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by troupo 10mo ago
> That doesn't seem to follow from any part of your argument. What happens when the Big Four pull their content from your platform because you started bypassing them?
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by troupo 10mo ago
> In the age of machine learning, I'm really surprised there aren't superhuman music recommendation algorithms. Because music is extremely hard to quantify. What do you quantify it on? See https://everynoise.com&#x2F
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by troupo 10mo ago
> here is a strong incentive to only play music that is "owned" by labels and not directly by artists and performers. Spotify has exactly zero music "directly by artists and performers". Even indie artists have to go
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by troupo 10mo ago
You have to first find spotify in the court docs: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.65... ATLANTIC RECORDING CORPORATION; ATLANTIC MUSIC GROUP LLC; BAD BOY RECORDS LLC; ELEKTRA
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by troupo 10mo ago
The US continues to produce "most valuable companies" by the absolute non-sensical value called "market share" and "market capitalization". Menawhile almost every single of those "valuable" companies
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by troupo 10mo ago
> American startups and businesses get investor money from all over the world, including from Europe. Ah yes, the "real business" of American startups: losing billions of dollars a year with not even a business plan to turn a p
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by troupo 10mo ago
Ah yes. The simple thing of fixing all societal issues.
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by troupo 10mo ago
> The market is far too risk-averse for a grassroots early-stage startup scene. Or, in reality: there's literally no expectation for companies to succeed or to turn in profit in the US, and hasn't been for over a decade. US st
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Curl closing their bug bounty due to overload and abuse(github.com)
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by troupo 10mo ago
native radio buttons gives you a baseline. You can only call Shadcn a "baseline" if it was a baseline of the last floor of the babel tower of abstractions.
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by troupo 10mo ago
It's a hillarious attempt to save face. "Separate opinions of professionals" etc. Here's Ryan Dahl, cofounder of Deno, creator of Node.js tweeting today: --- start quote --- This has been said a thousand times before, bu
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by troupo 10mo ago
> All these questions are true for agriculture, yet you say "yes thank you, and please continue" for that industry I am sure, which seeks to improve product through random walk and unknown mechanisms. Tell me you know nothing a
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by troupo 10mo ago
> Genetic algorithms created our species, which are far more complex than anything we have written in computer science. I think they have stood up to the tests of creating a viable product for a given behavior. Yes, and our species is a
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by troupo 10mo ago
Yes, and it was an intentional process . Natural selectiom: - is not an intentional process - does not find "the strongest the fittest the fastest etc."
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by troupo 10mo ago
Lol. "random leftists" First two come directly from OpenAI, Anthropic and others Last one is literally made rounds even on HN e.g. Klarna bringing back their support staff after they tried to replace them with AI.
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by troupo 10mo ago
Functional illiteracy and lack of any capacity to hold any context longer than two sentences has long been a plague on HN. Now that we've outsourced our entire thinking process to "@grok is this true", it has now claimed almo
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by troupo 10mo ago
> If someone ever used em-dashes before , what are you using now? (I don't use em-dashes but I am curious!) and did you guys ever change to purposeful linguistic errors to not look AI I keep using them because I've been using t
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by troupo 10mo ago
I've been using "It will get worse before it gets worse" more and more lately
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by troupo 10mo ago
Apple pulled similar apps from the App Store: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects...
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by troupo 10mo ago
Please ask ChatGPT that you're clearly using to write these responses to reapond in proper human speech, and format for Hacker News.
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by troupo 10mo ago
You are responding to some voices in your head, not to the context of the conversation. You're also presuming too much about what I'm thinking and being dead wrong about that.
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by troupo 10mo ago
We are perpetually just months away from software jobs being obsolete. AGI was achieved internally at OpenAI a year ago. Multiple companies have already re-hired staff they had fired and replaced with AI. etc.
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by troupo 10mo ago
IIRC public counters tend to miss corporate networks.
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by troupo 10mo ago
> Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11. There are likely millions if not tens of millions of computers still running MSIE11. There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16
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by troupo 10mo ago
Here's a logical step you skipped: A blind matematician can do revolutionary work in mathematics . He is highly unlikely to do revolutionary work in agriculture.
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by troupo 10mo ago
> I don't follow the logic that "it hallucinates so it's useless". I... don't even know how to respond to that. Also. I didn't say they were useless. Please re-read the claim I responded to. > Are they al
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by troupo 10mo ago
> Finding patterns in large datasets is one of the things LLMs are really good at. Where by "good at" you mean "are totally shit at"? They routinely hallucinate things even on tiny datasets like codebases.
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by troupo 10mo ago
> I’ve never met a person saying he hates books and wishes they were white on black. Books don't emit light. They reflect it. That's the difference.
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by troupo 10mo ago
> The fact that Firefox and Chrome and WebKit are likely buried in the training data somewhere might help them a bit, but it still looks to me more like an independent implementation that's influenced by those and many other sources
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by troupo 10mo ago
"They don't use delve anymore" is not really a testament that they became better. Most of what I can do now with them I could do half a year to a year ago. And all the mistakes and fail loops are still there, across all model

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