the problem with "microservices" is the "micro". Why we thought we need so many tiny services is beyond me. How about just a few regular sized services?
Because it's simpler, duh. </sarcasm>
Readit NewsSrslyJosh commented on Microservices should form a polytree bytesauna.com/post/micros... · Posted by u/mapehe
I don't even know what the selling point of AI is for regular people. In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children. That's completely out of the realm of reality for many young people now and the plummeting birth rates show it.
The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.
Social media is driving society apart, making people selfish, jealous, and angry.
Do people really think more technology is going to be the path to a better society? Because to me it looks like the opposite. It will just be used to stomp on ordinary people and create even more inequality.
> The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.
More like the last 50 years.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"
The TL;DR is that in 1964 the average hourly wage was $20.27. As of 2018, average hourly wage was $22.65.
This is b/c these things are Markov chains. You can not expect consistent results & outputs.
Using an LLM for a "financial workflow" makes as much sense as integrating one with Excel. But who needs correct results when you're just working with money, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SrslyJosh commented on Show HN: VoxConvo – "X but it's only voice messages" voxconvo.com... · Posted by u/siim
How would this prevent someone from just plugging ElevenLabs into it? Or the inevitable more realistic voice models? Or just a prerecorded spam message? It's already nearly impossible to tell if some speech is human or not.
I do like the idea of recovering the emotional information lost in speech -> text, but I don't think it'd help the LLM issue.
Detecting "human speech" means shutting out people who cannot speak and rely on TTS for verbal communication.
SrslyJosh commented on Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/... · Posted by u/ingve
Durable execution paired with an unpredictable text generator? Sign me up! /s
SrslyJosh commented on Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter andonlabs.com/evals/butte... · Posted by u/lukaspetersson
> The results confirm our findings from our previous paper Blueprint-Bench: LLMs lack spatial intelligence.
But I suppose that if you can train an llm to play chess, you can also train it to have spatial awareness.
The key word here is "if".
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_ai-...
> An October 2024 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime described the use of Starlink in fraud operations. About 80 “Starlink satellite dishes linked to cyber-enabled fraud operations” were seized between April and June 2024 in Myanmar and Thailand, the report said. Starlink is prohibited in both countries.
They knew about it over a year ago.
From a Wired article ("Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online"):
> Starlink connections appeared to be helping criminals at Tai Chang to “scam Americans” and “fuel their internet needs,” West alleged at the end of July 2024. She offered to share more information to help the company in “disrupting the work of bad actors.” > SpaceX and Starlink never replied, West claims.
The whole article is worth a read.
SrslyJosh commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I wanted to use the agentic powers of the model to dig for specific kinds of news, and use iterative search as well. I think when LLMs use tools correctly this kind of search is more powerful than simple web search. It also has better semantic capabilities, so in a way I wanted to make my own LLM powered news feed.
> I wanted to use the agentic powers of the model
Do you have an in-depth understanding of how those "agentic powers" are implemented? If not, you should probably research it yourself. Understanding what's underneath the buzzwords will save you some disappointment in the future.
SrslyJosh commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
They’re basically markov chain text generators with a relevance-tracking-and-correction step. It turns out this is like 100x more useful than the same thing without the correction step, but they don’t really escape what they are “at heart”, if you will.
The ways they fail are often surprising if your baseline is “these are thinking machines”. If your baseline is what I wrote above (say, because you read the “Attention Is All You Need” paper) none of it’s surprising.
See also: 3 Blue 1 Brown's fantastic series on deep learning, particularly videos like "Transformers, the tech behind LLMs".
My own mental model (condensed to a single phrase) is that LLMs are extremely convincing (on the surface) autocomplete. So far, this model has not disappointed me.
I do remember to have read a couple of years ago that the Windows Ui team got replaced and now only consists of Mac users, never having used Windows themselves.
If that is true, it's now wonder that they do not understand all the value that Windows NT has brought, why having a standard on menu structure, a standard for all UI controls etc made sense. And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios. Taking away options will ALWAYS hit some of your customers. And there are a gigantic amount of applications where you want local system accounts only. Yes, Dear Microsoft, computers without an Internet connection do exist and are a common thing.
For us it's Win10 IoT LTSC so we have updates for a couple of more years, and by then hopefully the last remaining software and hardware we have will be usable with Linux.
> And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios.
You're conflating the vertical integration of hardware and software (Apple's walled garden) with Microsoft's current direction (you can't use Windows without MS online services).
Microsoft has never given a damn about customers being free to use the software the way they want to. In light of how the company is behaving today, the "openness" of Windows WRT to hardware was clearly only about market share.