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by maeil 2y ago
It's not when you compare it to the right thing. > Was Claude better than Chatgpt 4 at certain tasks? Sure, it was also worse on some. For simple question/answer things, sure, but then you might as well use Gemini. For price-co
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by maeil 2y ago
> Maybe I am using them wrong but I actually find reasoning/chain-of-thought models worse at some things You are not using them wrong. Sonnet-3.5, famously not a reasoning model, is still easily the best generalist model that isn&#x
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm sure Meta has a lot of algorithm tweaks to derank any mention of negative events in Myanmar.
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm very surprised that I got as many as three replies by people who interpred my comment this way! You got it right indeed. I'm a bit confused though, surely if I call someone "Hitler-lite" this couldn't possibly b
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by maeil 2y ago
Huh? You completely misunderstood what I meant by that moniker. In no way at all does it absolve them of blame - quite the opposite, it's calling them nearly as bad, so close that the difference doesn't really matter.
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by maeil 2y ago
You know the answer, of course with FPTP there's only two parties with a realistic chance. But why do they? Because you keep voting on them. Your votes made e.g. Corbyn lose but Starmer win. What signal does this give off? A very diffe
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by maeil 2y ago
I can echo your experience with DeepSeek. R1 sometimes seems magical when it comes to coding, doing things I haven't seen any other model do. But then it generalizes very poorly to non-STEM tasks, performing far worse than e.g. Sonnet.
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by maeil 2y ago
> As a UK citizen, is there anything I can do to dissuade this? If you voted for this Tory-lite government, then you can stop voting for any future Tory-lite governments. If you did not, there's not much you can do in practice witho
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by maeil 2y ago
From the macrumors thread: > So much for personal liberties. I'd like to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a holdover from the last government knowing how fast the civil service actually works but given the Tor
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by maeil 2y ago
You forgot the mother of all: QWest.
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by maeil 2y ago
Have you seen any models that perform better at this? I last looked into this a year ago but at the time they were indeed quite bad at it across the board.
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by maeil 2y ago
The key here is VC-backed. The enshittification rate of bootstrapped products (especially solo or small team) is magnitudes lower. Ironic thing to say while on YC's message board, but there you have it. Nowadays when I'm looking
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by maeil 2y ago
Never mentioned "no bias" or "reasoning", great job making things up there. It's not about bias, it's about being a real, actual HN user instead of coming here with a particular goal. HackerNews, a tech/st
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by maeil 2y ago
For those less familiar with this topic, Facebook did indeed know about this while it was going on, they just didn't prioritize it.
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by maeil 2y ago
Re: Automomous driving If this becomes a thing, very quickly you'll quickly see insurance products created for those manufacturers to derisk themselves. And if the self-driving cars are very unlikely to cause accidents - or more accura
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by maeil 2y ago
You're right, it won't be. This is the only positive thing I can currently see. They could've easily pulled it off without resistance (i.e. bloodshed) in most of Europe, but in the US the indoctrination of US exceptionalism r
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by maeil 2y ago
Asking for people to prove the negative? I swear these posts are now being flooded by X types who only comment on these kinds of posts - and what a surprise, looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff, solely on poli
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by maeil 2y ago
>while he thinks he cleans up He doesn't.
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by maeil 2y ago
I agree with all of it and think the likelihood of a dynastic takeover is over 50%. But I don't think this is entirely accurate > Hitler was also perceived as a worthless clown who could be easily manipulated by other interests when
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by maeil 2y ago
Yeah, "unnecessary" is the word that may as well render the whole section moot unless it's actually properly enforced. If I can remember I'll test it today and see how it goes.
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by maeil 2y ago
Two companies that are so gigantic they combine to a great percentage of number of "company interactions" the average Westerner has on a daily basis. Anyway, I don't think it contradicts my point? Your company exist, mom and
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by maeil 2y ago
Of course there aren't any that are more valuable. But take Notion, Asana, Trello. All of them started out.. like a UI around a database. And they're plenty valuable now. More valuable than Oracle, the highest valued DB company? M
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by maeil 2y ago
The exact same holds for the pure AI wrappers - they'll end up similarly valued to UIs around Postgres.
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by maeil 2y ago
> So I can see why companies are quick to lock out customers who try these games. Most of the companies who customers try these "games" against are places like Google and Meta that literally do not provide a way for the average
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by maeil 2y ago
This holds for every app and every permission? Because I'm quite sure I recently used an app that closed for not allowing a permission. May be misremembering..
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by maeil 2y ago
Oh sure, I'm not suggesting Trump has a fountain of youth in his bedroon. Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il also eventually died, ending their terms. At least in their case, or pre-democracy European countries, the power was very explicitly
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by maeil 2y ago
Stop coping. Repeat out loud after me: "The US has collapsed similarly. A coup has taken place like that similar to Putin when he rose to power. China, the US, and Russia are three single-party dictatorships which are controlled by the
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm surprised that this was not given more attention, despite how much it was given, it should have gotten orders of magnitudes more. In the US, you can fly multiple planes into skyscrapers, rape three whole kindergartens, and lynch an
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by maeil 2y ago
>Dell's about-face on working from home belies chief operating officer Jeff Clarke's mid-pandemic assertion that "we will never go back to the way things were before." >"Here at Dell, we expect, on an ongoing
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by maeil 2y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41855006

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