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by emseetech 1y ago
I wonder if slow growth businesses like this will win out in the end. Every other social network decays under a crush of revenue expectations and an In-N-Out model of tech can grow steadily without ever falling apart. Could be a real tortoi
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by emseetech 1y ago
I'll def dive more deeply into that later but want to comment how great of a name that is in the meantime.
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by emseetech 1y ago
That paper can only comment on the models not reality. The map is not the territory after all.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Yes, exactly. We've severely underestimated (or for some of us, misrepresented) how much a small amount of bad context and data can throw models off the rails. I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to say whether this is preventable
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by emseetech 1y ago
Right. When we're talking about the scale of humanity itself, we've moved far past individual actions. At the scale we're operating, if only 1% is susceptible to these algorithms, that's enough to translate to noticeable
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by emseetech 1y ago
Are you so sure the 9/11 hijackers rejected reason? Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers? https://archive.is/XA4zb Self-described rationalists can and often do rationalize acts and beliefs that seem baldly irrationa
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by emseetech 1y ago
Biding my time. GPT5 was a wake up call. The hype will die down and the hangover will begin. Moving fast in the beginning always has caveats. In the meantime I'm doubling down on math and theory behind AI.
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Show HN: Suitely. Your C-Suite, Reimagined by AI(suitely.prisen.co)
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by emseetech 1y ago
| I think that's an under-estimation I'm not sure it is and I'll take it a step further: Over the course of development, efficiency gains trend towards zero. AI has a better case for increasing surface area (what an enginee
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by emseetech 1y ago
Or by market consolidation, as we're experiencing now.
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by emseetech 1y ago
It's best to not sell it as using HTMX the way you would sell using React as a framework. Instead, I say "let the web be the web." Building things using standards and not fighting the paradigm with a new paradigm. What's
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by emseetech 1y ago
Not just developers, but designers. Finding designers who understand hypermedia in that way is nearly impossible. A team that decides to shift towards this approach to development has to get buy-in from the designers as well. It's not
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by emseetech 1y ago
They must have been referring to B'Tselem since they have 38 employees, but it's an Israeli organization headed by an Israeli human rights lawyer, Yuli Novak. I assume the person you're responding to is not Israeli and has no
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by emseetech 1y ago
I took a creative writing class and we had a portion where we read and analyzed bad writing then took good writing and rewrote it poorly and those were the most helpful writing exercises I've ever done.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Here are a series of demos. They work in Chrome or Safari. https://view-transitions.chrome.dev/ Here's an older, more designed demo that only works in Chrome. https://live-transitions.pages.dev
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by emseetech 1y ago
The View Transitions API is beautiful and I can't wait for it to become widely available. I've soured on SPAs in the past few years. So much more can be done with standards than people realize. SPAs were best for specific use case
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by emseetech 1y ago
"invite-only" is key because it requires a trust relationship, if not directly then through minimal degrees of separation. While not perfect they can basically work while apps for the general population cannot because there is no
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by emseetech 1y ago
You know the answer to that is zero. There is no viable system a company, let alone a small unfunded startup, could use to verify the identity of the reporters let alone guarantee the trustworthiness of the account. Those ten reports could
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by emseetech 1y ago
I do. Not as an indictment of women but an indictment of social apps. Apps like this are way too hard to moderate, manage and verify. They quickly get swarmed by bad actors and misused. Again, not because women don't have genuine safet
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by emseetech 1y ago
Every couple years someone tries this and it immediately turns into a cesspool because no matter the good intentions of the makers, it attracts the worst kind of person as active users. It gets shut down, everyone forgets, then someone eve
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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic: We may be losing the ability to understand AI(venturebeat.com)
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by emseetech 1y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't the trendlines for Protestant vs Catholic as percentage of population move considerably closer to each other? https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2014/02/04/
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by emseetech 1y ago
I use LLMs as a conversation partner but never let it write the code for me and this feels like I get the good parts without the bad.
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by emseetech 1y ago
Pleiotropy.
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by emseetech 1y ago
AI may expand the effectiveness of engineers, especially experienced ones, without doing much for efficiency or velocity. If that’s the case the industry hasn’t considered how it will adapt to that. It’s not even in the conversation.
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by emseetech 1y ago
As I said below, I’m not interested in a chat program in the least. Especially discord. I use it when I have to but it’s a much more demanding and ephemeral experience than I described. Is this a generational divide? There’s no way I’d ever
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by emseetech 1y ago
When I saw the title of the conference I immediately thought of him so I'm not surprised he's headlining!
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by emseetech 1y ago
We could be in a tortoise vs. hare situation... Unless we find ourselves back in the conditions of the 2010's again, thoughtfully building software to be high quality and high performance may win out in the long run over "move fas
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by emseetech 1y ago
Social media is defined in a lot of ways but what I'm talking about is defined by bi-directional connections between users and sharing within that verified graph. Self-hosting is a non-starter but a service that charges a reasonable
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by emseetech 1y ago
Mastadon is a more of a broadcast network with micro-blogging. It's got advantages over a place like twitter but not what I'm looking for. And having worked on decentralized social networking, I've turned off from it because

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