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lowdest commented on Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA quantamagazine.org/how-da... · Posted by u/vismit2000

verall · a month ago

> savescumming

Savecumming?

lowdest · a month ago

Slang term for frequently reloading game state from recent save when a non-ideal outcome occurs. E.g. this method can be used to collect rare outcomes from a RNG-based game event.

lowdest commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

kenjackson · 2 months ago

I think really more than anything it’s become clear that AGI is an illusion. There’s nothing there. It’s the mirage in the desert, you keep waking towards it but it’s always out of reach and unclear if it even exists.

So companies are really trying to deliver value. This is the right pivot. If you gave me an AGI with a 100 IQ, that seems pretty much worthless in today’s world. But domain expertise - that I’ll take.

lowdest · 2 months ago

I am under the impression that I'm a natural general intelligence, and I am far from the optimal entity to perform my job.

lowdest commented on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-lin... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

brikym · 2 months ago

Liking coffee linked to ...

lowdest · 2 months ago

Do you like sweets? I noticed as I became an adult sometime in my mid-20s, I stopped liking sweet flavors as much and developed a new appreciation for bitter flavors. Like coffee and some vegetables.

lowdest commented on Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI research.google/blog/lear... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives

amarant · 5 months ago

This seems like it has some pretty great potential. Human teachers don't have infinite patience.

I recall my high school chemistry teacher's response when I was trying to understand why certain reactions happened: "just accept that these reactions happens and memorise them for the test. Don't try to understand it"

I did not become a chemist.

Now I'm in my thirties and I kinda wish I had studied something involving chemistry in university. It just seems fascinating. Unfortunately my teacher at the time did an excellent job of killing that curiosity and when I was choosing what to study in uni my first criteria was "anything but chemistry"

I can't help but imagine how different my life could've been if I had this available to me at the time!

On the other hand this AI could never hold a candle to my history teacher who showed up in full medieval armour, complete with a real sword. He even knew actual sword fighting techniques used by different nations at different times and have approximate demonstrations (slowly, no students were maimed) along with theoretical explanations of the pros and cons of each.

2 of my old classmates are now history buffs: one PhD(dissertation was on the topic of WW2) and one archeologist. That's gotta be above average for a class of ~20 kids.

But teachers like him are a rarity.

lowdest · 5 months ago

I've always wanted a deeper, historical explanation rather than just the end result. Like, how did they even arrive at these things I'm memorizing? Who, and why?

I think generative AI has great potential here to enrich learning, not only by having the ability to quickly cross reference history and science, but to compose it with storytelling technique.

lowdest commented on The birth of AI poker? Letters from the 1984 WSOP poker.org/latest-news/the... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

Loughla · 9 months ago

Any online or electronic gambling. Any at all. You have to expect it to be crooked.

This applies to sanctioned sites, sketchy sites, or physical machines.

The incentive is just too damn high for it not to be a cheated system made up of black boxes.

lowdest · 9 months ago

Some of the cryptocurrency casinos pioneered having cryptographically signed random sequences that are revealed after the game is over. That way you can confirm that the game was fair. It's not a very popular feature, however, as it's not a major selling point for most people.

lowdest commented on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course simonmonk.org/tyee7... · Posted by u/teleforce

calibas · 10 months ago

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lowdest · 10 months ago

The answer key to the first quiz says "1. a"

lowdest commented on What really happens inside a dating app blog.luap.info/what-reall... · Posted by u/polote

ketzo · a year ago

I think they’re pretty close to global max on “relationship-flavored entertainment app for single adults”

Optima for “stable-relationship-forming app” are yet to be discovered — and also, I think, to really be sought at all

lowdest · a year ago

OKCupid was doing pretty well at this until they were acquired.

lowdest commented on Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-... · Posted by u/talhof8

pinoy420 · a year ago

No. I don’t think so. I think if you took many engineers and sat them at a computer and asked them to stand up a whole dev staging prod system they wouldn’t be able to do it.

I certainly would not, or it would take me a significant amount of time to do properly. I have been a full stack dev for 10 years. Now take that one step further to someone whose only interaction with a development is numpy, pandas, julia, etc…

You are, in typical HN style, minimising the problem into insignificance.

This is /not/ a “stick it behind an aws load balancer and on one of their abstracted services that does 99% of the work for you” - that would be less difficult.

E: love how this is getting ratioed by egotistical self confessed x10 engineers no doubt. Some self reflection is needed on your behalf. Just because /you/ think you would be capable, does not mean that the plethora of others would be able to.

What likely happened here is an ingress rule was set up wrongly on iptables or equivalent.. something many of your fellow engineers would have no clue about. An open dev database is rather normal if you want something out of the door quickly, why would you worry about an internal accessible only tool’s security if you trust your 10 or so staff. Have a think about the startups you have worked in (everyone here is a startup pro, just like you are - remember!) and what dire situation your mvp was in behind its smoke and mirrors PowerPoint slide deck.

Yes this was disastrous for PR. No it is not a problem solved in its entirety entirely by learned engineering experts like yourself.

Oh here. A comment from ClickHouse saying there is a legitimate reason why this will have been configured this way and happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42873446

lowdest · a year ago

Yes, I'm aware that most devs can't do it. I'd guess 1 in 10 can.

>An open dev database is rather normal

Not open to the internet it's not! Internal network, perhaps.

>someone whose only interaction with a development is numpy, pandas, julia, etc

This person should be aware of their limitations and give the task to someone who knows what they're doing.

lowdest commented on Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-... · Posted by u/talhof8

fzzzy · a year ago

how many people in the world are used to deploying external client facing applications?

lowdest · a year ago

Hundreds of thousands. My employer alone probably has 1000.

lowdest commented on Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers sfgate.com/travel/article... · Posted by u/ekelsen

SoftTalker · a year ago

Yes, if use booking.com (or any other third party) and there is any problem with the reservation and the hotel doesn't have a room for you, they will point you back to booking.com and say there's nothing they can do (which may be true).

I always book direct with the hotel. Saving $5 on a room is not worth showing up at 11pm to find out they don't have your reservation.

lowdest · a year ago

I once used booking.com to book a block of several rooms for a wedding. Paid and confirmed. When we arrived, the hotel had no record of our reservations! The explanation was that their sync with booking.com was prone to failure and hadn't been updating for several weeks and they hadn't noticed. Luckily, they still had enough rooms available for us, but I will never use a 3rd party site again and I will always call ahead to confirm the reservation is still on the books.