I remember there was a flood of similar campaigns on Facebook a couple years ago. Multiple pages, some posts sponsored, some gaming the algorithm, very similar messaging. All about children suffering from cancer. All leading to scammy-looking domain names, some using IDNs. I had been wondering where the catch was, then got tired and just started reporting and blocking them until they stopped.
I can't help but notice (yeah, I know, lots of stupid takes start with this) that many articles about vibe coding and AI enablement describe how you can write an agent which will help you vibe-code an application which is wrapping some model to generate even more applications that largely do more of the same.
Nobody is writing a tutorial on how to use ML to make a robot to fold laundry. Instead, it's you spend tokens to spend more tokens to spend even more tokens. At this point, the word "token" starts bearing unwelcome connotations with "tokens" from NFTs and Brave's "BAT" fads.
Would your prompt have been identical and produced identical results, today, tomorrow, which version of AI would you have used, were there bugs present that made the post or comment interesting that would have been absent in your response because the bug had been fixed already?
>Would your prompt have been identical and produced identical results, today, tomorrow, which version of AI would you have used, were there bugs present that made the post or comment interesting that would have been absent in your response because the bug had been fixed already?
Why is that relevant to GP's point?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I come to HN to discuss stuff with other humans. If I wanted an LLM's (it's not AI, it's a predictive text algorithm) regurgitations, I can generate those myself and don't need "helpful" HNers to do it for me unasked.
When I come here I want to have a discussion with other sentient beings, not the gestalt of training data regurgitated by a bot.
Perhaps that makes me old-fashioned and/or bigoted against interacting with large language models, but that's what I want.
In discussion, I want to know what other sentient beings think, not an aggregation of text tokens based on their probability of being used in a particular sequence determined by the data fed to model.
The former can (but may well not be) a creative, intellectual act by a sentient being. The latter will never be so, as it's an aggregation of existing data/information as a sequence of tokens cobbled together based on the frequency with which such tokens are used in a particular order in the model's corpus.
That's not to say that LLM are useless. They are not. But their place is not in "curious conversation," IMNSHO.
In any case, it should have some more thought to it, some summary, some highlight, what you find useful/insightful about it. Just dumping the response is lazy and disrespectful.
And if two people can get two opposite results by giving the same prompt which asks a very specific question to the same model, it looks like bunk anyway. LLMs don't care if they are correct.
Pure perl modules are not, unless they use syntactic features that first appear in the newer versions.
Modules with C extensions have to be recompiled with libperl they run against, as much as CPython extensions link to a particular libpython, and guess Ruby is the same. But they, with very few exceptions, will recompile and run fine. XS is cryptic but its backwards compatibility story is good.
I think people like you don't understand these things well. you can be civilized and deal with things in a professional way, or we can do things in a very uncivilized way. You can't be uncivilized and then whine about someone running to HR. I'd like to see you or Andrew call someone that to their face outside of a work setting with no authority to run to when there are consequences.
If Andrew considers Zig a professional software to be used in production environments, then this is a indeed a professional setting. If not, then it is a hobby project run by immature/whiny people like you, so let's just ignore it and talk about more serious people/projects.
> But you really need to make sure to be right when you are putting other people down. I mean REALLY right, you need to tripple check that what you are doing is going to help an honest person to improve themselves.
But it then loses the emotional momentum and stops being colorful!
If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration.
The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.
Back in the day when phones of this style were the only ones available we learned to hold the handset between our shoulder and our ear, leaving both hands free for other things.
That was one of the things they considered when they designed phones. A lot of money was spent on ergonomics getting this "right". Of course we now know a lot more about ergonomics today, but they did the best they could and did a great job considering.
NB: Many of these older phones already came with metal weights insides to give a feeling of more substance to them. Not always in the handset, though it wouldn’t surprise me if some did have them.
Usually, the base of the phone itself was a sturdy metal plate. So while not the handset itself, the phone unit was usually a pretty decent self defense weapon candidate as was widely displayed in many a fight scene in movies from the time.
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