irl_zebra
Joined 924 karma
irl a zebra
- irl_zebraYeah hate to say it, because I am an AI hater, but I love the AI results in Google and Kagi. I barely click results anymore for basic questions unless it's something important enough for me to need verification to ensure the AI-gen answer wasn't a hallucination. It's been so nice not having to pick through the cesspool that is StackOverflow to find answers to quick cli questions, or wade through SEO-generated, Amazon-affiliate link garbage for more general questions.
- I pay $20/mo for Gemini, so they're generating at least that much in revenue!
- I don't know specifically, but I think they're referring to the current USA administration's posture of approving anything, or pardoning anyone, in exchange for some cryptocurrency or similar big favour.
- Ohhh okay ty "throwaway920102" will take your word for this.
- Well, the video isn't available. And it's a big ask to make way out there claims and then expect people to watch whatever that video was to fully understand whether the claims are true or not. This is basically asymmetric warfare in trolling.
"Here's my wild claim, to verify it go spend your time watching a video!"
- I've been using my pi-hole as my DNS and then also firewall blocking the TV from phoning out on port 53 in case the manufacturer has hardcoded DNS. Though I agree with the point and I shouldn't have to do this. This is just mitigation.
- It's a responsibility, probably (definitely, I think, but minimally probably) the most important job and responsibility one can have. If you're on HN, then you likely recognize the brain rotting effect of social media without moderation, and if that's the case, your responsibility is to parent to the minimum amount that you moderate your kids' usage.
- I haven't heard of any of them, which I am open to being because of my own ignorance. Can you give some examples?
- This came up on Stratechery recently. Shame on Stratechery for not asking any hard questions or digging deeper. There was some skepticism from Ben Thompson, but no actual ask for any sort of proof whatsoever. The interview came across like someone told them they had to interview this company (or applied lots of pressure to get their name out there). This MSN fluff piece does the same thing.
My theory is that they're carpet bombing the news and blogs with marketing pieces to get US Fed and more VC interest in this to secure financing. Note the strong nationalistic framing around building in the USA and it being an imperative of US place in the world.
- This is so, so exciting. I hope HN takes inspiration and adds a similar flag. :)
- Why would you flag something without reading it to see if there was a reason to flag it? Your default should be to not flag something.
- This is, essentially, why I've withdrawn from posting content from my human brain almost anywhere on the open internet (except here, sometimes) and have retired blog posts, opinions, and so on to our friends WAN.
- When this is done with deposits to avoid IRS scrutiny it's called "structuring."
- I don't think this is what they were saying.
- This is from the Annual Report.
- It sounds like in the example the character idea was their own, and they then used an LLM to add come context.
- I use it a lot for ideation on things like strategy and creative tasks. I've found Gemini to be much better than Claude, but I almost want to switch back to Claude because of the "Projects" primitive where I can add specific context to the project and ask questions within that project, and switch around to different projects with different context. Gemini just wants to take all context from everything ever asked and use it in the answers, or I can add the context in the individual prompt, which is tedious.
- This reasoning would lead to such absurd results in real life, and I am thankful no courts of any country or jurisdiction follow this logic.
For those reading: this is the difference between proximate cause and actual cause. Yes it's true that but for the fire being started in the first place, the fire would not have rekindled. But once professional firefighters arrive to put out the fire, it's not foreseeable by a normal person that the fire could be rekindled, so that person wouldn't be liable. The harm is too remote. The firefighters may even be grossly negligent because they are professionals, intervened, and the fire rekindled. A person negligently failing to fully extinguish their own fire would lead to liability, though.
- I'm on the verge of unsubscribing from Stratechery. The last month has been a bunch of fawning over Meta, YouTube, and constant talk about and fawning over OpenAI and whatever latest models are coming out. It's kind of tiring and boring. I swear I heard them talk about some YouTube influencers event like five times across their different shows and across time. Like, I do not care at all.