nope1000 (u/nope1000)

nope1000 commented on The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California lithub.com/on-the-death-o... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Gimpei · a month ago

I don’t understand who commissions and who reads pieces like this. Here is a person with no expertise in housing policy, no expertise in homelessness, and no expertise in tech. The only thing he’s bringing to the table is an opinion, which, as the saying goes, are like assholes. Blame inequality and tech and libertarians all you want, but it won’t do a damn thing to solve the homelessness crisis, which is fundamentally a housing supply issue. But I suppose that doesn’t lend itself to the kind of uninformed moralizing that apparently brings such delight to the hearts of lithub readers.

nope1000 · a month ago

Does an article need to supply all this expertise or can it not just be descriptive?

nope1000 commented on Coinbase CEO Revealed He Fired Engineers Who Didn't Use AI Tools finalroundai.com/blog/coi... · Posted by u/nnx

nope1000 · 4 months ago

Sometimes I envy the salary of US programmers but then I read news like these and I'm happy that in my country you can't be fired for stupid reasons like these.

nope1000 commented on Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database wired.com/story/highly-se... · Posted by u/hacker_yacker

SnuffBox · 4 months ago

Insani-tea, if you will?

nope1000 · 4 months ago

Ha, very good

nope1000 commented on Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database wired.com/story/highly-se... · Posted by u/hacker_yacker

nope1000 · 4 months ago

Publicly accessible, not password protected, not encrypted. That is insanity.

nope1000 commented on XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images binarly.io/blog/persisten... · Posted by u/torgoguys

DiabloD3 · 4 months ago

Why would you be wasting money and going into the cloud? The cloud is not appropriate for small time users, it will always be cheaper to go with dedi or semi-dedi and building the infrastructure you need.

nope1000 · 4 months ago

I'm actually thinking the opposite. If you are a small company, the cloud makes sense and once you grow big it makes sense to build your own infra. For example my company of 10 people, we do B2B SaaS and we couldn't do that if we hosted ourselves. We would need people with the skill to set something like this up, develop physical security concepts, backup duplication, disaster recovery, etc. We would spend more time working on the infra than on the actual product we are selling.

nope1000 commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212

lordswork · 5 months ago

The database was synthetic and vibe coded itself:

>he said that the AI made up entire user profiles. "No one in this database of 4,000 people existed," he said.

nope1000 · 5 months ago

That's not how I interpreted this sentence. I think after the database was deleted, the LLM Agent would still return correct looking data from the database operation even though the database was empty. Maybe I misinterpreted it myself however.

> Replit had been "covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, [...]"

nope1000 commented on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/laiysb

sbarre · 7 months ago

I know this is meant to sound witty or clever, but who actually wants to behave this way at their job?

I'll never understand the antagonistic "us vs. them" mentality people have with their employer's leadership, or people who think that you should be actively sabotaging things or be "maliciously compliant" when things aren't perfect or you don't agree with some decision that was made.

To each their own I guess, but I wouldn't be able to sleep well at night.

nope1000 · 7 months ago

On the other hand: why should you accept that your employer is trying to fire you but first wants you to train the machine that will replace you? For me this is the most "them vs us" it can be.

nope1000 commented on Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent wsj.com/articles/walmart-... · Posted by u/thm

patchorang · 7 months ago

"As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping..." are people actually doing this? Has anyone here done this?

nope1000 · 7 months ago

Buying, absolutely not. But I could see a use case of describing your requirements to a product in natural language and it searches matching products and finds places to get them. So using the AI for the thing it's good at: transforming natural language. And not for what it's bad at: making reliable decisions.

nope1000 commented on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI theverge.com/news/657594/... · Posted by u/donohoe

nope1000 · 8 months ago

If people wanted that, they could just ask an LLM to be their language coach. The big issue is that with a foreign language, you cannot really verify that anything the model gives you is correct. And with how LLMs work, the wrong answers will look very convincing. I don't think that's a good idea.

nope1000 commented on Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/skadamat

gizajob · 9 months ago

And got quickly borked to hell once the news came out about Meta using it.

nope1000 · 9 months ago

Works great on my end.

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