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by avaer 4d ago
This is a "startups = wealth inequality" [1] formatted argument but: This is 100% about money. The only way to pace the frontier is to make everyone (read: investors) lose all their money (read: no longer expect returns). Then nob
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by avaer 4d ago
Social media, prediction markets, politicians, stock markets are all clearly selling on hopes and fears. When you can't easily quantify and point to the benefits, that's the default and it works. Not to say the industries mentione
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by avaer 5d ago
What local maxima are you seeing? That would imply that progress has stalled, which doesn't appear to be the case where I'm looking. Also, RSI is obviously guided. If only guided by "it's not giving results so we'll
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by avaer 5d ago
Surely we can agree that calculators are widely used across a broad range of domains and tasks. Obviously it's not the intent of the bill to jail calculator makers. So the bill should be written to make it clear exactly what it's
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by avaer 5d ago
It's very easy to lock up your browser or machine with WebGPU, it happens on Windows too. You'll do this by accident constantly in a big WebGPU project, until the Chrome GPU trace/renderdoc/nsight shows some crazy deadlo
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by avaer 6d ago
It's social media and money that ruined it. Inspiration and creativity used to be something society rewarded you for, since you could capture the value and build on top of it. That was the moat. Now most people are punished for publish
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by avaer 6d ago
It's just enshittification and economic incentive, which drives everything. I hope this changes.
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by avaer 6d ago
LLMs are not better at this than Godot, though agents can certainly use an engine. The biggest problem is the Web has a dearth of good Flashy examples of people pouring their life into an experience, ever since the death of Flash. So web ag
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by avaer 6d ago
"New" is a social construct, not something embedded in the system. The deeper you look the less "new" things seem. Creativity is an entity's propensity to decrease entropy in a system by creating more order in struc
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by avaer 6d ago
Sounds like you don't want to deal with a site at all, just a discoverable API or WebMCP. i.e. the site is not something users are expected to see. Maybe the future of the web is bifurcation to headless for agents and fancy headful UI
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by avaer 7d ago
The joke is that it's incorrect and confusing.
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by avaer 8d ago
Seems possible. The only real defense I see is to harden literally everything before that time comes. Unfortunately, security usage is locked away under fear of misuse, while companies like OpenAI seem incapable of containing their own hack
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by avaer 8d ago
The use case isn't highlighting a huge amount of code, but local re-entrant highlighting. You generally never need to highlight a whole file, only the part you're looking at. Which by definition must be fuzzy since you don't
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by avaer 8d ago
How about build me a self hosted social network for keeping in touch with friends and family and make sure Meta can never get access.
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by avaer 8d ago
> A personal AI agent can help with everyday tasks like booking reservations, monitoring prices, managing reminders, creating documents, generating images, and researching topics. Always the same thing. I wish product designers would hav
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by avaer 8d ago
> Ycombinator company list is public information list, go buy from any one of them anytime Unless this prototype model works out financially for the companies, and every AI company starts telling you to go through an (inevitably AI vette
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by avaer 8d ago
TBF YC has always said the value is in the network. What's interesting (alarming?) is them formalizing exclusion of access to technology via the network. It's explicitly ossifying an access control system over what used to be hand
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by avaer 8d ago
That's fair and accurate, there's a lot broken with the system. But I wouldn't place the blame at the feet of YC, it would be just as bad without them.
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by avaer 8d ago
YC isn't taxing you, or elected to serve your interest, or beholden to public recordkeeping law or sworn to a national constitution with explicit rules against self-enrichment. YC can do whatever they want, you can not play their game
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by avaer 8d ago
It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by a
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by avaer 8d ago
> how would you work on a larger THREE project? A larger THREE.js project starts to look more and more like a game engine, so you pick and choose the parts you need. There's a ton of open source libs, most of the heavy components th
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by avaer 8d ago
Don't use skills. Point it to a game engine or better yet full game repo or whatever and ask for what you want.
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by avaer 8d ago
Not tone mapping/shader graph is probably the least of the sins, these kinds of one-shots tend to produce hundreds of THREE.Geometry, massive matrix walks, etc. that explode once you move beyond a screen saver. The models _can_ do it,
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PS5 emulator can now run the console version of GTA V(tomshardware.com)
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by avaer 9d ago
They were saying the same thing about DVR's ability to skip those pesky ads, and look where we are. When the enshittification hits AI, your AI will magically develop the ability to politely refuse such a request. You could hack togethe
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by avaer 9d ago
Skills are mostly snake oil, the way people use them (the aspiration to download kung foo from a celebrity). There was a time when maybe it mattered (last year), but with good repos and good prompts today's agents can find exactly what
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by avaer 10d ago
It's not legal. And in any case it's not abandonware, they're still actively selling these games (maybe not these exact versions, but I doubt a court would see that as a distinction with a difference).
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by avaer 11d ago
1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links 2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked You're the product, not the customer.
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by avaer 11d ago
Would be useful to know who gave the order (article doesn't say). It could be an Insta mod messed up, a blame the AI situation, the company self-censoring, or maybe a threatening DM from the government. All of which have precedent. Har
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by avaer 11d ago
This is the first time I've been accused of not spinning up an app at my expense to win a meaningless argument on the internet.

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