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physPop··on Don't paste the AI, please
Trained writers and journalists know that short sentences are an important tool. They convey directness.

Perhaps that speaks more to your education and that of "most poeple on hn"

physPop··on Don't paste the AI, please
I think you need to get out and see what life is like. This isn't a leadership problem at all, it is human nature. No one does sums anymore, we use calculators. We've outsourced computation. But now many workers outsource thinking and communication, which is hugely problematic. So yes, good companies should have AI usage guidance documents, in fact providing clear expectations might be labelled ... leadership.
physPop··on Everything you do is being recorded
but you don't have separation of church and state... thats a poor comparison. religious dogma eats into nearly all public discourse.
physPop··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
HN crowd is not representative of the world at large. consumers don't care. cost and convenience are primary motivators.
physPop··on F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language
yes thats the main reason, agda , coq similar ideas
physPop··on Anime User Interfaces
re: wargames https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1iboomc/i_spent_a_...
physPop··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
agree. If oia and hf are anything like generic startup / corporate america, IT and security is always seen as a cost center and goes to the lowest bidder. Do we really think they're employing top notch sysadmins?
physPop··on When A.I. is a member of the family
no it doesn't work at all -- because the LLM isn't sentient, emotional, nor does it care for the user
physPop··on When A.I. is a member of the family
No. Even for large models that a good mental model. This is parroted all over and is wrong. Its not going to generate out of distribution answers. Its a probabilistic function of the training set.
physPop··on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
Its for reasoning not generating art?
physPop··on I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner
and the heating
physPop··on I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner
butterfly and the swoop are both essentially useless too compared to their reference devices
physPop··on SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund
Thats the definition of cherry picking and survivorship bias
physPop··on The dead economy theory
no? this isn't what it argues at all. did you read it?
physPop··on The dead economy theory
It's not widely known and mostly spun in MSM as fringe theory (thanks to marketing by big AI cos). this is a well written essay, and if it helps the discourse all the better.
physPop··on Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?
Its also cheap, and fire retardant compared to other finishing. It used to be lathe+plaster. And before that plain wood.
physPop··on Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?
China does it and it works well. We just need governments with executive planning capabilities. In my country (Canada) we only have myopic politicians who only care for re-election.
physPop··on Have a Coherent AI Policy
Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
physPop··on Have a Coherent AI Policy
false dichotomy.
physPop··on Show HN: Rust but Lisp
so you can do the transformations (see the rlisp macro section)
physPop··on Programming Still Sucks
26% means not ai 3/4 times...
physPop··on The bottleneck was never the code
If you don't have stakeholders I contend you probably don't have a product, or you're building the bare minimum MVP which upon becoming a product will be woefully inadequate, generating the aforementioned bottleneck.
physPop··on The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
That's only true if you're making something that's already been done.
physPop··on Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python
python isn't untyped, its dynamically typed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2351190/static-dynamic-v...
physPop··on Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
I feel like thats really oversellign coro -- theres still a TON of boilerplate
physPop··on UBI as a productivity dividend
Aren't utilities, by definition, state owned? Or is that also backwards in america?
physPop··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
Paper mills existed long before LLMs
physPop··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
it does but you need various config tweaks
physPop··on Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
its not though. the primary job of software engineers is to ship a product that produces income for their employer.
physPop··on Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
patently false, have you attended one of his lecture series in person?
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