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Would Terrance Tao still be a renowned mathematician if he grew up with ChatGPT?

No one actually pays attention to the details of music videos any more. It’s visual chewing gum at best.

Hilarious to hear someone in industry blame their audience for the commodification of the medium. Is every industry like this? Surely nobody goes into creative fields thinking “I can’t wait to feed the masses slop!” Who’s killing our spirit?

I suspect many HN commenters would be surprised to learn just how much the general public are on the side of these activists, condoning if not outright applauding their actions.

Your generalizations are less creative than the output of an LLM from 4 years ago.

Ugh, that’s infuriating to read, if not at all surprising. This sounds at once totally over-engineered (in the modern day, negative sense of the word) while being simultaneously under-engineered (in the traditional sense).

I share your theory about micro usb, yeah. I know it’s not cost savings, it’s just lazy/ignorant. If they’re changing the footprint on the board for a type-c port, they can add some smd resistors.

If switching to a type-A charger fixes it, it’s probably the device manufacturer’s fault, not the cable. Many manufacturers that need the 5v standard you’d normally get from an old type-A charger screw this up.

For universal USB-C power support that works with modern power bricks, you need to tie 5k resistors to two pins of the port on the device. This tells the charger to use 5v. I can’t tell you how much cheap stuff out there omits these. They cost almost nothing but they still screw this up over and over, and people blame the standard or the cable…

That big zoom-out of Earth in the opening sequence of WALL•E comes to mind.

Around these parts, it's all about taking something and using for something it was never intended to be used

Is this satire? I literally was hoping the article would be about how decommissioned _data center_ GPUs were repurposed for home PC gaming, the exact thing hacker news is ostensibly supposed to be about? It opens making a point about how the only cheap GPUs with lots of ram are e.g. K80s, which are hardly meant for gaming.

I’m obviously not the intended audience for this, and I understand this hardware is not useful for it, but I can’t help but feel an extra twinge of disappointment that there’s no mention of PC gaming anywhere in a post about GPUs in the comments here on HN. It says a lot.

We’re entering the era of AI trained by previous generations’ slop. It’s not surprising that it’s sloppy.

Built on EA's GPL v3 source release via fbraz3/GeneralsX (which did the heavy lifting of the macOS/Linux port — this fork adds the iOS/iPadOS port and a set of engine fixes).

Didn’t say it would, it’s just a better way to illustrate how each model fares in comparison.

Over-hiring during the bygone era of free money is now seeing an overcorrection. AI is a true if small part of it, but mainly it’s an excuse that doubles as posturing to the investor hive-mind.

They should be sorting the models by performance on the horizontal axis.

Later:

By most measures, theirs was a great gig – logic that can excuse almost anything. “Saddam’s chef got a car every year,” Neel says. “That phrase, ‘it was a great gig,’ I think, actually runs the world. Like, ‘It was just business.’”

I’d say they understood the meaning.

I’m pretty sure the market agrees with you.

I use Cursor and it’s been fine. I write a lot of code manually too, so I liked the tight integration with VSCode, my daily driver for about a decade. I used to use Vim, so I’ve “discovered the terminal” a long time ago.

The people steering the agents are the ones producing low quality code. I see little correlation outside of that.

What rates are you being charged?

Most of the animation examples in the article are there to communicate transitions in the UI (eg the movement of a UI element). Functional animations are genuinely a good practice from an accessibility standpoint and not just flourish. It’s just hard to do well.

Would be nice if there were some _positive_ examples to go along with all of the negative ones. All I’m really getting from this is that I should avoid animations, which I don’t think is what the author is actually trying to say.

Yeah this is a fair point. I’m not making the judgement in this specific case as much as I am making the judgement in the general case of deploying autonomous killing machines like this.

Oh I understand and am sympathetic/stand in solidarity with Ukrainian fighters, but war crimes against war criminals are still war crimes.

“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”

This is also indiscriminate.

“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”

This is a clear war crime. We don’t need to update any international laws, do we? This is by definition indiscriminate, like landmines or chemical weapons.

Convenient how? Even if you take the spin at face value, it’s downright dystopian.

Looking forward to the expansion pack(s) for when they finish building the real cathedral

I find it in poor taste, but maybe that’s the point.

I never said it wasn’t fair use, I just think it’s kind of disrespectful of the author’s wishes. Being legal doesn’t make it moral or admirable.

At least change the link at the top of your blog post to the author’s website: https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/