PhantomHour

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by PhantomHour 1y ago
What's your point here? That Google wouldn't do this because "the broken window fallacy is a fallacy"? We have them on the record in multiple lawsuits stating that they did exactly this.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Bear in mind those are revenue figures, they're costing claude hundreds a day. One imagines Leadership won't be so pleased after the inevitably price hike (which, given the margins software uses, is going to be in the 1-3 thousa
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Does allow bots to access my information prevent other people from accessing my information? No. Yes it does, that's the entire point. The flood of AI bots is so bad that (mainly older) servers are literally being overloaded and
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
"Before they were like this" I would like to remind you that Facebook got it's start as a sex pest website.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> You really do have to account for why this is mainly happening in industries that are adopting AI Correlation is not causation. The original research paper does not prove a connection. > I doubt very much that these three Stanford p
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
It's a business model problem; The "Uber" business model relies on a monopoly. The business model is 1) "Have artificially low prices to push all competing business into bankrupty", 2) "Now that we're a mo
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
In part it'll be Europe, though VC in the "throw money into a fire" style does/did exist. But VCs, especially in those days, bordered on antipathy for sensible business plans. They didn't want small businesses that
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> These critiques of zirp never explain what should have been done differently. Controversially: They don't have to. The point of this piece (and similar ones) isn't "how we should treat the next similar-to-2008 financial
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Like it or not, employers will be forced to cooperate with you to get access to the talent pool you attract. Except for the problem of "talent will be forced to seek out employers, no matter how shitty or stupid the latter behaves
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The entire point of the funding is the strategic benefit that Intel's fabs in the US provide. That's the thing the US would get out of it. Also consider: Who is the $10 billion coming from? Because it's not Intel. Intel jus
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> I can’t think of another career where management continuously does not understand the realities of how something gets built. This is in part a consequence of how young our field is. The other comment pointing out other engineering is r
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Zuckerberg started as a sex pest and got not an iota better. But we could, as a society, stop rewarding him for this shit. He'd be an irrelevant fool if we had appropriate regulations around the most severe of his misdeeds.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
This is an extremely tricky question. The practical and readily-observable-from-output answer is "No, they cannot meaningfully identify spam or misinformation, and do indeed just accept the results as gospel"; Google's AI sum
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The way around that is that is for LLM-based tools to run a regular search engine query in the background and feed the results of that in alongside the prompt. (Usually a two-step process of the LLM formulating the query, then another pass
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
One thing I'm missing in the full report is what a 'median prompt' actually looks like. How many tokens? What's the distribution of prompt sizes like? Is it even the same 'median prompt' between 2024 and 2025?
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The answer is fairly straightforward. It's fraud, and lots of it. A honest businessman wouldn't put their company into a stock bubble like this. Zuckerberg runs his mouth and tells investors what they want to hear, even if it&#x27
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> In this microservices world, things are small enough that any small group of even low productivity employees can make things work. That is quite literally true, because smaller things that work well don't even need all that many c
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
It's the core problem facing the hiring practices in this field. Any truly competent developer is a generalist at heart. There is value to be had in expertise, but unless you're dealing with a decade(s) old hellscape of legacy cod
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
It's well documented. It's also quite controversial and economists still dispute it to this day. It's economic analysis of the entire economy, from the "outside" (statistics) inward. My point is that the individual
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
I'm sorry but you're asking me here to dig up decades old data to justify my claim that "The spreadsheet software has an immediately identifiable ROI". I am not going to do that. If you won't take it at my word that
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> This is no different from the personal computer, and it is to be expected. What are you talking about? The return on investment from computers was immediate and extremely identifiable. For crying out loud "computers" are lite
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Consider the kinds of jobs that are popular with outsourcing right now. Jobs like customer/tech support aren't uniquely suited to outsourcing. (Quite the opposite; People rightfully complain about outsourced support being awful. T
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
"CEO is obsessed with [thing]" isn't much evidence that the thing in question is worthwhile. Zuckerberg was utterly enthralled with the Metaverse, and we're not having this discussion in a virtual world as legless avatar
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The difference is that AI is not people "taking your stuff and building upon it", it's just people taking your stuff in direct competition with you. To torture your metaphor a little, if information/"question answer