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by ijk 5mo ago
I feel like the problem is that it's both. We're sanding off the long tail of human expression. It's not profitable this quarter, you see. Faster to let the AI do it.
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by ijk 5mo ago
It really feels sometimes like they were trained on too much short-form fiction or something. Really stunts their sentence and paragraph texture.
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by ijk 6mo ago
I don't see anywhere he was apologetic enough to fix any of the damages that he caused, and plenty of places where he was documented as doubling down on lies he knew were lies at the time. The man was making money off of lying about de
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by ijk 6mo ago
Some days I really wish the timing had worked out for me to build a serious private inference server before hardware prices spiked.
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by ijk 6mo ago
Given the LiteLLM Supply Chain Incident, threat mitigation and governance are definitely major concerns.
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by ijk 6mo ago
I feel like this is the kind of hack that made early radio tech exciting to play around with. The basic parts are incredibly simple to assemble from scratch, so it feels like magic. Speakers and microphones are the same thing in reverse. An
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by ijk 6mo ago
More likely based in scale, in the sense of "they can't punish all of us."
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by ijk 6mo ago
I'm very mad about the RAM shortage. It was quite rude of them to not wait until I built a new LLM server.
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by ijk 6mo ago
Getting dumped from "upwardly mobile middle class" to "unemployable underclass" does seem likely to be radicalizing . It's not clear yet how much it'll actually be happening, but it does challenge a lot of the
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by ijk 6mo ago
One concern is that people in general might not have enough personal taste to care if something is slop. I have high standards and am familiar enough with LLM output to find that yet another repetitive pattern painful to read, but clearly t
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by ijk 6mo ago
Having worked in games, the AAA costs coming down by automating art isn't going to make them cheaper to make, though they will probably get more content. AAA is partially about the spectacle, the vast investment smaller games can'
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by ijk 6mo ago
With the way the chip shortage the way it is, I'm a little concerned that my next phone will be worse and more expensive...
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by ijk 6mo ago
An ouwardly earnest reminder that reposts are explicitly encouraged on HN, but disingenuously omitting to mention the "after 12 months" part of that.
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by ijk 6mo ago
And this keeps it from reinstalling?
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by ijk 6mo ago
I'm not sure why you're using Zuckerberg's sites as examples of internet freedoms.
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by ijk 6mo ago
> We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last
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by ijk 6mo ago
Show me how to uninstall it, because I've tried and failed.
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by ijk 6mo ago
It feels a lot like storing your data as an essay in a Word doc instead of a spreadsheet. It can work and all of the math is probably correct, but it's very much the wrong tool when the structured data was right there to be used inst
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by ijk 6mo ago
Also the rules and norms of the subreddit has changed over time, which has led to spin-off subreddits that serve those purposes.
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by ijk 6mo ago
That's not necessarily a downside for traffic safety, though. Though I imagine someone must have studied the effects of various wavelengths on drivers...
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by ijk 7mo ago
Which is GOG's selling point, versus Steam.
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by ijk 7mo ago
I've been reaching for BAML when I really need prompt iteration at speed.
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by ijk 7mo ago
This matches my experience with Dspy. I ended up removing it from our production codebase because, at the time, it didn't quite work as effectively as just using Pydantic and so forth. The real killer feature is the prompt compilation;
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by ijk 7mo ago
Yeah, there's often a heavy instruction and recency bias that just squeezes all of the nuance and subtlety out if it.
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by ijk 7mo ago
Yes, though I would take it in a different direction and say that LLMs are better at putting actual ideas into code. They've never gotten real feedback on how their literary metaphor feels, but they have gotten very direct feedback on
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by ijk 7mo ago
Adequate coffee almost works as an image. In the hands of Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut it could be spun into a whole recurring motif. In this case it's merely...adequate. Almost captures the density of ideas packed into something lik
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by ijk 7mo ago
No, I clocked the AI images before I noticed the text. I think the "obviously" is earned. You are correct that a previous era would have included a bunch of Fiverr images that would be in sort of that style, but it's not the
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by ijk 7mo ago
In Peter Watt's Blindsight, the aliens understand language as spam, a hostile intent to waste their time, and respond by opening fire. Reading LLM slop without warning makes me see their point of view. I think there's useful ways
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by ijk 7mo ago
Ironically, the story can be read as gesturing in that direction, as it's ostensibly about giving a new title to a particular job. In general, though, I think part of the mistake people keep making is that they try to imitate what woul
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by ijk 7mo ago
Someone prompted it to write that, and then posted it, so I suppose there's a meta-author to get upset at. It's kind of an abandonment of having a worldview, outsourcing it to the AI.

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