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by brokencode 9mo ago
We need some regulation on them for sure. They should be paying for the content they train on and use in their search results. They’re still very compelling as a user.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I totally agree. It’s just going to become an expectation that AI is in the browser. It’s so nice just to be able to ask the browser to summarize the page, or ask questions about a long article. I know a lot of people on Hacker News are hos
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by brokencode 9mo ago
Typically I think, but you could pre-train your previous model on new data too. I don’t think it’s publicly known for sure how different the models really are. You can improve a lot just by improving the post-training set.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
There have been bugs and regressions since forever. It’s easy to look back with rose colored glasses, but I don’t think software has actually gotten worse. Just look back at the Snow Leopard release of OS X. It was specifically marketed at
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by brokencode 9mo ago
If you are reducing the likelihood of something by 99%, you are basically eliminating it. Not fully, but it’s still a huge improvement. It reminds me of this fun question: What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollar
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by brokencode 9mo ago
I’m not so sure. The big selling point for Rust is making memory management safe without significant overhead. Zig, for all its ergonomic benefits, doesn’t make memory management safe like Rust does. I kind of doubt the Linux maintainers wo
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by brokencode 9mo ago
What other newfangled alternative to C was ever adopted in the Linux kernel? I have no doubt C will be around for a long time, but I think Rust also has a lot of staying power and won’t soon be replaced.
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by brokencode 9mo ago
There actually are techniques to win (and presumably lose) rock paper scissors more frequently than random due to psychological factors that make player choices somewhat predictable.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
They do have user generated lists to help find things to do, but yeah, I mainly use it for organizing ideas and building my final itinerary. It’s really nice for this. I can then also share the itinerary with everybody else on the trip.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
“They’ll have to” is a pretty strong statement assuming you don’t actually have insider information on their API spending. For now, they do use Google Maps and I’m happy with it. If they stop and it’s no longer as useful to me, maybe I’ll s
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by brokencode 10mo ago
I use and pay for Wanderlog. Idk how their business is doing, but I love it as a user. They use an embedded Google Maps viewer for locations, so there is no problem for coverage.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
Waymo continues to improve every year, but dumb drivers never will.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
Discord, VS Code, and Figma are all apps that individuals choose and are well liked despite many alternatives. Slack too I think, though I don’t have experience with it. Your comment applies to Teams and I’m sure other electron apps. But th
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by brokencode 10mo ago
They work great for me.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
Not really. The downsides are mostly overblown. Plenty of category leading applications like Discord, VSCode, Slack, Figma, etc. use it quite successfully.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
As wrong as it feels to have to use Electron for a desktop app, it really is the safest approach for most applications. Qt also seems to be a good option, though there are licensing considerations for commercial applications. I’m excited fo
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by brokencode 10mo ago
What you call whataboutism, I call comparative evaluation. On an absolute scale, every world power in history and humanity in general has been terrible. Endless injustices and atrocities since the very start. That’s just not a very useful w
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by brokencode 10mo ago
The US hasn't been perfect, but you can hardly say we've ruled the world terribly. Because who has ever ruled it better? We helped Europe and Asia rebuild after WWII instead of conquering them. To the extent that our previous enem
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by brokencode 10mo ago
When you need to take the square root of 37282613, do you do it in your head or pull out the calculator? Why does the AI have to be good at math when it can just use a calculator? AI tool usage is getting better all the time.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
I recognized the reference. I just don’t think it applies here. The iPhone antenna issue was a design flaw. It’s not reasonable to tell people to hold a phone in a certain way. Most phones are built without a similar flaw. LLMs are of cours
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by brokencode 10mo ago
What tool can’t you hold wrong? Literally every tool worth using in software engineering from the IDE to the debugger to the profiler takes practice and skill to use correctly. Don’t confuse AI with AGI. Treat it like the tool it is.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
You have to learn how and where to use it. If you give it bad instructions and inadequate context, it will do a bad job.
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by brokencode 10mo ago
AI is bad at figuring out what to do, but fantastic at actually doing it. I’ve totally transformed how I write code from writing it to myself to writing detailed instructions and having the AI do it. It’s so much faster and less cognitively
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by brokencode 11mo ago
That doesn’t change the fact that he keeps making these doomsday predictions that don’t come true. Also, his returns aren’t really impressive compared to VTI, which has had an annualized return of 14.04% over the past 10 years according to
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by brokencode 11mo ago
Hasn’t he been incorrectly predicting massive crashes every few years ever since he was right that one time? How many bad predictions does he need to make before people stop caring what he has to say?
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by brokencode 11mo ago
Data centers are massive infrastructural investments similar to roads and rails. They are not just a bunch of chips duct taped together, but large buildings with huge power and networking requirements. Power companies are even constructing
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by brokencode 11mo ago
Yeah, except you can keep on squeezing these lemons for a long time before they run out of juice. Even if the model training part becomes less worthwhile, you can still use the data centers for serving API calls from customers. The models a
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by brokencode 11mo ago
Sure, but most of the country’s AI talent is concentrated there. Not to mention venture capital. What’s the advantage of moving? Maybe lower taxes and a cheaper rent. That seems like a small price to pay compared to the hundreds of billions
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by brokencode 11mo ago
This is what I want to do when I retire. Maybe not OnlyFans fixes specifically, but just go around fixing random stuff. Like if Batman turned out to be bad at fighting criminals so had to fight null pointer exceptions instead.
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by brokencode 11mo ago
They could do that today, but do they? I can’t name one app that uses one of those to run in a browser. I can name multiple highly successful apps that use Electron. I seriously doubt the approach of running a native desktop application in

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