kjcharles

How do you quantify capability though? In coding or math there's an easy way to validate the output. That makes it easy to judge capability. But for many cognitive tasks the output is either subjective, not quantifiable, or requires deterministic results. No validation can tell you if an essay is good. Or if an argument will be persuasive to a specific audience. Or that the statistics an LLM pulled from a data source are accurate.

So how does an LLM learn to outperform humans when its output in a large number of tasks can't be validated? These sorts of tasks are a large part of cognitive work and intelligence to me.

Hey InboxReads creator here. I've been facing the same problem with other newsletters submitted to the site so I think you're right that spammers are scraping directories.

I've added a bunch of mitigations but found that they're faking the referrer when subscribing to newsletters and not even going through the site anymore.

Captchas do solve it though!

But I'm just as baffled at their endgame as you are.

Haha you're right it was a necessity back in the day. The look was pretty cool though!

Yes exactly! And native support creates an expectation that every website and app will in turn support dark mode, when some don't or there are glitches it negatively impacts the overall experience.

And you're completely right about email. Seems like many email clients force email content into dark mode, even images and it's such a pain to handle.

I agree with you about the importance of great user experiences and there should be no limit on how much work is put into that. My post was more about dark mode being seen as a necessity for a great user experience. There's little evidence for its benefits and the time spent implementing and maintaining it could be spent on improving all the other issues you mention.

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I am an Android engineer with 9 years of experience building and launching apps and SDKs while working at companies of various sizes. I also have lots of experience in building APIs to support frontends in various languages and building cross-platform apps in React Native.

Most American and European cities are significantly less dense than their Asian counterparts. There's a long way to go before they reach any natural limits.

But the problem is the supply of housing hasn't kept up with that demand due to artificial limits placed on the market. Single-family zoning has made it illegal to build more of the dense housing that's needed in cities today.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities...

> Quibi was more "I'm going to spend $2Bn failing where others failed before"

This is what makes it especially ridiculous. Verizon had just failed with a huge splashy launch for go90. It takes a ton of arrogance to then decide to do the same without any real innovation. Rotating between landscape and portrait is a feature not an entire product. And especially not the basis for a media company.

The average startup founder would never be in the position to pitch an idea like this AND still receive $2B in funding. This wasn't just a bad bet it was a stupid one.

This is what baffles me the most with PG's take. Quibi's approach went against every thing YC teaches and yet it's impressive. I would think we'd have even higher standards for veteran execs like these.

I think it is a colonial hangover.

It's the same in former British colonies in the Caribbean. We're thought "Proper English" in school and the American spellings are considered wrong. Local dialects are frowned upon in professional settings and writing.

It adds Marvel, Star Wars, and Fox content.