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hollownobody | 4 months ago | on: Sexbots Are Coming to ChatGPT

Your wife doesn't let you use WeChat because you could find prostitutes? Sorry, this confused me. If you want to hire a prostitute, not having access to WeChat won't block you from that. Or is this more about avoiding temptation?

hollownobody | 6 months ago | on: GPT-5

Are there any predictions you'd want to make? Not about AGI, but about an intermediate goalpost you think we won't reach in the next 5 years

hollownobody | 7 months ago | on: GPT-5

720 tool calls? Amazing!

hollownobody | 7 months ago | on: GPT-5

This reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not...

hollownobody | 7 months ago | on: Trust in AI coding tools is plummeting

"AI tools are bad", says company most suffering by the use of AI tools

hollownobody | 8 months ago | on: Ask HN: I give in, what are the resources for picking up AI-assisted coding?

Try Claude code, codex-cli, or gemini-cli. They are CLIs, as their name indicates. The Gemini one is free.

hollownobody | 9 months ago | on: The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

Try o3 please. Via UI.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Crypto rug pull aided by Argentinian president

He posted on Twitter about the coin and a few hours after the rug pull said that he hadn't done any research.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?

AFAIK, these models can't "look" at the plots they build. So it is necessary to send the screenshots, otherwise they will never notice the gorilla.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

Try reading Qualityland, by Marc-Uwe Kling. It's SF (funny SF) about this exact premise.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

One option is that people you talk to look for the stuff to discuss.

E.g. person A talks about bouldering with person B. Person A then continues with their day while person B googles bouldering terms.

A and B then receive both bouldering ads. Person By because of the googling and person A because of proximity to person B.

Person A then assumes the phone spies what they say, but it doesn't. Location is enough.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

Done! Email subject is "HN DS Interviews".

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

Yes please!

For additional context, we are currently using problems which have test cases, and it feels as if it doesn't correctly reflect the day-to-day of a data scientist. In fact, many interviewers pass a candidate iff they pass the test cases.

I'd love more open-ended problems.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

Not sure if this is not currently possible, but what about adding an LLM integration?

I work in DS for a large corp and we're currently working on replacing our hackerrank coding interview with something that lets us evaluate the daily life of a dev a bit more realistically. This includes letting them use LLMs and watching them do exploratory data analysis, instead of just coding.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

I know this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, but why, god, why does the author feel the need to write completely in lowercase? It seems completely unnecessary. Impress with your words, not with a weird formatting.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

I think you assume that there will only be one model. However, as we can see today, there can also be a variety of prices/qualities. Why wouldn't the tier 1 support people be also replaced, but by cheaper models?

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

I disagree. LLMs are creating new knowledge when they are being used. A conversation with an LLM can carry a lot of signal in the user's input. I routinely send whole snippets of code, alongside an explanation/question as input.

hollownobody | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How can I escape my 3W country as a freelance dev with passive income?

An European country perhaps? If you get a visa for q few years in Germany, for example, then you can apply for permanent residence. There are freelance visas.