Memory requirements does not mean that something is bloated.

Windows XP required 64 MB of RAM. Does it mean Debian is bloated then?

AFAIK perfomance and low resource usage has never been a main objective of this distro

Can someone explain? Isn’t removing bots actually a good thing?

Yeah, that’s the idea, but they are still not there

Let this sink in down

This platform is just evil, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I opened it recently. Most recommended posts are just dumb tiktok-like short videos, sometimes soft porn even. All of these mixed with stuff posted by governments, politicians as it’s their way communicate with citizens. It’s just crazy, it’s like we replaced law gazette with posting official stuff in tabloids.

I’m using Proton for privacy, not anonymity. I’ve literally put my name and surname in my email address. I don’t care if someone knows that me is me.

But I do care that no one is reading and/or automatically processing my mails.

Hopium administered

I believe the same thing was said about the Internet in the ’90s: “It speeds up communication, but how would anyone earn money from it?”

Although I don’t think we’re anywhere close to AGI or anything like that, current AI development fundamentally changes a few things in our lives: how we find and process information (information retrieval works very well), how we interact with computers (using natural language instead of clicking through interfaces), and how productive we are.

Video generation models are going to bring entertainment to a whole new level. A single person can now create an entire movie without even buying a camera. Entire game development studios can build worlds larger than ever before. Text generation makes disinformation and propaganda insanely cheap and effective. Surveillance will be much easier now, as owning a communication platform not only allows you to search for messages by phrase but also by meaning. Ads will be far more personalized, as AI chat platforms now know us much better than Google — the current leader in this field.

So:

there isn’t anything real there?

I really don’t think so.

So how dangerous is that really? I assume one day we’ll finally see investors saying, “Nah, that’s a bubble. I’m not gonna see any returns from those companies - I’m selling.” Then stock prices will fall, and some investors will lose money by selling for less than they bought. After that, AI unicorns will start to lose funding and close their businesses, laying off people.

But will I - a person who does not work in the AI industry and has not invested in AI companies - be affected by this?

Usefulness really comes down to which model is being used. I’ve noticed most developers choose GPT for Copilot because that’s what they are familiar with (or they often don’t have a choice due to company policy). I recommend to try Claude Sonnet. How it works is true magic.

But I agree, repetitive tasks is what it should be used for. Planning is still programmer’s job

Please add some context for someone not up to date with all that jargon. There is a trend here and on hacker news to just post a model name that says basically nothing and I often just don’t even know why I should care. Or maybe I shouldn’t?

What is the use case of stable coins? Fast international money transfer? Or are there other I’m not aware of

IMO one of the most important features

Might be hard to do, it needs to be approved by president of Poland which is a big fan of Trump (contrary to current government)

thanks

Alternative title: “Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we’ve all left there for free”.

It’s like you bought a car and deliberately hit the wall to make a headline “cars make you disabled”. Or bought a hammer, hit your thumb and blame hammers for this.

Guys, it’s a TOOL. Every tool is both useful and harmful. It’s up to you how you use it.

I’m reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at… what exactly?

The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it’s given to me at once, without need to go anywhere. Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven’t.

You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.

I was talking mostly about side projects. I don’t have much time for them right now. Thanks to LLMs, I can spend those few hours a week on doing instead of reading what is the best way to do X in ever changing world of web front-end frameworks. I just sit down, ask: “how is it usually done?”, tweak it a bit and finish.

Example: I have published an app on flathub a while ago. Doing it from scratch is damn complicated. “Screw it” is what I would say in pre LLMs era after a few hours ;)