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The company that helps connect kids with the adults who want to harm them is having a hard time replacing humans? Shocking.

1: true. 2: that someone else has to get approval for the cost

And AI is the reason why developers are being laid off.

Don't trust a fox to count your chickens.

I guess the days of engineers getting to be so casual about memory footprint and CPU cycles is over.

Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled.

I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announced pretty substantial price hikes.

Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold.

Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee number.

Opening paragraph is not the profile of a rockstar developer.

At least not the rockstars I had the pleasure of working with.

It had nothing to do with smarts. They held a public comment about the changes and responded accordingly.

I left my comment saying it was a bad idea.

Early on with ChatGPT I had it write a script for an Avengers movie, but all the Avengers have below average intelligence.

More like, HN crowd is anti-HYPE

So obviously there is no reason to invent things that are not true.

Because everyone who has ever been convicted of a crime actually committed the crime.

Thank god. I’ve been waiting to have a reason to tell someone I collect fountain pens.

Computers depreciate because they are obviously being supplanted by newer better models—until they become vintage and then move into collectibles.

I’ve had the best luck selling in Craigslist. Every other platform has been sub par.

No. Our justice system has never actually been based on evidence.

It’s based on the doctrine of judicial discretion in the name of preserving order.

Not just google. I asked ChatGPT about some pen refills, and it gave me a very factual response sourcing to my own reddit post discussing the topic.

Generating a QR code to see the graph online is kind of cool, but also kinda dumb too.

I mean, these days kids have smartphones, what's the point of a graphing calculator?

The comments on this are fascinating. Although, I was waiting for someone to chime in with "HP is better cuz RPN."

2 dinners out for a family of four would cover the cost of this calculator. If my kid's school required this for math, I wouldn't bat an eye at purchasing one.

I needed a Ti-83 for school in 1996-1998. If you couldn't afford one, the school would loan you one for the semester. Band instruments were the same way.

Claude does not have a "theory" of anything, and I'd argue applying that mental model to LLM+Tools is a major reason why Claude can delete a production database.

Well summarized.

We're also seeing that the people up top are using this to cull the herd.

I've used Claude for many months now. Since February I see a stark decline in the work I do with it.

I find myself repeating the following pattern: I use an AI model to assist me with work, and after some time, I notice the quality doesn't justify the time investment. I decide to try a similar task with another provider. I try a few more tests, then decide to switch over for full time work, and it feels like it's awesome and doing a good job. A few months later, it feels like the model got worse.

In my opinion, the problem with PEDS isn't adults taking them if they would just admit to taking them.

The incentive to cheat and hide was one of the points from the podcast. In Cycling, in order to win, you have to compete with other cyclists who are doping, and doing so in such a way that they are unlikely to get caught. In order to win, you have to dope and not get caught. Youre not forced to dope, but the option is there, and yours to take should you choose.

I do not have the background that allows me to make medical decisions based reading published medical articles, so I have to trust my doctors advice, and seek 2nd opinions if I'm not convinced.

My issue was the disingenuous use of a "5-year post compete" monitoring as justification for Enhanced Games.

Freakanomics podcast had a recent episode regarding Cheating with PEDS, and interviewed the (former) head of the Enhanced Games. At one point, he discussed the benefit for society because athletes would be monitored for 5-years post performance.

To me, it seemed like a modern day tech-take of human cock-fighting.

Thank you for explaining that.

I'm a lib, but enough is enough. Let gun owners have their guns. Let 3d Printers have their prints. Neither group is the problem.

Help me understand. Is this just AI replacing influencers?

John Lithgow had a take I agreed with: Her opinions were heavily misconstrued though she chose to double down at her own peril.

and a few of them did get pretty far, but ultimately not a single one actually launched.

Having done this professionally for a very, very long time, software engineers aren't particularly good at launching products.

Technology has drastically lowered the barriers to bring software products to customers, and AI is a continuation of that trend.

Very powerful tool. In the right hands.