_heimdall (u/_heimdall)

_heimdall commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

Ajedi32 · a day ago

I fully agree tariffs should be the purview of Congress, but that's not a "similar argument". Trump was elected just as Congress was.

_heimdall · a day ago

Trump was elected to be the president, a role itself meant to be the chief executive and public figurehead of the government. Trump was not elected to legislate and no single person should be given the power to do so.

edit: typo

_heimdall commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

zdragnar · a day ago

The tariff was oppressive in large part because the colonies didn't have representation in Parliament and were allowed limited (and decreasing) local governance. The Stamp, Townshend and Intolerable Acts were a whole lot more than just "we don't wanna pay taxes".

_heimdall · a day ago

A similar argument can be made against the tariffs though.

US consumers will be paying the bulk of the tariffs through price increases. We do have representatives in Congress, they just weren't the ones imposing tariffs.

edit: as fun as silent down votes are, it would be interesting to hear where you might disagree

_heimdall commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

marcyb5st · 2 days ago

I agree with you fully.

However, even friends/colleagues that like me are in the AI field (I am more into the "ML" side of things) always mention that while it is true that predicting the next token is a poor approximation of intelligence, emergent behaviors can't be discounted. I don't know enough to have an opinion on that, but for sure it keeps people/companies buying GPUs.

_heimdall · 2 days ago

> but for sure it keeps people/companies buying GPUs.

That's a tricky metric to use as an indicator though. Companies, and more importantly their investors, are pouring mountains of cash in the industry based on the hope of what AI may be in the future rather than what it is today. There are multiple incentives that could drive the market for GPUs, only a portion of those have to do with today's LLM outputs.

_heimdall commented on AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

tymonPartyLate · 2 days ago

We used to have private bridges and private roads, and that was an expensive travel situation for everyone. Now, internet search is kind of like a bridge that leads clients to businesses and Google is deciding on the tolls. Government-controlled Internet search would definitely be horrible. But I'm thinking if there is a path towards more competitiveness in this landscape, maybe the ISPs could somehow provide free search as part of the Internet service fee? Can we have more specialized, niche search engines? Can governments be asked to break up the Google search monopoly?

_heimdall · 2 days ago

If end users find Google's bridges good enough, there isn't really much fight to be had unfortunately. Kagi is an example of competition, but the question is how many people actually take issue with how Google picks the results they show.

_heimdall commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

marcyb5st · 2 days ago

Note: I was too young to fully understand the dot com bubble, but I still remember a few things.

The difference I see is that, conversely to websites like pets.com, AI gave the masses something tangible and transformative with the promise it could get even better. Along with these promises, CEOs also hinted at a transformative impact "comparable to Electricity or the internet itself".

Given the pace of innovation in the last few years I guess a lot of people became firm believers and once you have zealots it takes time for them to change their mind. And these people surely influence the public into thinking that we are not, in fact, in a bubble.

Additionally, the companies that went bust in early 2000s never had such lofty goals/promises to match their lofty market valuations and in lieu of that current high market valuations/investments are somewhat flying under the radar.

_heimdall · 2 days ago

> The difference I see is that, conversely to websites like pets.com, AI gave the masses something tangible and transformative with the promise it could get even better.

The promise is being offered, that's for sure. The product will never get there, LLMs by design will simply never be intelligent.

They seem to have been banking on the assumption that human intelligence truly is nothing more than predicting the next word based on what was just said/thought. That assumption sounds wrong on the face of it and they seem to be proving it wrong with LLMs.

_heimdall commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

nijave · 2 days ago

Facebook, Twitter, and some others made it out of the social media bubble. Some "gig" apps survived the gig bubble. Some crypto apps survived peak crypto hype

Not everyone has to lose which he's presumably banking on

_heimdall · 2 days ago

Right, he's hoping to be Amazon rather than Pets.com in the sitcom bubble analogy.

_heimdall commented on Google is killing the open web wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/thm

FeepingCreature · 4 days ago

Yes but React is not built into the browser, that's kinda my point.

_heimdall · 3 days ago

XSLT is a browser spec and part of the web platform though, react never went through that process.

For what its worth, XSLT 3.0 can apparently work with JSON as well if your main concern from a couple comments up is XML vs JSON.

_heimdall commented on Google is killing the open web wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/thm

bilog · 4 days ago

Also, fun fact, XSLT 3 relies on XPath 3.1 which can also handle JSON.

_heimdall · 4 days ago

Ah, so it can! I've only ever used XSLT with built-in browser support, never even realized the latest would allow JSON to be rendered with XSLT!

_heimdall commented on Google is killing the open web wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/thm

FeepingCreature · 4 days ago

That kind of demonstrates why XSLT is a bad idea as well though. JSON has its corner cases, but mostly the standard is done. If you want to manipulate it, you write code to do so.

_heimdall · 4 days ago

JSON correlates to XML rather than XSLT. As far as I'm aware, XML as a standard is already done as well.

XSLT is more related to frontend frameworks like react. Where XML and JSON are ways of representing state, XSLT and react (or similar) are ways of defining how that state is converted to HTML meant for human consumption.

_heimdall commented on Google is killing the open web wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/thm

sharpfuryz · 4 days ago

The article is about intentional killing XSLT/XML in the browser. I think it is evolutionary: devs switched to JSON, AI agents don't care at all - they can handle anything; XML just lost naturally, like GOPHER

_heimdall · 4 days ago

The only reason AI agents don't care about XML is because the developers decided, yet again, to attempt to recreate the benefits of REST on top of JSON.

That's been tried multiple times over the last two decades and it just ends up with a patchwork of conventions and rules defining how to jam a square peg into a round hole.