wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Shein Hikes Prices by Up to 377% Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs War 1 day ago:
Good
That shit has always been awful for both consumers and the planet.
- Comment on hmmm 3 days ago:
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 6 days ago:
You don’t have to be friends with them to use them both for leverage
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 6 days ago:
Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.
You can wait right?
- Comment on USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China 1 week ago:
Have you tried making all the input materials more expensive too?
- Comment on USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China 1 week ago:
Probably should have thought that one through before pulling the trigger on tariffs with zero research
- Comment on Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump 1 week ago:
It probably didn’t help that Trump said foreign owned bonds were invalid and fraudulent.
- Comment on Mad about a senator flying to El Salvador to investigate the condition of the father of his constitutes. Doesn't give to shits about the millions we spent to put him there. This is conservatism? 1 week ago:
“Moderate Conservative”
- Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t used 4chan since like 2008, so no idea how its changed.
I do remember a username/password mechanic but can’t remember how it worked.
- Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone use their real email on 4chan? I wouldn’t touch it without at least a proxy or two and a vpn.
- Comment on Unemployment fears hit worst levels since Covid as tariffs fuel inflation outlook, Fed survey shows 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, that really sucks.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 2 weeks ago:
It’s good they like feet so much since there’s going to be hundreds of them between this person and public places like schools.
- Comment on Trump's ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion 2 weeks ago:
It’s an “emergency”
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
There are various levels of AI here
Storing embeddings/vectors in a search index can make your searches smarter and more relevant. The embeddings squeeze related concepts closer together than pure keyword approaches, which if done well increases retrieval quality.
RAG tools and AI searches are just a layer on top of your index. When done well these can be really useful in annotating your results and speeding up finding things.
That’s useful when you’re searching say an error message and the AI is able to iterate on keywords and skim a Guthub issue about it and skip to the resolution.
Similarly it’s good when you’re researching something but don’t have the exact words, AI search can iterate and capture your intent, then run several queries based on that.
I don’t find the hallucination problem significant in practice with a lot of AI search tools, but I have found AI is vulnerable to certain types of SEO spam that a human would never fall for.
As an example most companies have a “comparison to” or “alternatives to” blogpost. The AI does not critically look at the fact that a service is hosting a blogpost shilling their own product. So asking search AI for options is actually poor quality because it will return the shilled results that appear in search first.
AI also search adds an additional silent layer of filtering, which you need to be conscious of.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
Potentially that would be a good application of federation and distributed computing
An Internet archive like distributed tool, that then feeds into local tokenization and indexing.
Alternatively a centralized service that generates indices and then locally they are queried would save a lot of energy.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 2 weeks ago:
The training data thing is so frustrating.
Every service just changed their terms of service to allow it and nobody got in trouble.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 3 weeks ago:
A recession is generally defined as two or more quarters with negative GDP growth.
Tariffs will absolutely cause that. They’re going to dampen US growth for years.
That’s only one simple definition though. Broadly I think the answer is still yes, this will cause US job losses, as you’re already seeing in the automotive industry. Job losses result in lower consumer spending, resulting in lower business revenue, and less business expansion and cost cutting, and it can become a reinforcing cycle.
Recessions can be mild or severe, so the jury is still out on whether the US will hold their tariffs, and how quickly the system adapts to the changes.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 3 weeks ago:
the email to Aboussad reads. “It is also concerning that you have not apologized to the company, and in fact you have shown no remorse for the effect that your actions have had and will have.”
Obviously there were going to fire these employees, especially the one who gave notice then did this.
But why the fuck would anyone be like “yOu DiDn’T eVeN aPoLoGiZe To ThE cOmPaNy”? That’s the stupidest god damn thing I’ve heard since “Liberation Day”
- Comment on U.S. stock futures fall and Asian markets open sharply lower as Trump tariffs shock continues 3 weeks ago:
Fuck.
- Comment on U.S. stocks plunge minutes into trading day as tariffs slam global markets 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t impeach him for calling everything a national emergency like South Korea you’ll end up with a dictator for life.
- Comment on Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2tn off Wall Street 3 weeks ago:
Always a good sign when Bloomberg News is talking about the checks on the whitehouse
- Comment on Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations 3 weeks ago:
Wow my portfolio just took a hell of a beating
I did not expect it to be this bad
- Comment on Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit the stock market tomorrow is going to be a bloodbath
The video was surreal, he was waving that board around like a shitty game show host. The whole thing was absurd.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 4 weeks ago:
Man I sure hate the trans agenda of checks notes wanting a place to pee in public without being harassed?
Seriously fuck all this, trans rights are human rights, and insanely easy to accommodate while hurting absolutely no one.
- Comment on Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes 4 weeks ago:
They should sell a charger called “ba” and then a two pack called “banana” and a four pack called “bananana”
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
I think fediverse being the ocean is apt.
We’re just here, with wave after wave eroding the shore of the island that is Reddit.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
Reddit has very weak leadership in my opinion.
I wouldn’t be betting on them, especially when their user base is going to want them to stand up for them and the Elon fiasco shows Spez won’t.
It’s a tinderbox before the next large Reddit protest happens again and more niche communities splinter off to the fediverse.
- Comment on The basics of the Fediverse. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, ... vs the Fediverse. What do you think? 4 weeks ago:
Subscribing to user posts on Lemmy would be a fantastic feature
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
Kowalski, analysis
