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cercatrova··on Model Collapse Is Happening, We Just Pretend It Isn't
No, that's just hedonic adaptation of humans, not evidence of model collapse.
cercatrova··on Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?
Get a few GitHub Copilot accounts at 10 bucks each and use OpenAI models, they have very high usage limits I honestly struggle to even hit with one 10 dollar subscription.
cercatrova··on iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
You're in luck. Lots of phone manufacturers also implement liquid cooling inside the phone too.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-launches-new-mobile-wat...

cercatrova··on Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
I like upscaling and frame interpolation but as always, the TV does not have the hardware to do a good job. If you use neural network models, it works and looks a lot better without looking plastic-like.
cercatrova··on Missing the Point of WebAssembly
Interesting. I knew another user who spoke similarly to you about the web (often exaggerating of the "wonders of the web" while WASM and similar technologies were the signaling of the "dark times"), are you an alt of rektide? It seems like they stopped posting just as your account was created, which leads me to believe so. Just a curious observation, as they too were on threads related to the web.
cercatrova··on Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
> how many 19-year-olds do you know who want to live in a dorm setting and show up on time?

Most college kids? Even the no-drinking part these days comprises many college students, the number of young people who don't drink is rising.

cercatrova··on Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Some people are using it for serverside, ie the dartfrog library. It's a decent enough Algol language for backend, better than Go I'd say due to having ADTs and exhaustiveness matching.
cercatrova··on OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
I'm honestly at a loss for what you want from this conversation. What "nonsense" are you even talking about? You said you don't see the quote written there (I presume on the website) so I told you to scroll down and you'll see the quote. That's all I was saying, but now you're asking what the point of the quote was, like, how should I know? Ask the parent.
cercatrova··on OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
Scroll down on the post, not the comments, and you'll see where the parent pulled their quote from, which you said you "don't see any of that written there," well, it's written there.
cercatrova··on OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
Scroll down.
cercatrova··on Ask HN: Do you successfully manage the browser tabs? If so, how?
Yes, I close all of my browser tabs once I'm done for the day.
cercatrova··on American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
Many of those are private or quasigovernmental entities, to be fair.
cercatrova··on Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion
Flagged because it was an unsubstantive comment as dang mentioned and also that it's increasingly a flame bait topic on HN, same as with Copilot and licensing.
cercatrova··on Ask HN: Are you still using Alfred?
Raycast instead now.
cercatrova··on Introducing react.dev
React is already looking to use a compiler, but for memoization rather than fully removing the VDOM.
cercatrova··on ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning
Centrifugal "forces" also imply cycles. The other commenter is correct that it's tidal forces, not tides.
cercatrova··on GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind
The full story for those curious, from Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b:

Socrates: I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters.

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved or disapproved.

"The story goes that Thamus said many things to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts, which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to the letters, "This invention, O king," said Theuth, "will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered." But Thamus replied, "Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."

cercatrova··on John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
None of us will have jobs at all soon enough.
cercatrova··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
The number of users kept via the API is not as high as people might think, so I would actually agree that if that's the case, then Musk correctly shut off the API for people who weren't bringing in more benefits than the costs they were incurring.
cercatrova··on Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs
You are incorrect in the last paragraph but that was already explained here. Try putting the files in the Linux file system and only using that.
cercatrova··on Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs
WSL2 with code inside the Linux file system? Because if you're doing Linux work on the Windows file system, it will be bad. It is at native speeds inside the Linux file system though.
cercatrova··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
> “It’s just an OpenAI/ChatGPT wrapper” is the new “It’s just an AWS wrapper” that would have made you miss a generation of cloud-native companies.

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1621204449959231493

People who build on top of them will have stacked cash in the meantime, even if the API does eventually get pulled.

cercatrova··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
You need to buy a Mac to even develop these apps...
cercatrova··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
> From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem.

This does not follow, in Twitter's case. If Twitter's API made them money, they wouldn't have shut it down, but it's the exact opposite, it costs them money while providing no monetary benefit. So in this case, from the business perspective, it is correct to start charging for it.

Now they could spend 3 months but with debt service payments of a billion dollars a year, I highly doubt that they have the patience to wait that long.

cercatrova··on John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
Then better to remove such bullshit jobs even further.
cercatrova··on Show HN: I made a minimalist time blocking app 2.0
So minimalist that I don't even understand how it works. Can you make a video or perhaps a more detailed explanation even?
cercatrova··on Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
> it is indeed a moral issue.

But corporations don't have morals, so they'll continue to do as they do currently. If you want to change that, you should have legislation that makes them abide by whatever you think is immoral. Don't confuse your moral standard with that of amoral corporations who are incentivized to simply make as much money as possible.

cercatrova··on Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s
Strange response, looks like the parent said (a few times even) they're not exempt morally but seems like you're still trying to insinuate that the parent thinks they are.
cercatrova··on Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
What is inhumane about it? I've read your other comments too, it doesn't really seem like you're arguing in good faith when you state superlatives like "this is the most inhumane thing I've read today" or "this is the worst take I've seen in forever on this topic" or "I am going to be incredibly rude now." Please make your points without resorting to such extreme language.
cercatrova··on Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
> but we don't respect whatever this is either.

Speak for yourself. While it might be harder these days, the people I've seen that followed Walter's plan above were all able to get good jobs and support their families, including people who, like the sibling says, are poor, had to take care of siblings, had overworked parents, and so on. Yes, systemic inequalities exist, but well, an individual can't do much by themselves if they use that as the yoke on which they exist, they are not going to solve their problems or their family's poverty within a few years via voting or protesting, more immediate solutions exist. One must not fall into the trap of learned helplessness, and at some point, one has to cast off the yoke of bondage and begin to solve one's problems.

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