So you know you are smart and you know your programming but you can't show it because you just happen to have a now popular, talked about, and referenced condition that inhibits you from your own known greatness. OK.
Subscribed to Claude a few months ago. I immediately started working with it on my programming language. Since then, I've implemented a compacting garbage collector, a size class based memory allocator, a unified value heap, deeply optimized hash tables and even implemented shapes like V8 and Self, redesigned the value representation, created a Common Lisp style condition system, implemented UTF-8 text decoding, refined the generators API, increased the number of tests from ~200 to ~1200 and improved the test suite to the point it runs all of those tests in parallel in under two seconds, implemented stack protection support, added an aarch64 matrix to the GitHub CI, fixed a zillion bugs, improved performance, perfected tail call optimization. I did so much stuff I'm probably forgetting some. And these aren't "lol just do it" prompts either, I'm putting effort into refining design and implementation. I review every line. Just finished designing safe hash table iteration in spite of mutability: generation counters that get bumped whenever the table is reallocated. It's actually gonna be more powerful than what other languages do. Next up on my todo list is to implement my language's unified pattern matcher, static allocation for all interpreter internal data in order to get rid of all initialization code and achieve nearly zero startup time, and then finally a bytecode interpreter to close the performance gap on the likes of Python.
Dramatically improved my static site generator Pugneum to the point it's better than markdown and added Atom and RSS feeds, used it to write several articles about my language. Pace is so fast I actually need to write those articles by hand in order to crystalize the knowledge I learned. If I don't I'm afraid I'll just forget everything. No LLMs for the articles themselves, but they sure as hell took all the pain away from writing them. Pugneum even has back references and table of contents generation now. Claude even helped me refine my website's CSS, something I'm not very good at.
Also created my own invoicing system for $DAYJOB so I can invoice companies from my terminal. Started a decompilation project for my cherished childhood games and I've already almost finished decompiling one game's engine after just a few days. Been working on my cyberdeck project too, this one's a bit slow because I got to the point where I'll actually need to spend money on it to move forward. All this inside the rootless development virtual machine system built on top of QEMU and systemd that I developed together with Claude, whose network isolation I'm currently hardening. Started reverse engineering my laptop again! And I'm actually making progress! Made a color scheme app for the keyboard LEDs controller I made many years ago, with loads and loads of color schemes! Found some kind of bug in my keyboard while doing it, in less than an hour I had the root cause and a fix applied locally, sent the fix to systemd, it got merged. Planning to ramp up my free and open source software participation as well now that exploring codebases is a breeze. Already have some mesa patches ready for upstream. Have been playing with strace since I use it so much.
Do you even realize what you just said? Oh hey why even go to a nearby Home Depot when you can drive over to an entirely different state instead. Really?
Among the "scads of utter online shit" is the submitted website for which it mostly agrees with. It also agrees with most of the comments here.
But the thing is, I used a LLM because I want to see the "scads of utter online shit". The "greatest intellectual achievement" is an opinion reflecting what people think matters most, not an empirical fact. And what I want is something approaching a global consensus, not what the HN bubble thinks matters. And for that, I think LLMs have value.
And anyways, what LLMs say generally match what people are saying here, so unless you are implying that we are all talking shit, I don't really see the problem.
> Whew, very glad that a leading scientific voice like DiCaprio is speaking of this to world leaders.
General public does not know the scientists by name. When they say something, few people listen. When a famous person says the same thing, many more people listen. That is the world we live in.
I'll take DiCaprio or any famous person promoting a good cause any day.
Mark Jacobson for example proposes “low-cost solutions to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of WWS [wind, water and solar power] across all energy sectors in the continental United States between 2050 and 2055”
This proposal uses unrealistic assumptions, for example it uses "copper plate model" to model electric grid of United States - it assumes that the future electric grid could transmit electric energy without any capacity limitations and the buildout of this grid would be cheap.
The proposal assumes gigantic buildout of hydropower to be used as backup solution for the times when solar and wind could not generate enough electricity. To be precise: increasing hydro capacity by 13x, which would result in water discharges that would regularly dwarf historic 100-year floods and wash away population centres on America's major river systems.
With unrealistic assumptions you can get any result you want.
Mark Jacobson has done PhD research on the role of black carbon and other aerosol chemical components on global and regional climates, under atmospheric scientist Richard P. Turco - who developed and popularized the science of nuclear winter. Because of this I think Jacobson is trying to get world of nuclear weapons, nuclear technology and nuclear power by any means necessary, even if this means publishing unrealistic proposals.
Jacobson's push toward 100% WWS is not a realistic solution to decarbonize world, it's just way to give politicians and celebrities arguments against nuclear power. "We don't need nuclear technology anywhere in the world, because in future we will have 100% wind, water and solar power energy".
Jacobson should say load and clearly the truth: I don't have realistic proposal to decarbonize world, I just want the world to get rid of nuclear bombs.
Holy shit how is this the first time I am hearing about this? This should not be my first time hearing about this.
> Suchir Balaji (November 21, 1998 – November 26, 2024) was an American artificial intelligence researcher who was found dead one month after accusing OpenAI, his former employer, of violating United States copyright law -Wikipedia
There was a Tacker Carlson interview with Sam Altman where Tacker probed him on Balaji's murder and Sam quickly got confused and disoriented. Make your own conclusions.
Saying he got confused and disoriented is and interesting conclusion to make of that interview. He was defensive from the onset and even went combative when Carlson continued down a specific line of questioning, which he allegedly did at the request of the victim's family.
lol Way to jump to a conclusion and then use it as your basis for your entire comment. Most people don't want some expensive fake ass meat that is so packed with chemicals and additives that they would rather just buy meat instead and eat it, even if it isnt as healthy as it could be if it were raised more sustainably and naturally than most of it is nowadays.
I think nature nailed the texture of their burger patties. When you fry one up it has the same texture as a beyond patty. Nature's sausage links also have a similar texture to beyond sausage. I think nature nailed the taste a bit better than beyond. Also nature seems to use better ingredients than beyond. All these products are high in sodium like all processed food and you definitely shouldn't live off them, just like you shouldn't live off beyond burgers and sausages. Price-wise they cost less per pound than beyond. For any vegetarian or vegan you should definitely amuse yourself and fry up some of this natural meat and try it out.
