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When commenting on HN, the most important thing for me is to make sure I speak my mind rather than conform to common opinions/gather the karma etc. In this way I contribute to reducing the filter bubble that is present in all online communities, including HN. Speak your mind, that's what matters.
- dvfjsdhgfvI feel you. The answer is that you need help. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Also, it's good for kids to be spending time with other good people, too. Continuing in the way you describe is bad for you and you know it so the only thing left now is to figure out how to change it. I hope everything goes well with you.
- > Sad to look back years ago when the first mobile apps started adopting this "Remind Me Later"-only dark pattern and is now festering everyday drivers like your OS.
I can offer a slightly different perspective. I remember Microsoft from the 90s and early 2000s. And while technical details differ, their attitude towards users didn't change that much.
- > This is why I think the current "agent" paradigm needs human checkpoints at regular intervals. Let the AI work for 30 minutes, then review progress. Repeat. This way you catch drift early before it compounds.
The problem with this approach is that in 30 minutes, an agent is able to produce a massive amount of stuff. Reviewing all this is a nightmare, in the sense that on the surface it seems fine and it often works, until it doesn't. The bugs introduced are often subtle and their effects manifest later, if ever.
So, for stuff that matters (to me), I prefer not to use agents at all.
Maybe things will change in a year, or 5, or 10. I will be giving it a try. but for the moment it's just not worth it, and the upside-down workflow it pushes on me is just making me tired and lose satisfaction from doing my job.
- Written in 2015 but little changed
- Your approach to GenAI scrapers is similar to our fight with email spam. The reason email spam got solved was because the industry was interested in solving it. But this issue got the industry split: without scraping, GenAI tools are less functional. And there is some serious money involved, so they will use whatever means necessary, technical and legal, to fight such initiatives.
- I deeply sympathise with the author.
Nevertheless, the irony of this is overwhelming: a guy who spent his life promoting a company whose model is "we deeply control the products you use" gets burned by the fact they deeply control the products he's been using.
- This is a very popular theme, unfortunately without any practical conclusion.
- > To the point where you assume it's an unauthorized rip off until you discover they license to anyone.
That's because people consider Disney an entertainment company whereas in fact its the biggest licensing company in the world.
- > The next cycle, driven by social and mobile, burned again in 2008–2009, clearing the underbrush for Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, and the offspring of Y Combinator.
This list of companies made me wonder a bit. Technical progress has been huge, no question about that. But as for the actual quality or experience for the user/customer - I have the impression everything got worse, starting from Google from the first wave.
- Regarding point 3, instead of writing such posts on HN, you'd do better by contacting that person, apologizing, and making sure you make up for all wrong you did.
I wish your surgery goes well.
- True true.
- > unless you are paying extra for multi-region redundancy things like the recent us-east-1 outage will kill you
Unfortunately it's not guaranteed hat paying for multi-region replication will save you.
- While I agree, I remember we once had cross-region replication for some product but when AWS was down the service was down anyway because of some dependency. Things were working fine during our DR exercises, but when the actual failure arrived, cross-region turned out useless.
- As much as I love Hetzner, the article is misleading. Using a single server today makes no sense whatsoever unless it's for hobby projects. It will fail. My servers at Hetzner routinely fail every few years (4-5 maybe), usually it's a hard drive, but sometimes motherboard or PSU. If it's a drive, you need to take it offline to rebuild the array, it can take a few hours. Like honestly, this article blew up my mind. I'd never use such setup in production. Just add the damn second server (or two), it's dirt cheap!
- So we have two universes. One is pushing generated content up our throats - from social media to operating systems - and another universe where people actively decide not to have anything to do with it.
I wonder where the obstinacy on the part of certain CEOs come from. It's clear that although such content does have its fans (mostly grouped in communities), people at large just hate arificially-generated content. We had our moment, it was fun, it is no more, but these guys seem obsessed in promoting it.
- > "Don't come to me with problems, come with solutions"
The problem is, the issue in the article is explicitly named as "CVE slop", so if the patch is of the same quality, it might require quite some work anyway.
- The correct analogy would be that half of the lights wouldn't light up randomly and then you'd have to go out anyway but in a hurry and only to certain ones just do discover you need to get back 20 minutes later because there is another problem with the same light, and your boss would expect that you do everything much faster and you end up frustrated even more.
- But you need to agree that we can single out one specific argument he is most famous for, right? And when Josh Wolfe is saying that "Apple Gary Marcus'd LLM's reasoning ability", it does refer to a very specific issue of whether LLMs can lead to AGI or not.
I don't know whether he's right or wrong, but deep down I feel the amount of money funneled in the Transformed architecture might have blocked other approaches, both potentially promising and others doomed for failure, just because LLMs' quick wins.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. To explain the reason: you seem to use some particular wordings that just seem strange to me, such as first saying that Marcus position is that "LLMs are impossible" which is either false or incredibly imprecise shortcut for "AGI using LLMs is impossible", and then claiming it was beautiful.
I didn't mean to attack you personally and I'm really sorry if it sounded this way. I appreciate the generally positive atmosphere on HN and I believe it more important than the actual argument, whatever it may be.