geoffmanning

I agree with the horror of pulling animals out of their natural habitat, but if you are using this as a blanket statement towards all living animals then you should read up on the history of the domestication of wolves (dogs). It was born of a beneficial relationship to both humans and wolves and i personally find my relationship with my dogs to be extremely fulfilling and i believe my dogs do as well.

I have no interest in a relationship with a robot.

In your article you hit the nail on the head on why this should not be used for developing minds, especially between the ages of 5-7, though i would consider using your product after that.

This age range is a critical period for theory of mind, executive function scaffolding, pragmatic language development, and attentional regulation. This technology directly intersects with these maturing systems.

This is an all important truth in life whether a human or a machine pretending to be one: be careful what you learn.

Who the heck are you? Are you a real person? I don't understand how any human can argue that this is ok.

Maybe suck less at being a parent? Just throwing it out there. You actually need to do the work.

oh, one other caveat is that each request could result in the curation of system messages earlier in the chat message history, i haven't done a deep dive into prompt caching, but that could complicate things. the more i think about it, the more i wonder that the prompt caching is a patch for "dumb prompting" to try to save money when you're doing things the dumb way of throwing everything you have at it and praying it gets it right, when it'd just make more sense to keep the entirety of the prompt as lean as possible to prevent context rot and maximize signal to noise ratio.

that's a good point, we haven't delved too deeply into prompt caching yet, but my understanding is that it only helps for a conversation that remains "hot", not one that a user just comes back to everyday and keep adding more to it over a longer period of time. i could see some optimization there where when the conversation is "hot" we keep the system message with the summarized index and all subsequent conversation messages that haven't been summarized intact until the conversation cools off.

Haha, nice, i literally designed and built the same solution for my company last week. EDIT: to be clear, i appreciate the validation. while my solution differs slightly in the details of how it's done, i think this is overall a logical solution

Will it tho? I wonder. We're on the brink of a robotic revolution.

I'll save you a few minutes. Guy knew how to build web apps in .NET, had trouble keeping up with the changing ecosystem, switched to React. The end.

The one thing here confusing to me is the past tense used throughout. This CVE seems presented as both past and present, yet the present evidence isn't... Presented.

Because that's the only logical alternative? If this were truly the mission it claimed to be, they would capture and interrogate them obviously.

This assumes there will still be a demand for software developers in 5 years. I believe we'll be out of jobs much sooner than that.

Usually i am against these kinds of comments throwing a bit of shade at the community, but if ever it was justified, it's this comment right here. And honestly it's not just this post and the resulting senseless debate over whether Clippy is good or relevant. The degradation has really been noticeable for the past year at least.

There's still good content but i increasingly feel like i need curation for a curated feed. I find myself remembering moments like this more and more and consciously redirecting my attention to other things because it's starting to feel as dumb as social media.

Uh.... Ok. I don't disagree with the contentions that the author has, but making some clippy profile pictures and telling people to use it isn't a "movement" and the fact that so many comments here recognize it as one says a lot about how far culture has fallen.

If you want to make a difference, then absolutely refuse to use anything from any big tech company that is mining data and go 100% open source no matter how inconvenient it makes your life. No C levels or stakeholders give a flying fuck that you set your profile picture to a goofy symbol of simpler days.

Real movements involve serious sacrifice. I actually like those goofy clippy pics and would use one if it didn't signal to me that the person using it is likely a hypocritical chump who isn't willing to make any real sacrifices for the change they wish to see.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now.

The world doesn't want assholes either but here we are

I'm not apologizing for anyone's actions. This is not to say he is a good person. It is to say that there isn't enough evidence to judge one as a bad person.

A lot of good people have made bad choices, and these writings reflect a mere sliver of a man's life choices from the very thin perspective of one person's grief laid bare.

> No, he is a bad person! Ffs

That is quite the judgement of a person you've never known, based solely on the view of one person's brief writing processing a deeply emotional experience.

Your judgement reflects poorly on you.

This. 1000%.

100%. I was excited when i read that disclaimer and found myself disappointed by the limited content. That said, i did get a couple tidbits out of it.

I read this as "Faith in God, like LLMs, is waning", and for a moment i was hopeful for the future

That argument doesn't hold water. It's best practice for offline first PWAs to not require sign up when you get started. Unless there is ever a feature to sync across devices or cross users, there is no reason to EVER sign up, and even then, you can make signing up something they do AFTER they decide to keep using your app and realize they do in fact want syncing.

Maybe it's because "i'm a GenXer", but i am both extremely confused by what viewpoint is being labeled here in a way that is supposed to be clearly explained by such a broad characterization that is statiscally less accurate than an astrological sign and disappointed that even on hacker news we have to filter through such garbage.

Oh, and yes, i believe cloud providers should be required to provide controls for users to easily limit their spend.

In the linked paper it mentions a specific strain that i, admittedly, used duck duck go's search ai response to come up with an answer, so you may want to verify:

"To increase Bacteroides uniformis in the gut biome, certain dietary choices can be beneficial. Foods rich in non-digestible carbohydrates, such as legumes (e.g., beans, lentils), are particularly effective as they provide the necessary substrates for Bacteroides uniformis to thrive.

Additionally, a diet rich in fiber, including sources like soybeans, inulins, unrefined wheat, and barley, can stimulate the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, including Bacteroides uniformis.

Consuming fermented foods that contain lactic acid bacteria, such as cultured milk products, can also increase levels of Bacteroides.

Moreover, plant-based proteins like pea proteins have been shown to increase gut-commensal Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus while decreasing pathogenic Bacteroides fragilis.

Finally, incorporating foods high in polyphenols, such as fruits, vegetables, tea, and cocoa, can also promote the growth of Bacteroides."

Perhaps we should question how productivity is measured and learn to control all the various factors. I think there is much more than AI at play here, and in fact i would guess that AI has been a major factor in offsetting (preventing) an overall decrease in "productivity" (as currently defined).

not an exaggeration, but relativity is everything here

Any kind of companionship, even a mouse, can provide that kind of emotional support, but that says nothing of the animal's intent or ability to harm others. They are solitary creatures whereas dogs are social creatures. It's little wonder they would be carriers for parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii, whereas dogs aren't

Any kind of companionship, even a mouse, can provide that kind of emotional support, but that says nothing of the animal's intent or ability to harm others. They are solitary creatures whereas dogs are social creatures. It's little wonder they would be carriers for parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii, whereas dogs aren't

Cats are not socially dependent animals. They are sole survivors. It makes perfect sense to me that cats would, like rodents, be common carriers of such diseases.

You lost me here. To reduce all art to excess is to reduce life to excess. Art is simply expression of the experience of life, and there is absolutely no correlation between art and excess. How is the Mona Lisa an expression of excess? How are countless pieces of art from the middle ages expressions of excess? Excess is somewhat of a modern concept enabled by first world problems. Excess wasn't a problem in the past nor was it something that artists commonly expressed.