glimshe

7 ms·

121.
by glimshe 1mo ago
I agree but I'm not sure if I'm biased given the nonstop negative comments about AI texts, on top of every text having the same style (which would be equivalent to a human writing every page on the Internet). Would we think this w
122.
by glimshe 1mo ago
I had an idea for an experiment. Take a decent text, any one, and ask AI to rate it. Then patch that text by replacing words for ones that AI likes (honestly, load bearing etc) whenever possible and ask AI to rate it again to see how the ev
123.
by glimshe 1mo ago
You could be right and my statement is speculative/provocative. But I'm far from sure that AI Music would hurt that many small musicians. Please keep in mind that we've seen this story before... Record albums (CDs, cassettes
124.
by glimshe 1mo ago
Copyright payouts (especially from streaming) are a small fraction, often negligible, of the livelihood of a professional musician. Keep in mind that in a world with free models, anyone could create AI music without silicon valley's in
125.
by glimshe 1mo ago
This is actually an insightful comment. People defending strong copyrights think they are protecting the little guy, but in fact they are defending the few winner-takes-all creatives. Banning AI music may only protect the very same people.
126.
by glimshe 1mo ago
Will people stop listening to AI music just because associations ban it? Pop hits were essentially "human slop" - highly formulaic and catering to the least common denominator. I see no problem in people liking it, but I'm no
127.
by glimshe 2mo ago
I got downvoted yesterday for complaining about the name/brand confusion from all these Chinese models with similar names all claiming they are the best. While I'm an AI enthusiast, it's being hard to keep track.
128.
by glimshe 2mo ago
In the mid 2000s, I had to leave the US for renewal while leaving all my hard assets behind. I had a plan in place in case I couldn't go back to the country, which did happen to some people. These people had their interviews, but they
129.
by glimshe 2mo ago
There's a lot of brand confusion among the Chinese models right now. Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Z.ai, Ox. We might know the difference (or I should say, someone does because I'm losing track already) but these models have no chance at end u
130.
by glimshe 2mo ago
Probably the other way around. The idea behind outsourcing is that you move the generic labor abroad and keep coordination and control onshore. AI can now do the generic labor for even less, so you'll likely see small onshore teams usi
131.
by glimshe 2mo ago
That claim about load bearing is doing a lot of work there! I'm curious to know how "Claudish" emerged during the training process. Why each AI has a particular voice if much of the training material is the same across AIs?
132.
by glimshe 2mo ago
Our field started as a niche for geeks. For a long time, CS paid you the average for engineering work - hardly equivalent to six figures today for most with the exception of seniors. It's still like that on most of the world. Many peop
133.
by glimshe 2mo ago
That's awesome ! I also predict that Leopold Aschenbrenner will be the world's first trillionaire under 30! PS: Not.
134.
by glimshe 2mo ago
If you adjust for inflation, is it a big change from the super cheap Mac Minis of the past? Probably still somewhat more expensive, but not as much as the nominal difference would imply.
135.
by glimshe 2mo ago
That should help with the deficit!
136.
by glimshe 2mo ago
We're entering a hilarious new world where people advertise their "artesanal", "hand carved", "organic" software of all things.
137.
by glimshe 2mo ago
I wonder how it's possible they didn't think about this problem. Considering everyone involved in building this feature, not a single person thought about the possibility of twins or simply people who are very alike? Also, can&#x2
138.
by glimshe 2mo ago
What you said are just predictions. My personal experience is very different. AI is removing a lot of tedium from coding right now and is freeing my time to do more interesting things than writing tests, for instance - more time spent on
139.
by glimshe 2mo ago
All it needs is Internet access to remain useful with few shortcomings. The next step would be automatic self-training. A free LLM that could access HN everyday (and the linked sites) for more data would remain current in programming for a
140.
by glimshe 2mo ago
This is awesome. I think these old machines could a have a role in a undergrad level computer science course on machine language. I think it would feel more immediate and useful than using an assembler on a contemporary machine.
141.
by glimshe 2mo ago
This is a great project. How do you handle saving/loading data? You mentioned file operations but you need some sort of file system - perhaps FAT32 - to support that. I'd need that to consider using it on UEFI. One thing you could
142.
by glimshe 2mo ago
The game "Cult of the Lamb" is a great way to learn about cults :)
143.
by glimshe 2mo ago
Speak for yourself. As an AI enthusiast and senior developer, my dream is to remove the many tedious tasks from the software engineering job. "Irrelevance" is the kind of extrapolation from the skeptics that we've been hearin
144.
by glimshe 2mo ago
Your point proves mine. Doom scrolling is self reinforcing. People upvoting these articles spread the fear: "this is really concerning! Others must see this right away!"
145.
by glimshe 2mo ago
There will be plenty of "AI Boosters" lining up to take that job. If you think about it, she did exactly what the "boosters" wanted: get out of the way.
146.
by glimshe 2mo ago
Being somewhat odd is normal.
147.
by glimshe 2mo ago
I've seen an increase, despite the aggressive and partially effective moderation by users (including me), of political content on Hacker News. This content is almost never positive. If you're someone who likes to do submit these t
148.
by glimshe 2mo ago
> It would be interesting to block simonw's own votes from influencing simonwillison.net submissions, but that would be hard to impose fairly across all webmasters. I think that would be undesirable. Let people vote on themselves as
149.
by glimshe 2mo ago
I love NKS and think Wolfram is one of the best Math and even science explainers out there. Yes, he doesn't know the meaning of the word "humility" but I honestly don't care. He advertises NKS as some sort of revolution,
150.
by glimshe 2mo ago
I hated this product and would never buy it. Non standard keyboard with white keys (!), waste of space with that storage area and hefty price for the specs. I'd much rather buy a Mac mini I was in the market for a premium mini PC.

More ›