Hacker News: alimov

New comment by alimov in "Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads"

alimov — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:19:00 +0000

Ok, good to know. Have fun fighting the good fight.

New comment by alimov in "Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels"

alimov — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:21:49 +0000

Maybe nobody (corporation/gov) is paying for that right now, but if all of those things become cheap enough to make sense to do (cost of transmission/ storage/processing are low enough to turn a profit or get the data you want) then someone (corporation/gov) will do it.

New comment by alimov in "Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip"

alimov — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:41:24 +0000

Maybe they are making that comparison for the people they want to upgrade to the new macs and not for people that just got their M1 MacBooks.. making m1 to m2 comparison for intel mac users would not make much sense in that case.

New comment by alimov in "Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed"

alimov — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:44:12 +0000

Doesn’t seem like they are suggesting that apple can do no wrong. Just pointing out that this is similar to other major Apple announcements. I found their contribution interesting, I’m not sure why you feel the need to be hostile about it.

New comment by alimov in "The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals"

alimov — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:30:10 +0000

I think that depends on how you use the tool. For example asking for answers vs asking probing questions while working something out. So it’s probably up to you as an individual. If you’re missing out on “all this” you might just be asking for answers.

New comment by alimov in "Chatbots are not the future"

alimov — Mon, 01 May 2023 21:14:43 +0000

> If a piece of art is made by a computer based on detailed instructions, that art was made by a computer, not a person.

Tell that to music producers and digital artists. They don’t know what detailed instructions are run by the cpu of the device they use, and yet it is still art and they are still artists.

New comment by alimov in "Samsung Profits Plunge 95%"

alimov — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:20:40 +0000

It’s not a bad deal, I just meant that it’s not so good that you need to ask someone what they are smoking when they are hoping for prices to drop.

New comment by alimov in "Samsung Profits Plunge 95%"

alimov — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:09:36 +0000

> I'm not sure what you're smoking

There’s really no need to make it personal.

Also, 2TB for 160 in 2023 doesn’t sound like a great deal.

New comment by alimov in "Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing"

alimov — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:37:09 +0000

I was under the impression that Firefox uses your selected search provider for this feature.

New comment by alimov in "Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design"

alimov — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:19:07 +0000

> Some companies can’t afford to use TSMC’s latest and greatest silicon because big companies have soaked up all the capacity.

Apple is single handedly bankrolling the latest and greatest from TSMC. If it wasn’t for them, the latest and greatest would likely be even more expensive/out of reach for “some companies”.

New comment by alimov in "A Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging [video]"

alimov — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:40:20 +0000

The videos are highly informative and entertaining, he’s a real gem.

New comment by alimov in "Alibaba breaks itself up in six"

alimov — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:24:25 +0000

Reuters reported on Jack Ma’s return to China 7 days ago. The title is: Jack Ma returns to China as government tries to allay private sector fears

New comment by alimov in "S.686 – Restrict Act"

alimov — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:27:09 +0000

It’s madness…. Still reading through it but wow

New comment by alimov in "One Seattle business is taking a stand against tipping mania"

alimov — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:27:55 +0000

Or they can raise prices or lower profit and actually pay a living wage to their employees.

New comment by alimov in "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text"

alimov — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:09:58 +0000

Idk, I’ve seen some peoples fyp that are primarily text with maybe some background music. So I could see this artifact thing working for those people, and maybe catching on enough to work for others as well

New comment by alimov in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

alimov — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:19:57 +0000

Is that not the same situation as with every other service out there?

New comment by alimov in "Sierra Christmas Card 1986: A Computer Christmas"

alimov — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:13:40 +0000

I really enjoy how a lot of the top posts on HN end up generating related posts. I dont know if this post was somewhat related to the “40 years of PC Mag” post or not but to me it seems related.

Anyway thanks for sharing.

New comment by alimov in "ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business"

alimov — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:58:30 +0000

> Also, Google has already been using their LLM in their search, "in the market"

And yet I still have to filter through a bunch of results to find something actually useful, vs simply asking chatGPT and getting relevant information immediately (with obv limitations of chatgpt). Why does it feel like Google search has gotten progressively worse every year?

New comment by alimov in "ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business"

alimov — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:51:06 +0000

I agree. YT Shorts have made YT less pleasant to use.

New comment by alimov in "Ooh.directory"

alimov — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:41:47 +0000

> Basically this is saying: "No conservative blogs allowed" which erases at least 50% or more of the population's musings.

Curious which population (country?) you are referring to that’s 50% or more conservative