I'm not surprised. I've seen Opus frequently come up with such weird reverse logic in its thinking.

> Why this matters

Hello Gemini

Yeah, call me when Yann incorporates the four humors and the elemental force of fire, from which we draw life. Metal lacks the nature for this purpose.

Says the bag of lipids and proteins :)

Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur and a dash of other elements.

$99.85 at Sigma-Aldrich

Mostly water, actually.

Typical. You know they pump the chickens at the grocery store too.

Lol. A lump of flesh can't be sentient

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

I think the more likely retort will be that we can't be smart, by the AI's standard.

What do people expect? You use an LLM, don't tell it your preferred writing style and get annoyed when it falls back to defaults.

All those tropes have their place in certain contexts. AI overusing them is because they have no memory across all they've written.

Each conversion is a new chat so it's like "I haven't used delve in a while, think I'll roll out that bad boy"

And then you try to fix this by telling it what not to do which doesn't work very well, so...

And the "final version" statement. Irrelevant as obviously it has no idea how many iterations you'll go through

In the last month I've done 4 months of work. My output is what a team of 4 would have produced pre-AI (5 with scrum master).

Just like you can't develop musical taste without writing and listening to a lot of music, you can't teach your gut how to architect good code without putting in the effort.

Want to learn how to 10x your coding? Read design patterns, read and write a lot of code by hand, review PRs, hit stumbling blocks and learn.

I noticed the other day how I review AI code in literally seconds. You just develop a knack for filtering out the noise and zooming in on the complex parts.

There are no shortcuts to developing skill and taste.

> I review AI code in literally seconds

You've just settled for hackathon standards and told yourself it's okay because you're using AI.

Everyone with experience should know that even thorough code reviews only catch stylistic issues, glaring errors, and the most obvious design deficiencies. The only time new code is truly thought about is as it's being written.

They refer to JP and language often enough in their search history and they state they are an american, and on 5G internet. I think working beyond this is doxxing. They could be anywhere.

> If you request deletion of your Hacker News account, note that we reserve the right to refuse to (i) delete any of the submissions, favorites, or comments you posted on the Hacker News site

Probably not GDPR-compliant then if comments can be deanonymised by LLMs.

This is probably the worst piece of policy on whole HN. It has a evil feel to it. If HN wasn't so interesting/valueable, this would be the single reason NOT to use it at all.

Why take away people's choice to use a forum with permanent comments? I know my comments will be here forever, but so will other people's comments. That's what makes HN valuable.

The alternative is what you see on reddit. A lot of threads from the past have posts deleted or overwritten with some script. You now have to dig through archive sites to find the comments, and you usually do find them.

I participate in Signal chats with self-destructing messages, too. But I post different things here and on Signal, under different usernames. Heck, after a few weeks I'll make another account here, anyway.

Even if you somehow deanonymize me, it's a risk I willingly took when I started posting.

Finally, if you go after HN for deleting comments, will you go after the many archive sites?

All these comments live forever in HN datasets that people download anyway

My understanding is that the GDPR “right to be forgotten” applies to personal data. Are publicly available comments considered personal data?

If they can help to deanonymize you, they must contain something personal. Writing pattern are pretty personal, certain spelling errors too, or the choose of words.

Absolutely anything relating to an anonymous person could help deanonymization, so that implies that anything relating to any person is personal data. Is that the GDPR’s position?

From ico.org.uk: “ It is important to note that opinions and inferences are also personal data, maybe special category data, if they directly or indirectly relate to that individual”

From gdpr-info.eu: “ Subjective information such as opinions, judgements or estimates can be personal data.”

So yes. HN is in violation of the GDPR. I had already filed a complaint about this policy at my local GDPR authority.

If you are posting public comments, then these comments are available publicly... like, what did you expect!?

Yes they are. The GDPR doesn’t say you can’t post it.

Under article 17 of the GDPR, EU citizens have the right to be forgotten, in which case this data needs to be deleted.

Well, the username attached to them would surely be.

Conde nast reported in the last few days their Web traffic is massively down too. Other big publishers have reported it themselves too.

The web and SEO are dead.

One reason why Google made that algorithm to watermark AI output