eucyclos

6 ms·

1.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
What does the spend go to, besides hosting costs?
2.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
From my experience, kinda the opposite? It's like Chinese software is... Harder to weaponize or hurt yourself on. Deepseek is definitely censored, but I've never caught it being dishonest in a sneaky way.
3.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
Palantir also deliberately choose a name with sinister overtones, they're just short of calling themselves "torment Nexus builders Inc" or something. I used to think their logic was that someone would build it so it might as
4.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
The US was preferable to the British who were preferable to the Spanish. Hopefully the next global hegemon is similarly preferable to the US.
5.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
Just the boring bits. I don't need openclaw to lounge by a pool thinking about macro trends for me.
6.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
If it added four last month I'd say it absolutely counts. Trends often matter more than position.
7.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
Weird that you're being downvoted for sharing anecdata on actual use cases. It's as if there's a desire to downplay the positive aspects of this technology in the HN community.
8.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I have no counterargument to your first point, but to your second, an ad for product A is "good" only for the person selling A, it's bad for the person buying (assuming a and b are in the same product category). Since the pe
9.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure abnormally low levels of neuroticism is a symptom of Downs syndrome. Not a doctor but I've interacted with several. The only neurotypical people who are that happy are Buddhist monks.
10.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I've been told by someone who'd been in jail a lot, that attorney-client privilege is a huge loophole in the prison smuggling economy and someone in prison asking if you know "a good lawyer" is asking for a lawyer who wo
11.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I agree. Thing is, Google and meta could do that today, if after getting a sense of what people need they actually showed them ads that helped with whatever that is. Instead they show whatever ad will make the most money immediately, which
12.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
That gives me an start of an idea for a feature. It might be useful to have it timing based. The thing I'd disagree with about how you frame it is, if you're searching for e.g. "soccer coaches near me", an ad actually di
13.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
Short answer, any ad that leads to a non regretted purchase the viewer wouldn't have otherwise made. The instantiation I'm working on is to track the viewer's long term goals and the habits they're trying to form, then o
14.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the pr
15.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I've been saying that about a lot of algorithms for a while now, but I think the issue is more that they're smart algorithms optimized for the wrong thing
16.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
The reference to 'literature by the pound ' made me think of an apocryphal story about a pottery teacher who at the end of the year would grade his students on either the quality of a single piece or the weight of all finished pie
17.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I think this heuristic used to be more useful before it became widely known. Laziness is a fine quality if diligence is publicly rewarded, but once people game the metrics to look more lazy than they really are, things break
18.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
I forget who said it, but I heard the idea floated that if your work can be measured in terms of productivity at all, it can and probably should be done by software. Not sure how that applies here since as you point out, a 10x programmer pr
19.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
An alternate ad network (tied to an ad blocker) that optimizes for the most useful ads instead of the most immediately profitable ones. https://github.com/Chrisjayhenningsen/Eudaimonia
20.
by eucyclos 5mo ago
(spoiler) The conspiracy seeking part of my brain is fascinated by the fact a company whose decisions are increasingly ai made or moderated doesn't want people to play a game that requires deleting a psychotic stalker off your hard dri
21.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Most of those cables are already in place and powered up for the existing power grid.
22.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Infrastructure for ev charging is a lot easier to add than gas stations though.
23.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Europe, particularly Germany, has quite a will. Maybe a little faster than that given there are lessons to be gleaned from it.
24.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Maybe it's harder to deal with ten projectiles in a minute followed by a nine minute reload than one a minute for ten minutes?
25.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Couldn't an ai take down the details and pass it to a mechanic or trained service rep?
26.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Definitely. Unlike asking the right questions or having good taste though, it's possible to know how successful you are at business so the dynamics are definitely different.
27.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
You've clearly never deliberately wasted a scammer's time. This is their livelihood, and I'm pretty sure most are commission only.
28.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
Whoever said anything about middle class? Ubi is the poverty level, it could never be anything else. As for people not being occupied, the theory is that since ubi doesn't stop if you find employment, it would lead to less idleness tha
29.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
The reason you'd want to filter for idiots is that a smarter person would waste the scammer's time when they figure out it's a scam after some human interaction. If the ai can take you all the way to the close, there's n
30.
by eucyclos 6mo ago
>What should kids be aiming for according to you? If it's my kid? Starting their own Enterprise. Between 'good enough' knowledge work getting cheaper and the bureaucracy that made entrepreneurship less attractive over the

More ›