You can apparently disable these annoying and useless "AI" overviews by cursing in the query:
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/01/just-give-me-the-fing...
Or just append with -ai => "how to pick a running shoe -ai"
Readit Newsriantogo commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
I think there's two different things going on here:
"DeepSeek trained on our outputs and that's not fair because those outputs are ours, and you shouldn't take other peoples' data!" This is obviously extremely silly, because that's exactly how OpenAI got all of its training data in the first place - by scraping other peoples' data off the internet.
"DeepSeek trained on our outputs, and so their claims of replicating o1-level performance from scratch are not really true" This is at least plausibly a valid claim. The DeepSeek R1 paper shows that distillation is really powerful (e.g. they show Llama models get a huge boost by finetuning on R1 outputs), and if it were the case that DeepSeek were using a bunch of o1 outputs to train their model, that would legitimately cast doubt on the narrative of training efficiency. But that's a separate question from whether it's somehow unethical to use OpenAI's data the same way OpenAI uses everyone else's data.
Why would it cast any doubt? If you can use o1 output to build a better R1. Then use R1 output to build a better X1... then a better X2.. XN, that just shows a method to create better systems for a fraction of the cost from where we stand. If it was that obvious OpenAI should have themselves done. But the disruptors did it. It hindsight it might sound obvious, but that is true for all innovations. It is all good stuff.
These days I just feel sad for some of the richest people. First their wealth seem to have pulled them away from their humanity. Now I just see them lead troubled existence and inflict pain on others, amplified by the said wealth. All the money in the world and no humanity or peace at heart.
The other day I was driving through a school zone and it had that 25 mph radar screen. Most people did slow down, but it got me thinking. With modern cars being "smart", could govt offer a tax tax break for folks opting into the car sotware capping speeds dynamically?
riantogo commented on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones time.fyi/timezones... · Posted by u/kamranahmedse
Maybe the cards could get background color based on time of the day (e.g. blue for mid-day, dark for night etc.)
Yesterday my friend bid on a house for $3.7M. There were double digit number of bidders. Lost to another buyer who got it for $3.8M all cash. Not saying it is the same everywhere, but where I live it is the norm. Nothing seems to bring down (or even slow) house prices.
riantogo commented on Apple Vision Pro – Lesson in product positioning discoflip.com/p/2832... · Posted by u/riantogo
But it isn't? At least, not for productivity uses. You will have to have your keyboard and the external battery with you. Which is a surprising amount of junk to carry everywhere.
I can almost see this being ok for waiting room and flights. The waiting room, though, you will not want to lose your situational awareness. Odds are high that someone is going to be calling your name. Not necessarily walking up to you to get your attention.
In lines, this is right out. You can't walk while using it. The explicitly are not supporting you moving through a large room, as I recall.
Makes sense. Maybe by v5 when the battery is internal and it is light enough it could unlock more use cases. I feel they have added several features for situational awareness with video pass through, but might need more.
riantogo commented on Apple Vision Pro – Lesson in product positioning discoflip.com/p/2832... · Posted by u/riantogo
I'm still not sold on the "productivity angles" for this. Love the PSVR2, and Beat Saber alone is typically enough to get folks all in on it. Having a steering wheel for the haptic feedback makes Gran Turismo insanely immersive.
Doing the same things without the feedback on input, though? Feels odd. I can almost see the argument for "you can just hook up your keyboard for the productivity," but I think we are well past the diminishing returns on screen size for most folks.
I am hopeful that this can lead to some more money spend on the ideas. Hard not to see some of this having impact in the future. But really hard for me to see it as an amazing creation/productivity tool.
How about the potability of the screen? The screen is available anytime, anywhere. On a flight, doctor's waiting room, line at DMV etc.
Writing is thinking your own thoughts.
There's a big difference, and is why writing is so painful for so many people. It's also why writing is critically important.
edit: Likewise teaching is really important. Crystallization of thought is incredible valuable and difficult.