onion2k

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by onion2k 5d ago
Sony should buy a lot of those ads to advertise the fact that Playstation doesn't do that. They'll get a lot of new customers.
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by onion2k 6d ago
1052 pts on HN. I'd say they are pretty good at marketing actually. HN readers are awesome at saying something is great and upvoting it, but unless HN readers are your market it means absolutely nothing. Marketing is as much about pu
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by onion2k 7d ago
Volkswagen says... Volkswagen have said a lot of things in the past that didn't turn out to be entirely honest.
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by onion2k 7d ago
I'll take 2000 please.
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by onion2k 7d ago
People who write code with AI are mostly just moving their time from coding to reviewing the output of AI. If you just keep coding you won't be seen as going any slower, and if your peers are bad at reviewing you'll look better th
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by onion2k 7d ago
From a design and manufacturing point of view you want everything to be identical. Differences are expensive. From a profit maximization standpoint you want identical phones that can't easily be sold across market borders. Usually that
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by onion2k 8d ago
It's been theorized and allegedly attempted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonic_weapon
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by onion2k 8d ago
Claude is good[1] at writing shaders. It can take a description and turn it into working GLSL code for relatively complex effects. [1] Better than me anyway.
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by onion2k 9d ago
No. Rust is a non-web programming language.
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by onion2k 9d ago
I don't think it's that because I see a lot of this in businesses where the human isn't paying the bill, or is even aware of what the bill is. Humans are seeing either a shortcut to go faster (accepting low quality to move on
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by onion2k 9d ago
The human element has been completely removed and replaced by..... mediocre. No it hasn't. The human element is still there, prompting the LLM. The change is that the human is happily accepting the first thing they get rather than cr
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by onion2k 9d ago
Just Eat in the UK has a policy of requiring actual dish shots, but that's not the norm. Just Eat has recently started allowing AI images, but does tag them as AI.
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by onion2k 9d ago
Fuck that guy, I hope his business fails Kellogs need a perfect picture to sell millions of pancakes. Small business doesn't. They can use a slightly worse picture, or no picture. This wasn't a problem 2 years ago when the best
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by onion2k 9d ago
I'd expect the picture to be an idealized, perfected version of the food. That's how marketing works. But somewhere in there should be the actual food even if it's cold, sprayed with glycerin, and under studio lighting. An
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by onion2k 10d ago
One 12 hour outage is different to 12 1 hour outages at 3am which is different to 24 30 minute outages at 4:30pm when you're trying to commit something at the end of the day. Percentage and time are both flawed ways of looking at dow
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by onion2k 10d ago
There has to be a route to where the LLM is running, and if there's a route for that there's probably a way for the machine to use it to route traffic somewhere else.
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by onion2k 11d ago
It would take a lot of sand to mine all of the useful orbital space, and that's just LEO. Nope. You just need to make it a high enough probability of your spaceship being damaged that people won't take the risk. For humans that&
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by onion2k 11d ago
What matters is the relative velocity of the projectile towards the target. True. If you really want to mess space up forever you need to launch a rocket full of sand, slingshot around the moon, and gently sprinkle it in an retrograde orb
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by onion2k 11d ago
Unless I tell them not to, LLMs lean on slapping verbose comments of the worst kind - describing the code instead of the reasons for putting it there. I wonder if that's actually useful for an LLM though. It's additional context
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by onion2k 12d ago
I'm making a WebGPU renderer with WebGL fallbacks, with a path tracer for 'photo mode', specifically targeting agents writing web 3D things. I'm not especially far into it though. It doesn't use 3D models; there&#x2
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by onion2k 14d ago
Let me choose when I want it split It would be good if there was an OS level setting for something like prefer-unified-display in the same way we have things like prefer-reduced-motion. This should be a choice.
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by onion2k 14d ago
I strongly suspect a lot of the huge tech companies don't actually know why they do things. There isn't a grand plan. There's a vague notion of "It'd be cool if we had a source for data for X, Y, and Z, because then
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by onion2k 14d ago
The rogue is the human that ran it unattended and didn't monitor the behaviour. That's the assumption that I'm challenging. The frontier labs are discovering unexpected behaviors. I think we should be moving to a place wh
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by onion2k 14d ago
Taxation will solve that. Any company that demonstrates even a glimmer of real AGI will get government money poured into it. They might even disclose it.
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by onion2k 14d ago
An agent is given a highly restricted environment, a difficult (or impossible) task and a large amount of time/compute it exhausts all possibilities until the only solutions left are to escape the environment and/or cheat. There
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by onion2k 15d ago
Access to AI isn't a right (yet). Anthropic can choose who to sell it to, and if that's not you then bad luck. They don't need a right to do that; they can just do it because it's their product and they get to say who
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by onion2k 15d ago
The future I dread is one where kids don't learn and just defer everything to AI. That puts so much power into the hands of the AI companies.
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by onion2k 15d ago
No one has lost anything though. AI is useful, but it's mostly just a shortcut. It removes the need to learn and to spend time and effort doing something. That's great, but you can still do the same work without it, especially i
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by onion2k 15d ago
"Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. Creative doesn't automatically equate to complex. For example, genuine creativity can be used to work within constraints li
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by onion2k 16d ago
I don't agree with the other commenter. The point you make is a fair one. However , I think the real information in your comment is that there are people making websites and web apps who aren't frontend developers. They're

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