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by dvt 3d ago
> Inference is not being subsidized and in fact has pretty high margins. I was referring to the "AI labs" here. Sam Altman himself conceded that OpenAI is losing money on the $200 subscription. Using open-weight/open-sourc
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by dvt 3d ago
I think OpenAI and Anthropic will go bust, or at least be scrapped for parts in the next 5 years or so. It's clear that the extreme cost used up for training is impossible to recoup, as inference is already being subsidized. It'
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by dvt 4d ago
Obligatory "what's Lygma?" But in all seriousness, this AI doomerism has reached a comedic inflection point. A few years ago, GPT-2 was too dangerous to release, then some Google weirdo said Gemini had a soul or something, th
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by dvt 5d ago
I've been saying this since using Databricks at a company almost a decade ago. Most folks do not need big data tools, and it's just so entrenched because everyone wanted to be a "big data" company and pandas was how you
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Show HN: Moral.games, a 1v1 ethics game with an AI judge(moral.games)
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by dvt 8d ago
Your confident re-assertion still doesn't convince me, why do you think so?
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by dvt 8d ago
> Mathematicians will be less likely to work on a problem if there is a solution Yes, that is Tao's premise, I'm just not sure I buy it. Suppose an oracle existed which could answer any question truthfully. Let's ignore th
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by dvt 8d ago
I'm with @nilesh on this one, and not exactly sure how merely the existence of a solution precludes the advancement of human knowledge. If a problem is "solved" (say, symbolically verified) without any insights gained, it d
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by dvt 9d ago
Very fun and great "tactile" experience. Fantastic job!
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by dvt 9d ago
> People do not shut up about it once they’ve tried it, and come up with all sorts of whacky use cases for it. Other than Twitter engagement baiting (which people have done w.r.t. every other new hyped up thing, whether it's drop sh
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by dvt 9d ago
> perhaps most importantly on what makes humans, human What makes humans human is love, laughter, community, children, art, beauty. How are LLMs even remotely a threat to this? The piece is so hyperbolic, it's just hard to take seri
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by dvt 9d ago
> What cool problems did you (not the robot) solve? Building products has nothing to do with technical problems, just the end result. This is in contrast with things like writing a library or coming up with a new algorithm, or doing rese
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by dvt 10d ago
> Computer folders are still organized in structures set up some 50 years ago. Operating systems change. Computers change. Search changes. But this has never changed. I can't change that. And we've been using the Dewey Decimal
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by dvt 10d ago
This was tried with clubhouse and that kind of failed miserably. I think those days are likely over.
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by dvt 10d ago
> So unless you're willing to become a literal terrorist organization and die with a bunch of your friends in an uphill battle (not technically unwinnable, but at least lopsided and the casualties will be tremendous), the only optio
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by dvt 11d ago
I just don't see that the main thrust of their argument, (oversimplified) "humans will become so dependent on AI, they'll become dumb," holds any water. I mean even from an evolutionary standpoint, intelligence is (by fa
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by dvt 13d ago
This website doesn't "teach" anything. It's a fun way to explore and get exposed to history. Kind of like Civilization 6 or something. Do you think CIV6 "teaches falsehoods" because you can build the Pyramids a
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by dvt 13d ago
This is such a weird nitpick, it's clear the website deals in averages and assumptions. It's meant to be an interesting window into possible lives intermixed with historical happenings at, or around, those times. I get that some p
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by dvt 13d ago
You are technically correct, but Verisign billed buying an x subdomain as if the y domain was part of a stable infrastructure. Which it kind of was until they decided to pull the rug.
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by dvt 13d ago
I freaked out for a second because I've owned `dvt.name` for like 15 years. `.name` is not getting terminated, so it's important to be precise here. The third-level x.y.name (where you're the `x`) is getting terminated, and
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by dvt 14d ago
Honestly, combat & movement feel pretty good and and it's very comparable to what a normal engineer would put together after 6 weeks. The hard part, when making games at least, is figuing out what makes things fun and (more speci
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by dvt 15d ago
I did the exact same thing[1] (minus the AI matching)—in fact, using the public HN firebase API, as you can see. So I fundamentally reject this premise. I had it running for years and no one complained and it scored me a few contracts bec
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by dvt 15d ago
> this is creepy AF and feels like a giant invasion of privacy People have been building HN job listing scrapers for years. Heck, I built one over a decade ago[1] (though it's offline now). This is a very common "Show HN:"
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by dvt 15d ago
This is neat! What I would do is I would have a list of tags and make sure every post gets pigeonholed into those because otherwise it might be hard to match tags if extracted on a per-post basis (e.g. I see `large-scale data systems` for a
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by dvt 15d ago
Zitron is an AI doomer and a clear fact-distorter. I follow him because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I do think he's a pretty smart guy. I don't read his newsletter (it's basically word vomit these days), but
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by dvt 15d ago
> hackers, for one Got it, sooo.. SF tech bros. I think that humanoid robots are interesting but the real innovation and product-market fit will come figuring out how to do menial household chores (folding clothes is still very much unso
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by dvt 15d ago
Skeuomorphism is back, baby! Apart from the wonky dragging on some of the knobs, I really like these. Kind of reminds me of teenage engineering.
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by dvt 15d ago
Neat vision, but I can only imagine this thing literally fucking everything up. Like, knocking shit off my table, setting my kitchen on fire, bumping into things like an idiot. Not sure who the market is here apart from SF tech bros with mo
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by dvt 15d ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case Hi HN, I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech pr
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by dvt 16d ago
You could make the converse argument, too: why don't you borrow and leverage and bet and short these AI companies, if you so vehemently think it's a bubble? The bottom line is that markets are complicated, useful technologies ar

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