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by edanm 1y ago
> 1. No, the data is already local, the app is already local, you're not relying on anything. That's not necessarily true. Some apps keep only cached copies of the data and the rest on the cloud. Sometimes the local files are i
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by edanm 1y ago
Not true for a variety of reasons: 1. You're relying on the external service to continue providing the export functionality, or else doing regular backups. 2. The format of the exports might be proprietary, so it might be orders of mag
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by edanm 1y ago
True, but the format is still text. In a "catastrophe", you can always just a) ignore these, or b) write custom code to process them (e.g. port the plugin to VSCode or whatever). Still far better than a proprietary format.
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by edanm 1y ago
I've never used it, but my understanding is that something that does this is considered a "killer feature" of Supermemo. It has a mode that lets you read text (via a PDF viewer) and lets you create flashcards as you read in s
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by edanm 1y ago
For many languages, this is already something you can do.
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Your original comment argued there is no value add. I gave an example of the kind of value add that you can get (saving money/time on following up something wrong). I did not advocate for this specific release being better, and I certa
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by edanm 1y ago
When I say "I don't know", it means I genuinely don't know. Obviously, since this is a new technology, it's possible that it is better than doing arbitrary things like saying that people shouldn't fill out
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by edanm 1y ago
I don't know. But pretending there are no tradeoffs is stupid, and also disconnected from reality.
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You're missing the case of it telling you not to see a doctor and it's right , in which you save a lot of time (and potentially money). Mistakes will happen, that's the nature of statistics of this nature. But don't f
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by edanm 1y ago
I mean, I've been a professional developer now for more than 20 years, and it started with learning QBasic from a book and then building stuff with Visual Basic. So VB was literally life-changing for me. I even bought (and still have s
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by edanm 1y ago
Amazing! I learned QBasic when I was 12, then moved on to Visual Basic when I was 13. It was such an amazing experience! I'm one of the many people who still wish we had anything anywhere near as good today in terms of creating GUIs. I
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by edanm 1y ago
I'd take that bet. AI players are already replacing search for a lot of users in a lot of cases.
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Show HN: Open-source project to autogenerate dbt documentation(newsletter.hipposys.ai)
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by edanm 1y ago
I said "pretty much". The homelessness crisis in, say, the US, affects a relatively small portion of the population; from quick looking up figures, it's less than 1% of the population. I'm no expert on any of this, but a
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by edanm 1y ago
From the point of view of a good 50% or so of the world (if not more), pretty much every Westerner has comfort and safety to fall back on.
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You've got a point. But I think it's pretty clear what the parent poster means - that it's too early to imply that GenAI won't impact jobs. Obviously you understood that that was the point parent wanted to make - becau
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by edanm 1y ago
In the sense that many anti-AI articles are shared and upvoted, and many anti-AI or AI-skeptical comments are upvoted. Of course, a lot of pro-AI and AI-enthuisastic content is also shared and commented. HN has many, many users, and they&
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by edanm 1y ago
I really don't understand how people can write entire articles which can be disproven with an hour of work. This is like writing a long polemic on how AIs will never be able to play Chess because of... reasons... four years after Deep
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by edanm 1y ago
> If you forced me to put a number on how much more productive having copilot makes me I think I would say < 5%, so I'm struggling to see how anyone can just assert that "the rational argument right now" is that I can b
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by edanm 1y ago
> Nationalism is not compatible with freedom. Why?
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Show HN: Talk to your DAGs with Airflow MCP server(newsletter.hipposys.ai)
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by edanm 1y ago
This is fascinating! Thanks for sharing. Small question - have you ever used Anki, and/or considered using it instead of this? I am a long-time user of Anki but also started using Obsidian over the last few years, wondering if you ever
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by edanm 1y ago
> Perhaps the only reason Cursor is so good is because editing code is so similar to the basic function of an LLM without anything wrapped around it. I think this is an illusion. Firstly, code generation is a big field - it includes code
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by edanm 1y ago
I had a similar situation - I once wanted to grab some web pages and parse them in Python, and was going to use Python's built-in libraries for that, and use BeautifulSoup to parse them. But then I realized I'd have to read enormo
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And as is demonstrated by this article, arguing about axioms is a very useful way of doing math exposition :)
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> This possibly cannot be the most efficient way for finding new solutions and "disrupting" stale industries? The thing is, the people with far more information than we have, and with actual money on the line , think this is
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The thing is you're doing what a lot of critics do - lumping together different people saying different things about LLMs into one bucket - "believers" - and attributing the biggest "hype" predictions to all of them
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I don't believe this is accurate. The difference between NP-Hard and NP-Complete is that NP-Complete problems are both NP-Hard, and in NP . As opposed to NP-Hard problems that are not NP-Complete, meaning they are not themselves in
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by edanm 1y ago
The parent was contradicting the idea that the existing AI capabilities have already been "digested". I agree with them btw. > And the progress seams to be in the benchmarks only This seems to be mostly wrong given peoples&#x27
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by edanm 1y ago
Please find a way to contribute more politely to HN. Regardless of whether I agree with you on whether this post should be flagged, calling your fellow HNers "random orangutans" that act out of "shitty little naval-gazing ide

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