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by imiric 8mo ago
> All of this was sold as a feature. “It just works.” Safety. Privacy. User experience. What it actually was, was control — Apple’s control over what you could do with hardware you supposedly bought. Can't both of these be true? App
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by imiric 8mo ago
Was grift.ai too expensive?
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by imiric 8mo ago
You don't pre-order, and you wait for reviews. But usually this is a problem of repeat offenders. Fool me once... Nowadays with shovelware and AI slop, new studios can also release garbage, but you don't have to play on day 1. At
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by imiric 8mo ago
I suppose it's a matter of semantics and perspective. The definition of "toy" seems too narrow to me to properly encompass the complexities of board and video games. A ball is a toy, but clearly it's unable to provide th
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by imiric 8mo ago
I'm not sure how I feel about SKG. On one hand: sure, a product you buy should be expected to work for more than a couple of years. This gets fuzzy with modern service subscription models, licensing terms, etc., but in general, planned
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by imiric 8mo ago
I agree with most of what you said, but describing video games as nothing more than toys does a disservice to the medium. Yes, video games can be educational and entertaining, just like real world toys, but they can also be artistic and com
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by imiric 8mo ago
Turns out Humane was ahead of its time.
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by imiric 8mo ago
That's old news. Now there's Plancklaw, renamed to ∅. It has no code base, no bugs, no security issues, infinitely scalable, and all the features of every other *claw.
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by imiric 8mo ago
> But we can predict the outcomes [...] Maybe not 100% of the time So 60% of the time, it works every time. ... This fucking industry.
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by imiric 8mo ago
A lot of words to say that for all intents and purposes... it's nondeterministic. > Yes, it's a departure from the fully deterministic systems we're used to. A system either produces the same output given the same input[1]
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by imiric 8mo ago
> That’s because it’s superstition. This field is full of it. Practices are promoted by those who tie their personal or commercial brand to it for increased exposure, and adopted by those who are easily influenced and don't bother v
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Weather forecasting is anything but "an inexact science." It's extremely exact up to the limitations and assumptions you impose on your model due to resource constraints. It's "extremely exact" but our mod
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by imiric 8mo ago
Fair enough. Things are always more complicated at scale. But then again, we don't know whether this company is maintaining this infra themselves, or if they're paying for API access. Besides, if anything, running their own server
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by imiric 8mo ago
How are you getting persecution complex from what I said? If anything, your comment might be feeding that delusion. :) My point is that HN definitely has certain weights associated with accounts, which control the karma, visibility, and ult
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by imiric 8mo ago
After thinking more about this, I don't think smartphones would even be good sources of ambient data that could improve forecasts. Smartphones are personal computers. They spend most of their time in pockets and controlled indoor envir
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by imiric 8mo ago
> I work at a FAANG and every time you try something innovative the "policy people" will climb out of their holes and put random roadblocks in your way What a surprise that someone working in Big Tech would find "pesky&quo
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by imiric 8mo ago
> I believe there are opportunities to improve short term forecast accuracy using data collected from phones. Alright, fair point. That could be a reasonable use case. But judging by their advertised "Community reports" feature
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Weather requires ongoing costs. I strongly doubt that this company runs their own weather stations or meteorological models. Their only recurring cost is API access to the companies that provide weather data, a negligible amount of IT
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by imiric 8mo ago
How are weather apps still relevant, let alone profitable enough to build a company around? This problem has been solved years ago. All the app needs to do is hook up to one or more data providers, and show some stats and pretty graphs. It&
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by imiric 8mo ago
How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe&
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by imiric 8mo ago
> And for those who think it's just organic with all of the upvotes, HN absolutely does have a bias for authors, and it does automatically feature certain people and suppress others. Exactly. There are configurable settings for each
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by imiric 8mo ago
Jobs are replaced when new technology is able to produce an equivalent or better product that meets the demand, cheaper, faster, more reliably, etc. There is no evidence that the current generation of "AI" tools can do that for so
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by imiric 8mo ago
> It's quite sad but I think it will result in a more personable internet as people try to distinguish themselves from the bots. I applaud your optimism, but I think the internet is a lost cause. Humans who value communicating with
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by imiric 8mo ago
The article does not fit the description of blind AI denialism, though. The author even acknowledges that the tool can be useful. It makes a well articulated case that by not putting any thought into your work and words, and allowing the to
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by imiric 8mo ago
The obvious question is: was it vibe coded? :) As much as I'd like to know whether a text was written by a human or not, I'm saddened by the fact that some of these writing patterns have been poisoned by these tools. I enjoy, use,
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by imiric 8mo ago
I think there should be 10x more hardcore AI denialists and doomers to offset the obnoxiousness and absurdity of the other side. As usual, the reality is somewhere in the middle, perhaps slightly on the denialist side, but the pro-AI crowd
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by imiric 8mo ago
You don't fit the profile OP is complaining about. You might not even be "vibe" coding in the strictest sense of that word. For every person like you who puts in actual thought into the project, and uses these tools as coding
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by imiric 8mo ago
I agree with you to an extent, but the difference is in how the solution is derived. The LLM has no understanding of the physical length of 50m, nor is it capable of doing calculations, without relying on an external tool. I.e. it has no se
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by imiric 8mo ago
But this is not a trick question[1]. It's a straightforward question which any sane human would answer correctly. It may trigger a particularly ambiguous path in the model's token weights, or whatever the technical explanation for
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by imiric 8mo ago
There's nothing ambiguous about this question[1][2]. The tool simply gives different responses at random. And why should a "superintelligent" tool need to be optimized for riddles to begin with? Do humans need to be trained o

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