raincole

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German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA(heise.de)
24 points by raincole 1d ago|28 comments
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by raincole 3d ago
I wonder what the tipping point was where the general attitude towards PG and his essays changed. It's tempting to say AI, but I feel it was more like AirBnB era? When people saw how one of YC's golden goose affected the local com
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by raincole 3d ago
> This isn't "wow isn't it interesting LLMs do anything to achieve a goal" it's "why isn't anybody punishing these labs that are clearly acting without due care or regard". It's both, isn&#x27
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by raincole 4d ago
> photographer "Photography couldn’t qualify as an art in its own right, the explanation went, because it lacked “something beyond mere mechanism at the bottom of it." -- The Crayon, one of the oldest art magazines. It turns ou
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by raincole 4d ago
I feel you need to clarify which mobile apps are "medium-sized" for you, because if we just interpret this comment literally it's just laughable.
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by raincole 4d ago
Thank for explaining what DLSS5 is! I don't think it has anything to do with "Nvidia is going to give up gaming market" narrative though.
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by raincole 4d ago
They're advertising DLSS5 just now though. > I really don't think it's an if question but a when because it almost feels like an afterthought I feel your reasoning is very weird. Are they losing money by selling consumer G
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by raincole 4d ago
> Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ah
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by raincole 4d ago
I think the impact is heavily exaggerated. Yes, it means mathematics will be transformed into a field that relies on tools instead of your mind alone. Just like most fields. Doctors heavily rely on (really expensive!) tools to make diagnose
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by raincole 6d ago
> What happens if there's a long-play social engineering attack (like the attempted XZ takeover) of something upstream of a core tool (or its dependencies) for formal verification and we have no trusted computing base? I don't
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by raincole 6d ago
I'm so glad landing pages are more or less standardized. If I need to spend even 0.1 second to guess where the 'price' button is, it's 0.1 second wasted. I hope they keep standardized and boring.
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by raincole 6d ago
Anthropic literally rewrote the whole runtime CC is based on in another language. And even then they still not dared to migrate it away from React.
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by raincole 6d ago
First of all I put "generosity" in quotes because I don't believe a corporation as big as OpenAI is even capable of acting out of generosity. It's always one of the three: A) PR B) commoditizing complements C) stupidity.
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by raincole 6d ago
The irony is that OpenAI got into this trouble only because they tried to play "nice". They told Buckmaster that he could publish the final result as the author as long as he removed Alpöge from the author list. They wanted to giv
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by raincole 6d ago
Yet, neither ChatGPT desktop app nor Claude Code CLI is native. Mind you these are made by companies with practically infinite tokens.
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by raincole 6d ago
It is. However, "Tesla statistically saved lifes" doesn't make an exciting news article.
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by raincole 6d ago
Yes, that's why we should deanonymizing the internet. Everyone should need a government-issued license to access websites. That's exactly what the modern society needs. (in case it's not super obvious, /s)
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by raincole 7d ago
The answer is people want that. It's not a novel idea. Huawei's folding phones are even bigger and they sell like hot cake at least in China.
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by raincole 7d ago
The UN does not dictate which map you or your government or your school or Google uses.
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by raincole 7d ago
There should be laws taxing people who insist on driving themselves. And the money should be used to subsidize people who switch to self-driving or install automatic assisted systems on their old cars. That'd partially mitigate the ext
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by raincole 7d ago
Isn't it... quite a well known thing?
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by raincole 7d ago
It more or less reminds me of that Rick and Morty episode. They were playing an asteroid shooting. > Morty: it's boring. crank up the realism slider to max > Rick: why does it get even more empty? Wait, I got it... because the
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by raincole 7d ago
Except it's not AI generated. The interactive interface is, but the meshes are not. Another evidence that human slop is the weakest link of the chain :)
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by raincole 7d ago
Gambling but with positive expected value, yes.
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by raincole 7d ago
Frontend development in the early days was nightmare. I don't know why people pretend there was some kind of golden age but there really was not. You could still develop frontend in the old way. Most browsers are very good at supportin
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by raincole 7d ago
Of course more than zero people actually use tiktok for educational purposes and like healthy foods. I'm talking about how questions like that ("do you prefer imperfect human writing or AI writing?", "what do you use t
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by raincole 7d ago
It's a really bad analogy then. So bad that it's hard to find an analogy describing how bad it is :)
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by raincole 7d ago
That's why those "we prefer human writing" polls (such as the one cited in [0]: whooping 98% readers say they prefer human writing to AI!) are just noise. To quote myself: > People are really, really good at lying to the
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by raincole 7d ago
It's a joke dude.
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by raincole 8d ago
Oh, you're the dev of diffui? It's completely off-topic, but I've notice that RMB -> Download image will download an .png but it's actually a .webp and it can cause issues (e.g. file explorer doesn't show thumbna

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