this is amazing. I just wish models would have more non-textual controls. I don't want to TYPE my instructions. We need a better UI for editing images with AI.
Can you expand on that? What would ideal look like to you?
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mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
The efficiencies in air travel don't come from the airplanes. They come from optimizing routes, eliminating competition, and cramming far more people on an airplane.
That saves a lot of money, and despite complaining people seem to accept the tradeoff of cheaper flights for an unpleasant experience. That comes from using basically the same technology as a half-century ago, with more customers.
This is just factually incorrect. Yes, business efficiencies have come from all sorts of tactics, but this being HN: the engine on the 737 MAX uses >30% less fuel at cruise than the JT8D from the 1970s-era 737s.
Not to mention airframe improvements in both aerodynamics and materials.
mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
But it has. Aircraft have long stopped getting faster or bigger or having a longer range. They get marginally more efficient, but not better for consumers. Cars are mostly the same. Audio codecs. Everything has a balancing loop somewhere. With AI there are several, eg. the better it is, the more content is made using AI, the worse AI is
In no particular order:
Air travel (thanks to efficiencies) costs a fraction of what it used to, look up what % of people have traveled by air and compare that to previous decades.
Cars are safer than ever, per mile driven, for their occupants and substantially more comfortable. They're also more efficient, but we've consciously traded that for heavier cars for crash safety.
Lossless audio codecs are ubiquitous, and there are low-loss low-latency wireless audio codecs deployed to billions of devices.
Agree with the AI statement, though.
This is confusing, since signing something already proves that you own the key.
My assumption is they want to eliminate/prevent schemes where a ton of apps are signed as a service by a small number of centrally controlled keys.
Someone elsewhere in the thread said this is how F-Droid works, but I can't confirm firsthand.
mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
Something I've been doing a lot lately is investigating the people on HN that push various beliefs, and in this comment thread there's two voices pushing for how much AI is going to continue to grow, going forwards.
Who are these two voices? Well, we've got fragmede, who, looking through their HN profile, works at NVIDIA as a "senior AI infrastructure engineer", and we've got mh-, who, looking through their HN profile, works at Wunderkind, which is "pioneering a new category of AI agentic marketing".
So, the two people in here pushing messaging about how great and valuable AI is, and how it'll continue to get better, have their jobs/livelihood tied to AI and people continuing to pour money into AI.
It almost always turns out that way. The people protesting the loudest for some idea universally are somehow tied to profiting by convincing people of that idea. Not that that means they're wrong, of course. Just providing context.
Thanks. It's worthwhile context that I perhaps should have disclosed, but I don't think it affects my opinions in this thread.
My opinion was simply in reaction to an, IMO, nonsensical claim:
> AI is now as good as it's going to get
And it would have been the same no matter what* technology we're discussing.
* Ok, someone commented NFTs. But I never considered that a technology.
(Since it's in the thread now: my opinions are mine, not my employer's.)
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mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
> doesn't it seem unusual to speculate that despite recent progress, it's just going to be.. flat from here out?
No? When new tech arrives there is always a bunch of low hanging fruit around so there is quick progress immediately afterwards, but then it flatlines relatively quickly and progress is as slow as usual again.
So its a safe bet that progress will slow down to the usual level sooner or later, and it seems to be around now for text models, as this flatlining happens faster the more you invest into it since you exhaust the low hanging fruit faster.
Sure, slowing is natural for the reason you say. But the statement we're commenting on is:
> AI is now as good as it's going to get
And that's just silly, from my point of view.
mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
Removing the seasoning from a McDonald’s burger is only possible with human contact afaik. So no, not any customization is possible.
You can order a hamburger with "no salt" now via the app (and probably the kiosk?). But I'm not sure if there are other seasonings you're referring to, though.
mh- commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn
Every fast food place I've been to, a "plain cheeseburger" includes cheese. However, at every high-end burger place I've been to, "plain" does NOT include cheese. So there is a somewhat standard meaning.
I have this conversation enough that I now call out "plain no cheese" and ensure "no cheese" is written on the ticket.
That's a strange source of confusion. A plain cheeseburger without cheese has a different name: a plain hamburger. I can't imagine saying "cheeseburger", no matter what qualifying words around it, and being surprised it included cheese.