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by bbor 2y ago
I know it’s hard to notice when you’re in it, but the good points here are buried behind a mountain of nostalgia. The problem with the internet is not that it uses too many JS frameworks. The fact that you used a company’s website one time
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by bbor 2y ago
Fantastic. You’ve got a new user in me, will be porting my AI from next.js asap. Thanks for taking the time!
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by bbor 2y ago
What language has a built in dependency system…? How would that even work? I’m confused. Every dependency system is a registry of dependencies vetted by some group, along with one or more compilers/runtimes that know how to speak that
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m guessing this is part of their “startup-y-ness” that they need to sell the possibility of insane growth to VCs? Because just from an engineering perspective, I don’t see why it needs a monthly subscription to run a server crunching the
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by bbor 2y ago
To play devil’s/react-dev’s advocate: the appeal of local-first is that you can easily configure which business logic you want done on the server, leaving anything that can be done on the client to the client for latency and cloud bill
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by bbor 2y ago
Great writeup(s), thanks for sharing! My immediate reaction was “that sounds too good to be true”, which is a nice compliment I think. I have some high level questions if you find the interest: 1. Why have a React Native clone of your SPA i
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by bbor 2y ago
Tbf, the biggest private infrastructure project in the history of humanity is now underway (Microsoft GPU centers), the fastest app to reach #1 on the App Store was released (ChatGPT), and it’s dominating online discourse. Many companies ha
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by bbor 2y ago
…I mean, it was advancing slowly for linguistic tasks until late 2022, that’s fair. That’s why we’re in such a crazy unexpected rollercoaster of an era - we accidentally cracked intuitive computing while trying to build the best text autoco
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by bbor 2y ago
What video generation was decent 2 years ago? Will smith eating spaghetti was barely coherent and clearly broken, and that was March 2023 ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghett... ). And isn’t t
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by bbor 2y ago
Incredible, simply incredible. You know a paper is seminal when all the methods seem obvious in hindsight! Though I’m not caught up on SOTA, so maybe some of this is obvious in normal-sight, too. RIP Pika and ElevenLabs… tho I guess they al
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting, thanks! I’m a relative newcomer so I’m walking blind a bit. HN is certainly blazingly fast, I think we can all agree
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by bbor 2y ago
Does anyone know if anything has ever been added since the days when Paul Graham ran this directly? They might be operating on strict orders to keep it the exact same? I know there was some wording changes to the rules a few years back, but
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by bbor 2y ago
Just for context as a fellow interested noob: That book in particular is more like a manifesto than a survey, so it's not really intended to be 100% convincing, IMO. And AFAICT most of that book is about using the philosophy of the m
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, hot takes. All of this is because the intro quotes appear and dissapear? Otherwise it doesn't actually hijack your scrolls other than to slide in some incidental images, and this is just the index, anyway -- all the articles are p
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by bbor 2y ago
A) I like cute scroll effects, but maybe we should consider making them additive rather than completely ephemeral (when screen size permits)? The intro is beautiful on mobile, I'm sure, but it's just kind of irritating on deskto
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by bbor 2y ago
The fundamental proposition of materialism is that matter is the only reality. Therefore consciousness is nothing but brain activity. However, among researchers in neuroscience and consciousness studies there is no consensus. This
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by bbor 2y ago
IMHO, as an outsider enthusiast: It's an grab bag of more-or-less common reasons that are present in different relative amounts in different people. In rough order of importance: 1. People are concerned that the leadership is not actin
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by bbor 2y ago
This isn't exactly substantive, but this is just a rehash of what's been discussed to death anyway so I feel safe commenting it: does Bloomberg have some rivalry with Elon Musk...? That is just an objectively awful picture. Just t
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by bbor 2y ago
Good question! Basically, there are two theses here: 1. Systematic oppression exists but it's not your problem, don't worry about it, colleges should fix it. 2. You shouldn't put much stock in undergrad university ranking whe
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by bbor 2y ago
This is incredible, thanks for sharing. Absolutely hilarious. “I just don’t trust OpenAI for obvious reasons,” Musk said during the recruiting party. “It is closed, for-maximum-profit AI.” I’m the biggest openai hater out there, but
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by bbor 2y ago
I disagree with a lot of these (especially "no conclusion section", which runs parallel to the ubiquitous "results" section at the end of journal articles) and it needs a "for certain kinds of technical writing&quot
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by bbor 2y ago
Heartwarming, love to see it! I know China is guilty of various evils, but I don’t think the bluster and adversarial worldview popular in the USA right now is doing anyone any favors. Especially in such a fragile time for the world… Restric
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by bbor 2y ago
That is not the intent here. When I talk about DEI, I’m not talking about the political side of it or how it’s often co-opted by the left as a gateway to Marxism. I was going to criticize the lack of non-SV political context (e.g. t
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing, that’s hilarious. Even in the one about “multi agent” systems theres no reference older than 2023. I know I shouldn’t be shocked by how arrogant the connectionist got with their (arguably unexpected) success, but I
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by bbor 2y ago
You’re in a lethality and violence-soaked environment, increasingly in population-centric environments. There’s a lot of grey area - who’s the enemy, are they a voluntary or involuntary human-shield, and so on. I guess she understan
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, clinical psychology is oriented pretty much exclusively towards preventing “disruption” or “distress” or other synonyms for “bad”, which they call “pathological behavior”. PTSD is, obviously, very bad when compared to people who don’t
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by bbor 2y ago
Brings a tear to the eye… there are good things in the world! Nature is healing!
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by bbor 2y ago
Holy hell, did anyone get to the part where this is the lady from YACHT?? That’s probably the most insane twist I’ve ever read in a philosophy post, even more unexpected than the thoughtful post a week or two ago that was by the guy behind
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, that’s tragic. The us military is clearly screwed as well — no idea how they’ll try to convince the people running that contract that they’ll move groundbreaking tech forward just for the military but don’t see a need to put other reso
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by bbor 2y ago
This is also a great point. I ranted at length about this when the OpenAI news broke last week, but to cut it short: it's a little troubling to see the company founded on the ethos "for-profit AI work is incredibly dangerous"

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