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throwaway5371··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
i have moved to this camp as well, and i don't mean in the "we don't understand it so we call it magic", i mean it seems more and more like actual magic.

people are talking about timing attacks on state updates in the universe, hopefully we can exploit it

throwaway5371··on New startup sells coffee through SSH
you can say the same about the widget, as the website embedding the widget has access to the document's keydown
throwaway5371··on Learn COBOL in a day
aren't llm's used right now to rewrite all the cobol?
throwaway5371··on Ocean Heat Record Broken
https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c
throwaway5371··on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
not really

it turns out you need half the people to do the same job

throwaway5371··on Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around
pretty much with most groups, from the cdc to ftc to fifa :)
throwaway5371··on India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
of course they are, its a choice do you let the state do that or the family
throwaway5371··on India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
it is education standard if you are on the right side of it, sometimes you see it as the formation of the new soviet man if you are not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man

throwaway5371··on India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
home schooling is practically illegal in most of western europe

and school is taking more and more of the child's life

throwaway5371··on €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta
ohh, how would the EU survive, the omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient US tech that has improved our lives beyond recognition, and we are eternally grateful to the tech gods.
throwaway5371··on Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office
where are they gonna go when few allow wfh?
throwaway5371··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
my advice is dont stress, whatever you do, some people will not like it

for some reason people think what we have now is good, and they say "dont reinvent the wheel" but there is no wheel, what we have is just garbage, 50 years and later we still cant beat the "unix pipe"

we have to keep trying to make a wheel

throwaway5371··on Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
it solves static traffic, which in many cities will solve traffic
throwaway5371··on Don't write clean code, write CRISP code
i just try to write code that can be deleted later

the sooner the better

throwaway5371··on AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
thats a weird flex
throwaway5371··on ChatGPT and Wolfram Is Insane
it will be the end of all non AI UI and by that I mean pixels drawn by AI jit
throwaway5371··on GPT-4
how far is this from the following prompt:

you are god human that has read and understood all scientific papers from all disciplines in the last 500 years, you know the limitations of mankind's current technologies, tell me what we can do to cure MS right now, how to do the tests and how to distribute the cure

throwaway5371··on Were React hooks a mistake?
yes
throwaway5371··on They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam
tornado warnings are paid by taxes
throwaway5371··on They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam
then pay? why should people write stuff so you can read them for free?
throwaway5371··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
it feels weird, like watching dreams that are almost consistent but something is always a bit off, makes you question your sanity

i personally started having different dreams after using gpt and stable diffusion for few weeks

i suspect this will be studied in the future

throwaway5371··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
most people are pathetically bad at their jobs, the sooner you realise that the better

sometimes thats you, so you should always reflect and improve

throwaway5371··on Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs
isnt that good? fuchsia success means death of linux, similar to how chrome success meant death of firefox (purely because of funding and power)
throwaway5371··on ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
most marketing copy is now written by mediocre humans who are much worse than mediocre ai
throwaway5371··on Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
is twitter going to be profitable if it can run with 10% of the workforce?
throwaway5371··on Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites
this is absolutely amazing

i love it

throwaway5371··on Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
or, you know, pay for the great software you use?
throwaway5371··on Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study
also has astonishing influence to get invited to a job interview

i had a friend who changed their name in their CV and got 90% success rate, and was close to 10% before

throwaway5371··on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
so it will just be 20 mil a year with 3 jr devs

sounds ok?

throwaway5371··on Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
all of Tanenbaum's books, especially Structured Computer Organization
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