And that's bad? The average person is pretty darned average.
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bigbuppo commented on Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011) wiki.archiveteam.org/inde... · Posted by u/rafram
Not sure the emotive language is warranted. Message appears to be “if you use robots.txt AND archive sites honor it AND you are dumb enough to delete your data without a backup THEN you won’t have a way to recover and you’ll be sorry”.
It also presumes that dealing with automated traffic is a solved problem, which with the volumes of LLM scraping going on, is simply not true for more hobbyist setups.
Or major web properties for that matter.
Well, they've done it boys, they've made creative fulfillment obsolete. They've DISRUPTED the concept of going to big music festivals, and small cozy shows. Just plug your ear holes with the AI slop bucket's pure beeps and boops and never have to worry again about paying artists for music. You can pay a techbro instead.
This is like the dotcom era of where every idiotic idea that ended with, "but on the internet", would get a pile of cash thrown at it. We are officially at the beginning of the end. It's only going to get dumber from here.
I find this problem quite difficult to solve:
1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees.
2. If I as the human request the software on my computer to modify the content before displaying it, for example by installing an ad-blocker into my user agent, then that's my choice and the website should not be notified about it. Most users agree, some websites try to nag you into modifying the software you run locally.
3. If I now go one step further and use an LLM to summarize content because the authentic presentation is so riddled with ads, JavaScript, and pop-ups, that the content becomes borderline unusable, then why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?
Right, but the LLM isn't really being used for that. It's being used for marketing and advertising purposes most of the time. The AI companies also let you play with it from time to time so you'll be a shill for them, but mostly it's the advertising people you claim to not like.
bigbuppo commented on How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? movies.stackexchange.com/... · Posted by u/azeemba
> Why was this on Twitter?
Because that's where the eyeballs were. It's really not hard once you get over your own hatred for something everyone else enjoys. I don't use Twitt...er, X, but I understand why others do. Your unwillingness to see the same point is just going to continue to be a source of frustration for you.
Specifically, it's where the technical-creative eyeballs were, which is why twitter was such a weird and magical place. That and the algorithm that amplified anger at outrage, but mostly, well at least partly, it was the people.
bigbuppo commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
I don't disagree, but I also don't think that gives the article a pass to make whatever claims they want without getting any pushback. Especially where they posted it to HN, they should be expecting to be challenged. I could (and probably should) have been nicer instead of calling it "terrible", but I don't think we (a site like HN dedicated to intellectual curiosity) should give bad claims a pass just because they are "opinion." We don't let journalists make unsubstantiated factual claims that are self-contradictory just because they listed it under the "opinion" section of the paper/site, and I don't think we should have different standards for a self-published piece. I'm not advocating censoring it or taking it down, I'm just critiquing it.
Where is your peer-reviewed research that shows your opinion on this is correct? Do you have the numbers to back that up? Is there any verified source of data that says, "I love it when the people of HN find my blog post and start screaming at me for shit that doesn't matter."
bigbuppo commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession.
Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships.
Oh great! I can’t wait for the next generation of unnecessary luxury apps that just provide another lazier way to be a good consoomer.
All while the few necessities that matter, housing, food, etc. become increasingly more expensive and less accessible.
So, all these people laid off from big companies that were doing real non-chatbot AI and ML research combined with robotics or other machine control to do things that would have changed the world for the better if the project hadn't been killed because it was only making zero billion dollars (the $999,999,999.99 they brought in doesn't count), are perfectly capable of working some place else that wants to, you know, do that farming thing they were working on, or shift gears to building machines that make housing affordable by reducing the labor costs by 75%.
bigbuppo commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
This is a really terrible article. I suspect the HN comment section will be good, but TFA is not worth reading IMHO (though it is quite short so can be read in a minute or two).
> For years, companies like Google, Facebook/Meta, and Amazon hired too many developers. They knew they were hiring too many developers, but they did it anyway because of corporate greed. They wanted to control the talent pool.
Aside from all the claims with no sources/references whatsoever (claims which are not at all self-evident), blaming "corporate greed" for hiring employees? Isn't it also "corporate greed" to lay people off? Blaming corporate greed for causing high salaries? Let me guess, if they started cutting salaries, that is also corporate greed?
It's not possible to "control the talent pool" when there are so many companies in competition. Yes, they want to hire the best engineers they can find and they will pay handsomely for it. Every company (even our small non-profit) wants to hire the best engineers we can find. It's not "corporate greed" or us wanting to control the talent pool.
The article is something known as "a blog post" with a bunch of words known as "an opinion". It's not a thorough economic analysis from an economist using validated data sources and empirical research backed by strict scientific rigor that passes all peer review but can't be repeated.
bigbuppo commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt
And what's that core business again? Collecting as much data as you can on your users and then using that to sell ads, or possibly the data itself.
The bubble bursting will be epic.