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by ketzo 2y ago
"All mental models are incorrect; some mental models are useful"
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by ketzo 2y ago
"Trojan horse"? 95% of people currently access AI via web or mobile app; those are pretty JS-dominated, no?
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by ketzo 2y ago
It’s already becoming politicized, in the lowercase-p sense of the word. One is assumed to be either pro- or anti-AI, and so you gotta do your best to signal to the reader where you lie.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I just think you’re totally wrong about that, to be honest. It’s very strange to me to paint every AI researcher as an unfeeling robot who does nothing but read PDFs, who’s not remotely interested in how their work will ever be used by real
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by ketzo 2y ago
I feel like you underestimate the degree to which AI developers are influenced in just the same ways as everybody else. Capturing mindshare matters no matter how you do it. I would bet my life savings that more people will join OpenAI to wo
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by ketzo 2y ago
Right — which is to say, the vast, vast majority of people heard about Ghibli and not Gemini.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Particularly with technical writing, I think you can definitely get away with both. “How I Reduced My Postgres Query Latency By 100x With A Single Index” Even in the title, I can tell you the punchline (if you wanna make your DB access fast
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by ketzo 2y ago
> unless you are vastly incompetent at basic police work. Boy do I have news!
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by ketzo 2y ago
We already have multiple news stories about xAI receiving 10,000s of GPUs that were originally meant for Tesla. That's about as close to "public company giving private company owned by CEO money" as you could possibly get wit
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by ketzo 2y ago
The linked article can tell you that the ChatGPT app has been downloaded more than 600M times, so approx 1 in 13 humans has actually downloaded ChatGPT to their phone already, let alone heard about it. They have WAUs in the 300m ballpark —
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by ketzo 2y ago
Based on other comments in this thread it sounds like this takes place in SF’s Mission neighborhood — among other things, the warmest and least foggy area in the city! I wonder about how to do this in my own, much chillier neighborhood… gue
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by ketzo 2y ago
If you think “garage coffeeshop” is a fast track to wealth, boy do I have news!
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by ketzo 2y ago
There were a bunch of headlines last week about DOGE firing half of NOAA then rehiring them. I don’t think you should consider anywhere sacrosanct.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I mean, I don’t think it’s a fairytale idea; the implication of the opening discussion on wealth inequality is that the US would need to raise taxes fairly significantly to do so. The question is really just whether the political will to do
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by ketzo 2y ago
Well, that's sort of the author's point -- every framework is focused on something other than simple salary numbers, which definitionally means it is focused on something other than the dollar value provided to the company. We
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by ketzo 2y ago
Wait, what? Utilities all over the world have rate systems that offer higher or lower prices based on who's paying. "Water is fungible" doesn't mean that you can't charge Amazon more for it than you do the little ol
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by ketzo 2y ago
> It’s a meat grinder that chews up developers, sysadmins, and infosec pros …and designers, and PMs, and sales and marketing and support and… I know that, charitably, the point is that engineers often have higher leverage than other indi
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by ketzo 2y ago
Okay, I was being a little snarky. But that quoted portion doesn't really contradict my point; that is in no way an exploration of good reasons why Apple might want to make these choices.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think this is an excellent addition to the perspective of the article! Why do you not think so?
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by ketzo 2y ago
> Anywhere Apple trusts itself is a place where they can trust a third party. This quite literally could not be further from the truth, and to suggest that it is true reflects such a comprehensive misunderstanding of both the fundament
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by ketzo 2y ago
That’s not the point, though. Any method by which apple exposes APIs to Samsung, Google, etc: - requires immense development effort and expansion of security surface area - STILL offloads trust to Samsung, Google, etc The hyperbole here is
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by ketzo 2y ago
> Apple claims their restrictions on competitors are only about security, privacy, crafting a better experience etc etc. At least that’s what they tell you as they tuck you into bed. Ah, yes, the author is clearly interested in an in-dep
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by ketzo 2y ago
You're being sarcastic, but isn't this all just... correct? Yes, I do trust the company that developed Secure Enclave more than I trust random BLE firmware in a $49 Alibaba watch. More importantly -- my great-uncle can trust the
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by ketzo 2y ago
No, the vendor's BT stack would be responsible for broadcasting any responses back to the device -- like, in the article, "send text messages, or perform actions on notifications (like dismissing, muting, replying)"
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by ketzo 2y ago
The way people on HN sometimes talk about "management," you'd think the universal experience is 1% good, 9% benign, 90% actively seeking the downfall of civilization Managers seem like a good example of the "toupee probl
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by ketzo 2y ago
Most informed “dark pools” comment
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by ketzo 2y ago
Is this gonna be the thing that finally makes me tried Rails? Ruby syntax really is just nice.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of people talk about "fixing hallucinations" as the end goal, rather than "LLMs providing value", which misses the forest for the trees; it's obviously already true that we don't need totall
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by ketzo 2y ago
My 2c would be: - tech-oriented publicists / marketers definitely do know that HN exists and matters - there are “benign” ways to game HN, like releasing at an optimal time for readership / upvotes - there are less nice ways, like
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by ketzo 2y ago
The ~3 times this has ever happened to me, it made my week . Cannot recommend enough.

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