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by bagacrap 4y ago
All difficult questions that will need to be answered in the affirmative if the web is going to survive. The only well-funded player that is really incentivized to make all these things happen is Google, as literally every other megacorp wa
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I wish! It's not that I don't want to have a free personal assistant that can answer all my questions with zero effort of my own. And it's not like it couldn't happen, but I don't think it's inevitable or right
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by bagacrap 4y ago
How will the ai know the answer if it's trained on SEO (AIO?) content?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Why were you using a web search if you didn't want to access the web (find a website)? Openai says don't use chatgpt for search. Microsoft says double check everything Sydney tells you. Is there an argument for LLMs replacing sear
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Meh, it's just a default. Users can switch away. Without this revenue, Mozilla would die and there would be /less/ competition in the browser space. In the car of Apple, nearly all people would probably choose Google anyway.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
huh? why is it impossible for passive income to cover a mortgage?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
more importantly, you're not allowed to use your drugs in the shelters
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by bagacrap 4y ago
most of the time the actual reason to decline the shelter is that they're not allowed to use their drugs there.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I think at the very least it casts doubt on the validity of classifying their situation as "homelessness", which strongly suggests that all they require to be ok again is shelter.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Yeah this sounds like Apple shaking down Google for additional revenue, rather than Google somehow sidestepping competition. Google is paying for the privilege of being able to compete in the browser space on iOS, because if they didn'
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by bagacrap 4y ago
what platform is not an echo chamber? For example, if you don't want to read tangentially related pet peeves every time bigtechco is in the news, you stop coming to HN. You stop coming to HN, and only complainers are left.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
how is it worse? I had the same initial reaction to the announcement of the change but I can't say I've noticed a difference.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
s/Google search/the web And people think chatgpt is going to save us, when all it's going to do is make the web, and therefore search results, ever more nonsensical.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
my user experience is pretty great. Any time I run into a video on a blog somewhere and realize it's hosted at yt, it's a huge relief to me. What video streaming service is more reliable or higher quality? yt shorts are very succe
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by bagacrap 4y ago
By usage metrics, yt shorts are very successful. I don't think they've proven very easily monetizable yet though.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
The yt of today and the yt of 2006 are very different services. If anything, Google bought a userbase and a brand name and built its own service from there.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
why is it apple's goal to "hurt Google"? With MSFT it's obvious that Satya is trying to distract a competitor in cloud, but chatgpt is hardly going to "kneecap" Google. Satya is hyping it with all the credibili
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by bagacrap 4y ago
You can't afford $9 a month or whatever it is to remove the ads? What other service are you planning to use instead that has no ads and no subscription fee?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
That would require better speech recognition. Judging by automated subtitles, it's not there yet. And I don't think YouTube videos tend to have better veracity than the web at large. Maybe YouTube videos can be used to train model
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Reading financial documents will only give you an illusion that you have some greater chance of success at stock picking. Amateur investors only buy index funds, anything else is speculation.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
The Fed definitely does try to manipulate markets by talking a big game they may or may not follow through with. The Fed has one set of projections and the bond market has another.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Yeah, I'm going to write a one page textbook on how to learn C++. On that one page it just says "variables, data types, control structures, functions, and arrays". It's gonna be brilliant.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Except they do innovate. They created this amazing form of AI. Their problem is they don't innovate on ways to monetize their technology, instead they give it away. Satya just laid off a bunch of the Edge team. What's the point in
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I see a lot of criticism towards modern software engineer interviewing techniques, but never a solution offered that would catch and reject BS. Your comment comes off as "hire a person because you get along with them, don't worry
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by bagacrap 4y ago
we still use Wikipedia because of convenience and not reliability, so I'm not sure what your point is. Humans will choose convenience over basically any other quality. See: kcups. Doesn't mean kcups are a net win for the world
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by bagacrap 4y ago
"The breaking (calving) of icebergs from ice shelves is part of a natural, cyclical process of growth and decay at the limits of Earth’s ice sheets" So apparently not a reason for alarm?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Doesn't sound like a very good court system of the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
What is a business supposed to be about?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I'm not saying this is the case, but if this is the case, it's really his own fault and not Google's. What is Google supposed to do, fire everyone after 10 years so they don't grow too complacent?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
You could hypothetically have a CEO that was good in a period of economic expansion but poor in a period of economic contraction. By the time you figure out you have one of these CEOs at the helm, it's probably too late to do much abou

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