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by senko 1y ago
That's nice, but "no reason" is often a high bar. There's often a good reason to keep the data (marketing, product, etc), which when weighted against the potential liability, usually wins.
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by senko 1y ago
Neither of them said any of that tho. Maybe the GP is just celebrating the unfathomable and beautiful complexity of life? We just can't know - which is why parent is asking.
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by senko 1y ago
This is the way. Or at least it should be, if companies were putting users first (a naive thought, I know). I have a small mobile app for recording expenses (receipts). The usual strategy would be for users to create accounts and store an
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by senko 1y ago
> This shows the core of the flaw in the argument. > "The tool is great. If the result is not perfect, it is the user to blame." That's not what the parent said. A tool can be useful without being perfect. A result ca
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by senko 1y ago
I took the "Rank Models" and got GPT5 and Sonnet 4 tied at 25% each, Gemini and Grok close by and 4o in the dust. But ... the advice (answers) was quite uniform. In more than a few cases I would personally choose a different appr
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by senko 1y ago
Cross-platform toolkits are (still) a thing.
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by senko 1y ago
> Wayland is soon older than X11 was when Wayland got started Wayland was started in 2008, X11 in 1984 (according to Wikipedia). That makes X11 41 and Wayland 17 years old, respectively. X11 was 24 when Wayland was started. That's w
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by senko 1y ago
You're not actually disagreeing with the parent, just providing more (useful) context for their comment.
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by senko 1y ago
Ah so your reading of that statement is "our best, which we acknowledge is not THE best, but it's not supposed to, it's supposed to be cost effective"? I would suggest reading the entire comment thread before attacking p
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by senko 1y ago
From OpenAI website: > Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet I'd say it's definitely supposed to be the best, it just doesn't deliver.
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by senko 1y ago
It does seem capable of stirring a lot of emotion, if your comment is any indication.
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by senko 1y ago
From the article: > If the ingredients include artificial colors and chemicals that aren’t normally found in the kitchen, the item is likely ultra-processed. Curious to see sandwiches included in the list (and the top "offender&quot
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by senko 1y ago
Open any HN thread on the topic of AI and you'll find plenty of anti-AI comments.
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by senko 1y ago
Yikes this sounds awful.
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by senko 1y ago
There are a lot of fraudsters out there who will happily create thousands of accounts with valid CCs that will fail on first actual charge.[0] I wouldn't be surprised if asking for a phone number lowers the fraud rate enough to compens
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by senko 1y ago
The author should have just asked the friend of a friend for a warm intro instead of trying to go through the main gate. Sucks, but that's the reality of hiring (and getting hired) in tech in general.
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by senko 1y ago
> Anthropic, OTOH, sells their API at loss, Sources? It is widely believed that their fixed-price plans lose money, but last I heard API (price per token) had positive margins?
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by senko 1y ago
What, if I (a European) decide not to buy American treasuries, a squad of Marines is going to bust my front door?
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by senko 1y ago
> Maybe because it's less likely to derail an existing conversation and allows more continuity with each person's thoughts. That's a good point. I think threads would help here (always reply to a thread), but enforcing thi
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by senko 1y ago
Insisting on flaunting English spelling rules (by not starting a sentence with a capital letter) in a think piece is a dead giveaway that the author thinks too highly of themselves, and results in me automatically discounting whatever they&
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by senko 1y ago
In my experience some orgs use it as all-hands (with #random for chitchat), others as water-cooler. As long as everyone agrees on the usage (usually set from the top), anything's fine.
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by senko 1y ago
I fail to see how this is different from a general off-topic chat channel which you're not expected to follow (but can peek at on downtime or while waiting for Claude Code). While that doesn't scale for large companies, for 2-10 (
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by senko 1y ago
"Grifters" a bit harsh, considering they used VC money to become successful in the first place (see other comments). Presumably they knew the deal.
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by senko 1y ago
> Why is it that Substack can’t just be run as a 10-20 person small-medium sized business forever? They have taken VC money.
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by senko 1y ago
Would you rather read an article praising LLMs written by someone having a stake in chilli peppers business? Asking for a friend.
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by senko 1y ago
Perl 6 definitely sucked up any forward momentum in the community. It's become a poster child for how not to do a major transition. KDE3/4, GNOME 2/3, Python 2/3 transitions all benefited from this hindsight (still exp
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by senko 1y ago
> it costs real money to serve the site and crawlers are often considered parasitic. > Another example would be where a commerce site doesn’t want competitors bulk-scraping their catalog I think of crawlers that bulk download/scr
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by senko 1y ago
> As a user I want the agent to be my full proxy. As a website operator I don’t want a mob of bots draining my resource The entire distinction here is that as a website operator you wish to serve me ads. Otherwise, an agent under my cont
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by senko 1y ago
You would use an LLM to process a few petabytes of data to find a needle in the haystack? Cheaper to train your own.
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by senko 1y ago
This is actually a public validation for your friend's startup. A proper learning tool will have history of conversation with the student, understand their knowledge level, have handcrafted curricula (to match whatever the student is s

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