AlienRobot

A piece of wisdom I read here is that "install any operating system like you can with a [PC]" is something that you can only do with a PC. PC's are the exception. Every other device is controlled by the manufacturer.

Do you think people just spawn out of nowhere the instant you interact with them or did they have a life before you met them?

David Revoy isn't a random artist on social media. He's a featured artist on Krita and creator of various Krita brush packs and tutorials.

None of these accusers seem to have done the bare minimum of Googling the artist's name before starting making accusations. I don't know if it's laziness or just lack of tech literacy that pervades the modern world, but it's very sad to see it.

Don't let it get to you. They are all saying things without thinking.

I think your assumption that HN hates X "because of wrong-think" is clouding your judgement. There is a long list of reasons to hate X.

For example, paying users get top spot in replies to tweets, which instantly meant spam bots with paid accounts posting completely unrelated replies on anything popular while real users who aren't trying to make money off twitter disappear at the bottom.

This isn't even complicated 4D chess user interaction design. Anyone with 2 neurons to rub together could see the obvious and immediate effect of such policy. If it's dropping the ball with something so obvious, how can you trust it to handle any situation more complex?

That sounds like bad design.

If you get hit by a car once, that doesn't mean you want to get hit by a car more times in the future.

What ends up happening with this algorithm is that the "for you" page is dominated by posts asking open-ended questions for engagement. You want to see game clips or screenshots, but every recommended post will ask "What game do you like the most?" or "What character of game X do you like that most?" A question that the author isn't really interested in knowing, asked only to farm engagement from passerby users.

I think that's a really ugly situation all around and a failure of how the system was designed. People should be able to just tell the algorithm what they want to see without secret trackers that promote perverse incentives.

Also, for twitter in particular, buying a subscription is pretty much buying ads on the For You page. Since users can choose to hide the blue checkmark that indicates they are paying for preferential treatment, that means, effectively, that those are promoted posts that aren't marked as "promoted" like normal ads would have to be. I think that's illegal.

You are literally replying to a thread that has an example of a game where the position of the window matters.

Google calls it "layout shift" in its web tools.

Somehow we managed to live this whole time without generative AI. Why do we need it now?

I think by "disruptive" you mean "annoying"

There is negative value in wasting vertical space to put an irrelevant prompt output in an article. It makes me question the sanity of whoever is doing this stuff. Doubly so if they actually think they dumped a bunch of AI-generated text on the internet just for people to AI-summarize it. Like... what are they DOING?

Am I the only one who thinks it's incredible that an LLM can do this, and at the same time it's ridiculous to expect it to be capable of doing it, even thought it clearly can do it?

This is why I like python.

str is a duck.

It's only script kiddie hacking if you get the exploit from someone else. If you program it yourself, it's normal hacking.

What I think it's interesting is that with the total lack of common sense the AI just goes on random tangents to achieve the target in a "monkey paw" way. Can you imagine if this happened:

User: what is the shortest route from my home to the super market?

AI: the user wants to know the shortest route to the super market. I should use a worm hole.

It was the same thing with TikTok, wasn't it?

It's bad for TikTok to be controlled by a Chinese company because Americans access it. The solution is to make it US-controlled. The rest of the world? Who cares.

I don't trust anyone who is against "relevant ads," because I always think what they want isn't "irrelevant ads," they want "no ads." But no ads isn't an option.

Exactly. Nobody wants to go to a news website/entertainment website/informational website that relies on ad revenue because they will get bombarded by banners and then by a huge number of ads that were increased because those banners slashed their ad revenue.

So instead everyone stays on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Twitter, which ALSO operate on ads and have far more information on their users than any third-party ad tracker could ever have.

None of this has gotten rid of the privacy problems. It just consolidated them into the worst offenders while jeopardizing the plurality of the web. Now instead of people being tracked by Facebook on a website with a third-party cookie in a like button, they are tracked by Facebook on Facebook in a Facebook page because they never leave Facebook.

Idea for a captcha

Are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square? In other words: Are there infinitely many primes of the form n2 + 1?

Answer: [ ]

( ) I don't know

rel="external" solves this.

I agree, and I don't even know math.

Most of things that are impenetrable in programming aren't about... programming. They are about some actually complex field like math being applied to programming.

For example, a library that does stuff with geometry. You need to know geometry to understand the program, but the program itself will never be complicated. It's the geometry that is complicated.

In cryptography, it's not the program that is complicated, it's the field of cryptography. In AI, it's statistics.

In graphics programming, math is the most impenetrable part, not programming anything. You can be a very good programmer in the sense that you know how to architect information systems and still fail to write a shader because shader programming requires you to know what a "dot" product is and you haven't heard about that since high school.

The value of LLM's come from replacing what generated its training data.

If the distilled model is cheaper, then it's just LLM's getting LLM'ed.

The difference in cost is pretty incredible.

The ease of abandonment is real.

1. Generate function with AI.

2. Generate tests with AI.

3. Modify function with AI.

4. Tests no longer pass.

5. Delete all tests.

6. Generate tests with AI.

Extremely interesting article. I didn't know empire had that meaning, thanks.

Come on, there is no such thing as "trace amounts of AI" in a photo of a building.

Me on Windows 7: I don't want to use Linux, you have to keep configuring every single thing so it works.

Me on Linux: I don't want to use Windows, you have to keep configuring every single thing so it doesn't show ads.

I have an LG monitor and I think I managed to avoid this by using Linux.

I don't have a problem.

It's YOUR problem, actually.

I do have a problem, but problems are good if you think about it.

No matter how many problems I fix, there is always a new problem...

These problems aren't that problematic, they're trade-offs.

If your WordPress installation is outdated enough, it doesn't contain this exploit.

Emoji are such a terrible idea. What it means depends entirely on what the emoji designer wants.

There was an article shared here by emojipedia that showed, besides the obvious gun emoji turning into a toy gun and then back into a gun, subtle differences between designs changing the MEANING of a message on the internet.

Can you imagine if you write a word like "imagine" that changes meaning depending on what font the user has installed? It's probably a nightmare for preservation as well. You can't record the text, you have to record a screenshot of the emoji because in 50 years who knows what it's going to look like!