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pavinjoseph

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Systems Engineer, Mailcheap Github: https://github.com/pavinjosdev
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pavinjoseph··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
LeCun calls these peeps "paranoid" and "crazy". Harsh, but I agree with him. Some have formed cults that worship LLMs. (facepalm)
pavinjoseph··on Extra Big Ass Intelligence
S4 - Super Statistical Surveillance State
pavinjoseph··on Barcodes are about to go extinct
JAB Code (color bar code) can fit more data into the same space: https://jabcode.org/
pavinjoseph··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
So far the impact of LLMs have been very much overstated. Like most (all?) tools, they require a human in the loop to work as intended. This fear of being replaced by an LLM is unfounded and irrational.

The alternatives that may cause such mass displacement like World Models and such are yet to be proven.

pavinjoseph··on Show HN: Drop – a rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
This is exactly what I was looking for - the website and docs are easy on the brain. I have some apps hosted on distrobox containers that I'd rather not have write access to my home dir.
pavinjoseph··on The revolt of the reader
I had to reread the first one but I wanted to read it! The second one was understood on the first scan but was a chore to read.

Does that make sense?

pavinjoseph··on Show HN: Elevators
Surprised that the LOOK algo beat RSR in the final sim!
pavinjoseph··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
The original RDB!
pavinjoseph··on Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From ‘Suicide' to 'Active Investigation’
Just watched the mother's interview where she presented an independently conducted investigation report on Tucker's show. Doesn't appear remotely close to a suicide.

Guy was hit in the head while brushing his teeth, sat in a sitting position and shot from above. Wonder how they can get to so many peeps in positions of authority. Coroner, local PD, attorneys were all compromised.

pavinjoseph··on Zed on Linux Is Here
Not very good experience after opening a simple Python script with no external dependencies in zed for linux. They use Pyright and there was an error and warning that were both incorrect. VSCode uses Pylance IIRC and it's not complaining.
pavinjoseph··on If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it
I had a decent experience with a service recently that used a ChatGPT powered support agent, it couldn't deal with my situation but I was surprised by how quickly it knew its own limitations and handed me to an actual human who helped me out.

Edit: The chatbot in question was not powered by ChatGPT a few months ago and it was pretty bad, a few canned QAs and really weird loops to get to a human agent. Before that the same service had direct human support. But as someone who has worked in a support capacity myself I will take the nice middle ground with a decent LLM that can quickly dispatch me to a human agent should it not be able to solve the issue.

pavinjoseph··on Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components
Incredible! I wonder how much delay there is between the sensor data coming in to ISS, being relayed to NASA, fetched by these guys and forwarded to their model's actuators.
pavinjoseph··on Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware
Good that I don't have to worry about things like this when downloading from official OpenSuse repos. Are they allowed to bundle adware into flatpaks and AppImages?