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I was hoping to see a graph of em-dash usage over time across all comments - would be interesting to see the spike post LLM


Indeed, that is interesting, the author could probably spit out that answer in seconds. As - for the most part, anyway - a traditionalist and ASCII7 adherent I find it funny to think about how this is probably also a good indicator of the age of the writer.


When I saw your name on the leaderboard, I was shocked -- I say shocked -- and I hoped that all of the messages you posted with em dashes were just quoting other people using them, and ripping them a new *.


Lol, I wonder how many people you made to check. How are the kittens?


Safety critical (will kill someone if not bug free) code makes up <1% of what's shipped, safety clothes which must be of high quality else risk harm to someone make up a similarly small percent

Both will stay manual / require high level of review they're not what's being disrupted (at-least in near term) - it's the rest.


Nearly all clothing is still produced in an extremely manual process.

What was automated was the production of raw cloth.


This is a distinction without a difference. Even if you take a rudimentary raw cloth comparison like cotton vs heavy wool (the latter being fire resistant and used historically used by firemen, ie. “Safety critical”), the machines’ output quality was significantly lower than manual output for the latter.

This phenomenon is a general one… chainsaws vs hand saws, bread slicers vs hand slicing, mechanical harvesters vs manual harvesting, etc.


That’s just not the general case at all. Automated or “powered” processes generally lead to a more consistent final product. In many cases the quality is just better than what can be done by hand.


There are many corporate nightmare level scenarios out there. There is no need to reach loss of life situations to make my point.

A large enough GDPR or SOX violation is the boogeyman that CEO's see in their nightmares.


Similar story, running modded COD4 dedicated servers largely got me into programming.

It's depressing the modern COD lobbies - chucked in with skill matched randoms on a small range of gamemodes, comms kept to a minimum so no one gets offended.

Then don't get me started how 50% of playtime is spent loading / in lobbies so eye balls on store can be maximised - I'll pass.


Overoptimization truly squeezes the health and fun and soul out of everything.


I'm already burnt from amazon Q which was forced onto us in an alpha state in my workplace - was miles behind competitors for a full year, before we finally won the battle to move back to co-pilot.

Going to take a while before I trust any AWS AI related tooling won't just be abandoned / mis-managed after my prior experience.


Is every story on HN relevant for every user?


Many people are running 4k resolution now, and a 4080 struggles to to break 100 frames in many current games maxed (never-mind future titles) - therefore there's plenty of a market with gamers and the 5x series (myself included) who are looking for closer to 4090 performance at a non obscene price.


This is just absolutely false, Steam says that 4.21% of users play at 4K. The number of users that play at higher than 1440p is only 10.61%. So you are wrong, simply wrong.


This is a chicken and egg thing, though - people don't play at 4K because it requires spending a lot of $$$ on top-of-the-line GPU, not because they don't want to.


Did I say all the people, or did I say many people?..

Why are you so hostile? I'm not justifying the cost, I'm simply in the 4k market and replying to OP's statement "Any modern card under $1000 is more than enough for graphics in virtually all games" which is objectively false if you're a 4k user.



To flip the question - any modern card provider will 2fa through an app if the payment is suspicious, so why waste your time manually entering them?

It's the same reason I use a password manager, it's convenient and 2fa exists.


Seemed pretty simple to me and it's not my field.

My understanding was given a prompt X that is normally rejected, create Y variations with small adjustments to phrasing, grammar etc until it gives you the answer you're after.

The term "jailbreaking" used within a LLM context, is when you craft a prompt as to escape the safety sandbox, if that helps.

A sort of brute forcing the prompts if you like.



daveshap quit ai right? got agi pilled/"oneshotted by ayahuasca" as the kids say


He was only gone for a few days, IIRC. At any rate, he's back publishing AI related content again, and it looks like all (?) of his old content is back on his YT channel.


honestly his channel quality is notably different than the other 2 you mentioned. i'm vaguely curious what you get out of it that makes you put him on the same tier.


I think you replied to the wrong person. I didn't put DaveShap on any tier or anything.

That said... I will say that in one of my other replies I did mention that some YT channels in this space can be a bit tabloid'ish, and I may have had Shapiro partly in in mind when saying that. But I still subscribe to his channel and some similar ones, just to get a variety of takes and perspectives.


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