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by niam 6mo ago
I don't discount this as a possibility but my impression is that the OpenAI brand isn't very sticky. Internet Explorer being pre-installed on Windows devices didn't prevent it from being demolished by newcomer Chrome througho
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by niam 7mo ago
The article you're responding to is making specific operational claims about Claude's (basically non-) relevance. I'd be interested to hear if you're directionally correct, but forgive me if I need more details than &quo
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by niam 7mo ago
If we're on the subject of tropes: https://theonion.com/report-stating-current-year-still-leadi...
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by niam 7mo ago
> There's so much unexplored space in licenses [...] Am I wrong that this is orthogonal to "pick a side"? It sounds like you're suggesting that the sides themselves are inappropriately drawn.
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by niam 7mo ago
I didn't consider that bundling Search & Assistant maybe puts them in a tricky spot among some users who revile LLM features, and others who will utilize them to the cap. To the degree that the former is subsidizing the latter, or
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by niam 7mo ago
Wow small world. Hello from a fellow L1 (2012-2016). I didn't realize Ronimo had gone bankrupt, so I suppose I should be glad I have a chance to boot it up again.
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by niam 7mo ago
The title writer might be doing the project a disservice by using the term "formal" to describe it, given that the project talks a lot about "specs". I mistook it to imply something about formal specification. My quick u
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by niam 7mo ago
The Library of Babel comparison is too fatalistic imo, even granting that it's maybe just an extreme example. The real world doesn't quite resemble a closed system with no metadata. We can still establish chains of trust. Whether
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by niam 7mo ago
I was sympathetic to this line of reasoning but I feel it's repeatedly shown to be self-defeating. What chance have the proverbial good-guys got if, even after _proving_ some modicum of good will , people will nonetheless condescend a
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by niam 7mo ago
This seems misleading inasmuch as your correspondents aren't all on the same mail servers. Yes, correspondence between you and Build-A-Bear, and between you and your local terrorist cell, are unencrypted individually. But Build-A-Bear
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by niam 7mo ago
That relates more to the public rhetoric surrounding Graphene than with how the OS itself operates imo. It's pretty practical and enables (or allows you to enable) everything that a typical Android does, except where Google Play Integr
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by niam 7mo ago
If it saves anyone else the effort: I went to doublecheck the claim that those articles cited the wrong page, and it seems you're correct on The Register, but archive.org's earliest copies of the other two articles don't seem
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by niam 7mo ago
So as to not mislead anyone who didn't read the article, the section following your quoted text is: > Researchers from lower risk countries have been told they could lose access beginning in either September or December if at that p
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by niam 7mo ago
When unstructured human language is the bulk of your interface, it takes effort to contrive any vendor lock-in that doesn't approach zero. The same doesn't go for traditional, structured software ecosystems, which can afford to co
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by niam 7mo ago
Complex Systems by Patrick McKenzie (patio11). Casual interview format with guests from myriad industries, who try to distill human/technical bits of respective systems. Often it's about tech/finance/govt, or relates to
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by niam 8mo ago
The discussion is probably better started from the question of "why should that data be centralized?" and "why should the government be able to purchase this data, and why are those reasons more compelling than the downsides?
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by niam 8mo ago
We don't have many examples of short form video feeds which are divorced from the the TikTok and Reels algorithm -- both of which are aggressively incented to "engage" a user in ways they may not have preferred in the retrosp
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by niam 8mo ago
I have no horse in the short-form video race, but I recognize that it has material affects on the world (whether I'd like it or not). Scorn for the principle of an open platform here seems misplaced. It seems too young of a format wi
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by niam 8mo ago
> It also does not have an ad blocker It does have a network-level ad blocker. What it doesn't have is a blocker which modifies/injects Javascript into pages, which iiuc is the main reason that the blocker doesn't help wit
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by niam 8mo ago
You'd be pleased to hear, then, that "break free from Google and Apple" is not Graphene's mission statement, because this is a blog.
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by niam 8mo ago
The irony of that first line might be lost along the wire because I explicitly called it an assumption where the gp did not.
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by niam 8mo ago
If I were an assuming feller I'd "almost guarantee" that you haven't been blessed/cursed with anything besides Windows 11. A lot of my beef, personally, can be chalked up to Windows' aggressively long animation
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by niam 9mo ago
> Why does HN love analogies? I suppose because they resemble the abstractions that make complex language possible. Another world full of aggressive posturing at tweet-length analogistic musings might have stifled some useful English par
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by niam 9mo ago
> UIs are fundamentally a bunch of state React doesn't really contest that as-worded. It's just that, ideally, a nested component isn't the owner of important state.
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by niam 9mo ago
The common denominator is to have shared spaces where it's expected to be among strangers' presence, and for those strangers to eventually become repeat guests in a person's life. That's the maximally comfortable scenari
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by niam 9mo ago
Honestly that just seems like normal English. To refer to something as "team-level" seems so absurdly unspectacular, relative to the other kinds of signals that exist for sussing out AI writing, that I'm surprised it was wort
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by niam 10mo ago
Perhaps this is a joke but I'd truly love to sic a fleet of asshole AIs on my drafts. Grant us the ability to reply to bots in a public and timestamped manner so that, if ever a human makes a similarly ridiculous response, we can just
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by niam 10mo ago
It fits in nicely imo. It's plausible (services re-appear on hn often enough), and hilarious because it implies the protracted importance of Leetcode. Though I agree that the LLM perhaps didn't "intend" that.
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by niam 11mo ago
If the limit of someone's behavior winds up making everyone happier-off, I don't understand why I ought to care. In that sense, calling it "manipulative" seems either inappropriate or not very useful. At least with somet
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by niam 11mo ago
"Money is speech" is kind of a misleading interpretation because it comes with all sorts of baggage that people typically infer from a thing "being speech". Phrased another way: the argument is that limiting one's a

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