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by lukev 2y ago
Not sure what you mean. People would definitely still compete on quality and price in a world without advertising: much moreso, because they couldn't just spend money for sales without improving their product. If they wanted to improve
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by lukev 2y ago
I think a market without advertising is sufficiently "alternative reality" that it's difficult to say what it would look like. The giant incumbents are only giant incumbents because of ads to start with. In a world without ad
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by lukev 2y ago
This is the great white whale of the internet. A platform for this would clearly be a thing of value, but extremely difficult to do because you need to booststrap a two-sided market in an environment where all the existing established playe
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by lukev 2y ago
I disagree. Advertising is a zero-sum game. If nobody advertised, every solution would be equally discoverable via search and word-of-mouth. It's only when some actors start advertising that the others must as well, so they don'
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by lukev 2y ago
Sure, I’m definitely not claiming to have the one true definition of art. But I AM claiming that the tech types who have both defined art and declared that AI is good at it are full of shit.
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by lukev 2y ago
Ok this is a little frustrating for me. Not because there aren't bad actors (there are, and LOTS of them, basically anything ad-supported.) But we're in a capitalist system, right? We want companies to compete on features that hav
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by lukev 2y ago
I'm not gatekeeping whether they are allowed to enjoy or talk about poetry. I am ABSOLUTELY gatekeeping whether their opinion should hold weight when opining on the trajectory of a millenia-old art form.
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by lukev 2y ago
This happens every time this topic comes up on HN. A lot of commenters here apparently think that all "art" means is having an object that has a pleasing aesthetic. Meanwhile every artist knows that art is defined by _intersubject
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by lukev 2y ago
Do you know anything about poetry, as an art form? Or are you judging purely on your (not only amateur, but complete outsider) aesthetics?
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by lukev 2y ago
I assume they mean nuclear war.
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by lukev 2y ago
Are you implying that this is somehow exonerative of the government? Or even adds meaningful nuance? We happen to have a thing called the First Amendment. Whatever she said, or whatever the press published, is constitutionally permissible.
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by lukev 2y ago
Along these lines, one thing Claude Code does consistently is to see a failing test and then add a conditional in the actual code to satisfy the test . I'm typically pretty gentle in real code reviews but that one is a serious "w
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by lukev 2y ago
It's really hard to accurately assess the possibilities granted by LLMs, because they just feel like they have so much potential. But ultimately I think Satya Nadella is right. We can speculate about the potential of these technologi
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by lukev 2y ago
Many (if not most) human dynamics do not have a single direction of causality. The whole premise of cognitive behavioral therapy is that human psychology can be described as nested feedback loops between behavior, emotion, and cognition.
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by lukev 2y ago
Data and Reality, by William Kent. A timeless classic on the computational representation of, well, anything and everything. The third and currently only published edition, published posthumously, insists on adding a bunch of mid-2000s era
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by lukev 2y ago
This is exceptionally useful advice, and precisely the way we should be talking about how to engage with LLMs when coding. That said, I take issue with "Use Static Types". I've actually had more success with Claude Code using
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by lukev 2y ago
Yeah but if you lost your phone you'd be screwed. There's ways around it... the identity mechanism supports multiple keys so you could have a backup in escrow. But most people don't want to worry about key management at that
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by lukev 2y ago
This isn't quite true. Your PDS can't rewrite your messages: all messages are signed with a key unique to your account. That said, the PDS is effectively also your private key custodian. Most people who aren't nerds are happy
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by lukev 2y ago
I don't disagree, but I think we need to be careful of our vocabulary around the word "model." People are starting to use it to refer to the whole "AI system", rather than the actual transformer model. This article
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by lukev 2y ago
I don’t think most people have woken up yet to how nakedly racist this new admin is. “DEI” is literally just the new n-word.
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by lukev 2y ago
That’s why though I like ideas like Solid or the Fediverse, I’m skeptical they can be more than aspirational. The tech here isn’t the hard part, it’s the social factors. That’s why I’m currently most excited about ATProto (Bluesky)… bootstr
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by lukev 2y ago
I have heard similar things but this is THE most deeply weird result and I’ve never heard a good explanation for the setup. A lot of people pose it as a question of pure information: do you record the data or not? But what does that mean? T
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by lukev 2y ago
Even if they were as you say, a David and Goliath framing is 100% appropriate given the relative assets and market power of Meta and Bluesky.
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by lukev 2y ago
The whole point of ATProto is personal ownership of content. The current degree of centralization is an undesirable but (arguably) necessary feature of bootstrapping a new platform.
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by lukev 2y ago
I hope you're right. Are you aware of any image-gen models that apply chain-of-thought style reasoning (either agentic or via reinforcment learning to shape outputs?) For example, consider this imagery from today's challenge: htt
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by lukev 2y ago
yeah it's a cool concept, but knowing what I know about the ability of generative AI to accurately replicate specific moments of history, it falls flat. The whole point of this kind of thing should be to reward people who can recognize
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by lukev 2y ago
And this is appropriate for your domain and the jobs you work on. If your job was to build websites, this would drive you insane. I think I'm coming around to a similar position on AI dev tools: it just matters what you're trying
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by lukev 2y ago
This just isn’t right. It says I can run a 400+ parameter model on my M4 128gb. This is false, even at high quantization.
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by lukev 2y ago
This exactly. Interesting to note that Peter Thiel has never named a company "Hobbiton"
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by lukev 2y ago
Why is Russia winning and taking territory from Ukraine a good thing for anyone but Russia? Also, we knew Trump would do this because Trump is an ally of Putin, as (it seems) are you.

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