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by floundy 3y ago
I write technical finance/econ articles and the only thing I've found it useful for is getting a vague outline of typical topics that might be touched on in an entry-level article about something. For example to GPT-4 I ask: >i
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by floundy 3y ago
Cool, now try it with a knowledge field that isn't code that can be tested for the proper output.
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by floundy 3y ago
Where's the poll option for "it continues to be overhyped junk spewing misinformation, then arguing with the user (Bard) or acquiescing when pressed regardless of the correctness of the rebuttal (ChatGPT)"? You can surely get
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by floundy 3y ago
Your comment describes the perpetual state of Linux desktop use in general. Every couple of years I check it out again because people on HN, Reddit, or some other forum *swear* that it "just works" now and you don't have to m
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Ask HN: How do you focus on productivity when working on the computer?
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by floundy 3y ago
My bet is that quality will go up. I'm not really interested in reading what the small number of people who spend 8+ hours per day on Reddit think, about any topic. Hopefully they'll take their silly Reddit mannerisms and inside j
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by floundy 3y ago
She took the smarter approach of Wolf Richter selling a doom-tinted "alt econ" narrative, but has monetized it with a paid newsletter with stock picking advice. Very clever. I will add though, that academia has been taken over by
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by floundy 3y ago
>record, excessive, under-regulated corporate profits There will always be "record" profits in nominal terms, assuming that a company's revenue grows in line with steady inflation.
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by floundy 3y ago
It's not even the regular mods getting their toys taken away, as Huffman has already clarified. It's the power mods controlling hundreds of subs via bots that will be hurt by these changes. Other users are eating up the astroturfi
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by floundy 3y ago
I'm not sure that I'd define the subset of users who voted in some poll about closing a subreddit indefinitely as representative of the community's wishes. Many users lurk, or don't visit the site every day, and their op
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by floundy 3y ago
I'd rate moderators more as "digital squatters" than "owners" of particular subreddits. I'm sure every community with over 5,000 subscribers on Reddit has at least a dozen users who would be willing to step up
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by floundy 3y ago
I'm nearly certain this is all intentional, to consolidate as many users as they can under the official app. Huffman is in on it, and will be "fired" by the board shortly after which will appease many users with the drama, th
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by floundy 3y ago
He might be the fall guy for this, perhaps he was ready to step down as Reddit CEO before the IPO and bring in some type who is amenable to Wall Street. The board will then "fire" Huffman to appease the users, but the decisions wi
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by floundy 3y ago
Agreed, most of those commenting are essentially saying "I'm totally gonna delete my account on June 30th, just you see! Well... unless Reddit backs down..." They're mostly Reddit addicts and they're probably not go
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by floundy 3y ago
HN has 300k daily active users; Reddit has 52M. It would take less than 1% of Redditors moving to HN to upend the entire culture here and make this place look like Reddit 2.0.
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by floundy 3y ago
Discord is so awful as an information resource, though. It can't be indexed by search engines so if a server ever gets deleted, that information is gone forever. Not to mention Discord's search is terrible anyway and you'll p
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by floundy 3y ago
>Comment threads for any even moderately larger sub have turned into cesspools of sniping ad hominem attacks and every form of fallacious argument under the sun. >And that same mindset is slowly creeping into the smaller niches that a