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by chromacity 5mo ago
For me, practical knowledge comes from trying to figure things out. The more polished and "ELI5" the material is, the less I retain. I've played with quite a few LLM tools that promised to help me "understand anything&qu
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I think what you're attributing to frugality might be a more a matter of age? Many older folks are just wary of change. I'm not that old, but every time I upgrade my PC or phone, some of my workflows break and I need to pointles
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Funny, I went the other way round in the Bay Area. PG&E bills were so high so it was the choice of putting on a jacket or paying $1k extra over the winter months. And my reasoning was "I can afford a jacket".
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Most people in the US are pulled into living on credit straight out of school. You get a student loan, then a car loan, then a credit card, then a mortgage. You finance vacations, appliances, kitchen remodels, smartphones - mostly to keep u
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Note that the title is completely misleading. When they say "creativity", they mean it in the sense of a "marketing creative". This is about marketing people evaluating AI-generated product shots, which are hardly the pi
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I remember hearing the same arguments in the early 2010s, when the "3D printing revolution" was just around the corner. Why would anyone buy anything anymore if you can download a model and print it in the privacy of your home? An
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I don't see what the issue is, my agent is already running as root.
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> There's an incredibly serious lack of education with how LLMs & carb-counting works Oh! Do the vendors offer trainings to make sure the users understand how LLMs work? If not, surely, the LLM itself is trained to know its limi
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> The revenue from a few ads on the free tier in exchange for limited queries to GPT-5.3 is negligible So why chase this negligible revenue?
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> We need better critics of the industry. There's plenty, but they don't have enough material to post once a week. And if you don't post once a week, you don't end up on HN once a month. As simple as that. Looking at
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by chromacity 5mo ago
That's essentially how you become an online pundit. The internet rewards provocative takes. If you have a tendency to doubt yourself and revise your views, then (a) your views become less provocative and thus less likely to translate i
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Third evidently AI-generated "AI is bad" story in a day. I'm gonna lose it...
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by chromacity 5mo ago
There's always the Juiceros of the world. More seriously, every software company of note has some hardware aspirations and hires some number of EEs, machinists, material scientists, etc. Not as many as SWEs, but if you can get your foo
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> As long as a judge issued the warrant for geofence data, I see less wrong with it. It passed judicial scrutiny, AND can itself be challenged. The cops say "someone committed a crime in this area, we need to find the perp". Th
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by chromacity 5mo ago
It's striking how many of these "product safety" cases are decided in the court of public opinion, independent of actual scientific merit. The case of DDT was pretty interesting. More recently, we have microplastics - no one
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> It's not a great definition but it's also not a terrible one either. For an AI system to be able to do all or even most of the jobs in an economy That's not the definition they have been using. The definition was "$
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by chromacity 5mo ago
> I was surprised not to see any discussion on whether the author used AI to help write this post. It is definitely AI-written, far beyond "AI assisted". This is a shower thought turned into a needlessly long machine-generated
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Aaand it's the second "AI is bad" story on the front page today that's evidently generated by AI.
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Everyone has an identity. We have people with near-religious beliefs about AI, people who cram functional programming where it doesn't belong, etc. Our hobby projects are often a consequence of these identities and make no sense otherw
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I'm not sure if this is what you mean by "distribution", but I think Instagram won by being content-consumption-centric. People who used Flickr were mostly other photographers. People on Instagram are mostly your customers: p
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I just can't get over the incredible irony of so many of these "AI is bad for you, mmkay" articles being LLM-generated. If the author sincerely believes the thesis that AI makes you vulnerable / dumb, they are either inc
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by chromacity 5mo ago
At the peak of its popularity, Flickr was an interesting glimpse of the coming age of algorithmic homogeneity. In the mid-2010s, most of their top photos looked basically the same: heavily shopped, oversaturated HDR landscapes. I stopped
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by chromacity 5mo ago
If it's an existential threat to humanity, and if OpenAI is valued at nearly $1T, why set the bounty at a measly $25k? The going rate for an iPhone zero-day is six to seven figures. Some companies will pay you more than $25k for a webs
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by chromacity 5mo ago
Because it can't and it's a publicity stunt. It achieves three goals: 1) Underscores to the general public that the models are amazingly powerful and if you're not using them, your competitors will out-innovate you, 2) Sends
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by chromacity 5mo ago
It's solvent-based, so it won't set well in thick layers and it will shrink significantly as the solvent evaporates. You can do thick layers with solvent-free thermoset resins such as epoxy, but epoxy will yellow over time.
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by chromacity 5mo ago
It's a relatively soft plastic and I don't think you can realistically build a uniform, good-looking layer that's 1/8" thick, if that's what you mean. If you need that thickness, high hardness, and nice appeara
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by chromacity 5mo ago
I think that gen AI has profound negative externalities. I also think that all the other uses of this tech aside, natural language comprehension alone is cool and useful enough that I don't see us ever going back. So I guess my questio
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Dunno. The internet was definitely smaller, but it was also largely uncorrupted, so you could literally just email a random university professor or an industry expert and get answers to dumb questions. And today, if you want to learn someth
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I think this is a weird side effect of how we portray evil corporations in fiction and in journalism. We imagine that everyone working there is a moustache-twirling villain. And then we get a job at Meta or Flock or Palantir, look around, a
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Using a 1960s book as a benchmark feels weird to me. I'd expect books to be more expensive when they come out and less expensive when they're the fiftieth low-cost reprint 60 years later. Sure, it's a classic, but it's h

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