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by xpct 4mo ago
Google likely saw this path way back in 2008 when it started Chromium. Unfortunately, as an ad company, they also have more resources to create a good browser, and to also entrench themselves.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Fair enough :-) Do you have a theory for why we view reading, even in terms of pleasure, as favorable? I imagine it's because we see some utility in it over other activities.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Question: do you think reading is fundamentally worthwhile in terms of practicality, or is there some other medium that would achieve both pleasure and better information retention? I think it's undeniable that a lot of good comes from
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by xpct 4mo ago
I think "without being obtrusive" is a key point here, because any type of popups in the midst of working would break flow as well. Fixing compiler warnings is flow-inducing because it's very linear and has a fast feedback lo
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by xpct 4mo ago
I've never been surfing the web as much as now. I get sidetracked really often, I forget that a prompt was running, I lose trains of thought. It's horrible.
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by xpct 4mo ago
It's probably good that they walked back on it. It also makes them look somewhat weak in terms of believing their claimed mission.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Indeed, hearing "Mythos-class model" felt very icky to me.
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by xpct 4mo ago
> Now the kind of factories we make might change, but isn't it the fun part? No, I don't think it's the fun part. Judging by the number of people glooming over LLMs, not many people seem excited about it.
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by xpct 4mo ago
I agree, this looks like their plan to wane out subscriptions. This will probably come with Opus nerfs later.
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by xpct 4mo ago
As of now, any human effort is still ~= quality. Human-written article signals to me that a certain amount of time was spent on it, which is a proxy for quality. This goes for both text and diagrams. If someone slapped together an article f
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by xpct 4mo ago
Judging by the amount of people saying they've used and enjoyed cloud gaming I'm not as confident as you to make that claim. If cloud keeps making offers good enough such that people pick it instead of building their own PC, the n
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by xpct 4mo ago
It's futile to race against the money hungry capitalistic machine, but it's not futile to steer your own career into work that's more lucrative or is more enjoyable, be it with our without AI tools.
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by xpct 4mo ago
As someone who's not a programmer, how did you discover HN?
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by xpct 4mo ago
Regarding code quality, the largest issue I've run into is pollution that stems from committing too much unfiltered LLM code. They introduce some type of structures into the codebase that are hard to read for a human, then start reusin
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by xpct 4mo ago
Could you elaborate on the AI Music tool? My impression was that it's used as a one-shot generation tool. I don't know much about music but I imagine artists need intermediary steps, track separation, instrument customization and
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by xpct 4mo ago
Around the time I started my compsci studies, I noticed that my friends respond to certain questions in a very predictable way. I even ended up experimenting with how I present my question and what words I use, but seldom did I manage to &q
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by xpct 4mo ago
I follow Daniel Lemire and like his contributions, I also understand that the HN thread was created for discussion purposes, but I'd really appreciate having a reference to the spec or a source to the claims made, either here on HN or
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by xpct 4mo ago
I've come to dislike most tech CEOs at this point, and the current AI batch isn't making it any better. They rarely hold consistent beliefs, but nowadays are positioned as thought leaders. I wish there was some type of system in-p
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by xpct 5mo ago
This is exactly how I consume YouTube as well. I do keep the side recommendations on since they mostly contain music or videos I've already watched, which I don't mind. I'm now experimenting with hiding thumbnails too, and ho
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by xpct 5mo ago
I don't think change is inherently exciting.
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by xpct 5mo ago
I can confidently say that I know little to no people truly interested in understanding technology, except for strangers online.
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by xpct 5mo ago
Interesting. I believe some circles reached the consensus that they aren't creative, but that it's independent of their intelligence/modelling capabilities.
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by xpct 6mo ago
Well, I'd say it's a reasonable expectation for the model to behave similarly across releases. Am I wrong to assume that? I imagine the system prompt can correct some training artifacts and drive abnormal behavior to the mean in
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by xpct 6mo ago
Decision fatigue may honestly be a learnt artifact from RLHF, which is discouraging.
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by xpct 6mo ago
Sure, but now we have to remodel whatever bias we want for our use case with every new release because the system prompt changes, whereas the underlying data does not.
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by xpct 6mo ago
I agree with what you're saying, but I imagine products like this one aren't aimed at replacing this. LLMs are partially a dashboard business, and this is just one tool to aim at your boring business data
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by xpct 6mo ago
Do you have examples of "natural" UI that you like?
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by xpct 6mo ago
I get a similar feeling for when friends send me 2minute+ Instagram reels, it's as if my brain can't engage with the content. I'd much rather read a few paragraphs about the topic, and It'd probably take less time too.
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by xpct 8mo ago
I'd say autocomplete introduces a certain level of fuzziness into the code we work with, though to a lower degree. I used autocomplete for over a year, and initially it did feel like a productivity boost, yet when I later stopped using