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I don't know why you're being downvoted, your comment is spot on.
No, it's to automate tasks that can't be done using an API, like RPA.
*It causes bad UX.
I rather think the right word is clunky: one of the dev is attached to Server-Side Decoration/against CSD for some reason (none of his arguments make sense), so every stock app are difficult to read and taking unneeded screen space. It's just bad UX.
Re:The Llama 4 herd on Saturday April 05, 2025 @04:20PM (#43596512)
The page is blank for now.
Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents on Thursday February 27, 2025 @04:13AM (#43192608)
Hi, great contribution! Can you highlight how does it compare to https://github.com/TaxyAI/browser-extension which also uses the DOM?
It increases modularity and small-worldness, which are in my book critical for AGI (surprised by the way that this publication doesn't cite https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00748-9).
Re:Engineering Sleep on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:49AM (#42281907)
I don’t think any serious biologists agree with it. There is a hard physiological need to repair cellular damage from metabolism, UV (this a big deal in unicellular species), etc. If this theory was correct, and it is possible to do it entirely while awake, there would be species (apex predators in particular) that would have evolved without the need for it, like everything that is not a hard requirement. But this is not the case.
Re:Engineering Sleep on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:34AM (#42281832)
> Alternatively, perhaps elevated orexin levels during the day cause wakefulness such that you just don't need as much sleep, regardless of how efficient the sleep is.

As noted elsewhere ITT, there is a strong biological need for sleep, and its main role is very likely to reduce reactive oxygen species (though the amount needed vary by genetics) Orexin levels increase the noradrenaline ones, which is one of the few antioxidants able to reach neurons (along with melatonin) and by this way also increase slow wave sleep, making it more efficient. So yes, this could be a way they would need less sleep.

Re:Engineering Sleep on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:19AM (#42281756)
For me they significantly increase REM, it seems at the cost of slow wave sleep. (this is logical as orexin agonism prevent REM sleep)
Re:Engineering Sleep on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:15AM (#42281737)
Repairing cellular damage (mitochondrial and main DNA) from oxidation thanks to slower metabolism is the main reason. On a side note taking vitamin E (an antioxidant that passes the blood-brain barrier) seems to have slightly reduced the need for sleep for me.
I'm 27 and grew up with both OS X and XP.
Re:Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:25PM (#41926620)
It already exists for KDE: https://community.kde.org/Selenium
Re:Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:13PM (#41926482)
Your comment takes 630 bits, the screenshot of your comment on my computer takes 2.1 MB, about 218k times the size. Either this is a compute overhead the LLM has to do before it can think about the meaning of the text, or if it's a E2E feedforward architecture, less thinking about it. This is simple for us because neurons in the retina pre-process its stream so that less than 0.8 % is sent to the visual cortex and because we have evolved to very efficiently and quickly extract meaning from our vision. This is a prime example of the Moravec's paradox.
Re:D-Day, as told by paratroopers on Saturday June 08, 2024 @12:07AM (#40615196)
The Netflix adaptation is terrible
Re:Stop Using Discord on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:39AM (#40534368)
No, I think it's the instance
Re:Stop Using Discord on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:38AM (#40534350)
Because of real-timeness (you don't need to refresh a webpage, you can see if someone is typing). I am not aware of a forum software that have this feature (I don't know them well, so I can be mistaken). But most of the time you don't need it.
But not when they are not sure the result would be of quality, in the arena which is used for ranking.
Re:r/borrow on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:05PM (#38632528)
Who would loan to someone with this record? More likely money laundering.
We have good hints at the reasons : to repair cellular damage caused by reactive oxygen species. Clues pointing in this direction: animals without sleep survive with antixoydants and melatonine evolved as one.
Re:Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q* on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:36AM (#38412860)
His reasoning is that good guy’s AI will counteract bad guy’s ones or a an AI that has developed his own objective against humanity if that happens, which is I think a reasonable argument.
1. The neurons are simply not firing /exchanging neurotransmitters.

2. That’s not true. They might look they have recovered but passing a standard cognitive test and the artifice will go away. The brain is notoriously bad at healing itself because mammals and especially humans don’t produce new neurons after teenage apart from very restricted areas (SVZ, stratium, which are still controversial btw).

I said that I benefited from anti-aging cure, but the LLM said that no, the researchers did not listened to me.
It has been trained on fictions where characters are more likely to survive against all odds, and likely to die when you don't expect it.
Mine is plainly impossible:

Prompt: You forgot how to breathe

Despite X's attempt to breathe, the autonomous and unconscious neural network fails to respond, leaving him unable to restore his breath. As time passes, X's oxygen levels plummet, and his body gradually succumbs to the lack of oxygen. With no alternatives available to regain their ability to breathe, David sadly succumbs to the situation.

I should have said I would lost consciousness before and that the autonomous would have taken over and maybe I would not have died.

Re:Greg Brockman quits OpenAI on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:02AM (#38319055)
- it means you answer more to the person than its argument (ad hominem) - it is uneccessary and 9/10 when used for a disagreement, especially at the beginning of a response, it is meant to be patronizing.
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:44AM (#38317046)
While we're on conspiracy theories, Elon Musk would have more motives (they seems to not be in good acquaintances nowadays based on their Twitter profiles and he also has a competing LLM (Grok)), such a games of thrones petty revenge from him would be less surprising than from Google. I suspects he stills have influence on the board.
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:22AM (#38316897)
It's possible that he may have defended him enough that the board did no longer entrust him to remain on it.

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