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> While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news Surprise! Yes, We are!

jjackson5324 3y ago
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- tomrod 3y ago
  Eh, what I see popular on HN tends to be the trend 5 years down the line.
- nottorp 3y ago
  The corpse of blockchain would like to have a word with you :)
  - jjackson5324 3y ago
    Um, have you seen the price of bitcoin? Or the Bitcoin ETF? What are you talking about lol.
    - saagarjha 3y ago
      No because most people stopped talking about it
      - sdsd 3y ago
        Yeah, people on HN. I'm tutoring a friend's homeschool kids (who live in the US, I'm in Central America) in Spanish and the mom couldn't set up Payoneer so yesterday she asked if I'd accept bitcoin. I'm an Urbiter and everyone in that scene is all about crypto. It's still big but you're right, it's more confined to specific niches, instead of MSNBC talking about NFTs
      - jjackson5324 3y ago
        Yeah, you're just wrong. I have several people in the Philippines and South America who help me out with misc things (VA-type tasks). All of them have asked me if I could pay them in crypto (USDC on AVAX Chain). There's tons of people who use it for day to day. You're just in a bubble.
        nottorp 3y ago
        Am I, or are you? Your people are dodging tax, probably because no one has got around to regulating crypto in their jurisdiction yet. Not that I blame them. In other places where it's regulated and you get taxed anyway, there's no point in losing money on exchanges.
        jjackson5324 3y ago
        Nope, you're the clueless one. > Your people are dodging tax I said I'm using USDC. That makes 0 sense. No, the reason we're using crypto is because the transaction fees are literally 0 and it's instant. PayPal takes super high transfer fees. Wise is a cheaper alternative but it's still much more expensive than crypto. > there's no point in losing money on exchanges. Once again, I'm using USDC It's a stable coin tethered to the US dollar. It's really strange how HN users are so confident on things they know nothing about.
        dang 3y ago
        If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we will have to ban you. I just warned you about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182597.
  - ESTheComposer 3y ago
    Yes the corpse that just got approved for a BTC ETF with an ETH ETF on the way and with multiple companies winning lawsuits against the SEC. But sure, because it's not on HN anymore it's a corpse.
    - estiaan 3y ago
      The state of the crypto world is such that i genuinely can’t tell if you’re being satirical by using a bunch of jargon and acronyms that mean nothing in the order you used them, or not
      - ESTheComposer 3y ago
        You don’t know what an ETF is or the SEC?
        estiaan 3y ago
        No, I really don’t, and most people probably don’t. My job has absolutely nothing to do with finance, luckily.
        ESTheComposer 3y ago
        You should probably learn what an ETF is…it’s one of the most basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably over the years, and most people put their 401ks (or equivalent) into them, so yes a ton of normal people know what it is. The SEC enforces regulation (or it’s supposed to at least) around securities passed by congress. The real question here is if you don’t even know a basic finance term like ETF, why are you trying to talk down to my statement and crypto when you clearly have no knowledge of the sector? It’s just ignorant
        estiaan 3y ago
        I wasn’t talking down the financial aspect of your comment, I was saying that the language you use is so idiosyncratic with that community that, in being an outsider, I can’t tell if you’re making fun of it, or are a part of it. “…basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably…” this is what I’m talking about. Also I’m not American so it’s not reasonable to expect me to know what the SEC is, and I don’t have a 401k. We have an entirely different retirement system in my country.
- happytoexplain 3y ago
  Believe it or not, it's possible to be both interested in LLMs and also feel that there is too much LLM content on a given aggregator.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  I fully expect AI to be huge in the future, and only get bigger. Doesn't mean I want 50% of HN to be about AI.
  - ziml77 3y ago
    Especially when none of it brings anything new. A lot of the AI announcements are from companies who are basically saying "we can send what you typed through GPT-4 with maybe a slightly specialized system prompt". And when it comes to blogs, there's only so many times one can tolerate reading the same exact arguments for or against AI. I don't know why this has happened with both AI and cryptocurrency that people feel personally attacked when others just don't want to be bombarded with it 24/7.

jjackson5324 3y ago

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tomrod 3y ago
Eh, what I see popular on HN tends to be the trend 5 years down the line.
nottorp 3y ago
The corpse of blockchain would like to have a word with you :)
- jjackson5324 3y ago
  Um, have you seen the price of bitcoin? Or the Bitcoin ETF? What are you talking about lol.
  - saagarjha 3y ago
    No because most people stopped talking about it
    - sdsd 3y ago
      Yeah, people on HN. I'm tutoring a friend's homeschool kids (who live in the US, I'm in Central America) in Spanish and the mom couldn't set up Payoneer so yesterday she asked if I'd accept bitcoin. I'm an Urbiter and everyone in that scene is all about crypto. It's still big but you're right, it's more confined to specific niches, instead of MSNBC talking about NFTs
    - jjackson5324 3y ago
      Yeah, you're just wrong. I have several people in the Philippines and South America who help me out with misc things (VA-type tasks). All of them have asked me if I could pay them in crypto (USDC on AVAX Chain). There's tons of people who use it for day to day. You're just in a bubble.
      - nottorp 3y ago
        Am I, or are you? Your people are dodging tax, probably because no one has got around to regulating crypto in their jurisdiction yet. Not that I blame them. In other places where it's regulated and you get taxed anyway, there's no point in losing money on exchanges.
        jjackson5324 3y ago
        Nope, you're the clueless one. > Your people are dodging tax I said I'm using USDC. That makes 0 sense. No, the reason we're using crypto is because the transaction fees are literally 0 and it's instant. PayPal takes super high transfer fees. Wise is a cheaper alternative but it's still much more expensive than crypto. > there's no point in losing money on exchanges. Once again, I'm using USDC It's a stable coin tethered to the US dollar. It's really strange how HN users are so confident on things they know nothing about.
        dang 3y ago
        If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we will have to ban you. I just warned you about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182597.
- ESTheComposer 3y ago
  Yes the corpse that just got approved for a BTC ETF with an ETH ETF on the way and with multiple companies winning lawsuits against the SEC. But sure, because it's not on HN anymore it's a corpse.
  - estiaan 3y ago
    The state of the crypto world is such that i genuinely can’t tell if you’re being satirical by using a bunch of jargon and acronyms that mean nothing in the order you used them, or not
    - ESTheComposer 3y ago
      You don’t know what an ETF is or the SEC?
      - estiaan 3y ago
        No, I really don’t, and most people probably don’t. My job has absolutely nothing to do with finance, luckily.
        ESTheComposer 3y ago
        You should probably learn what an ETF is…it’s one of the most basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably over the years, and most people put their 401ks (or equivalent) into them, so yes a ton of normal people know what it is. The SEC enforces regulation (or it’s supposed to at least) around securities passed by congress. The real question here is if you don’t even know a basic finance term like ETF, why are you trying to talk down to my statement and crypto when you clearly have no knowledge of the sector? It’s just ignorant
        estiaan 3y ago
        I wasn’t talking down the financial aspect of your comment, I was saying that the language you use is so idiosyncratic with that community that, in being an outsider, I can’t tell if you’re making fun of it, or are a part of it. “…basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably…” this is what I’m talking about. Also I’m not American so it’s not reasonable to expect me to know what the SEC is, and I don’t have a 401k. We have an entirely different retirement system in my country.
happytoexplain 3y ago
Believe it or not, it's possible to be both interested in LLMs and also feel that there is too much LLM content on a given aggregator.
IshKebab 3y ago
I fully expect AI to be huge in the future, and only get bigger. Doesn't mean I want 50% of HN to be about AI.
- ziml77 3y ago
  Especially when none of it brings anything new. A lot of the AI announcements are from companies who are basically saying "we can send what you typed through GPT-4 with maybe a slightly specialized system prompt". And when it comes to blogs, there's only so many times one can tolerate reading the same exact arguments for or against AI. I don't know why this has happened with both AI and cryptocurrency that people feel personally attacked when others just don't want to be bombarded with it 24/7.