swatcoder

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by swatcoder 4mo ago
The modern pattern in anywhere that allows it is to have dozens of ambiguously labeled toggles for nominally different notification channels, described only by a minimally brief and maximally ambiguous label. All begin as active until the u
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Personally, I've only encountered any of those people on line, and almost exclusively here on HN. Most people I've met -- and again, in a pretty darn skewed sample globally -- see $65/mo as a lot of money to spend on techno
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
You're suggesting that 1 in 8 people worldwide, including every one from infants and the elderly, are knowledge workers. Are you sure that's what you mean? I'm not even sure that 1 in 8 people I know would qualify as a know
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
More than a feeling. Pretty much all the machine learning recommendation engines that emerged in the Netflix era were doomed to collapse under their own weight over time for non-mainstream users because the some limited number of mainstream
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
Some people are lost to AI fascination quickly because they're curious and maybe a little lonely, or at least isolated. Suddenly, they have a oracle that can endlessly tickle their curiosity (accurately or not) and follow them as deep
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
And what happens if the market settles back down or the leading memory tech pivots away from what you invested all this capital and time chasing? You'd need a very strong, very particular forecast to make such a costly bet. And convers
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
It's a countermaneuver against grade inflation. Students and their often overinvolved and influential parents put a tremendous amount of pressure on instructors to provide high marks regardless of performance . This was always an issu
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
There's really no argument against the institutional and historical hypocisy. There's no shortage of people and groups that have done or currently do horrible violence against others, sometimes even in the name of these ideas. But
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
It's telling how blithely you're missing the point of what the pope(s) mean by human value. Their intended meaning is that far gone from modern consciousness, even among people who meant to champion some kind of human value themse
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
> 6 months of fiddling with a couple of different AIs in his spare time Six months of fiddling and $X00 in subscription/token fees to make a DIY inventory management app that's going to need regular attention and revision, with
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
The important consideration is whether states are competing for community benefits truly worth the bids made as tax breaks or whether the competition is just among politicians leveraging their personal control over tax breaks towards pr
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
It's worth reflecting on why it's so hard to convince hold outs to discover how AI might help them. The fundamental issue is that there really aren't many convincing demonstrations that hold outs can relate to and there rem
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
Consider a plumber who doesn't understand mettalurgy or electronics but relies on some foundational trade principles that they learned from a mentor and who can understand manufacturer guides for clever new fittings and pumps. That&#x2
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
> What is the point of rewrite To win a news cycle. For the forseeable future, the AI market competition is not about which product can provide the most valuable utility to users. It's about which product can be holding the protecti
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
Well, then maybe you can't scale it as a free service with self-serve signups. Maybe you need to gate who you allow to use it and pace how intensely they can engage. Or maybe you need to look for other solutions. Yielding to "not
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
Why? Why do you not buy it and why do you think OpenAI is doing the best they reasonably can? Do you have reasons, or is that just something your gut tells you? They're a new, fast-moving company exploring a completely new technolo
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
It doesn't seem like you hear what they're saying at all. Writing code to coax computers into doing specific things in specific ways is a craft, trade, and art form older than pretty much anybody alive today. Writing prose instruc
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by swatcoder 5mo ago
Regardless of the purported upside, many people in the arts feel betrayed by the commercial interests that built this technology on their work without their consent and threatened by the explicit intent of these vendors to devalue their wor
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
People have values that go beyond wealth and fame. Some people care about things like personal agency, respect and deference, etc. If someone were on vacation and came home to learn that their neighbor had allowed some friends stay in the e
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> justification of that fee ZIRP ended, its remaining monopoly money has been burnt through, and the projected economy is looking bleak. We're now in the phase where everything that can be monetized is being monetized in every way
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> They look really legitimate on the outside If that looks use-italics "really legitimate" to you, then you might be easily scammed. I'm not saying they're not legitimate, but nothing that you shared is a strong sig
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> I feel like I'm being suppressed somehow. Is this belief justified based on my experience? Imagine you saw a question like this posed at the beginning of an essay or work of fiction. 99% of the time, that essay would be a wild and
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> This alone gave me 90% of the finished product The Claude the industry needs is one that responds to that prompt with questions about scope and intent, and challenges its only-suitable-for-tutorials design ideas rather than obediently
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> 40 years from now when we're writing "ChatGPT, write an essay about software development during the smartphone social networking boom. Find a good quote to sum it all up."
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> LLMs a lot of the ambiguity of HTML disappears as far as a scraper is concerned The more effective way to think about it is that "the ambiguity" silently gets blended into the data. It might disappear from superficial inspec
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
> This kind of work seems like a great use case for AI assisted programming Always check your assumptions! You might be thinking of it as a good task because it seems like some kind of translation of words from one language to another, a
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
- Essentially zero input or transactional latency - Proven effective after 14 years of heavy use - Celebrated by user - Zero dependencies - Maximally portable - Outage-proof - Compatible with all backup systems and most version control syst
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
Huh? Not every culture or community is built so centrally around atomization and transactionality as the prevailing one is. But those things represent the essence of what capitalism is , and are central to what it aspires to acheive. It wo
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
For most people, it proves very disorienting to not be doing something constructive for others, and in a capitalist world, where everything easily becomes transactional and people get a little isolated from deeper community and family, it
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by swatcoder 10mo ago
Absolutely. But the person I replied to seemed to be talking about a task agenda for their professional work, not a todo list of bespoke little weekend hobby hacks that might be handy "around the house".

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