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Yeah not a good look. This is probably the worst way to handle community feedback.

That CLAUDE.md file is eating up a ton of context.

Subscribed, swe, for dev. I could probably optimize local models and a custom harness to get much of the same outputs locally but it’s easier to throw something at Opus 5.5 & one shot it.

> Features such as Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), voice recognition, and interest-based advertising are optional. These features are not enabled by default. Users can choose to enable these features and can manage or withdraw consent through TV settings.

They may be optional features but I’m pretty sure when I set up my tv and got to the screen where you are required to agree to the various terms and privacy legalese the “happy path” was to hit the “accept all” button vs use the remote to navigate into each one, read, and only activate the few required to use the tv. I would not call this dark pattern “optional” by default.

Sorry but Paul is just so out of touch with reality. I’m tired of seeing everyone on HN evangelize this man. He is very intelligent and has done some really great things but times have changed and we need to let the next generation think for themselves. They are increasingly anti-AI. Maybe that pans out, maybe it doesn’t. If I were 17, I’d pursue my dreams — whatever those may be — and learn how to connect meaningfully with my peers. Perhaps that’s naive of me or perhaps that’s what humanity needs most right now. I’d rather let the 17 year old version of me make that choice for themselves.

I’m sure I’ll get torn to pieces for this but it’s frustrating to continually witness people treat a single person’s prose as the Word of God.

> But considering they first plan to deliver this in a fancy spa, and that it's coming from a tech company, not pharma, my reflex is to question the medical value of this data.

I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that the entire pharma industry is not exactly known for their motivation to research and develop therapies for the betterment of humanity. Case in point, the opioid crisis, wherein pharma’s goal was to just sell as much of the drugs as possible without regard for the impact those drugs were having on the people taking them.

I’m not saying this to defend tech — they’re guilty of the same things. I am saying this to suggest that if this play by Midjourney to reject VC funding and really lean into a community supported research lab works then you might end up with something closer to an altruistic approach than you would have otherwise.

Aside from the obvious fact that this is AI slop, the author (prompter?) doesn’t consider the R&D of AI itself. Efficiency gains, more compute, etc.

We all know every frontier AI lab is heavily subsidizing usage, and so do all of the VCs & CEOs funding them.

You’d think this is how it works but universities and schools will still end up holding the bag at the end of the day, irrespective of who is responsible.

I’d like to see more investment in their new profile manager. It feels pretty barebones at the moment. Arc had the ability to link profiles to “spaces” and you could easily switch between them without opening a new window. It was very nice to so easily swap between personal, work, & side business.

Could definitely be writing on the wall that MV2 support will be deprecated in the future but imo not necessarily a bad thing if it’s not actively developed anyways. Maintaining both MV2 & MV3 support isn’t easily sustainable long term when you factor in the need to prioritize other features.

That said, if this is writing on the wall I’d hope they’ll listen to the community this time and allow the engine to be extended / make it such that a block all ads feature always exists. I’m cautiously optimistic given Mozilla’s track record just over the past year-ish. They have released some great new features that help bring Firefox closer to feature parity with other browsers.

I am a Firefox hopeful and recently switched back to using it as my daily driver when Arc went belly up (but mainly for uBlock Origin support).

This is neat, but no. /s

Posts like these always give me a moment of pause to reflect just how expansive the global internet is.

Very neat. This is an example of digital art that I’d love to see exist in physical form somehow. I suppose it could get rather noisy at a museum but I love the intersection of mass transit & music.