I think this is just the way software will go. I wrote a web based music player for spotify because the shuffle is so shit and got annoyed with hearing the same songs repeatedly when I have some 4000hrs+ of music available, took 30 mins and now I actually hear songs I haven't heard in ages!
Semi-related, I was sat in a waiting room for an hour or so today and got annoyed with my android keyboard not being as good as my old LG keyboard. Within 30 minutes I had a custom keyboard that doesn't have any cloud service, network calls, shitty emoji keyboard, just the main symbols I use in the first alternative button page in bigger sections and it's _so_ much more responsive and usable, all this and I still had to wait 30 mins before getting seen. Why would I go install a bunch of random keyboard apps when I can do that?
It baffles me how much Anthropic managed to convince developers their models were _so much_ better.
I can't use a tool that silently drops down to a lower intelligence, or refuses, or doesn't think I should be doing something. I would much rather lose 5% of the benchmaxxed scores and actually be able to do something reasonable.
Don't even get me started on the fact Claude still has 5 hour limits, what a way to kill any flow.
This sounds crazy fun, I'm going to dig out my beloved age old LG-V30 and give something similar a go. Good luck, I hope you post an update somewhere (maybe next months Ask HN), would love to hear how you get on.
Still cracking on with https://whistle-enterprise.com and making improvements to the document generation model. I'm ditching my old trusty Phi4 model and testing out some other small models to fine tune, something about Phi4 just seemed to work quite well for what it was so it's a hard contender to beat for midrange laptop CPU inference at a decent rate and quality.
Imagine you're getting an extension to your house. You might not be an architect, an electrician, a plasterer, a carpenter, an interior designer, a grounds worker, a gardener, a labourer or any other profession I've missed off (apologies) but you get a great sense of joy from designing and seeing your extension built.
You outsourced literally everything, you didn't lay a single brick, didn't calculate a single beams "load-bearing" capacity but at the end you have this awesome extension you can live in that brings you joy. There's going to be snags here and there as there always is with anything, even if you crafted and did it all by hand, but seeing it built and guiding and adapting things along the way is the fun part.
The parent poster’s post is amusing because I did all of those things. I framed out an addition to my house. I demoed all of the living spaces, installed insulation, hung drywall, did the trim (which was difficult to learn!), installed windows. I also built a patio (with a shovel!), built a fence, planted an orchard, etc. I did these things because, although I have the money to pay others, it was 1) deeply satisfying and 2) I wanted it done right. I think lots of technical people think that we can’t do it right because it’s not our area but—if you care, you will do it right.
I hate to laugh but the thought of you constantly rejecting the EULA for weeks on end, to finally give in one day, press accept and come to terms with it, only to get in the next time and have it pop up.
I can only imagine the amount of expletives that were said at that exact moment.
Me too, but it's more a love/hate relationship, because aside from this issue, and a few other annoyances, I love this car to bits. I've been driving for over 25 years, and this car is my favourite of all of them, including some newer and fancier electrics. I think it's the throttle response. Nissan just nailed it.
What I find interesting with this is that they dished out 65,000 credits to all Pro200 users as a "sorry we're doing this" but didn't take them back after this announcement.
Retail cost of $2500, would love to know their actual cost for these credits.
* 50% abandonment (since it does expire; and general prepaid credit abandonment is pretty high; especially given how much credits they dished out; so probably on the low end) = $188
Plus, it's unclear how many users opt out of training, so more usage and RLHF data on their best models from long-term power users, might work out to be a net benefit to them; since these kind of "non-abusable" (i.e. not announced beforehand) announcements don't suppress monetization as much.
Wasn't this an official build though? A signed updated version of a package released by the same developer as the one you've already installed, the supply chain was hacked.
I actually did and whilst I can understand how ridiculous it sounds, to be honest it kind of makes sense. A large number of emergency vehicles at a scene at night can become it's own mini light show which can be really distracting / blinding.
I have dealt with such a system. I'm not sure it was GPS based but one of the options you could get was a radio system so that additional vehicles that arrived on scene would automatically sync their lights and sirens to match the ones already there. The lights and sirens themselves are CAN modules and run off a custom CAN bus. It was pretty interesting to go through the configuration software and see the literally hundreds of preset flash patterns for different regions of the world.
Around here they're based off GPS plus time. To many cops got splattered because they had their lights set to day at night and the traffic couldn't see the officer.
Semi-related, I was sat in a waiting room for an hour or so today and got annoyed with my android keyboard not being as good as my old LG keyboard. Within 30 minutes I had a custom keyboard that doesn't have any cloud service, network calls, shitty emoji keyboard, just the main symbols I use in the first alternative button page in bigger sections and it's _so_ much more responsive and usable, all this and I still had to wait 30 mins before getting seen. Why would I go install a bunch of random keyboard apps when I can do that?
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