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Comment #49192545
Interestingly Nikita has made several negative comments about monetization, which have been publicly rebuffed by Musk, so they clearly had different visions for the company.
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Comment #48930431
Your history is all valid, but I don't think it really hits on the main motivations for how we got here. Thread per request works perfectly fine if your application is CPU constrai…
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Comment #48867965
If you are worried about the ethics of using a company laptop to do personal work, you might be taking it a bit far, what damage does this do to the company? If you are worried abo…
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Comment #48855517
The US constitution is one of the few constitutions that _does_ grant rights[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
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Comment #48769471
That's fair. Is there any indication as to if xAi trains on private profiles?
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Comment #48769422
Whatever you think about X's image generation models, I don't see how it is related to the petition that the EFF is opposing. Is generation of non-consensual imagery really a priva…
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Comment #48499376
For all the complaints like this that I see about AI generated websites, the complaints rarely come with counter examples of what a good human generated alternative should look lik…
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Comment #48485694
Building up karma only requires that on balance one's contributions are popular. Many accounts will contribute constructively on topics that are technical or objective, but then be…
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Comment #48485596
Those that spend all day posting on HN aren't always the most hinged.
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Comment #48470144
Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM? Edit: It's a VM per container. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
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Comment #48469446
Lot's of countries already require this but it's trivially by-passable just by using a roaming capable SIM from a country that does not require it.
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Comment #48469279
"First run" certainly exists in web apps, it's just running JS in a browser rather than a shell script on a developer or CI machine. There is plenty of malicious stuff you can do f…
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Comment #48378244
> disparate projects as Valkey and Lua Lua is often heavily used in Redis/Valkey, if you are interested in porting Valkey, it makes sense to also port Lua, they aren't "disparate".…
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Comment #48350597
By the same token, you aren't entitled to see the website content.
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Comment #48289433
Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it. Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the…
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Comment #48289111
I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks. If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same…
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Comment #48288621
It might be, I'm not sure. The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments. The curated data center list is just so…
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Comment #48287648
> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with. Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal…
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Comment #48272746
If you want LLMs to have knowledge of the Norwegian language, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do be to build a good training dataset and make the dataset widely available? Why g…
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Comment #48189875
Any kind of radio control should be discounted when attacking a US carrier fleet, they will just be jammed. Autonomous optically guided missiles/drones would fare better, but those…
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Comment #48116220
If the suggested political impact of this music is to be believed, the music might be one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time. Germany has been pretty widely critici…
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Comment #48103649
There a million ways that malware can persist without root.
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Comment #48057133
Their main DNS is 1.1.1.1 but their secondary is 1.0.0.1 not 1.1.0.0, so close but not quite.
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Comment #48043993
What coding agent(ideally CLI) have people found works well with this? Occasionally I go and try different agents with openrouter models, but nothing seems to really get close to t…