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The courts haven't turned against the administration, they just don't care to rubber-stamp things that don't advance their personal policy goals and only erode trust in the courts.…

As another ethnic Copt, I'm also very fascinated by the language and history, particularly the differences between the Bohairic and Sahidic dialects. > Copts do also maintain a sig…

> next opportunity isn’t until 2028 There's an election every year (including special and midterms). The fight is annual and it's completely unfair to believe it's a quadrennial ev…

> Isn’t Apple potentially under a lot of pressure due to the DRAM prices as well as having to compete with AI for fab capacity? I'd qualify this with for now . It's not entirely cl…

I don't think the parent is advocating adhering to their values, but instead just talking about the relativism of ethics and morality. Society broadly cannot function without a sha…

> I have more meaningful intellectual conversations with LLMs in a given day than in a month on social networks. This is kind of making the parent's argument for them about the dan…

I'm not surprised, but what is surprising is we're now in a period in which the mask is slipping and no one seems to care enough to try to put it back on. For all the hubris and ar…

While I agree that you don't want to punish people for making bad decisions, I do think there should be a carveout for when those decisions impact people's lives.

> The media does have an interest in doing this—writers are fearful that they’ll be first on the chopping block. Maybe, but it's also pretty clear that the entire purpose and inten…

> xAI is making a killing on renting out its GPUs, way more than "just power" What's your evidence for this? Because from the S-1, SpaceX is largely an internet service provider th…

If I remember correctly, reporting at the time just after DC was selected was suggesting that it was always going to be DC to be in close proximity to government and that the whole…

> - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. This is exactly the point that keeps coming up that folks are struggling to grasp, myself included. How are you …

Granted, I only skimmed some high-line numbers, but isn't their only profitable project Starlink? SpaceX is functionally a satellite internet company that happens to make rockets.

> Because from where I'm sitting it seems like you're just operating on hopes and feels. I hate these flippant comments. Similarly, from where I'm sitting it seems you're strugglin…

> Bad things happen. You have to be ready. You're not wrong, but also how "ready" is "ready enough"? What about things the US doesn't generally have access to? Rare earth minerals?…

You're mixing up the propaganda phrases, that's Russia's stance in Ukraine. Trump's is this is "an excursion", totally different things.

All the time? This morning when I dreaded getting up so early for work. Last night when I showered. The day before after playing some board games with friends. Normal people do int…

Because this is ultimately a beta service. The whole industry is.

I'm pretty sure this is an attempt by both companies to shape a reasonable finance story for their eventual IPO. They need to make this look a lot better than a pump and dump (rais…

This is addressed elsewhere in the comments, but it appears this is actually a direct comparison to how Anthropic got their Mythos headline results. https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

If we start from the position of the marketing hype and even Sam Altman's statements, these tools will "solve all of physics". To me it's laughable, but that's also what's driven t…

> You're perfectly free to scrape the web yourself and train your own model. Actually, not anymore as a result of OpenAI and Anthropic's scraping. For example, Reddit came down har…

You're talking about the metadata of the files, which can always be edited and someone will inevitably try to make software to do exactly that. Also, Adobe's proposal for handling …