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Ask HN: How do you (AI researchers) convince yourselves that AI isn't terrible?

Obvious parallels with developing nuclear weapons in the forties. I guess one argument is now, if you don't do it, someone else will, but are there AI researchers who actually believe at this point that this is good for humanity.Because I don't see it. I'll take all the diseases and crt monitors for whatever advances AI is promising at this point.

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Before anyone get's too excited, the Israeli company, Irregular, serves as a cybersecurity test bed for AI technologies. These AI companies were using Irregular to prevent exactly what ended up happening.
Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:05PM (#46129829)
Alright, bring on the downvotes.

It's the bloated junior salaries that have killed their market. I never like hiring juniors, I never like working with juniors, and I'd rather pay the extra 20-30% and get someone more experienced. I'm sorry, but if you don't get into FANG, you should basically be working for nothing until you have some experience. It's cruel, it's not fair, but it's just not worth it for the employer. Especially in today's world where there is no company loyalty.

All this BS about AI taking away the stuff that juniors did, in my field, software development, that was never the case. I never worked in a place where the juniors had different work than the seniors. We all did the same things, except the juniors sucked at it, and required handholding, and it would have been faster and better if they weren't there.

The real trick is finding companies that do very simple work, simple enough that juniors can thrive on day one. It won't be the best experience, but it is experience, and the rest is what you make of it.

I wonder if meta is a poor comparison for advertising because they're users tend to spend more time on their products doom scrolling, as opposed to something like google, where you get your answer right away and move on.
I don't know much about IQ. In the most extreme case, of dissimilar education, the different was about 15 points. Is that a lot? What does that mean to laypeople?
Re:Implications of AI to schools on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:34PM (#46040693)
Memorizing and tests at school are the archaic approach that schools don't believe in anymore (at least the school board my kids are at), but they happen to be AI proof.

It's the softer, no memorizing, no tests, just assignments that you can hand in at anytime because there's no deadlines, and grades don't matter, type of education that is particularly useless with AI.

Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:15PM (#46027390)
One of the parent comments mentioned a similar situation involving a colleague who other comments think was from India based on the description of the dowry.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:04PM (#46027321)
There are students who get good grades on their assignments and tests, and there are students who get bad grades on their assignments and tests, but there are no good and bad students.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:25AM (#46023373)
There's too much apologizing for people's horrible actions these days. Nearly everyone is a sympathetic character when you get to know them, but that doesn't excuse them. There were other people, in his situation, who took different approaches that didn't result in locking a woman away in a loveless marriage for her entire life. I'm sure a lot of us come from easier situations, but the people who come from hard situations will probably tell you, yeah, it was hard, it was horrible, but he didn't have to do that.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:13AM (#46023303)
I think I am totally naive on this subject,

why was the divorce so hard for him? In that society, they just don't let you get divorced unless both parties agree to it? And with the evidence he had of her being a lesbian, does that mean nothing? What is even the point of divorce in that society?

It's funny, I feel like half the reason I use docker is for python projects.
What about the rest of Israel?
I see a lot of comments here are about how other countries should react to this designation, rightfully so.

I wonder also though, how Israel will react. Is this anything new for them?

Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @06:28PM (#44067848)
Is that a codebase you're giving it?
You're.... joking, right?
Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:55PM (#43789169)
I think what this proves is that the LLM knows the riddle, and is trying to give the expected answer without paying attention to the insane wording. So maybe this is a good way to fool an LLM.
Government organizations aren't very good at accounting for true inflation, so right now the salary + golden handcuffs combination is way lower than industry compensation, if you're competent. If you're not competent, and you're not doing anything, then you might as well stay.
So when all the dust settles with retaliatory measures, what do we expect? Canadians and Mexicans will feel the pain, I'm sure. Will China and the United States?
Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:31PM (#42860400)
Uh, did anyone look through the prompts this guy fed it? It's a bit misleading.

Less a coding piece than a translation exercise. All of the prompts are convert this c code to wasm.

I could be wrong, but I think this is a pretty low benchmark.

That makes sense
So it's not really possible at this time with these general consumer offerings?

Ask HN: What's the best way to code a complicated project from scratch using AI?

Using chatgpt (paid) and Claude (free):When I try to code a somewhat complex project (backend with login capabilities, jwt, refreshtoken, and e2e tests) and I put all the requirements in the initial prompt, the output is usually condensed and incomplete, like it has a maximum output length that it can't exceed.When I give it small prompts, I get more verbose and complete answers, but the...

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Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Thursday January 23, 2025 @06:03PM (#42808973)
Thanks
Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:05PM (#42808540)
Hey Chopra,

Thanks for sharing, this is really inspiring!

Just wondering, for other bootstrappers, if you do end up selling for, I don't know, $200 million letsay, how does that money generally get split? What percentage of the company did you own before selling, and what were the tradeoffs when selling ownership?

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:30AM (#42665437)
> Over the course of a year and hundreds of candidates I presented, I've managed to place just one developer in a company

I work at pseudo government organization where we take seminars every few months about dei, gender issues, etc... and it has made 0 difference when it comes to hiring. Ultimately my org is trying to reach out more, get to dei events, but that's as far as the effort goes. Once a job application is posted, it's the same old process. Maybe that's fair, but it felt disingenuous, and unnecessary, especially since we weren't great at hiring anyways.

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