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by zkmon 9mo ago
When users come to you, they may or may not shell out money for your products, but they are forced to give out something valuable to you. That is their attention which you can sell. The value of attention of the crowd could be so big for so
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by zkmon 9mo ago
I wonder if they tried Gemini. I think Gemini could have done better, as seen from my experiences with GPT and Gemini models on some simple geometry problems.
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To be fair, both dark mode and light mode are bad. For me, optimal is with some dark grey background that mixes well with the surroundings around the screen. The point is, not to have contrast with surroundings. Kindle, or the text consoles
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The real reason is, expectations and requirements increased whenever tools helped more productivity or solved problems. This kept complexity growing and the work flowing. Just because you use cars instead of horses, it doesn't mean you
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Too much emphasis on contracts could lead to rigid integrations, that are not allowed to evolve or be flexible. This might become a source of brittleness in the system. What if AI is allowed to discover the changes to API contracts and chan
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by zkmon 9mo ago
I used AI for accelerating my reading a book recently. This is a interesting usecase. But it same as racing for the destination instead enjoying the journey. It kills the tone, pace and the expressions of the author. It is pretty much same
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by zkmon 9mo ago
I would say 80% of the software quality issues come from the context and constraints defined by the requirements complexity, design choices, stack selection, infra decisions, org processes and so on. A lot of this context is tied to org p
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by zkmon 9mo ago
When I was in college, a friend gifted me with a old slide rule (German make), but it was missing the slider scale. I created that slider by cutting a stripe out of my plastic shoe box. Worked like a charm. I think Slide rule is an amazing
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Tell HN: The Decay and Fall of HN
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And the disconnection is .. ? Infact, forget it. Your comment proves that this is already at ridiculous level. The message I posted about alienation of old people with the changing world, close to my heart than anything else, as I went thro
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by zkmon 9mo ago
Ofcourse, it applies to younger people as well. I didn't exclude them. Other than, if it sounds like "ai slop" to you, you probably did not expect a properly written statement from real people. It gotten to a point someone s
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People fall because the surroundings are unfamiliar, their trust and assumptions about things around them, and about themselves, have gone wrong. Why does this discrepancy arise? For older people, the world around them and food they eat has
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by zkmon 9mo ago
That's just awesome. Why is this useful?
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Why does HN think "being offline" is the biggest problem humanity can have?
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If it is man-made, blame your science, not people who is interested in path forward, instead of wailing about what happened, as if someone else did that. Western world is mostly responsible, and they are the ones who keep blaming some imagi
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> This is not at all true. What else, other than science, has enabled climate change through uncontrolled exploitation of resources and nature? I resisted myself not to comment on your authority on science. What else has enabled global t
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If we are past the point of no return decades back, what are the current goal of talking about it now? Our social and economic structures, and life styles are also well past the point of no return. Energy and resource consumption is at vulg
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by zkmon 10mo ago
Question is, is this human-caused change or the usual natural climate shift that Earth goes through every few thousand centuries or millennia? And is there anything humans should do about it, other than adapting to it?
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We sell you our hammer, but you are prohibited from using it to make your own hammer?
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I never understood the Linux guys. All that matters to a common user is the user interface and whether their apps and games run or not. They don't care about telemetry, architecture etc. The damn thing should just work and it should al
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Pavlov experminted and confirmed about the shortcuts taken by animal instincts via correlations, avoiding the hardwork of reasoning every time. This optimization is natural for all life forms including humans. And that's how evolution
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So, by "AI", you mean programming AI. Generalizing it as "AI" and "anti-AI" is adding great confusion to the already dizzying level of hype. At it's core, AI has capability to extract structure/meanin
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Given the common goals of every book (fame and sales by grabbing user attention), the general themes and styles would have high similarity. It's like flowers with bright colors and nice shapes. Orwelliian motives (sheer egoism, aesthet
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Google did that, Facebook did that and every other company who boasted their user-base numbers did that. They sold user attention and harvested user data. Nothing new here.
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> ... are mostly educators, they probably aren't going anywhere Educator business survived so far, only because they provided in-person interactive knowledge transfer and credentials - both were not possible by static sources of kno
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When Deep Blue beat Kaspaorov, it was not the end of career for human players. But since mathematics is not a sport with human players, what are the career prospects for mathematicians or mathematics-like fields?
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A bug is a piece of code that doesn't agree with requirements or architecture. The misalignment can not be attributed to code alone.
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So, humans lost all of their evolutionary learnings and confused about what to eat. This doesn't happen with any other animal. And humans call themselves as an advanced race of animals. Not knowing what to eat is regress, not progress.
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Sqrt(2) being halfway between 1 and 2 multiplicatively, leads to interesting stuff. For example consider two integers A and B. They have a dual in the pair A+B and A-B. Well, not quite. You need to scale them down by 1/sqrt(2). If you
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> As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm In some villages, where plenty of stone is available, people used it for everything - roof slabs, pillars, walls, flooring, wate

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