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reshlo commented on LLM Year in Review   karpathy.bearblog.dev/yea... · Posted by u/swyx
kakapo5672 · 19 hours ago
Very broadly, AI sentence-structure and word choice is recursing back into society, changing how humans use language. The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases commonly seen in AI.

We're embarking on a ginormous planetary experiment here.

reshlo · 11 hours ago
> The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases commonly seen in AI.

Many of the speeches given by MPs are likely to have been written beforehand, in whole or in part. Wouldn’t the more likely explanation be that they, or their staff, are using LLMs to write their speeches?

reshlo commented on AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded   restofworld.org/2025/engi... · Posted by u/cratermoon
ar_lan · 5 days ago
LLMs, Apple Silicon, self-driving cars just off the top of my head without really thinking about it.
reshlo · 5 days ago
All of those things are more than 5 years old.
reshlo commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust   itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
losvedir · 9 days ago
Huh, I use a "stock" (I think?) MacOS Safari and got "Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint" and "Partial protection" for ads and invisible trackers.

Did you change a setting or add an ad blocker or something?

edit: I feel like someone with a username "monerozcash" must have some customization to your browsing experience, that maybe you don't even remember doing...

reshlo · 9 days ago
The randomisation features were significantly improved in Safari 26. Is that the version you have?
reshlo commented on What will enter the public domain in 2026?   publicdomainreview.org/fe... · Posted by u/herbertl
csallen · 19 days ago
> the law only rewards specific kinds of risk with equity ownership over the venture

I would argue that it's not solely the law rewarding that kind of risk, it's the market. There is no law that says that only equity owners can enjoy massive profits. Some employees get paid 7 figures, 8 figures, or more, even without equity.

Generally speaking, the rewards go to the hardest parts, the riskiest parts, the parts with the least supply and the most demand.

You are taking far more risk by being a business creator and blazing a new trail, than you are by studying a fixed set of knowledge and techniques to train to become a Front End Software Engineer or some other kind of well-defined high-demand pre-defined role. And the evidence for this is the fact that there are millions of people who've shaped themselves into that safer mould, and very few who have done the former.

And this doesn't just apply to owners vs employees, it applies within each group, too. There are far more restauranteurs than search engine founders, as the former is simply a less risk and less competitive endeavor. (Competing with your local market vs competing with the world.) And artists who create unique works tend to earn a lot more than copycats. Artists who master rare skills tend to earn a lot more than people generating stuff off Midjourney. Etc. Risk tends to go hand-in-hand with reward.

Of course there are exceptions, e.g. rent-seeking, sabotage, monopoly, collusion, etc. that can earn you a lot without you providing a lot of value or taking a lot of risk. And a huge role of the law is to make as much of this illegal as possible, to force people into more value-creating activities by process of elimination.

reshlo · 16 days ago
People who end up leading successful companies are often able to do so not because they’re more willing to take risks than others, but rather because they have experienced more good luck than others. Take Bill Gates, for example. His parents sent him to an exclusive private school, which afforded him regular access to computers from an early age, giving him valuable experience that most others his age could not access, through no fault of their own. Microsoft was able to make a crucial business deal with IBM because Gates’ mother knew the CEO. Someone else with equal skill and appetite for risk would have found it much more difficult to be as successful as Gates was, because their parents were likely not rich and not connected to the right people.
reshlo commented on A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code   github.com/johnperry-math... · Posted by u/andsoitis
wolvesechoes · 3 months ago
Ada, or at least GNAT, also supports compile-time dimensional analysis (unit checking). I may be biased, because I mostly work with engineering applications, but I still do not understand why in other languages it is delegated to 3rd party libraries.

https://docs.adacore.com/gnat_ugn-docs/html/gnat_ugn/gnat_ug...

reshlo commented on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?    · Posted by u/jshchnz
dragonwriter · 6 months ago
A lot of people think of "contract" as specifically a written document, but that's not what a "contract" is in law, the written document (if it exists) can be very powerful evidence that (1) there is a contract, and (2) what its terms are, but contracts exist without them.

While US employment is usually at will without a defined contract term, there are mutually enforceable obligations, including some definition of what the employee is obligated to do for the employer and that the employer is obligated to pay the employee at some specified rate assuming the employee's obligations are met. That's a contract. Exactly what the detailed terms are may be difficult to prove absent a single comprehensive written document, but it is a contract.

reshlo · 6 months ago
What good is a contract if you can’t prove what its terms are? Such a contract is worth the paper it’s printed on.
reshlo commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million   calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
happyopossum · 6 months ago
Couple is not really debatable - it has a definition that includes 2. Not 2 or 3, or any more than 2. Just 2.
reshlo commented on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden   thewrap.com/dilbert-scott... · Posted by u/dale_huevo
belorn · 7 months ago
The second study are very clear that the results are mixed, weak, and dependent on how prosociality is measured and where (i.e, same study done in one country will give different result in an other). They explicitly note that you can not apply the results to the US because how different the political landscape is between Germany and US.

In the Limitations and Directions for Future Research, it also note that right-wing ideologies tend to be more prosocial toward ingroup members than left-wing, which the economic games that the study uses may have a bias against. That would contradict the simplistic conclusion that the prosocial behavior is unconditional.

reshlo · 7 months ago
> In the Limitations and Directions for Future Research, it also note that right-wing ideologies tend to be more prosocial toward ingroup members than left-wing

That supports the original comment, which asserted that right-wingers often only experience empathy for the ingroup while left-wingers also experience it for the outgroup:

> We have seen this pattern repeated with numerous people who share Adams' political opinions, in that this level of empathy only seems to arrive once they themselves go through a similar experience. People who have that empathy without the need of that direct experience tend to have different politics.

reshlo commented on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden   thewrap.com/dilbert-scott... · Posted by u/dale_huevo
verisimi · 7 months ago
Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy?

Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things.

But empathy is a feeling that an individual feels, group or no group. In fact, a group (collective noun) can't feel - only people can. Social groups can't have feelings, nor can they know/think etc - these events occur internally/within living humans, who themselves may then identify as part of a group. But empathy cannot be a group activity.

And even if we accept the linguistic shortcut, and agreee that the individuals in some group purport to feel the same thing, how can one know whether they feel it to the same extent? And that they are all of one mind to do whatever action?

Politics and feelings are really worlds apart, and intermediated by one's perception of the world. If you believe it is the group that needs to feel and do, you will look for answers in entirely different places to someone who thinks that only individuals can feel and do.

reshlo · 7 months ago
> Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy?

Empathy is one of the main prosocial traits that the second linked study analysed.

> Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things.

No it doesn’t, it means your individual behaviour benefits others. Empathy is one of the most obvious things to analyse when investigating prosociality because empathy motivates you to behave in ways that benefit others.

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