bcoughlan

Hence why I said "Not aimed at all the wonderful, sane and reasonable people of the USA." I know it's not a Europe vs USA divide, just that it pisses me off that the American news and social media is talking about air conditioners instead of climate change.

I don't mean to be divisive, but this meme-like stream of news articles and comments about Europeans being silly about air conditioning, from the drill-baby-drill nation that refused to even try to do anything about climate change, really grates on me.

I've been thinking the same: the smaller the codebase, the better AI performs. So a way to scale AI is to modularize your architecture to maximize the number of leaf nodes in the dependency tree, and split out separate libraries where it makes sense.

It is huge for token usage also, Claude grepping the codebase for context it doesn't have is the main consumer of input tokens from what I can see.

I misinterpreted the parent comment to mean that they won't notice it because they will be extinct!

Perhaps we are putting human intelligence on a pedestal. I have often caught myself having a supposedly original idea only to find I inherited it from something I read months before.

We are mostly autocomplete with a mild capacity to synthesise new ideas. It’s the network effect of communicating that creates the feedback loops which amplify our collective intelligence.

Also if you think intelligent life has to have a regard for truth, not just a regard for self, tune in to any news channel.

Something an older and wiser programmer taught me, is to think of the infrastructure costs as a per-user cost. These numbers look enormous next to my bank balance, but if you save 500k per year to service 1 million users, it's nothing to your bottom line.

Meanwhile there's the opportunity cost of moving. All of the people who put effort into this migration, who could otherwise be building something revenue-generating. I think that's why in many companies cloud costs are a problem, but never enough to make it high up the backlog.

I’m talking youtube-dl and VLC player. No YouTube logos, no concept of what YouTube even is.

Even the sidebar of recommendations is a dark pattern for a 3 year old. Unlike Netflix etc where you have to exit the video to browse something else.

I considered doing the same but in the end decided I don’t want to use a platform I have to fight against, while still letting them build brand recognition to my kid.

So I downloaded a bunch of the videos on our desktop and blocked the site. Works for my 3.5 year old, not sure the plan when they outgrow it.

I would guess it comes down to that the best researchers in the world want their work out in the open

I'm nearly certain that the images and the text are AI generated from other sources and perhaps tweaked a bit. The headings are the giveaway. Low signal-to-noise ratio.

Google search results is full of this stuff, but first time seeing it at the top of HN

Can't uninstall the browser, and occasionally it's needed for legit reasons. I quite literally can't resist drifting towards mindless scrolling apps, though I know that's hard to fathom for some people.

My approach for iPhone:

- Set time limits on apps. - Block App Store. - Set a Screen Time pin, then forget it.

Downside: if you need to install a new app, you need to do a iTunes backup, factory reset and restore the backup,. Also apps won't continue to update with this approach.

Worth it though. I don't miss wasting 10-20 hours a week on brain rot apps.