I mean it's so stupid that you had to explain to me that it's based on Y2K because it makes no sense
noungate
Yes, this is why we need to resist stupid names before they enter mainstream or the world will continue to get dumber
>Reads first paragraph
>Hmm, this sounds like something that is theoretically infeasible to the point of "spending 30 minutes with some basic physics equations on the whiteboard disproves it"
>"$10 million dollars"
>"People did calculations that in an ideal setup..." oh look there it is, no waaay
Like I'm no physicist, you really don't need much more than vague recollections of high-school physics to be like "huh?" at this...
It's pattern recognition.
Listen enough to chuds and you learn to recognise chuds based on vibes. You can approach people with 100% good faith, but the moment you sniff a chud -- trust your guts.
Was it Wednesday, my dudes?
For someone that has a bit of a PL/compiler background -- it's not hard if you're familiar with things like this.
What is worrying is that while the fix does address the test case from the issue, it seems there was no analysis performed as to why the failure occurred. Like okay, this test case passes, but I'm not immediately sure the system is now sound.
If it's hard to reason about then it means you as the developer are supposed to sit the fuck down, figure it out, and document it so that it's no longer hard to reason about for someone who reads it. Anything short of that is a cop out.
I'm not going to actually try to figure out how this DI framework works to do this analysis, definitely not for free.
It's a very elaborate parkour trick in Haskell that through piles and piles or rigorous category theory manages to achieve Nothing in a type-safe manner.
There are two things here in my opinion:
* I don't want this to seem like a moral distinction, if anything the decorum granted to police forces is arguably a stepping stone that brought the USA here. Recall Mamdami's recent words: "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty". HOWEVER, to me personally this is a rather chilling escalation. It shows that the PR part doesn't actually matter anymore. America is so far into the fascist pipeline that paramilitary forces can just execute citizens in broad daylight on the street. They don't need to hide it, they don't need to play coy about it, they can just post-facto label the victim as an Enemy of the State and move on. I'm sorry but to me this is like one step away from just rounding people up against a wall for fun. Human life is not only practically worthless to state actors, it's proudly and openly worthless as a matter of policy.
But... But Y2K = Year 2000, like it's an actual sensible acronym. You can't just fucking replace K with Q and call it a day what the fuck, did ChatGPT come up with this??
That’s horrifying. The whole thing reads like an over-elaborate joke poking fun at vibe-coders.
wait what do you mean "reads like"
please don't tell me this is earnest?
GLP-1s
No idea what this is, but being at a rationalist conference cannot be good.
retratrutide
No idea.
might fix her mood swings
Uh-oh, nonono, red flag, red flag, run away from those people!
D.I.Y. guide by the Substacker Cremieux.
spits coffee Excuse me, by WHOM?!
Y2Q
I'm sorry, what does this stand for? Searching for it just results in usage without definition. I understand it's refering to breaking conventional encryption, but it's clearly an abbreviation of something, right? Years To Quantum? But then a countdown to it doesn't make sense?
Turns out software engineering cannot be easily solved with a ~~small shell script~~ large language model.
The author of the article appears to be a genuine ML engineer, although some of his takes aged like fine milk. He seems to be shilling Google a bit too much for my taste. However, the sneer content is good nonetheless.
First off, the "Devin solves a task on Upwork" demo is 1. cherry picked, 2. not even correctly solved.
Second, and this is the absolutely fantastic golden nugget here, to show off its "bug solving capability" it creates its own nonsensical bugs and then reverses them. It's the ideal corporate worker, able to appear busy by creating useless work for itself out of thin air.
It also takes over 6 hours to perform this task, which would be reasonable for an experienced software engineer, but an experienced software engineer's workflow doesn't include burning a small nuclear explosion worth of energy while coding and then not actually solving the task. We don't drink that much coffee.
The next demo is a bait-and-switch again. In this case I think the author of the article fails to sneer quite as much as it's worthy -- the task the AI solves is writing test cases for finding the Least Common Multiple modulo a number. Come on, that task is fucking trivial, all those tests are oneliners! It's famously much easier to verify modulo arithmetic than it is to actually compute it. And it takes the AI an hour to do it!
It is a bit refreshing though that it didn't turn out DEVIN is just Dinesh, Eesha, Vikram, Ishani, and Niranjan working for $2/h from a slum in India.
This is what I disagree with. The theatrics of justifying police brutality don't change the outcomes of police brutality -- people still die -- but the fact that the theatrics can now be dispensed of in favour of paramilitaries directly using violence to terrorise the people is a distinct change of behaviour towards fascism.
And I think it's important to recognise that because, as many scholars of fascism have warned time and time again, this is not a binary where a switch get flipped and haha, since today you're in a fascist state. It's a progressive erosion of the social contract. ICE as deployed by the Trump regime right now is a basically textbook run: create a paramilitary force, recruit from existing criminal militias to select for loyalists and violent personalities, normalise them as keepers of order, push out or integrate any other enforcement structures so that the paramilitary becomes dominant. Basically the only difference is that Trump didn't have to create ICE, it was already there just waiting to be pushed through the pipeline.
Does this event fundamentally change how you and I perceive America? No, if you were paying attention you knew the rot inside, and you've been shouting that Trump is a fascist since the very beginning. It is, however, a sign that the situation is much worse than it was months ago, that fascism is progressing, and if this is the point at which someone not paying attention wisens up and goes "shit, we are moving towards a totalitarian nightmare" then good, welcome, grab a pitchfork.