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by mvkel 10mo ago
A referee is a perfect analogy. We love to rate an umpire's call as "bad" after watching the slow motion replay 25 times, not based on the split second one-shot of information they had when they made it.
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False with the benefit of hindsight, because more facts emerged, or maliciously false? The latter among major news orgs is incredibly rare.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
That's a function of time and technology, and our demands as consumers, not journalistic skill. If a journalist has an entire day to gather facts and write the story before it's published in the newspaper the next day, it's g
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Great point, and no! Same with "truth." What is it? History is written by the victor.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
As an aside, it's been fascinating reading the comments here about news media. People want journalists to publish quickly AND only publish what’s fully verified. They want anonymous sources named "in the spirit of truth," wit
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by mvkel 10mo ago
> it's just outsiders who know how to make public communication clear I'd argue this requires a great deal of creativity. It's how we got "1,000 songs in your pocket." The problem is us, on the consumer side. We
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I can't help but wonder if this is a bit like a few years ago when comedians were complaining that nobody was laughing at their jokes anymore. They realized that it was a mandate to figure out how to be funny again, because what was co
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I am convinced that this is how you could run a successful sales team in the ~dozens at a software company before needing a dedicated crm. We prematurely opted for a crm once we had five sales folks and so many calories were burned just man
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by mvkel 10mo ago
First take: ew more ai generated slop Second take: well I guess the blame lays with us for consuming it and reinforcing its creation Third take: content creation becomes cheaper, allowing for more creative risks to be taken Fourth take: thi
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by mvkel 10mo ago
It's our own fault. Apparently we find Jake Paul screaming "I'M GEEKED" into the camera highly entertaining. I would argue AI going to be a good thing because more creative risks can be taken at lower sunk costs.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
The Marvel slop that the human creators have been putting out hasn't inspired much confidence in wetware either
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Not surprising in the least. If AI content can be monetized, I would imagine the struggling Hollywood set to be champing at the bit to participate. I suspect their ongoing concern is just their IP/brands/characters being misused.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Hilariously, it seems you anticipated this happening and copyrighted your comments. Is karpathy's tool in violation of your copyright?!
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, I built this. I extended karpathy's code and widened the date range to see what stocks these users would pick given their sentiments. What came back were the usual suspects: GLP-1 companies and AI. Back to the "b
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Really nice experience on mobile. I didn't think I'd like the "contrarian take" section, but it's actually useful to see what the main counterpoint is on a post, and how seriously others are taking it
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by mvkel 10mo ago
This has often been the case (Google dev rel soliciting feedback) and they very rarely take meaningful action. Like firing a bug report with Apple. They'll get to it when it becomes strategically important to. Why making it easier to p
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by mvkel 10mo ago
As an immigrant to the US, I've often viewed the fervent wish to depart (among natural born citizens) to be the ultimate form of self-entitlement. That you'd give up so easily when your voice, presence, and vote, matters most. It&
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by mvkel 10mo ago
It's infuriating. What's worse, we're part of the problem, with Apple shipping record units each quarter.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
It's telling that one of the leaders in ai, Google, also can't seem to ship an assistant that is better than Siri. Maybe it's not the ai that's the problem.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Why would it erase that same 70B just a week later? No more confidence?
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by mvkel 10mo ago
That's a generous interpretation. The deal allows OpenAI to purchase up to 6GW of AMD GPUs, while AMD grants OpenAI warrants for up to 10% equity tied to performance milestones, creating a closed-loop of compute, equity, and potential
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I would disagree, at least in the short term. Exhibit A: AMD's stock rose 36% at the announcement of their OpenAI circular deal. If 1+1 = 3 and there is potential profit to be gleaned from such a deal, then it isn't circular, and
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by mvkel 10mo ago
The problem is that stocks are often valued and traded on revenue growth, not profit[0] So circular funding generates stock price bumps when, as you said, there's no inherent value underneath. Creates a recipe for a crash. [0] conside
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by mvkel 10mo ago
They should be designed as tools, first and foremost, imo. Not toys, not content consumption terminals. There are dedicated devices for those purposes
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I've been on a 13" MBA for years as my daily, and I'm convinced that the usable screen real estate in macOS 26 is a significant downgrade. The window bezels feel like they're 1cm thick, as if they're meant to be fin
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by mvkel 11mo ago
That first os screenshot made my heart sink; a reminder of how far we've fallen. How I wish our operating systems still looked like this. Utilitarian, useful. No rounded corners and bubbly icons, reducing the useful space more and more
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by mvkel 11mo ago
It's surprising that it took this long for such a simple extension to appear. What a brilliant way to passively crawl high-signal content
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One of the most common Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22811653 https:/&#x2F
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by mvkel 11mo ago
> there are many ways of predicting aspects of them Yes, and it's priced in > but that’s just a special kind of reaction That's just arguing semantics. My point was that weather doesn't react to human predictions, expli
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Downside protection. Hedging. Giving you gains at the lowest beta possible.

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