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I agree, but considering the age of AI was ushered in with the largest and most complete theft of IP in human history, from inside the good 'ol USA, we shouldn't trust any LLM prov…

> all the data on how you have interacted with their models 1) there is a very non-zero chance that the US government also has that data from OpenAI and possibly Anthropic 2) unles…

> so was invading Ukraine the difference is that Putin's hand was forced by age, (possibly) illness, and the last several decades of how he chose to run his country. Putin's power …

its science journalism tbh, the realities of climate change's impact is so spread out and complicated that it's difficult to communicate to a largely scientifically-illiterate audi…

my money is on: eventually frontier model dev and training becomes basic research funded by governments, and LLM operators become essentially private utilities a la ISPs, competing…

This assumes that all areas of research are bottlenecked on human understanding, which is very often not the case. Imagine a field where experiments take days to complete, and revi…

Ah, I see - thank you for the context! If you don't mind one more question - do you have to leave a substantial amount of cash in the Steam account in case of very late refunds? Or…

why are refunds so commonly counted against sales in this way? Wouldn't a refund cost essentially nothing?

digital music is not artificial scarcity, because it's not the copied bits that are the resource, it's attention. we only have so much time and attention for consuming media, and o…

the reform needs to happen at the layer where whether a copyright is valid or not is decided upon, not before (at the point of "should copyright exist") and not after (enforcement)…

Megacorps being naturally risk-averse, and the lion's share of the rest of the capital being held by that banquet room, it's going to take one or a few scrappy startups hitting it …

> R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. adding on to this, typically it takes 1-3 years for the e…

> why isn't he in jail In 2020, a Pennsylvania white man illegally voted via mail-in ballot on behalf of two deceased parents. Also in 2020, a black woman in Memphis voted while in…

until it hallucinates a config and rings up a $10,000 AWS while you're asleep

> group chat hmm having a sort of mini-forum-like experience tied to particular pages in a book seems like a fascinating idea! being able to discuss plot twists and such only once …

I think that's part of the carefully-crafted hype messaging. Close enough to get excited about, but far enough away that by the time we get there people will have forgotten we were…

To paraphrase Goggins, "Who's gonna carry the cabbage?" While it's true there are a lot of jobs obsoleted by technological progress, the vision of personal AI teams creating a new …

If WFH was accepted corporate policy, and allowed for moving large distances away, then reversing back to RTO is not just an inconvenience, it's as much a life-upending disruption …

I agree the shadow DOM is annoying and best left alone - at my job we just avoid it completely, and our entire web component library is meant to just wrap ordinary light DOM elemen…

Cars are not software, and it's ethically and morally wrong to test them in production. Musk is playing games he doesn't understand, and wagering other people's lives to do it. He …

this is actually explained briefly in the first movie NEO: Do you always look at it encoded? CYPHER: Have to. The image translators sort of work for the construct programs but ther…

Hello HN, my wife lost the Google Voice phone number she uses for her business after 10 years due to the recent change requiring outgoing activity every 90 days. For the past 10 ye…

It's a hard discussion, because the real issue is whether we as a society want prison to be about punishment or rehabilitation. Like many things, Americans generally seem to be spl…

think of how shareholders drive a company's behavior, and how much of most public corporations bad behavior is generating dividends or increased share price for large institutional…

I am once again asking you to consider plasma gasification. Here is my standard comment, copied again: --- Why are we still not talking about plasma gasification? https://en.wikipe…