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baumy commented on How to rig elections [video] media.ccc.de/v/why2025-21... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

os2warpman · 23 days ago

>P25 was some extreme right wing crazies that no one really cares about.

Project 2025 is almost halfway implemented and several of its authors hold positions in government, charged with its implementation.

Everyone who thinks it is some side project or wish list that isn't "real" and actually, literally, happening right now is a fool.

https://www.project2025.observer/en

baumy · 23 days ago

I skimmed the Project 2025 doc during the leadup to the election when there was a big hullabaloo about it. Did not read the whole thing as it was incredibly long, but did read some summaries. Maybe 75% of it was utterly boring conservative stuff that some people surely disagree with, but is hardly worth losing sleep over. 25% or so was somewhere in the territory of extreme right wing / borderline insane.

Skimming that website, whoever is maintaining that is being...very generous with themselves about what they mark as "completed", to put it mildly. For example, "Roll back goal of haze reduction (visible air pollution)" is marked as complete, with the source being an EPA article [1] saying "[the EPA] is reconsidering its implementation of the Clean Air Act’s Regional Haze Program", but no indication of what is being reconsidered, or if anything is actually done.

Putting all of that together with the claimed 46% number, I guess you can count me as a fool. But I'm not buying the hysteria here, sorry.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-begins...

baumy commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

wordofx · 3 months ago

Still haven’t seen an example. It’s always the same. People don’t want to give hints or context. The moment you start doing things properly it’s “oh no this is just a bad example. It still can’t do what u do”

baumy · 3 months ago

My experience is the opposite. I've yet to see a single example of AI working well for non trivial work that I consider relevant, based on 15+ years of experience in this field. It's good for brainstorming, writing tests, and greenfield work / prototyping. Add business context more complicated than can be explained in a short sentence, or any nuance or novelty, and it becomes garbage pretty much instantly.

Show me an AI agent adding a meaningful new feature or fixing a complicated bug in an existing codebase that serves the needs of a decent sized business. Or proposing and implementing a rearchitecture that simplifies such a codebase while maintaining existing behavior. Show me it doing a good job of that, without a prompt from an experienced engineer telling it how to write the code.

These types of tasks are what devs spend their days actually doing, as far as coding is concerned (never mind the non coding work, which is usually the harder part of the job). Current AI agents simply can't do these things in real world scenarios without very heavy hand holding from someone who thoroughly understands the work being done, and is basically using AI as an incredibly fast typing secretary + doc lookup tool.

With that level of hand holding, it does probably speed me up by anywhere from 10% to 50% depending on the task - although in hindsight it also slows me down sometimes. Net hours saved is anywhere from 0 to 10 per week depending on the week, erring more on the lower end of that distribution.

baumy commented on The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ryandrake · 5 months ago

I think developers are paid to competently deliver software to their employer, and part of that competence is properly vetting the code you are delivering. If I wrote code that ended up having serious bugs like crashing, I’d expect to have at least a minimum consequence, like root causing it and/or writing a postmortem to help avoid it in the future. Same as I’d expect if I pulled in a bad dependency.

baumy · 5 months ago

Your expectations do not match the employment market as I have ever experienced it.

Have you ever worked anywhere that said "go ahead and slow down on delivering product features that drive business value so you can audit the code of your dependencies, that's fine, we'll wait"?

I haven't.

baumy commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg

michaelhoney · 5 months ago

If you can’t imagine it, try a bit harder. We can build a better world, but it takes effort.

baumy · 5 months ago

Would you be interested in making a comment that adds to the conversation, instead of whatever this was? The person you're replying to identified constraints that prevent him from imagining it - any system for restricting advertisements will either be permissive enough that it's ineffective, or strict enough that it will be abused for political reasons. This sounds like a reasonable concern.

Can you imagine a realistic way around this issue?

baumy commented on Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete newsweek.com/ai-impact-in... · Posted by u/alphadelphi

asdev · 5 months ago

outside of text generation and search, LLMs have not delivered any significant value

baumy · 5 months ago

Text generation and search are the drivers for some trillions of dollars worth of economic activity around the world.

baumy commented on The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income blog.codinghorror.com/the... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

wesselbindt · 6 months ago

So you're basing this on your feelings rather than the available data.

baumy · 6 months ago

What else are we to base opinions on? There is no available data. It doesn't exist. The "data" you're referring to is tripe.

To repeat the point you're replying to - a UBI study that examines human behavior from a set of people who are only guaranteed to be given some livable amount of income for a short period, and not for their entire lives, is completely useless. It isn't actually studying UBI. It's studying "what do people do if I give them $20k or so over a few installments?".

Very boring thing to study. Honestly a waste of time and resources to even bother conducting such a study, the results can be put directly in the rubbish bin.

baumy commented on McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover wsj.com/articles/mcdonald... · Posted by u/tarunupaday

anon373839 · 6 months ago

Seeing as how the remark begins with “I don’t understand how…” it seems you’re the one with unchecked assumptions: namely, about what the text actually says.

baumy · 6 months ago

No, I don't think that's fair. There are 2 assumptions in your comment which I think the poster you're replying to is suggesting you should reevaluate:

> The food quality is trash, and the prices are so high

If these assumptions are true, it makes sense why you wouldn't understand why McDonalds is relevant / successful.

I do not think these assumptions are true. The food quality is fine - it's somewhere between palatable and mildly tasty for most people. If you use their app, the prices are lower than most other places you could get the same number of calories + protein content.

The food is also very consistent. I've surely gone to at least 20 different McDonalds locations in my life all over the USA, and it tastes pretty much the same every time. I can't say the same for most of their competitors.

baumy commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo

mattwad · 6 months ago

And Typescript simply doesn't work for me. I have tried uninstalling extensions. It is always "Initializing". I reload windows, etc. It eventually might get there, I can't tell what's going on. At the moment, AI is not worth the trade-off of no Typescript support.

baumy · 6 months ago

My entire company of 100+ engineers is using cursor on multiple large typescript repos with zero issues. Must be some kind of local setup issue on your end, it definitely works just fine. In fact I've seen consistently more useful / less junky results from using LLMs for code with typescript than any other language, particularly when cursor's "shadow workspace" option is enabled.

baumy commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH

tqi · 7 months ago

> My inquiry is motivated by the observation that AI-generated text has become increasingly prevalent in online discourse

You ever notice that only stuff you disliked is AI?

baumy · 7 months ago

No, I have not noticed that at all. I see plenty of content that reeks of LLM generation where the ideas expressed in it are ones I agree with. I still don't like to see it.

baumy commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH

dang · 7 months ago

Please don't do this here.

Edit: I called this wrong - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43075184. Sorry!

baumy · 7 months ago

I have a genuine question for you here dang. In another comment in this thread [1], the poster admitted that he did indeed generate (or at least rephrase) his comment with AI. I didn't find this surprising, and at least a few other people apparently didn't either. For "uncanny valley" reasons that are difficult to put my finger on, the wording of the comment just jumped out to me as LLM generated.

So the user "searealist" who you're responding to was correct in saying the comment was written by AI. Are we not supposed to call that out when we notice it? It's difficult because it's typically impossible to prove, and most people won't be as honest as the OP was here.

If what "searealist" did here is not acceptable even though he was right, what are we supposed to do? Flag, downvote?

Personally, I do not want to see any LLM generated content in HN comments, unless it's explicitly identified by the person posting it as a relevant part of some conversation about LLMs themselves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43075184