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by mvkel 6mo ago
RE: Gell Mann. I know what music I like. I said I wanted "dystopian, ambient, droning music with ear-filling, warm bass. No drums or beat." What came out was some pretty generic dubstep that one might hear on a Verizon commercial
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by mvkel 6mo ago
The output is pretty terrible. Multiple attempts to get it to generate ambient music, and every time it pumps out a terrible dubstep beat. Like a strange form of Gell Mann amnesia, where all AI output is probably this bad, but if we don&#x2
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Probably the best reply I've ever received on HN. Thank you. I learned a lot from this comment, particularly around the realities of old planes in practice... and EV tractors(!) That's actually such a brilliant application for ele
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Before buying new, aren't there enough tractors from the 60s, 70s, 80s that are still salvageable? The general aviation world has Cessna 172s from the 50s still going strong; why buy new?
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by mvkel 6mo ago
If you have zero consideration for other people, sure. "I can't believe you wrote this terrible code. You clearly don’t understand how concurrency works. Do it again." Technically right, but when you run out of people who act
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by mvkel 6mo ago
I wonder if this confirms version 1 of some kind of "world model." It has an unprecedented ability to generate the real thing (for example, a working barcode for a real book)
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Being "right" shouldn't excuse bad behavior, especially if you depend entirely on a community to survive, which we all do.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
That's like saying going to Washington DC at all is "politics." It'd be bad business stewardship if he didn't; bad for shareholders, ultimately. It looks silly optically, but it's plain to see that Apple has tr
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Right. We're not still running Windows Vista, or RedHat. Time for a rethink.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Cook is known to be monk-like, so the relative quiet of this announcement is no surprise. Hopefully Ternus takes some risks and revisits some things from scratch (the OS layer)[0] rather than continuing down the path of more service add-ons
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by mvkel 6mo ago
That's only looking at half of the equation. That lack of diversity also makes patches more universal, and the surface area more limited.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Just have to nuke it into orbit!
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by mvkel 6mo ago
The cope is real with this model. Needing an instruction manual to learn how to prompt it "properly" is a glaring regression. The whole magic of (pre-nerfed) 4.6 was how it magically seemed to understand what I wanted, regardless
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by mvkel 6mo ago
I'm talking about gross margins, not revenue. It's well known that GPT-4 is much more expensive to operate than the GPT-5 family. Of course they won't drop the prices; it's pure profit if they make models more efficient.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
It seems to be a rule that older models are more expensive than newer ones. The low end models have higher $CPT and worse output. I wonder if the move is to just have one model and quantize if you hit compute constraints
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by mvkel 6mo ago
OpenAI sees an opportunity and is happy to set money on fire to have an edge over Anth. No issues
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by mvkel 6mo ago
I use superpowers with both and have found the plan generation in codex to be a bit more thorough, so it's not the native planning mode necessarily
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Better at planning, worse at execution. Ultimately, creates a working product.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
500s as far as the eye can see
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Interestingly, this was always true, it's just made more obvious when it takes less time to bring a product to a potential customer. Launching a product was never the finish line; it was always the start line. But technical founders co
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Then my original question stands: why did this become an issue seemingly overnight if nothing changed?
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Why did it suddenly become an issue, despite prompt caching behavior being unchanged?
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Why did this become an issue seemingly overnight when 1M context has been available for a while, and I assume prompt caching behavior hasn't changed? EDIT: prompt caching behavior -did- change! 1hr -> 5min on March 6th. I'm not
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Landing on Mars is the artifact of all of the innovation required to get to Mars. We benefit from the innovations, not the landing per se. Memory foam, smart phone cameras, tech miniaturization in general, GPS, baby formula, cordless tools.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
One of the examples I gave is springboard behavior which is very much OS-level
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by mvkel 6mo ago
I am trying hard to keep a positive attitude about this mission but I keep feeling like it's vanity marketing for America, more than science, or pushing the frontier. "Hey everyone, remember when we got to the moon FIRST? Good tim
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Agreed in theory, but ultimately it's just bikeshedding.
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Do you know him personally?
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by mvkel 6mo ago
Systems like these made sense in the pre-AI era, where things needed to be organized at the outset to be useful later. With AI, there's nothing stopping you from dumping a huge pile of information into a single folder and telling an AI
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by mvkel 6mo ago
The -only- time I experience it infuriatingly is in iOS natively. For example: on the Home Screen, open a folder, then tap outside it to bring back the Home Screen. While the animation is happening, try opening an app. It won't. Open t

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