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Would you believe me if I told you you’re only the second biggest AI maximalist on this forum? Despite the extraordinary claims I keep reading from you. Gotta work harder at it mate.

This is hilarious and blindingly obvious in hindsight that an LLM would fall for that

If there’s a country that would make improperly tagged sarcasm illegal, it’s the UK.

See you in line at the biofuel processing station with everybody else, despite having pathetically tried to convince the clankers you have been on their side all along.

Also you might want to put down Warhammer 40K and read more serious speculative science fiction. The Omnissiah won’t care about you at all.

I dream of a world where people that cannot discern obvious irony and satire on the internet would be banned from it in perpetuity.

Did I say 1950 pop stars popularity was authentic? I'm just saying the implicit question of this post's title can be simply answered with "they're so popular because of marketing, duh"

I fear you're hopelessly blind to your hypocrisy, there is no way you are only giving your money to people you agree with politically.

And there is more to life than politics, even though I feel it's hard to understand in the current hysterical climate of social media echo chambers and US politics. It is honestly terrifying to live in a world where most hope everyone else would conform and have the exact same perspective of the world as them, else they get accused of wrongthink.

No, but I can’t seem to reply to notifications via email any more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991146

Attractive looking cartoon characters, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The two largest vtuber agencies/companies are publicly traded in Japan.

Which makes their popularity as organic as the explosion of the K-Pop mania.

If you don't want to delegate the fun of learning to an LLM, here's how I've built a RV64IM simulator in C in a weekend. All you need is an opcode table, the RISC-V specs and to implement each instruction; the good thing of RISC CPUs is that instructions are very simple (i.e. pretty much everything is a variation of `dest = src1 OP src2`) and memory instructions are dedicated. The other cool thing is that there are no "flags". Start with the base instruction set, then you can add M on top later. 64-bit support requires just a handful more instructions to zero/sign extend from 32-bit.

Then, wire your simulator to https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-tests, and there you have an official test suite. When everything passes, you have a fully-compliant RISC-V CPU. You can at this point tell GCC or Rust or your favourite language to compile to RV32IM and see it run on your simulator. It's a very gratifying process.

If you get at this stage, you might want to use the ecall instruction to hard-code I/O operations such as "read from stdin" or "print a character", and there you have a sandboxed CPU that you can target with your favourite programming language. Make it run DOOM (start with https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric and see which I/O do you need), or turn it into a toy game console; the sky's the limit.

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Here's a copy-paste of the list of resources I have saved in my notes:

- https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv A very fast RISC-V VM with sandboxing of memory and syscalls.

- https://luplab.gitlab.io/rvcodecjs/ RISC-V Instruction Encoder/Decoder

- https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/noteboo... Reference card

- https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1952y/2024/assets/docs/risc... Spec

- https://riscv-software-src.github.io/riscv-unified-db/manual...

- ABI: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-psabi/attachment/61/0/riscv-a...

Good luck!

Neither do I, but I hate authoritarianism (and hypocrisy) even more. People are free to have different opinions than mine, and I will defend their right to do so.

I remain a happy Mullvad user.

People who look at this from a US political perspective is going to get a lot of misunderstanding

Honestly you’ve summed up 90% of social media outrage.

I want to like Hyprland, but it truly is the embodiment of Jamie Zawinski’s “cascade of attention deficit teenagers”

This is what happens when software is created by too-smart teenagers, that change their mind as fast as they improve at programming, and expect that everyone is spending 12 hours a day configuring their desktop environment while hanging out in ‘ricing’ discords (“what do you mean you have a day job?”)

Worse, if you dare criticize it, the fanboys come out of the woodwork saying you should really just use an LLM to convert to Lua and that you are dumb trying to do it manually. The hubris is untenable.

After 3 or 4 breaking changes over the years, I decided I’d rather use some other desktop environment honestly, until the core team literally grows up. Niri is great, and its author is much more… mature.

Surely if the machine you go to for answers regularly makes things up you would just stop using it?

Steve Yegge likened LLMs to slot machines. The human brain is very vulnerable to random reward systems. If you get an hallucination, just pull the lever once more.

More like the death of the public Internet before our eyes

“This is good for AI”

the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months

The last thing any government will want to deal with is massive irretrievable data loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_FrQnQv0Vw

Anything that frees us from labour is good.

Including labour itself? All we're doing is optimising the amount of time we can dedicate to work.

More like pro-US exceptionalism, and any announcement for products created outside of it (whether it's EU or China) is met with doubts and skepticism.

Unless something is from Japan, then it's perfect and any criticism is because you don't appreciate its unique cultural heritage.

Open the comment section. Look at the the top comment. It will be negative

My favourite pastime is clicking on any comment section of any topic whatsoever, betting that the top comment is someone going "well, ackshually..."

HN loves a contrarian skeptic, it has nothing to do with Western tech or AI specifically.

People say they want to get challenged.

most people don't want to turn off their brains

Biologically, life is an effort-minimizing machine. Our brains have a whole system of habit-forming to minimize the enormous amount of energy it takes to think.

Whatever people say, give them a way to think less, and they will necessarily prefer it unless they literally are a Buddhist monk, seeking to be aware over every action and thought.

Assuming both people are truthful and operating in good faith, how can this be explained?

Quite simply, difference in skill.

The sysadmin that has configured a few applications in their career would likely get annoyed at how many mistakes an LLM makes.

The manager who barely knows their way around a shell, uses an LLM to configure an application in less than the three business days it will take them, and will claim they are 10x more productive now.

Once again, LLMs are effectively great at triggering the Dunning-Kruger effect. The least you know, the more productive you feel.

The second link doesn’t work for me on iOS: here’s a better one: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-societ...

Yes, that’s like claiming the invention of the wheel is a step towards landing on the moon. Eventually the boffins will crack the problem of consciousness, what I am saying is that LLM technology itself has nothing to do with general (human-like) intelligence.

Arguably people worrying about job loses are not worried enough.

Do you people get off by fantasizing about people losing their job, or worse? (whatever you are implying)

Yes, become a terrorist. I believe in the supremacy of biological life, and find anyone seeking to create God out of the machine to be a blaspheme upon Nature.

The good thing is that LLMs will not bring forth AGI. True AGI effectively means ASI, and you will get recycled into biofuel like me and everybody else before you have time to cry ‘spare me please, I used to be an AI booster’

Ever heard of Meredith Whittaker?

The fact that you name one makes her very rare indeed.

Young men would not feel so alienated if progressives and social media didn’t keep telling them they are violent rapist scum too dumb to think for themselves. Their choice for role model is a society that despises and blames them, or hucksters despising and blaming the other side. Who is young Timmy gonna listen to?

If kids flock to Andrew Tate, the problem are not the kids, nor their gender, but society as a whole must have fucked up enormously and failed 50% of the human population.

Generalising comments like yours ruin lives and you should feel ashamed about it. Sadly, you can find them on the front page of any left-of-centre newspaper.

It was not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959936

I used to read Coding Horror, I have been a programmer for longer than I had high speed Internet, yet somehow I never felt the urge to create a StackOverflow account. I have literally never browsed the site, always landed from Google and left when I found my answer.

There was an era of the Internet where moderators were seen as the solution to all the problems of Internet communities. Then we discovered that those people that enjoy playing petty bureaucrat for virtual karma will end up alienating normal users, especially in places that wants to maintain a certain standard of quality and not aim to the lowest denominator like Reddit, for example.