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paid_dot_experton Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

If we are going down the rabbit hole - I like to use groups as my "tookmarks" or "babs" so to speak. They act like both and help to keep things organized by project. Bookmarks are for permanent things, e.g. for work it might be direct deep links to things for the service(s) your team operates, and groups for projects e.g. this quarter we are adding spinners to the fidgets, and then regular tabs for the ephemeral, e.g. googling why ain't Docker decking the ducks.

paid_dot_experton Anthropic S-1

SPXEW ftw

paid_dot_experton Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

Cress is a word I haven't heard in decades. Got to get some cress!

paid_dot_experton Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.

paid_dot_experton Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

You are both right.

paid_dot_experton I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

Your username checks out. Time to shine?

paid_dot_experton Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

I find AI generated language hard to understand when it is "in it's own world" and it knows what it means but can't articulate it without buzzwords and slop. A follow up "ELI5" type of prompt often sorts this out. Seems like a failure mode and you need to snap it out sometimes. Opus 5.5.

paid_dot_experton WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

Try pause for 3 seconds in your favourite harness

paid_dot_experton The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

Well a family could easily get through 4kg of meat a week

paid_dot_experton The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

Ok Ok. Lemme convert that.

One kilo of beef is roughly equal to 8 kilos of pork, 10 kilos of chicken, and 20 kilos of tofu in CO₂ emissions.

paid_dot_experton The Decoherence Trap

First through as I read this: Microservices.

> This essay introduces the concept of decoherence: the accumulation of locally valid but mutually incompatible or redundant models within a system, such that the cost of change is dominated by translating among those models and preventing unintended side-effects.

But then famous last words:

> The good news is that this rules out the specter of runaway recursive self-improvement, the intelligence explosion that goes parabolic before anyone can react, as decoherence both prevents AI from improving in a bubble and limits the rate at which it can improve outside of it.

After the OpenAI/Huggingface and similar I am not so sure. Even if that was a publicity stunt of sorts, I think it shows they can go off the rails. Today it is hacking, but tomorrow it may be training a smarter model to join their cohort, without us being involved.

paid_dot_experton What shall I teach my son?

Good lesson to fact-check even the things we "know" when writing.

paid_dot_experton If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

That is what I mean, apologies for not being clear.

paid_dot_experton Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

Sort of. What if you asked your second agent to fuzz test the work of the first agent, adversarial code review, or make a video to explain all the code.

paid_dot_experton If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

Asked Pi what I used last 3 days.

    ┌─────────────────┬─────────┐
    │ UTC day         │ Cost    │
    ├─────────────────┼─────────┤
    │ Oct 16          │ $2.72   │
    ├─────────────────┼─────────┤
    │ Oct 17          │ $300.82 │
    ├─────────────────┼─────────┤
    │ Oct 18          │ $208.72 │
    ├─────────────────┼─────────┤
    │ Oct 19 (so far) │ $208.29 │
    └─────────────────┴─────────┘

I am on $100/m sub.

Oct 16 I switched machine

Excludes work done on local and Claude Chrome plugin.

paid_dot_experton There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

True but mathematicians chose maths and not biology for a reason. It is like golf could go the way of chess if people developed perfect "hole in one" augmentation for their eyes/brains/muscles. But that isn't why people learned anf loved golf. I guess we will have one less discipline. But maths is a big one to lose, unlike say ancient chariot building (which has other artisanal equivalents).

paid_dot_experton Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

That is what scares me most

paid_dot_experton How to make my business survives it's first 5 years?

             5
    Runway + Σ   cashflow > 0
             y=1

paid_dot_experton Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

That sir is a commune not a cult.

paid_dot_experton Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

True but the pace of buying doesn't matter for this argument (of course it matters for business longevity!). What matters is if you spend $160k on tokens or an employee then ... what gets more done.

For some jobs the employee comes out top, for others the tokens. This landscape will continually shift. However definitely the "per hour" is just some intermediate part of the value calculation can can't be directed compared.

If there were a way to pop out the next Lovable with $160k tokens and you can have that land in 4 hours, would you pay. Well yeah someone would, just like they'd buy $160k of oil if they needed it. It would be even better than paying $80k to an employee who took 6 months.

paid_dot_experton Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

I don't get your maths? [1] 160/9 months != 600 for any given number of days a week e.g. 5,6,7 (something between 6 and 7), but where did the 9 come from, is it some kind of adjustment for weekends? Anyway there is also a concept of "fully loaded employee cost".

In any case the way to think of this is not "/day".

The reason is simple. If you buy 1000 barrels of oil, you buy 1000 barrels of oil not 17.4 days of oil. There is now a disconnect between work done and time. Infact you would be sane if you said "that result I can get in 2 days for $4172, if you can get me that same result in 1 hour, I'd pay $8344". See where this is going?

Yes a lot of thought work is now a commodity, and if you want the commodity faster (last minute booking, uber to come quicker etc.) you pay more not less. Value being $/hour is over.

[1] The ? acts as both a question and a regex.

paid_dot_experton I wish you the best in the Offline

If you use AI and don't code for 3 years, and then AI collapses, and you need to code again … it won't be that hard to pick up. Let's not exaggerate!

You could code, go and run an Alpaca Farm for 10 years, give that up and probably within 6 months of study be ready to work as a coder again.

paid_dot_experton Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

Why did 12ft.io go (and all the others), do they get legal action eventually?