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>> "At the very least, this research doesn’t appear to be a reliable indicator of people’s willingness to pay for human-created art."

It's no secret that what does well commercially and what represents good craft doesn't always have much connection. I'm pro-GenAI and still prefer art made by a person. With the aid of AI is fine, but that connection through the choices they make in creating a thing matters to me.

Looking at the actual paper, the story might have biased the results. Would the results be the same if the story wasn't about a story written with the help of AI?

It should be noted the actual study focus is different from how it's framed by the article: "AI Bias for Creative Writing: Subjective Assessment Versus Willingness to Pay"

It seems like the focus was on commercial writing, not writing overall.

I got the occasional A/B test with a new image generator while playing with Dall-E during a one month test of Plus. It was always clear which one was the new model because every aspect was so much better. I assume that model and the model they announced are the same.

How much of this is the bicycle, and how much of this is that it enables less conscientious people to go more miles at otherwise normal cycling speeds? The e- part is limited to speeds most people can reach on a normal bicycle unless they modify it.

/r/IdiotsInCars is a monument to how ineffective permitting is for this purpose. The people rear-ending pedestrians on sidewalks at 20MPH might be the same people who never miss their off ramp.

That was back when everyone was trying to make a "portal" to compete with AOL. It seems like browsers are headed down the same path now with replacing the simple search box new tab page with the same stuff the portals had.

Most people will never personally encounter more than 0-1 of any rare or uncommon way of thinking or living. The loudest people are the most self-sure and radical, which makes them ideal candidates for those rare encounters. They come to represent the whole for most people who aren't practiced at seeing past that sort of thing.

You don't think about the vegetarians around you who keep to themselves and go about their way of life without trying to push it on others, so they're quietly embarrassed by those noisy few. At least that's my guess. I don't know that I know any vegetarians.

Probably in the /r/battlestations/ sense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

That is the sneaky thing about rewrites. The "Ship of Theseus" rewrite is reasonably safe based on the article and what I could find of people sharing their experiences with rewrites. Fix what needs fixing, but swap in the newer better language/framework/whatever a piece at a time. It works!

People get in trouble when they decide to rewrite the whole thing. You might be right in this case, but I'm sure every person who began a doomed rewrite project felt the the benefits outweighed the risks.

Viewed in the rear view mirror of history, the Netscape rewrite was a good thing in a technical sense. As far as I understand it gave us the foundation for Firefox and the Gecko engine. It was just bad business in context because it let other browsers run laps around it while the rewrite proceeded. It let IE get a foothold that didn't shake for many years until Netscape became Firefox.

Rewriting the new browser in Rust would probably be similar from a technical POV. But from a business standpoint, we seem to be at an inflection point where a new browser might be able to enter in the cracks of discontent over sketchy AI features in Edge and the slow-boiling attempts to break ad blocking in Chrome. If they divert resources now to a rewrite, they could miss this opportunity to do to Chrome what Firefox did to IE.

It sounds like the plan is a Ship of Theseus rewrite anyway, so they'll get there in time without the risk of distraction.

There's a parallel universe where someone convinced you to rewrite it in something else from the start and you spent years on the rewrite instead and it never went anywhere. Could you have done that emergency rewrite without 10 years of becoming an expert in the problem you were solving? The alternative universe has you spending time becoming an expert in a new language instead and maybe not getting anywhere with the rewrite.

A classic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

>> "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’s nothing wrong with it. It doesn’t acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive."

>> "Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The programmer might have spent a couple of days reproducing the bug in the lab and fixing it. If it’s like a lot of bugs, the fix might be one line of code, or it might even be a couple of characters, but a lot of work and time went into those two characters."

>> "When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."

It's an older piece, but like good old code, it still holds up. Newer tools and technology have improved the creating of new code, but they've also made improving old code easier in equal measure.

What's the % look like for people who use password managers? There's probably a reason they all support Linux.

The existence of a port does not guarantee future support of a port. Safari used to run on Windows. They're also somewhat notorious for trash quality Windows ports.

Can confirm. I bought Freespace 2 in 2009 and it's still there in my account with no DRM.

A good comic on the difference between what most people think when they hear wheelchair vs what wheelchair users need to be independent: https://www.tumblr.com/calvin-arium/184341867538/its-here-th...

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg

“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted

RSS is fine. A thing doesn't have to make headlines with VC rounds and take over the world to be alive and well.

You and I know very different artists. "Logical" people have their woo, too.

Tech is also full of delusional hacks. You find them everywhere. Delusional hack artists are more fun.

Weigh stations might work. Trucks increasingly roll through on scales that can weigh in motion, but there is a spot to pull off for inspections. This could be a service offered to trucking companies to help make up for loss of fuel taxes.

Black Sails in particular evolved with the writers' historical knowledge of real pirates as they moved from made up nonsense they read to actual research.

Changing it is part of one of their paid things for some reason.

It's not even hypothetical. I've seen these offers. Every single article is hot garbage.

It's been a long time since I thought about any of this, but last time I did, social media traffic was some of the worst quality. Search traffic was seen as golden because it came with intent. Social media traffic was wandering and aimless, so converted poorly even if it was 1000x search. Search still got more conversions and it was no contest. Did something change?

Would it be accurate to say this is like one of those web host 1 click install things, except it runs on your computer?

Everyone interfaces with it as secure abstractions in their chosen language, so it's understandable if most people don't think of it when they think of programming languages.

Using my phone to pay is pretty low friction. There's literal friction to pulling anything out, but the phone comes out much more easily than the financial xenomorph of pulling my wallet out, then pulling a card out of the wallet. Then I have to stab the chip end in a reader since I have yet to find one that supports tap to pay.

That sounds like good old fashioned payola.

Kagi's internal index seems to focus on sites that wouldn't necessarily block spiders.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

I've crawled small web sites (even hosted on major providers) to archive them and never hit a wall.

Maybe it's a lisp thing. Who knows what mysteries lurk here

A worthwhile distinction!

I looked up the CPU mentioned in the link from your other comment. It looks like HN handles enormous traffic on about 2x the power of the last Celeron chip ever made.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2383vs5793/Intel-Xeon-E...