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Email seems like not only a pretty terrible training data set, since most of it is marketing spam with dubious value, but also an invasion of privacy, since information could possibly leak about individuals via the model.

Hotdogs are obviously bad, but beans are good. They are packed with fiber and protein.

Of course, your typical can of Bush’s baked beans is loaded with added sugar. Gotta get the kind that doesn’t have added sugar.

Plus, every major battery and car company is chasing solid state battery technology as the holy grail. And lots of startups.

Then it’d be time for round two of antitrust, and I doubt the judge and regulators would feel so understanding about Google keeping Chrome if that is the landscape.

Also because they know what happened to Microsoft when they did that with IE.

Opinions vary.

There are those who think massive concentration of wealth is not a problem at all and is just a product of healthy capitalism. Tax is theft, and individual property rights are above all else.

There are others who want some kind of communist revolution, where the entire structure of society and property ownership is changed. The workers should benefit from their work as much as the managers.

Personally, I feel like there's a middle ground to hit. We should be able to make changes to our current system in the US without needing anything too radical.

We have some good examples from the last century, such as trust busting, the New Deal, and the Great Society. These programs made major improvements without changing the country's fundamental economic system or growth trajectory.

Wealth inevitably concentrates in the hands of the elite no matter the economic conditions. There are plenty of failed states where all the wealth ended up in the hands of warlords and dictators.

It’s something that regularly has to be dealt with in societies separately from the economic situation.

People would have paid it if it was actually significantly better. It was a huge cost increase for a pretty minor performance increase.

That just means their pretraining data set was older. You can train as many models as you want on the same data.

I’m sure all these AI labs have extensive data gathering, cleanup, and validation processes for new data they train the model on.

Or at least I hope they don’t just download the current state of the web on the day they need to start training the new model and cross their fingers.

For a major revamp, you should either do it or not do it. Making it opt-in or even opt-out means every app then has to try to support both different UIs, which is a longterm maintenance cost. Not only for Apple, but the entire ecosystem.

I personally sort of like the liquid glass, but it's also kind of a mess in a lot of edge cases. I feel like it was an interesting idea that didn't really pan out fully and should have been scrapped. It's just too controversial for pure eye-candy.

I’ve never heard someone describe the aluminum body as bad.. what do you not like about it?

The number one benefit is the Apple Silicon processors, which are incredibly efficient.

Then it’s the trackpad, keyboard and overall build quality for me. Windows laptops often just feel cheap by comparison.

Or they’ll have perplexing design problems, like whatever is going on with Dell laptops these days with the capacitive function row and borderless trackpad.

Only if you’re sensitive to that flicker, which most aren’t. Otherwise they’re pretty great.

Just curious in case somebody knows. Are OLED displays in laptops bad at low light? He cites that as a reason he doesn’t want OLED, but I’ve never noticed such a problem on OLED phones.

I’m really hoping Steam Deck keeps on pushing game makers to support Linux. It’s really gotten a lot better, except for competitive games that need most types of anti-cheat.

If Linux supported all the games I wanted to play, I would ditch Windows on my home PC.

I ran Linux on my laptop in college over a decade ago and it worked great.

It just depends on application compatibility and to a smaller extent driver support, though that shouldn’t be a problem for an older laptop.

Google has a separate browser for AI features? Gemini has just shown up in Chrome for me.

It’s of course a mess and a mad rush for market share right now. That’s just a product of a healthy, competitive market. I agree that I’d rather have one AI service I pay for that integrates with all my apps.

AI integration in apps is about being able to feed in the context from the app into the model, like the web page or document. It’s much nicer to just ask the model about what you’re looking at directly rather than having to copy in context. I don’t have market research on this, but I do believe customers will expect it.

Someday hopefully the OS will allow apps to expose context and actions for a systemwide AI assistant. This is what Apple is trying to do with their Apple Intelligence for instance. If this works well, that’d be great.

I’m fine with an extension personally. And I don’t use Firefox to begin with, so I don’t particularly care what they do.

I just think the average browser user in 5-10 years will expect the AI features. And plenty of others won’t want to use those features, and that’s fine.

We need some regulation on them for sure. They should be paying for the content they train on and use in their search results.

They’re still very compelling as a user.

I totally agree. It’s just going to become an expectation that AI is in the browser.

It’s so nice just to be able to ask the browser to summarize the page, or ask questions about a long article.

I know a lot of people on Hacker News are hostile to AI and like to imagine everybody hates it, but I personally find it very helpful.

Typically I think, but you could pre-train your previous model on new data too.

I don’t think it’s publicly known for sure how different the models really are. You can improve a lot just by improving the post-training set.

There have been bugs and regressions since forever. It’s easy to look back with rose colored glasses, but I don’t think software has actually gotten worse.

Just look back at the Snow Leopard release of OS X. It was specifically marketed at having no new features and just being a fix and optimization release because Leopard was such a mess. And people were happy about this.

If you are reducing the likelihood of something by 99%, you are basically eliminating it. Not fully, but it’s still a huge improvement.

It reminds me of this fun question:

What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? A billion dollars.

A million dollars is a lot of money to most people, but it’s effectively nothing compared to a billion dollars.

I’m not so sure. The big selling point for Rust is making memory management safe without significant overhead.

Zig, for all its ergonomic benefits, doesn’t make memory management safe like Rust does.

I kind of doubt the Linux maintainers would want to introduce a third language to the codebase.

And it seems unlikely they’d go through all the effort of porting safer Rust code into less safe Zig code just for ergonomics.

What other newfangled alternative to C was ever adopted in the Linux kernel?

I have no doubt C will be around for a long time, but I think Rust also has a lot of staying power and won’t soon be replaced.

There actually are techniques to win (and presumably lose) rock paper scissors more frequently than random due to psychological factors that make player choices somewhat predictable.

They do have user generated lists to help find things to do, but yeah, I mainly use it for organizing ideas and building my final itinerary. It’s really nice for this. I can then also share the itinerary with everybody else on the trip.

“They’ll have to” is a pretty strong statement assuming you don’t actually have insider information on their API spending.

For now, they do use Google Maps and I’m happy with it. If they stop and it’s no longer as useful to me, maybe I’ll stop using it.

I use and pay for Wanderlog. Idk how their business is doing, but I love it as a user. They use an embedded Google Maps viewer for locations, so there is no problem for coverage.

Waymo continues to improve every year, but dumb drivers never will.

Discord, VS Code, and Figma are all apps that individuals choose and are well liked despite many alternatives. Slack too I think, though I don’t have experience with it.

Your comment applies to Teams and I’m sure other electron apps. But the sweeping generalization that electron apps have terrible user experiences is pretty obviously incorrect.