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Won't the "frontier" labs figure out whatever techniques were used and apply them to their closed models?

It happens with open source software all the time, why would we expect any different with open source weights.

swagatkonchadaon Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

it doesn't recognise a url without the scheme? come on!

swagatkonchadaon Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?

the use case i "feel" these are useful are for studying any given topic. having one single page helps avoid many google searches, tangential questions, etc., but i'm always looking out for inaccuracies.

swagatkonchadaon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

Working on onekontact, the only place you ever have to update your address or phone number when you move.

swagatkonchadaon MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data

very exciting tech. also very scary, if we imagine how authority can misuse this.

swagatkonchadaon Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain

is there a way to test for this?

swagatkonchadaon Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain

Do you still feel like this? Is there anything that helped you?

swagatkonchadaon M3 MacBook Air Peak CPU Temperature Can Reach 114 Degrees Celcius, 33% Slower

I have never had heating problems with a mac since I started using the M1 model(around 2021), with a typical software engineer workload.

I highly doubt M3 macs are any worse.

swagatkonchadaon Peloton – A call for action [pdf]

"tech company" is an obsolete term now. all companies are tech companies

swagatkonchadaon Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year

ads don't work without tracking. that's the whole point

swagatkonchadaon The Pandemic Boom Goes Bust

inflation is 7%ish, not 5%ish. but generally translates to much higher cost of living increases for the middle class

swagatkonchadaon Spotify Removing Neil Young's Music

people have a right to speak their mind wherever they want; that's the basis of the internet, free expression.

swagatkonchadaon Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier

I feel stupid asking this question, but isn't the browser that parses css? i understand minifying css, but what does parcel's css parsing refer to?

swagatkonchadaon Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

well, time for someone to build a third party dislike count and release browser extensions

swagatkonchadaon Google’s top search result is Google

"no competition" i guess you meant this figuratively. But in fact there is a ton of competition and the point of the article is that G is suppressing that competition by unfairly giving themselves the space which needs the least number of clicks to reach.

swagatkonchadaon Leave Facebook

Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?

swagatkonchadaon Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Gold content here for Siri's PM team if they are watching.

swagatkonchadaon CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots

Twitter needs to be a lot better at detecting bots.

swagatkonchadaon Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

I'm pretty sure POTUS doesn't approve google. Please ban yourself.

swagatkonchadaon Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?

DMT

swagatkonchadaon Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens

how about no notifications for messages unless the sender specifically says "send notification"?