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taormina··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
""" I’m basically calling the AI industry dishonest, but I want to qualify by saying they are unnecessarily dishonest. Because they don’t need to be! They should just not make abstract claims about how much the world will change due to AI in no time, and they will be fine. They undermine the real effort they put into their work—which is genuine!

Charitably, they may not even be dishonest at all, but carelessly unintrospective. Maybe they think they’re being truthful when they make claims that AGI is near, but then they fail to examine dispassionately the inconsistency of their actions.

When your identity is tied to the future, you don’t state beliefs but wishes. And we, the rest of the world, intuitively know. """

He's not saying either way, just pointing out that they could just be honest, but that might hamper their ability to beg for more money.

taormina··on US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
The didn’t actually get to market before Waymo in the robotaxi market
taormina··on The cultural decline of literary fiction
Well, graphics plateaued and then we started to remember that fun and highest fidelity graphics don’t necessarily have anything to do with each other.
taormina··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
Even if the word AI was not involved, this just sounds like Amazon's standard, well documented toxicity.
taormina··on "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B
I like the idea, but I see no reason to shield the management that demanded this of the rank and file. Accountability should go all the way up the chain.
taormina··on How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
No no, they are being forced to KEEP the data they collected. They didn't have to keep it to begin with.
taormina··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
It’s part of it. It was on the decline and then for some reason Google decided that the best way to handle their dumpster fire was to chuck gasoline cans into it.
taormina··on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
There are also bad actors who pretend to be the Google scraper. Google once upon a time had a reputation for respectfully scrapping, but if he's getting the traffic he needs with or without the Googlebot, why should he care?
taormina··on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
He’s selling exclusively to the C-suite. Why would he care about the white collar workers? He wouldn’t be trying to put them all out of work if he cares
taormina··on Mercury's High Risk, High Rewards Strategy Runs into Regulatory Reality
If someone doesn't go to jail for this, was it high risk?
taormina··on Google Review Accused Our Business of Theft. We Had No Way to Respond
That's true in the USA, is that true in Poland as well?
taormina··on Google Review Accused Our Business of Theft. We Had No Way to Respond
Is it possible to bring Google to court for defamation? Not the individual, but Google itself?
taormina··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
My problem with this usage is that the LLMs seem equally likely to make up a function they wish existed. When questioned about the seeming-too-convenient method they will usually admit to having made it up on the spot. (This happens a lot in Flutter/Flame land, I'm sure it's better at something more mainstream like Python?) That being said, I do agree that using it as supplemental documentation is one of the better usecases I have for it.
taormina··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I’m still working on Danger World!

https://danger.world

Flutter + Flame + Spine + YarnSpinner. After a year of development, we’re coming up on some very fun milestones!!!

taormina··on In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
And you don’t hire founders.
taormina··on Leaving Google
Inflation goes up, perk and comp stay the same, is the same as a % cut
taormina··on 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
The study is versus no therapy at all.
taormina··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
We understand the consequences. The only projects listed that matter are the open source ones. They’ll survive. The rest don’t matter and will die as they frankly would’ve already if not for Google unfair position in the market.
taormina··on Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync
Uh what? It’s extremely popular in the US? You wanna source that claim?
taormina··on Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync
It’s still SQLite. Drift as an ORM they are using on top of SQLite.
taormina··on How to start a school with your friends
I mean, Carnegie Mellon was #2 in computer science in the nation at one point despite not being an accredited program because of their lack of mandatory calculus requirements
taormina··on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
I mean, as much as the modern world wants to convince you to revolve your life around making your kid comfortable at every moment of the day, this is actually a super important life skill and you need your kid to develop it.
taormina··on The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs
Of course they do. They did not provide explicitly the prompt for that, but what about this technique would not work on a fresh ChatGPT session?
taormina··on You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business
If you claimed that your source was The Onion, you’d get similar responses. You can make a claim, with no source, and expect the traditional answers. When your source is a “known to produce crap” source, what would you expect to hear?
taormina··on You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business
If you said you Google’d it, we’d still ask for a source.
taormina··on AI Horseless Carriages
There’s an argument that being intentionally annoying is impolite.
taormina··on AI Horseless Carriages
The whole article is about AI being bullied into actually being direct
taormina··on Getting Forked by Microsoft
I mean, the MIT license might be a “more permissive” license but it says very explicit things that Microsoft is explicitly ignoring. Your license choice doesn’t matter when they ignore the license anyway.
taormina··on Getting forked by Microsoft
Oh boy, credits that only work in their cloud. That’ll cover rent.
taormina··on Facebook Support Ignoring Anything Their LLM Can't Summarize Easily
The dropdown immediately below this textbox is where you select all of that. But no, I didn't include it in the text body of the support message.
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