kykeonaut

Isn't scanning also a form of copyright infringement? You are making a digital copy of a book, which is the same thing as downloading a book from the internet...

In what world is 20,179 dead children the lesser of two evils?

> I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match.

Sounds like the Dunning-Kruger effect to me. "I can do this with LLMs, therefore any Sr. engineer can do this with LLMs"

The weights Mason, what do they mean!?

> Those questions that it will no longer occur to you to ask (not just of the robot, but of yourself) might be the most pertinent ones!

That is true, but then again also with google. You could see why some people want to go back to the "read the book" era where you didn't have google to query anything and had to make the real questions.

I am surprised at the amount of comments that dismiss coding as just means to an end. Yes, every skill at the end of the day is a means to an end, but mastery of those skills is at the end what drives the vision. To know where you are going you need to know where you have been.

it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction

I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1].

These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are.

[0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107...

No no, let him deploy to production.

Isn't "contributing little to the system" and "taking underpaid jobs" a contradiction? If you are taking a job, you are contributing to the system.

Seems like implicit bias. "Many people in my circle have an H1-B visa, thus it is far from impossible to get one."

However, an increase in computing quality doesn't necessarily mean an increase in output quality, as you need compute power + data to train these models.

Just increasing compute power will increase the performance/training speed of these models, but you also need to increase the quality of the data that you are training these models on.

Maybe... the reason why these models show a high school level of understanding is because most of the data on the internet that these models have been trained on is of high school graduate quality.

Wouldn't some sort of proof of work be a good solution to the captcha problem?

Specially since all of the sudden, a bot service running hundreds of thousands of requests will suddenly and inadvertedly have to compute cryptographic hashes at the cost of the user running the bots?

The post seems to be talking about the current capabilities of large language models. We can certainly talk about what they can or cannot do as of today, as that is pretty much evidence based.

Turns out that Tlaxcaltecas did most of the work in conquering the Aztecs. They also had vast privileges granted by the Spanish once the conquest was over. For example, they were granted the title of Don. Not as black and white as it might seem.

but those improvements, and the complexity that they bring, are not enough to make the switch from a Go codebase to a Rust codebase unless performance is REALLY an issue.

It is against their TOS :)

So the human brain is a great operating system that is desperately missing a good text editor...

because candy is to carbohydrates what meth is to adderall :)

thinking about lizard with lizard brain hard

Last post I could find was from 15 years ago. Anything new since then?

Did this just get removed from the HN front page?

you are right in the fact that some dishes will be phased out, but new dishes will spring up. they might not be the old ones, but that is the way of human evolution :)

one example that springs up to mind is in dutch cuisine. take for example the "kapsalon" which is a mix of surinamese, dutch, and middleastern dishes. this is a new dish created in 2003 but which enjoys of massive popularity; you cannot find a snackbar in the netherlands that does not prepare kapsalon.

it is not all bad :) look at latin america where colonization has erased a lot of the regional dishes. yet new combinations have arisen from a mix of pre-columbian and european dishes. tacos in mexico combining corn tortilla with cow and pork based fillings, or ceviche in peru are just a few examples of "comida criolla".

right now, it might be a swing in the direction of sameism, but i assure you that eventually new dishes will arise.

great point.

however, i dont think it is a matter of offending people, but of boiling down our differences to the least common denominator. if you ask people around the world what the color of the sky should be, you cannot be surprised when they all answer "blue"

Hi Shiroiushi,

Nice that you were able to break the cycle.

Maybe the fact that it was such a big sacrifice is one of the reasons why some people tend not to value it, as it requires them to deeply change a lot of their cultural values. Maybe it is not that they don't value education, but they don't value the culture that formal education entails (white collar, college educated, city life culture). Speaking broadly here, of course. A quick and extreme example to me is the mandatory native american reeducation camps. These peoples were subjected to a complete change in culture in addition to education.

I think that in a perfect world, we could do a shift in education, and instead of molding the people to the culture necessary to succeed academically, we can mold education to fit the people.

"tenants" clearly being the superior option

view source :)

more than likely for the National Day of Spain which also falls on Oct 12th :)