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by jfoster 1y ago
I'm not sure the answer matters so much. My guess is that as soon as one of them gains any notable advantage over the other, the other will copy it as quickly as possible. They're using the same models under the hood.
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by jfoster 1y ago
In the ideal case, your burrito is sharing a taxi with many other burritos going the same direction.
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by jfoster 1y ago
You're focusing on the downsides & potential downsides. They might not be a good option, but they sure are (usually) a very convenient one.
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by jfoster 1y ago
I wonder how they decide whether the o or the digit needs to come first. (eg. o3 vs 4o)
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by jfoster 2y ago
What makes it unethical? For all we know, the private investors are all in agreement on this. Musk tends to take capital from investors that he is on very good terms with. There's most likely a lot of overlap between investors of both
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by jfoster 2y ago
Any entity that can afford to invest billions of dollars can probably also afford to litigate if they see fit.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Well I definitely wouldn't say it's vital for humanity. Has anyone actually said that? Character consistency means that these models could now theoretically illustrate books, as one example. Generating UIs seems like it would be v
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by jfoster 2y ago
The character consistency and UI capabilities seem like they open up a lot of new use cases.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Perhaps you'll be able to talk to the LLM whilst driving, but it seems that at least the short term trend is going to be that it can do less stuff. https://9to5google.com/2025/03/16/google-assistant-losin
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by jfoster 2y ago
I don't know if many people will find this useful, but I've wanted this site for years, so I finally decided to make it.
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Show HN: List Combiner – generate all combinations of text lists(listcombiner.com)
1 points by jfoster 2y ago|1 comments
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by jfoster 2y ago
Read the article. I guess you're going to agree with me after.
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by jfoster 2y ago
An article about a software update to fix an issue that affects cars that are traveling at ~0 mph. Slow news day?
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by jfoster 2y ago
I think it will be nice if it does plateau, but one non-hit release from OpenAI is not a plateau on its own.
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by jfoster 2y ago
As in, the web standards? Why couldn't it just read them online? Any other specs, couldn't it decide them on its own? From what I've seen, Grok 3 would be quite capable of inferring the effect of any change, at least at a hig
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by jfoster 2y ago
What is the fundamental limitation that prevents AI from ever doing the maintenance tasks that you mentioned? Current AI cannot, of course, but the trajectory seems to be that it will be able to do such things better & faster than any h
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by jfoster 2y ago
With the way that AI is unfolding right now, this might be an outdated problem fairly soon. In 2026 if you can just tell your AI to build a new full-featured browser before you go to sleep, you might have something in the morning.
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by jfoster 2y ago
There's only two browser engines? Which two? Blink, WebKit, or Gecko?
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Ask HN: What Happened to Google Home/Nest?
2 points by jfoster 2y ago|1 comments
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by jfoster 2y ago
Is it 0% per day if you turn off sentry mode?
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by jfoster 2y ago
I don't know if it still happens, but Google used to have an issue that I would see in Verbatim mode whereby non-Wikipedia domains would rank as particular Wikipedia pages by redirecting to Wikipedia. I can't seem to replicate it
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by jfoster 2y ago
Of course it's okay, and at the same time no one will use it as soon as something else is more convenient & effective. Been waiting for "something else" ~30 years & counting.
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by jfoster 2y ago
I don't think the full ownership structure is publicly known, but feel free to link me to it if I'm wrong. Capital other than his did come in as part of the acquisition; there's almost 100 shareholders. https://www
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by jfoster 2y ago
Isn't that how all companies operate? For instance, GM reconsidering Cruise is clearly from Mary Barra, but the decision is overall a GM decision. Saying "Mary Barra is shutting down Cruise" would just seem childish.
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by jfoster 2y ago
I haven't seen the filing, but I presume you mean that X filed saying that they own the accounts, right? I don't get why people conflate Elon Musk with the companies that he runs. I imagine he has controlling stakes in all of them
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by jfoster 2y ago
There is ads. Perhaps they didn't load or uBlock Origin isn't actually disabled? I know that some people find ads distasteful, but I think they're the best way to make a tool like this sustainable without being annoying; limi
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by jfoster 2y ago
Among some related tools, I run Batch Compress ( https://batchcompress.com/en ), an online image compressor. It converts images to WebP or JPEG with a lot of compression applied in order to shrink file size by a lot. There is
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by jfoster 2y ago
That's true. Their technology direction is probably not efficient. You can see something similar happening with Waymo. If it were actually scalable & in sight of a promising ROI, why wouldn't Alphabet fund it themselves rather
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by jfoster 2y ago
If taxis got bigger it would cut into personal sales, yes, but it creates a new revenue stream whereby they take a cut of every ride. The price anchor in that new revenue stream traditionally accounts for the cost of having a human driver,
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by jfoster 2y ago
Completely agree, but I'm very glad they exist. It's always good to have multiple companies offering a service, and they've opened the regulatory door for Tesla to eventually launch driverless robotaxis that operate in more c

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