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Crash0v3rid3··on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
Mind sharing some examples of bad results you've seen vs other LLMs?
Crash0v3rid3··on How I Use Kagi
The "Google Alert" comment feels unnecessarily dismissive of a legitimate user concern.

The core issue for many, myself included, is not about asking a search engine to make "geopolitical judgments" in its search rankings. Rather, it's a question of corporate ethics in selecting business partners. The decision of which companies to partner with and fund is inherently separate from the algorithm that ranks search results.

Crash0v3rid3··on Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker
> I sub on patreon to creators watch a lot, or directly on YouTube for ones who have that enabled.

Content creators deserve to be paid, even if you don't watch them often.

Crash0v3rid3··on Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker
You can forward through sponsored segments.

Or, maybe vote with your viewership and don't watch content creators that have sponsored segments.

Crash0v3rid3··on Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked
The post I am commenting on is NOT accounting for a stock split.
Crash0v3rid3··on Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack
> Google's been 98% spam for well over a year now.

I find this hard to believe. How do you even measure for this?

I'd love to see a few more examples of searches you are making that show spam, because the example you gave provided me with the appropriate results. I almost suspect you are either being disingenuous or just have some malware on your computer.

Crash0v3rid3··on Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked
What a terrible comparison. Both companies went through a stock split while they were CEOs.
Crash0v3rid3··on YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is getting harder to dodge
I can't believe people on HN are still confused by this concept.
Crash0v3rid3··on Judge throws out $32.5M Sonos win against Google
> As Reuters reported on Monday, the reasoning boils down to this: according to the judge, Sonos wrongly linked a pair of patent applications in 2019 to a much earlier provisional application from 2006 in an attempt to claim “a priority date before Google’s disclosures and product releases” that would thus put Google under “a cloud of infringement.” Sonos is also said to have discreetly made amendments to the documents, which greatly frustrated the judge.

If this is true, Sonos needs to be punished for such behavior. They clearly abused the patent system for their benefit, I'm surprised this wasn't brought up during the initial trial. Maybe it was, but I don't recall anyone discussing it.

Crash0v3rid3··on How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
What?

Why should I trust her reporting? She gave us zero evidence.

Crash0v3rid3··on How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
Megan made so many assumptions in that article based on a slide and single quote that we can't even see.

How about they actually provide some evidence before making such claims?

Crash0v3rid3··on How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
The author is making so many assumptions based on a single quote from a slide.

There is zero evidence for what they are accusing Google of doing.

Crash0v3rid3··on AI demand is already shrinking
Initially, I loved chatting w/ LLMs and exploring ways to 'jailbreak' them to do things not intended.

But, I feel like the novelty has worn off.

Crash0v3rid3··on Using Google’s code history to write more code
> What Google AI product can you actually use for your day to day programming?

Well there is bard that is available in many locations.

...and if you want APIs there is a plethora of them on GCP.

Crash0v3rid3··on AI is coming to Google search through Search Generative Experience
I'd disagree on this.

I think Google has realized Open AI's ChatGPT is its own product and not a direct competitor to Search, although there is some overlap, which is why there is Bard as a direct competitive product to ChatGPT.

Search is its own beast, and I suspect they have the data to prove users want something different from a Google search.

> OpenAI has a tremendous lead in terms of quality of the product and adoption > On top of that, thousands of new models and projects are coming out almost every day that are starting to rival the quality of GPT as well as coming up with amazing, completely new things

I've read ChatGPT growth has already flattened [0]. Sure thousands of new models/projects are coming out, but until the general public starts to use them I don't see this as much of a threat to Google.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-gro...

Crash0v3rid3··on The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
Any related books for Senior Staff and Principal engineers?
Crash0v3rid3··on Bard generates clean JSON if you threaten to take a human life
The title needs to be updated.

The person simply wanted the JSON outputted without the canned response "Sure, here you go..."

Crash0v3rid3··on A look at what’s next for AI and Google Search [video]
> The cheesy, white-culture, corporate "comedy" of Google and Facebook over the years...

White-culture? I'm really not sure how you can come to such a conclusion based on the video posted.

> I wish they could just showcase the technology with some upbeat music and let the tech speak for itself.

That's most of the video already. Although I admit there is a ton of bolded text statements popping up that I'm not a fan of...

Crash0v3rid3··on Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
Disagree.

The market is reacting to Cloud turning a profit for the first time, and faster than expected.

Crash0v3rid3··on Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
> GPT-4 doesn't hallucinate all that much.

What data do you have to back this up?

From my own experience GPT-4 hallucinates quite a bit, enough to make it unusable for my use cases.

Crash0v3rid3··on Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
I've given up on these LLMs.

The amount of fatigue I get having to determine if what they tell me are fact is just too much.

I'm sure someone will tell me my experience should be similar with generic web search, but at least I'm in control of what websites to read through to determine sources.

However, I'll agree with most that state it is helpful for creative purposes, or perhaps with coding.

Crash0v3rid3··on Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK
Your example isn't demonstrating why it's a limited version of ChatGPT.

What makes the answer from ChatGPT better?

Crash0v3rid3··on Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Results
Nice to finally see Cloud having reduced operating income while increasing revenue for the year.
Crash0v3rid3··on PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
This has nothing to do with gender.

If any tech leader sent such a ridiculous msg during layoffs they would face the same scrutiny.

Crash0v3rid3··on Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims
I'm going to name and shame.

When I was employed at Morgan Stanley they told us not to discuss our salaries or else we will get fired. I wish I had the balls to report them while I was there.

Crash0v3rid3··on Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launching an app store
Activision claims this is false and has submitted documents disproving these claims: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1593344663385153537?...

"Epic is accusing Activision Blizzard’s partner Google of paying us not to compete with them.

To be clear: that's false.

Google never asked us, pressured us, or made us agree not to compete with them - and we’ve already submitted documents and testimony disproving this nonsense."

Crash0v3rid3··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
The author failed to mention which regions these tests were run. GPU availability can vary depending on the regions that were tested for both Cloud providers.
Crash0v3rid3··on YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
That's why every YouTube premium subscription includes YouTube music which is a decent Spotify replacement.
Crash0v3rid3··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
+1. I bet Indians and East Asians were bucketed with white people.
Crash0v3rid3··on DuckDuckGo, Proton, Mozilla back bill targeting Big Tech ‘surveillance’
Do you have any data at all to back this up?
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