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hattmall··on I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
If anyone is looking for something similar it's worth looking into A somewhat less complex solution that preserves all functionality. Use the IR receiver plus a broadlink IR Hub. You can meet all the goals here, run it all locally the only downside is no 2 way communication. So if you do change the thermostat via the wall it won't be reflected in your app.
hattmall··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
The LLM could one shot a brilliant solution, or it could lead you down a days long path to nowhere. It could give you accurate useful information or it could completely make up something that isn't at all correct. The fact that each usage is a dice roll where you have a desired outcome that will be fulfilled at a variable level makes it very similar to gambling. And in fact the part that makes it addictive is the near hits where the LLM comes very close to giving you what you want, but not quite there. That keeps you coming back.
hattmall··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
A reward implies it was given by something outside of your control. The lack of traffic wasn't a reward given to you, it's just a state of the highway.
hattmall··on anystation: Calling any station A public board shaped like a tree. No account
What the hell are YOU talking about? Of course words can't actually hurt you. Being bothered <> hurt. You can hurt yourself perhaps in response to words but words can't do it, you have to apply the meaning and the hurt internally, as opposed to say rockets, which can hurt you without any involvement on your part at all.
hattmall··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
This is really a point that I think goes so misunderstood by so many. Yes billionaire's are bad, but people making 3x the median have a much bigger impact on those making median or less.
hattmall··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
People say this all the time and it's a huge issue. A main driver of current housing issues is that no one wants to over scale and have too many temporary jobs that disappear if housing demand slows down.

Datacenter construction jobs though are very very temporary and not really the kind of thing where we can keep building for no reason and then just tear down to rebuild again.

The reason we have so many "infrastructure" bills that are basically just build more roads is that there are so many temporary road construction jobs. If they don't keep building and those workers lose their jobs it's going to be a major crisis.

hattmall··on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
I have a few friends and family members like that and for the stories which I was present, they always hit the broad strokes, but the finer details get switched around and sometimes the whole story has a major perspective shift.
hattmall··on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine
Not really, it looks like this guy originally registered the business at his personal residence which is not really common. Kinda surprised if he still lives there considering how FLOCK has expanded.
hattmall··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
A lot of people have the exact opposite desires. There are millions of people who have the exact same things because they saw some influencer recommend it and they thought it was cool. I think it's probably the majority that want to have the same things as everyone else, very few people strive for uniqueness.
hattmall··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
We are seeing more of their "thinking". Lowering the refinement of the output to get closer to profitability. The nature of the LLM is that it generates huge amounts of text, then it iterates them down into a compact, hopefully accurate prose. That refinement is the really hard part and computationally costly.
hattmall··on The turbulent AI era is here
Can you offer you argument you would provide to those people? I use the top SOTA models for software development and it is certainly an impressive and useful function. The quality of the code is however fairly poor, explicit architectural guardrails are frequently circumvented and the "human readable" outputs are very reminiscent of gish-gallop debate strategies.

Software development, as opposed to many many other fields also offers nearly unlimited training data and is one of the few areas with modifiable inputs and testable outputs.

hattmall··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
Nah, they were just fucked up, plenty of rich people not into that and plenty of poor people that are into pedo rings etc.
hattmall··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
Wouldn't everyone else just restart the same economy with what resources they do have?
hattmall··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
LLMs absolutely do not write good code, nor documentation. They write even worse code when they have to modify what they wrote earlier and we are exclusively using the top models. The code is coming faster than it can be evaluated and there is a push to just implement things with less review but on so many occasions I have found things that would have been completely destructive.
hattmall··on The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?
2007 was very different. There was an entire industry propped up by artificially manufactured speculative demand. This was a real industry that produced loads of jobs,drove downstream industries and had significant involvement from a huge portion of the population.
hattmall··on It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
Just like with most things, LLM's are terrible at recipes if you are actually a good cook.

Your example is very flawed because if the LLM gave you the exact recipe then it would be infringement, but many recipes need to be exact. LLMs aggregate information so wanting a very specific recipe (to the point of hunting down an old cookbook) is a non-starter because it the LLM is really only guessing.

hattmall··on It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
Words are subjective. The person is saying that it is theft and if the law doesn't define it as such then the law should change. The implication is that taking from the public domain is theft if you then make it unavailable by destructive processes which render the public unable to access that which was previously available.
hattmall··on Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
That's some pretty extreme bitterness. Good luck to you.
hattmall··on Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
IDK, this seems short sighted. In my experience AI doesn't just create great things out of the gate. It CAN assist, but the AI flyers, writing, web interfaces etc, they have gotten played out really quickly. AI flyers just get ignored, writing is detectable after about 3 lines and AI interfaces get less usage. I definitely feel like there have been similar waves that equally faded out.
hattmall··on Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk
Are you implying the medicine did it or does the medicine just make you eat less which cleared it? Like is there an MOA of the drug itself?
hattmall··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
You are a proponent, but your outcomes seem worse?
hattmall··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Treat junk food like cigarettes
hattmall··on FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce
Irradiating enough to kill cyclospora oocysts would ruin the lettuce though.
hattmall··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Sure, but are you happy about the requirements of that licensing? Requirements that have continually expanded to require more "experience" over the years. I know in my state it was originally 1 year of experience or completion of a tech diploma and then you had to take the licensing exam. Now it is 5 years of experience and a diploma can count for one of those years. Which of course has pushed prices to insane levels.

Are you happy that the license is much less a license to do the work and much more of a license to hire unlicensed people to do all the work.

And lastly are you happy that private equity can "hire" the licensed professional to hire 100s more unlicensed people to run a huge company with a catchy slogan?

hattmall··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
A shit load of jobs could be taught to a useful level with a 4 month bootcamp. It's just that it's very easy to set up, scale, and monitor results for coding. It's the same with AI, AI isn't particularly good at coding compared to how good it could be at other tasks. It's just that by nature coding is easy to iterate, test, and verify. I've certainly seen AI produce impressive code that works but the actual quality of the code is abysmal.
hattmall··on FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce–and it raises questions
How does feces and a parasite get on so much lettuce? I'm assuming it's someone with the parasite shit in the field and it got on some lettuce, but how can like one persons shit get spread to 23,000 people's lettuce? Or is it something else like they are fertilizing the fields with human feces or something?
hattmall··on WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
Not completely surprising that AI could do well generating manga. It's very formulaic in general and by nature devoid of a lot of the relatable character development from most other writing. I have no problem reading an AI story if it's done well, but it typically just isn't. What I find annoying though is AI generated content that is only interesting if it's actually real. Like a historic photo or a video of some shocking event.
hattmall··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
If they aren't sold in retail stores or Amazon how are they sold? Private websites?

Amazon requires random sampling confirmation for supplements from independent labs though, so anything officially listed in a supplement category should be reliable.

hattmall··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
You're not wrong really, it's just a luxury most people aren't familiar with. My mom would always only go to the 1 or 2 stations in our town that advertised "Full Service" now it's not even a thing at all anywhere around here. At one we even had an account so didn't even have to bother with paying. The attendant would put air in the tires, check oil, top up fluids and if you wanted go grab you a snack. Last one went away around early 2000s.
hattmall··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
To many bots on reddit, so your solution is to go directly to the bot!!?

If bots bury the signal in noise then an LLM is only going go back and give you the summary of the noise.

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