to English?

There are far more boring, faster, commodified “AI” systems that I can see as being helpful in autonomous weapons or military operations like image recognition and transcription. Is OpenAI going to resell whisper for a billion dollars?

I saw this on Reddit last night. I shared the results of this prompt with my cofounder, he replied in kind.

I thought this was an interesting concept. It feels a little dystopian in a corporate context but much less so in an early stage startup.

I feel the same way often but I find it to be very similar to coding. Whether coding or prompting when I’m doing rote, boring work I find it tedious. When I am solving a hard problem or designing something interesting I am engaged.

My app is fairly mature with well established patterns, etc. When I’m adding “just CRUD” as part of a feature it’s very tedious to prompt agents, reviewing code, rinse & repeat. Were I actually writing the code by hand I would probably be less productive and just as bored/unsatisfied.

I spent a decent amount of time today designing a very robust bulk upload API (compliance fintech, lots of considerations to be had) for customers who can’t do a batch job. When it was finished I was very pleased with the result and had performance tests and everything.

I agree with you in spirit but most people in the US look at college like job training. It’s literally advertised as job training on TV, buses and billboards. Teachers, parents, and media have long been seen as “the way” to get a job.

One of the most disappointing things about college was how little people cared about the liberal arts aspect, where humanities courses were an annoying box to tick.

Doesn’t this imply that a transformer or NN could fill in details more efficiently than traditional techniques?

I’m really curious why this would be preferable for a AAA studio game outside of potential cost savings. Also imagine it’d come at the cost of deterministic output / consistency in visuals.

I generated a script today to diff 2 CSVs into a Venn diagram, ran it twice, then deleted the code.

Here’s something WiLd and crazy — “in town” or “in range” delivery used to be free in major urban areas, and you’d tip the delivery driver $2-5.

Snowflake does revenue sharing, it’s possible that AI providers can start doing that too.

Totally makes sense! Thanks for the thoughtful answer.

> ETA: we are looking for evolutionary biologists. Not many entrepreneurial personalities here, more like a lot of bird watchers

In this case I’m sure that I’d be tempted to come to Norway and learn how ø is pronounced.

I see your point and it is similar when you consider a profitable company but think it is different from startup equity because you are raising capital you’re assigning a speculative dollar amount to build the business.

Gotcha! I did a 2 second google to illustrate what I was trying to ask in my original question about someone trying to recruit researchers. I did a ChatGPT query to see what my hypothetical would be and it quoted ~$44,880 USD, not taking it as gospel though.

I have worked at startups and got some worthless equity. I've also launched some (small) things on my own and am very interested in building large things, raising some money, etc.

Given OOP is actively recruiting I'm really just curious how this could effect your/their/someone in or interested in Norway's thinking when they could go anywhere in the EU or from TFA, remain in the US.

Thanks for that! I’ve not heard of the Draghi report.

https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/dragh...

The problem is that the wealth tax is based on your assets. 51% ownership of your $10M early stage startup is $5.1M in wealth, not a liquid asset. Nevertheless, you will owe $51k/yr to the Norwegian government.

If you raise a second round at $15M, next year you owe $76k, so on. This creates an impossible situation for a founder of, let’s say, a fission reactor startup.

I could be wrong also, I was curious to hear a real life Norwegian’s thought about it.

A system like this only serves entrenched interests, not entrepreneurs or workers. Want to make a life saving drug? Have to sell off ownership of your company or use runway to pay taxes on something that could be absolutely worthless in the end or wind up losing control. Better off selling to Novonordisk!

How do you think that Norway’s wealth tax could impact its ability to draw talent from any other country? Knowing that, should you develop anything (drug, material, etc) and want to spin it out to a startup, you will be taxed on the unrealized valuation would weigh very heavily on me were I a researcher.

Full disclosure, I know that this isn’t everyone’s goal, but this is HN after all!

Will what OpenAI & others serve as precedent for Alexandra Elbakyan of SciHub and avenge Aaron?

Cynically, I imagine it will not but I hope that it could.

Same thing happens in the US too —- at least in the north east. If you go to New York, northern New Jersey, Boston or even Chicago, people in their 40s and younger don’t often sound like their parents; there’s little to no accent.

I work with a younger guy from the south and he definitely has an accent but that could be an anomaly.

This was the idea behind soylent if I’m not mistaken.

How do you get a Firefox window to float on top like the iPhone preview window does?

I use it for a floating window for watching videos & for sending SMS. It’s nice but I forget about it pretty often.

I assumed it was a safe place to live in the year 1300 through the 1800s when Napoleon was romping through Italy on through to the 1940s.

That’s called RAG, and it still doesn’t work as well as you might imagine.

I don’t think the issue lies in using the same language to write the client & server. IME projects become brittle & hard to refactor when you use a full stack framework because you wind up writing a ton of controller code or a sprawling service layer to support different features for each page. This isn’t exclusive to using a framework, I’ve done the same thing with API endpoints in the past.

Making a general purpose API as if it were its own product seems to lead to better, more sustainable outcomes.

Most everyone I’ve encountered in my personal life has been introduced to Eastern beliefs through some western reinterpretation or a “guru”.

I’d read someone, somewhere (maybe here), write about their pilgrimage to somewhere in Asia. He was very disappointed by the monks he’d met and their lack of answers and felt Hinduism or Buddhism was really no different from Christianity.

I too had been disillusioned by religion and considered myself an atheist. Later, though, I found the Dao De Jing, Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada & Suttanipata* to be life changing. I read them on their own, without seeking further discourse or spiritual guidance, after listening to Duncan Trussel’s podcast for a long while. It’s even changed my perspective on Christian and Jewish theology.

All that to say, it’s personal. It’s my strong opinion that if you go seeking enlightenment from a person or an institution and cannot separate the art from the artist (or the message from the messenger) and do not read the source material you will always come away disappointed.

* haven’t finished the whole book yet

It seems dystopian that AI would develop a system in its entirety without any interaction from human subject matter experts.

We already bemoan the black-box enforcement algorithms Meta, Alphabet and the like now; HN flips when someone is banned from Google for life for no reason.

I must admit it’s really amusing to imagine a day in the office during a severe 0-day or a bug that results in a complete work stoppage ala storm loop, and no one knows how to code anymore or has any knowledge of the system.

Everyone prompting away, asking over and over “Why won’t it work?! Please fix your system!”

After months, every new version having a worse defect than the last, with 30% of businesses simply shuttered and faith in the economy at an all time low, the AI only has one response

> This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.

Please die.

Please.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-m...

What about an Apple TV-like set top box? Maybe an ASOP based replacement for Android TV ala graphine.

That might be specific to your hearing aids.

With AirPods I only click once to connect on my MacBook and once to change the output back on whatever app I’ve been listening to on my phone (phone stays connected, laptop disconnects).

I think on my personal laptop, AirPods Max stay connected to both the phone and laptop. On my work laptop I have to manually connect. Might be an Apple ID thing, not sure.

I did some research and you can send a letter to the post master to request they stop delivering for certain addresses. Seems there’s a service for this too

https://www.paperkarma.com/product/paperkarma-subscription/

> Mail Withheld From Delivery. An addressee may request his or her postmaster, in writing, to withhold from delivery for a period not exceeding 2 years any foreign letter or printed matter bearing a specified name or address appearing on the outside. Such mail is marked “Refused” by the Post Office™ and treated as undeliverable.

https://about.usps.com/what/business-services/delivery-growt...