themythfable

Betteridge law [1]

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no

Afaik Tim Feriss hasn't done anything notable in the past decade. No surprise that his one best seller is finally dropping off the cliff.

Without some incredible developments in AI, and as long as competition and desire for a better life still exist, I see no future where self-help books go away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

For all the noise about "EU consumer protections" this certainly seems quite the opposite.

So, to be clear, I have to tiptoe around cookies but eu-users will simultaneously do this so they can share pictures of their ...

Yeah, I never had a computer that cost north of $800 until recently. While that is far from the typical HN user's budget, my bet is that it is much closer to average.

Besides those with effectively unlimited budgets for their personal compute, local models are still a long ways off.

Though, that shouldn't be conflated with the value of open-source models, which can be used by cloud providers to significantly reduce cost of intelligence.

Same thing with Google homes.

Pre-gemini, you knew what you would get, basically the structured snippets that would appear at the top of the search results.

Now it's much more verbose.

My biggest gripe is that it basically stopped listening to me, since "upgrading" to Gemini, which is frustrating because I've used it to control the Hue lights for the past decade.

It listens to my partner though, so after it fails to listen to me, I have to ask her to ask Google to adjust the fing lights.

Welp