I was imagining to click a link to an indie hacker’s blog about a story outlining how it’s beneficial to “fish in the wrong place” to solve a problem or something
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thornton commented on Fish in the Wrong Place lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n... · Posted by u/ostacke
This is one of those times when I want someone to explain the value to me. Like is this to help coding agents be more efficient?
Forgive my ignorance!
thornton commented on Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings technicalwriting.dev/embe... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
We’ve done similar work. Use case was identifying pages in an old website that now 404 and where they should be redirected to.
Basically doc2vec and cosine similarity. Totally nonsensical matching outputs to the point matching on title tag vectors or precis was better so now I’m curious if we just did something wrong…
thornton commented on The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Weird unethical employer hack aside.. No one that works with/for me has the interest in an adjacent position with a more promising career trajectory.. so how common is this?
Worth the risky click, that was surprisingly informative.
Agreed!
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thornton commented on Ask HN: AI agents and the future of UI/UX design. Opinions? · Posted by u/jackmenotti
that AI is trained on the old way of doing things. So AI can continue coding or can continue generating UIs that are all You know, Predictions based off of what the past was like. But then we’re at this weird inflection point too where you can’t really have just more of the same be the answer. Everyone kind of agrees that chat which is being used for pretty much everything right now, is nonoptimal user experience for most use cases. And yet that’s what we’re doing.
We don’t really know any better. Even agents that will take 15 minutes and then come back to you they’ll summarize a bunch of stuff along the way. That’s considered, like, good UX practices. That’s the best practice right now. Using using a small model to summarize a thinking models reasoning, as you go so that the user knows that while it’s waiting, things are actually happening.
So I think If anything, whatever is next becomes something new. And therefore it’s gonna be hard for AI in its current form, LLM driven m to solve for it. Without us doing some of that human computer interaction design thinking, for a long while.
thornton commented on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome wired.com/story/the-doj-s... · Posted by u/hydrolox
It's a common misconception that tons of users manually install Chrome, but Google just pays PC makers to make Chrome the default browser.
Chrome is the only browser with a business model that makes sense to do this. Microsoft just doesn't make enough money from Bing/Edge to pay PC makers to leave Edge as the default. Firefox makes no money at all, and makes 95% of its revenue from Google's payments to be the default search engine. Safari isn't even available on Windows, and even then, 99% of Safari's revenue is from Google.
(Safari was available on Windows from 2007-2012, but it never captured much market share, because Apple was never willing to pay PC makers to make Safari the default.)
Here's StatCounter's estimates of desktop browser market share. The overwhelming majority of users are using their computer's default browser.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
Chrome: 65.55%
Edge: 13.9%
Safari: 8.69%
Firefox: 6.36%
Opera: 2.9%
The only viable business model for a web browser, the one that literally all major browsers use, is to accept money from a search engine (Google, specifically) to be make them the default. Even Kagi makes its own Orion web browser, for exactly this reason.
How could Chrome make its owner any money at all if Chrome couldn't accept money from Google to be the default search engine? How could Chrome possibly do what Firefox and Safari can't?
The main problem with Google anti competition is how chrome is being leveraged to mine user behavior signals for search engine algos. That is the unfair advantage that needs to be killed off
thornton commented on The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024 pcmag.com/articles/yikes-... · Posted by u/elorant
That’s 20.83% I don’t think it’s that far off.
I just opened screen time in my iPhone, checked devices for phone, selected weekly tab, and flipped back last few weeks to get average of 42 hours per week, with 168 hours in a week puts me at 25% for December.
I’m apparently above average!