Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting…

But how would you use words to explain the phenomenon?

I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified explanations encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic hype cycle.

In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.

Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop shoveling money onto the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god?

It refers to when an LLM will in some way try to deceive or manipulate the user interacting with it.

I think this still gives the model too much credit by implying that there’s any sort of intentionally behind this behavior.

There’s not.

These models are trained on the output of real humans and real humans lie and deceive constantly. All that’s happening is that the underlying mathematical model has encoded the statistical likelihood that someone will lie in a given situation. If that statistical likelihood is high enough, the model itself will lie when put in a similar situation.

“Hotseat” multiplayer isn’t in the game at all yet.

Mirroring what others have said, see your vet! Kidney dysfunction is extremely common in cats, and as with most medical issues it’s much, much better to address it early before it snowballs.

wet food twice a day

One possibility is that your cat is getting too much protein and her kidneys are struggling as a result. This is unusual (cats naturally need lots of protein), but not unheard of. When you visit your vet, make sure you discuss diet in detail.

I hear this all the time, but I have an orange cat who taught himself how to open doors, so… I dunno, maybe mine is hoarding all the brain cells for himself.

I can’t remember specific examples (probably because I didn’t stick with any of them very long), but I’ve played several games that don’t even let you touch the options until after you’ve finished some tutorial section… which is especially annoying for players who play with inverted y axis.

Noooo, not even close. There may be some senior devs in AAA studios making bank, but the vast majority of people doing the day-to-day art and development work on games typically get much worse pay and benefits than similar roles in other parts of the tech sphere.

A lot of people are very passionate about making games, and the games industry heavily exploits that passion to short change its workers. A lot of (mostly young) devs are willing to accept less pay to work on games because they feel like it will be more fulfilling than working on other mindless corporate crap, and those who do get jobs in the industry are afraid to ask for more money or try to unionize because they know there are a dozen equally passionate candidates waiting to replace them for less money if they make too many waves.

The result is that wages stay lower than other tech jobs and hours worked are much higher. With AI on the rise the problem will no doubt get even worse as execs use it as an excuse to shrink teams and “do more with less”.

highly paid developers

Not in the games industry, lol

The Lord said: come fourth, and receive eternal life.

But Peter came fifth, so all he got was a toaster.

The problem is that there aren’t even ways to “get rich slow” anymore. And saving? Good fucking luck when rent alone is half your monthly income and your grocery bill has gone up 30% since the pandemic.

One of your most recent comments is about killing stray cats, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that you’ve been banned for being an asshole rather than righteously speaking truth to power or whatever.

What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.

Ah, maybe that’s true. I confess I stopped hanging around HN years ago so I’m not up to speed on how ‘flagging’ works and how much influence users have over post visibility. I thought the OP made it clear that something ‘inorganic’ was going on, but I guess that could be user reports just as easily as it could be moderator action.

Either way, it’s still true that getting your tech news from Silicon Valley’s most darling tech incubator is a dumb idea.

I don’t know, I think they make a reasonable case to suggest that someone is putting their finger on the scale.

But, honestly… duh? Y Combinator is one of the most influential investment firms in Silicon Valley. Of course they’re going to try to protect the image of their chosen investments.

Honestly the bigger story here is that people in tech continue to be so willfully ignorant of stuff like this. Big Tech is not benevolent. If you want unbiased tech news, don’t fucking get it from a company that has such a vested interest in the success of SV tech companies. You’d think that would be obvious.

Do you have any recommendations of cool ‘side web’ sites that are worth visiting?

Obese cats could be the fault of it’s owner not stimulating the cat with enough playtime, but perhaps not every case.

Obese cats are the fault of overfeeding. Full stop. Solutions like this only exist for the owners to shift responsibility off of themselves.

And you know what? If that means more cats have a better quality of life, I’m all for it. But at the end of the day the real solution is always going to be moderating your cat’s food intake.

That cat is definitely overweight

Using an IDE to write code is like using a pie tin to help you make a pie.

Using generative AI is like going to the local bakery, breaking their window, and stealing the pie.

That perfectly describes what my day-to-day has become at work (not by choice).

The only way to get anywhere close to production-ready code is to do like you just described, and the process is incredibly tedious and frustrating. It also isn’t really any faster than just writing the code myself (unless I’m satisfied with committing slop) and in the end, I still don’t understand the code I’ve ‘written’ as well as if I’d done it without AI. When you write code yourself there’s a natural self-reinforcement mechanism, the same way that taking notes in class improves your understanding/retention of the information better than when just passively listening. You don’t get that when vibe coding (no matter how knowledgeable you are and how diligent you are about babysitting it), and the overall health of the app suffers a lot.

The AI tools are also worse than useless when it comes to debugging, so good fucking luck getting it to fix the bugs it inevitably introduces…

Typical C-suite. It takes them three months to come to the same conclusion that would be blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain: if you build something that no one understands, you’ll end up with something impossible to maintain.