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Is it a quantum leap level of hyperbolicity?

The "if violence doesn't work, you are not using enough" way.

I know it from Polish usage. In Polish it's "odpukać w niemalowane [drewno]"/"knocking on unpainted [wood]", wood is typically not spoken, the important part is that the wood is unpainted/raw. Superstitious people would especially leave the underside of table unpainted or leave some unpainted wood nearby in living room just for this occasion.

Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. Remote knocking seems to go in the other direction...

I only truly understood logarithms when I had to use them in a plot drawing module I had to make. But I started with BASIC and people at the time said that basic leads to less understanding from students. Now I've commercially developed in C,C++,Java and Erlang, so it seems that the kids will be all right. The curious ones will find their way to more knowledge also thanks to AI, because it can be the most patient tutor explaining everything in the way you understand the best.

Poles say "Niemcy", which essentially means "mute people".

I was recently hired at a datacenter buildsite. The pen is the most important tool here.

> But that gives me hope.

> It was not the insidiousness of these LLMs that was changing me but the nuanced incompetences.

AI doesn't yet improve on it's own, so it's slow at picking up all those small incompetences. We still have advantage in rate of learning, and some people are essentially specialised in learning themselves (I think that this applies to 90% of HN'ers and defines THE bubble we're in). But when I write that, I still have to remember in the back of my head, that AI knows waaaay more than me, so small incompetences I can still see are just a side effect. And I sometimes make the error and correct AI, which will probably be used for it's training in next rounds...

Your username sounds like something a pidgeon would say...

It's better for the engineers and normal people because they don't have to keep up with the constant drama of leap seconds and can kick the bucket to the engineers 1000 years in future. Maybe the beings at that time (who knows what we become in 1000yrs) will find some trivial way to deal with it, at least they will have 1000 years to think about it.

Unfortunately most people don't think like that. They might say fuck those contracts, but then next day will say "why is my heating so damn expensive, I want cheaper gas!". And how do you think they can get cheaper gas? Definitely not from USA.

I'm probably tired from eating too much calories. Vit B doesn't help a lot. But I changed my lifestyle recently from almost constant sitting to almost constant standing, a lot more movement, less calories, lost a lot of weight (still a lot to go) and it helped, but not that much. I tried a lot of supplements along the way. Looks like I'm destined to be the pidgeon...

There are larks, owls and then there are people like me: constantly tired pidgeon. I tried early and late night lifestyle and nothing works for me.

Maybe you. I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester, I stink so much even I can't bear it. I would need at least three suits a week and they would need to be cleaned each week. Tossing cheap cotton clothes into washer every week is much easier and I always wear zip-up hoodies when it's cold, so it's easier to thermoregulate.

> The historical precedent is those people get other jobs

Heh, got fired from my old company for reasons not connected to AI. Then couldn't find job. AI suggested one that is perfect for me, helped me put up webpage (I can do everything from electronics/firmware/backend/iot/cad, but nice webpage is not something I can do easily), then helps me every day to learn new things and make useful products I always wanted to make. And I found something safe for now from AI and big companies - making old equipment work with new systems. No one will touch it, because you have only small projects here and can't extract a lot of value at once, but a single person who can do anything with some help from AI can carve out a whole niche.

I think such solution - thousands of small niches by small entrepreneurs (1 person companies) who can use AI for some small skill they are lacking - are our future and they will absolutely extract a lot of money from people, who hope to make some more money with small optimisations of already working businesses. One example of such small optimisation - making a slightly better wood drying controller for small woodmill owner. He already put up small cabinet with cheap tuya controllers and needs to control them though atrocious app. Now I can make a small module that will add several more sensors, give him some simple dedicated control panel on webpage. Not even medium company would make such small product, because planning phase alone would cost more than what I can charge for whole system and do it in a week.

And it all started with one prompt - "Given my CV, what single person job would you recommend?"

I worked briefly in aviation and the part I've seen was very understandable and easy to extend and modify in understandable way. Some parts were hard, but by necessity. We also had very good tests. But maybe that one software was just a good exception.

Currently it looks more and more like goverment itself consists of a lot of psychopaths who want to abuse people. Like abusing people is the main reason people go into politics. And then voters select those who want to abuse the outgroup, but don't know that politicians consider everyone as underclass, therefore even their own voters are ripe for abuse.

A lot of Polish politicians also challenged Europe to step up. Is it then a Polish proxy war?

> Your rate limits on adding and removing credit cards?

All those requests will appear from different ip's and different browsers, made by someone who can spend months on trying to defraud you. How do you differentiate this from valid customer who happens to try to buy something between 20 tries by bots?

> Your input sanitization?

All those fraud requests will give you valid credit cards which will work perfectly, but then defrauded people or banks will try to chargeback later.

> Designing your system to not just disclose details around anything but that relevant to a logged in/authenticated user?

They can register as normal buyers.

> It just requires thinking and a bit of dev time.

And they can spend months trying to outthink you, then will drain your service in 4 hours when you are asleep.

> Management was deadset against doing the one single thing that would make it impossible to do that at scale.

So, did you actually ever implemented and checked a good solution? Cloudflare isn't perfect, but not everyone has resources to implement their own solution that is better than cloudflare.

> Fingerprinting is far more intrusive than just only allowing one to add at max 2 cards a day per user.

The fraudsters will appear as completely new users each time, adding only one card and making one purchase.

It's good enough at decoding hex from some packet dumps. And I was doing that even with 5.5. And it was good at decompiling some code (with tools) and searching for offsets of buffers and commands. Found viable exploit that allowed me to rescue broken update system in devices I was maintaining for my company (it was broken by chatgpt forgetting -v in hexdump, heh).

Maybe then LLM's will switch to outputting raw machine code?

> gulasz is like very thin gravy

If you make thin gulasz, you're doing a goulash tasting soup. When properly done, you should be able to stand a spoon upright in it.

Exactly, and they are disliked too. Eating by snakes is not used anymore, but most people interacting with modern cassandras wish that this practice would return.

And that Cassandra will be ignored too. It's the role of "a cassandra" to be ignored, like it's one of society operating rules. People who tend to be good at being a cassandra learn very fast to stop voicing their opinions.

> so cheap construction workers or child care workers overseas don't compete with local ones.

That's also why building homes is so costly. Transporting non-local materials costs more than making them near. Then you need to support builders, plumbers, electricians...

40 is probably the most optimal way to extract the most value out of the most people. If only some worked less, there would probably be bigger HR overhead, like you say, plus those individuals would be less communicable. In reality, those companies who extract the most value from their workers are able to outcompete others, so the system stays. If company would pay less to workers (for less time used, half of "normal" employment), they would try to compensate with getting another job just to support themselves, because most workers are typically always on edge of supporting themselves (they move that edge whenever they get more money). If companies paid for less hours, their products would cost too much and couldn't compete with other companies.

Because we got used to the idea that who is not working, is consuming resources made by those working and putting in effort. Then those putting in effort say "if I could get resources without putting in effort, why should I put the effort?".

> ere is a very simple statement which may sound a bit mean: it is entirely feasible that giving a job to a “stupid” person, regardless of how much we try and train them, might cost the economy more than we benefit, in aggregate.

Well, if they don't put in effort, however small, and get resources, others will try to be stupid too. Or, they would not get enough resources, starve and those with empathy will be very vocal and use shame.

Building bridges is about achieving outcomes and utility, but steel and cement suppliers are selling by ton.

> low priority stuff to do for a bit (or a high priority short task that interrupts) seems to let my subconscious solve the issue in the background and keeps me happier and more motivated.

For a bit is ok. I had one month task, that was interrupted daily for over a year, that's how I got demotivated and burned out so much that I needed neurologist.

> two difficult tasks that were supposed to be done in parallel maybe that would be different, but I've never seen anyone asking for that.

Probably that's why you say interruptions are good, no experience of how bad can interruptions be.

I have two modes of reading - when I read a story to enjoy, I read it to myself with inner voice saying the words (like internal audiobook). When I read to gather information quickly, I try to just absorb as much keywords as possible by quickly glancing at text and trying to directly absorb the text, rereading where needed.