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1. 631.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   After SBF, now CZ. Nobody saw that coming /s
2. 632.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   Ssshhhh! You just scared away a 200+ wpm person from adding on to this interesting conversation.
3. 633.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   Like many other communities, programming has historically had its share of gatekeeping, and it's often easy to forget that "programming" spans a wide range of abilities and skill levels. So, while GP might be technically corr
4. 634.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   Like you, I'm similarly situated -- and I'll probably take a few months (to a year) break from following this stuff too closely (e.g. trying to get these running locally on my own). I have a suspicion that things will be a bit mor
5. 635.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   > and there's something nice about not having to interact with a real person This is the end-goal, I guess? Not just avoiding a taxi/Uber driver, but avoiding as much human interaction as possible. Is it surprising that techno
6. 636.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   Thank you!
7. 637.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   Could you recommend a self-hosted library for playing with text embeddings (as opposed to a REST API hosted online)? Thanks in advance!
8. 638.▲
   by disqard 3y ago

   When the moonshot hits the sky You score a bonus pizza pie! That's amore...
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   The Deceiving Virtues of Technology(netfuture.org)

   2 points by disqard 3y ago|2 comments
10. 640.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    This essay was written over 20 years ago, and has aged remarkably well. It anticipates (and provides a very actionable mental model for) smartphone/screen addiction, and the rise of LLMs and other technology that claims to replicate&#
11. 641.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Thank you so much for linking this! I've had an intuition that much recent ouroboric "technology for technology's" sake is actually more pernicious that it appears to be (at first glance). Reading that essay helped cryst
12. 642.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    ...and remember, the smartest people in the world (including some super-perceptive folks like Jaron Lanier) innovated in this space in the 1990s -- no one back then was able to come up with a "killer app" back then. The hardware h
13. 643.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    I learned the phrase "audience capture" recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938353
14. 644.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    It's a buzzword used to extract a big pile of money from VCs (before setting it on fire).
15. 645.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Indeed! When I see ultra-wealthy-but-emotionally-isolated people (the trio pointed out by Jaron Lanier comes to mind [1]), all I feel is pity at their condition. What they need is to be emotionally "nursed" back to wellness, but t
16. 646.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Thanks for the rec!
17. 647.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    You raise a good point, and it reminds me of a sort of "Prisoners Dilemma" (sender uses/avoids LLM-verbosification and/or recipient filters all emails through LLM-summarization). The worst-case scenario is that human com
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    Tell HN: Adobe Is Discontinuing Its Creative Cloud Storage

    3 points by disqard 3y ago|0 comments
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    Elon Musk to auction Twitter signs and other memorabilia(bbc.com)

    3 points by disqard 3y ago|2 comments
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    by disqard 3y ago

    I have never worked there, but this also squares with my outsider's impression of it. Thanks for confirming, though -- and I hope your mortgage payments never ever force you into that situation. Good luck!
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    A pop song rendered in the style of 6 classical composers [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by disqard 3y ago|3 comments
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    Diabetes App Stops Working, Removed from App Store(bbc.com)

    1 points by disqard 3y ago|1 comments
23. 653.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    "Gary B. Genett is the sole developer and maintainer of GaryOS. It is a personal project with aspirations of recognition as an actual distribution, however misguided."
24. 654.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Thank you!
25. 655.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Thank you for calling this out! I think the cult of pg is strong on this website, but it's important to strive for a bigger perspective.
26. 656.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    If you're willing to share, how long ago did you quit?
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    by disqard 3y ago

    Byju's has also been accused of predatory practices, like pressuring parents to take on loans to pay for their courseware. This was detrimental in multiple ways: * the courseware later turned out to be material freely available online
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    by disqard 3y ago

    What (if anything) will survive of similar works created in today's classrooms, where all work is performed via electronic devices? Maybe, since it is not actually possible to "scribble" with a touchscreen/keyboard, this
29. 659.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    The character sometimes passes (horizontally and vertically) through walls/ceilings, and I can't seem to control when this behavior occurs. Is there a special game mechanic in this platformer?
30. 660.▲
    by disqard 3y ago

    Lofti Zadeh ftw!