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I gotta be honest, I find it almost a little disrespectful that everyone started naming their shit „x is all you need“ even for very mundane stuff.

Attention is all you need was a breakthrough paper. It fundamentally changed the ML landscape and got us out of a huge roadblock with rnns.

If you seriously think you have something similarly impactful on your hands, then sure go ahead with that name. But there’s been a bunch of papers where I found it distasteful. At best its just not funny. But this isn’t even really much of a paper. I’ve seen blog posts with more substance. Hell, even YouTube videos.

I don’t know, I guess I just don’t really get the joke.

OT, but I didn't know Greg Brockman was CTO at Stripe, or that he dropped out of school.

You make it sound like he's at deaths door. Peter Norvig is 66. I know ageism is big in the tech industry, but this seems a little excessive.

This is just a bad article, bordering on blogspam. How could that possibly make them go bankrupt when they've secured $10 billion in funding just this year. Also, noone forces them to provide chatgpt for free. If that was actually going to bankrupt them, they would just stop doing that.

They are eating the cost because it provides them with the largest dataset of human feedback in existence. Is that worth 700k a day? I don't know, but they seem to think so, otherwise they'd stop doing it.

To relieve eye strain. Reading on an e-ink screen is so much more comfortable than on any emissive monitor. With current tech the downside is of course reduced refresh rate as well as low color contrast.

Depending on the workload, that might be a worthy trade off. I tried coding on a grayscale eink display for a while and noticed a big difference in eye strain and overall concentration levels after a long session. But the display I had was too small and I didn't like living without syntax highlighting, so I went back to a normal screen. This product would solve those issues.

Authors and writers in general might be another target audience for this product. It's niche for sure, but eink has a lot of applications beyond price displays in a store.

Don't you think it feels incredibly degrading and violating to have your face stitched into porn in a way that's supposed to be as realistic as possible? Without your consent?

Doesn't really matter if the video is real, the people who this is done to have not signed up for this. And you know people are jerking off to it. I don't doubt for a second that it's absolutely repulsive to see yourself in a deepfake porn.

A couple of popular streamers who have had that happened to them have reported feeling similar feelings of shame and violation to the way they felt when they experienced actual sexual assault. That's pretty alarming and should count for something, no?

Also, this gives a completely new dimension to parasocial relationships. There are lots of people struggling with real realtionships that find solace in live streams. As they continue to engage in the community, they can begin to feel like they have an actual relationship with those streamers, which is obviously dangerous since it's such a one-sided thing. Deepfake porn elevates this even further and makes it that much more likely for people to develop an unhealthy obsession with people that they will likely never meet, instead of working on their real interpersonal relationships.

I don't think that's a fair characterization of vertical farming. Yes, some of the startups in vertical farming say that they can print money right now, and I am with you that this is stupid.

However I think the actual value proposition is different. Agriculture does have very thin margins. The current approach is only viable by achieving scale through enormous monocultures. Unfortunately this is very bad for the soil and the surrounding eco-system. We try to mitigate this by using fertilizer, but this is a stopgap solution and it won't work forever.

One example of this is that there now exists a thriving industry for rentable beehives, because all the bees living in the areas where we grow food that needs to be pollinated are dying. So instead we truck dozens of hives across the country, let them pollinate the fields and then pack them back up for the next one.

We are currently forced into ever more complicated counter measures, just to keep the output we have. This will get more expensive until it ultimately just won't work anymore and output shrinks.

Meanwhile, vertical farmings biggest expense is electricity, which will get cheaper over time. It uses way less water, does not have to rely on huge amounts of fertilizer, can grow anything year round and can be set up in dense urban spaces so that the output does not have to be shipped all over the place.

This isn't better than traditional farming right now (and for some food it probably won't be for a loooong time), but the balance will steadily shift in favor of smaller, more localized agriculture. Eventually, with ever growing citys/urban areas, vertical farming will be more economical.

However that day is not this day and the startups that burned through their stacks of vc cash while drinking their own kool-aid deserve to crash and burn.

Figuring out the connection between seeing someone stepping on a rake and immediately after getting smacked in the head seems much simpler than knowing about the .com bubble and from that alone managing to avoid the same mistakes decades later.

It's easy to call out the similarities now, but I doubt it's easy to avoid the mistakes in the situation.

Seems like this really doesn't have a whole lot to do with vertical farming, but rather just startups being startups and vc money coming with the strings that it does. Which is good, because vertical farming will only ever become more important (unless population size and density start trending downwards, which doesn't seem likely).

They'll figure it out eventually. Local, space efficient, variable controlled agriculture has so many upsides for dense, urban areas that I doubt the idea will fail.

I've had a bad experience with them (though that was a few years ago). Back then they manually reviewed each website before enabling payment processing (which is fine), but then just didn't get back to us. We tried messaging them for a status update, but only got a generic answer that it'd take another couple days. After three or four weeks and another back and forth we just gave up.

As I said, this was a couple years ago, so things might be very different now (we might've been an outlier even back then), but it left a bad taste, because the customer service was so unhelpful, even though they were much smaller than stripe.

May I recommend Orion? It's based on Safaris engine, but imo improves massively on its ui (for example it comes with a fantastic (opt-in) tree-style tab browser). But most importantly it supports chrome and firefox extensions. Most of them do just work out of the box.

Is he still posting there? I would’ve guessed that project is on halt with him having cancer and all.

I know this breaks the rules by being needlessly snarky as well as not adding anything whatsoever to the conversation. Will remove if anyone is annoyed by this, just felt the need to type it out.

I sometimes wonder how Elon Musk would be as a person if he hadn’t become filthy rich.

Does being the richest man on the planet just enable his craziness, or did it cause it?

But then I let go of that thought, because I don’t want to give a petulant man-child who is apparently proposing literal dick measuring contests any more attention than they already get.

That's not the point. Yes, there are many legit startups, exploring the very real value add that AI has to offer.

But the people that previously sold scammy web3 stuff did move on to peddle scammy ai stuff.

The Bigscreen beyond requires a face scan and generates a custom interface to fit each persons face perfectly. Everything I've read indicates that this actually improves fit and comfort. It helps that the bigscreen beyond is incredibly light and small, but the face scan doesn't seem to be a gimmick.

The Vision Pro might end up a complete failure, but requiring an appointment and a face scan is not a sign for this.

> Not to mention the applications that require you to turn on your webcam (!) while you do them.

I don't understand what this means. Did she have to turn on her webcam to upload her cv? How does that even make sense.

Also, how is that legal? I thought requiring a photograph to apply for a position is illegal (except for stuff like acting).

Huh, you're right. I tried both names in my head and "The Pin" sounds exactly like an apple product (in a good way), while "The AI Pin" sounds weirdly cheap and gimmicky.

I agree that Witcher 3 doesn't count as "current gen" anymore, but it wasn't meant to represent that. I picked my examples to show that we've seen high fidelity games throughout the last decade. All of those games pushed the boundaries of what's possible in some way and I don't think we've seen a decline of that at all.

There are just so many more games now that it might seem like that.

Huh? That doesn't seem right. We absolutely have ambitious games on pc that bring generational leaps in graphical fidelity.

Like the Witcher 3, which was absolutely stunning when it first released. Similarly (although originally a console exclusive) Red Dead Redemption 2 looks incredible on PC. We also have releases like Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice which pushed the limit of what was possible to achieve with limited resources (regarding the development, not the hardware).

Honorable mentions should probably also include Star Citizen, which although still unreleased is definitely an incredibly technically ambitious project. As is Cyberpunk 2077. The launch might have been a total disaster, but afaik it's the first big game to ship a full ray-tracing renderer.

Maybe we have a different understanding of what a 'technically ambitious' game is. But I see technical improvements left and right. Unreal Engine 5 comes with some features that are just mind-blowing and make a whole new level of graphical fidelity available even to small indie developers. Just take a look at the recently released footage of "Unrecord", where lots of people thought it was real life footage.

Have you compared it to screenshots from Far Cry 1, or to your memory of the game?

Far Cry 1 was a beautfiul game, absolutely, but the new iteration clearly does look a lot better than the original.

Love to see it. Happy paying customer here. Their product is great and I actually found myself enjoying their AI integrations as well. Specifically their universal summarizer is surprisingly good. But that's just an added Bonus. I'm primarily very happy that I can use a search engine that is incentivised to build a great search product because their revenue depends on it.

Great list. Didn't know about pbcopy/pbpaste, very useful.

I use open regularly. Often to open a directory in finder and preview a file. Looks like I can just use qlmanage from now on.

Not sure I'd use screencapture manually, but I'm sure there are some automations that could benefit from this.

What's the strawman? This way of thinking is taught in universities around the world. And it doesn't stay there. I personally know people who approach problems like this.

In what way is that conclusion different? I argue that a strict moderation policy and enforcement is needed to keep a community healthy, even if that leads to the exclusion of a few posts/users that would have been good for the community.

Is that not exactly what you are saying?

Sidenote: Does the presence of an ambulance not qualify as a "true emergency" for you? In my experience an ambulance only shows up if someone needs acute medical attention. Is that not the case where you live?

Over the years I've come across a few online communities that have noticeably higher conversation quality than the rest of the internet. The one thing all of those places had in common is a very strict moderation policy.

Not every forum/community/website should tolerate literally all people. It's never helpful to engage with trolls and if people aren't willing to argue in good faith than they need to go. I've seen tons of communities slowly lose their identity because they were too accepting of counterproductive conversations and bad faith arguments.

The idea of this form of tolerance comes from the goal be open minded and listen to opposite arguments, as well as to prevent a community from turning into an echo-chamber (or a cult), but I think it's better to lean towards heavy moderation. Banning someone who would be a good fit for the community is unfortunate, but ultimately not a huge loss. Not banning even one troll can drag down a whole community.

Is the pencil just to save space versus a normal roll of electrical tape, or for some other reason?

The 13" M1 Macbook Pro is a thing. You cannot infer M1 Pro/Max just from that.

Huh where does it say that? It states 16GB of RAM, not screen size.

If you visit his top level website, you can see that it uses a columnar layout. I agree that it compromises the experience if a single article is linked like this, especially on smaller screens, but it isn't broken, this is how it is intended. It just doesn't cater to all formfactors.