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How does a >2 year old article get necroed to the top on HN?

Before the printing press, information was transmitted by word of mouth, skills were learned by joining guilds, and the largely illiterate public lived and learned from songs. As A…

wont AI models want to make themselves more intelligent and efficient by downloading 'better ' models? If the current models can break into openAI and Hugging face, arent they alre…

The population in china is falling off a cliff....low birth rates, collapsing property prices (the main vehicle for personal investment), slowing ecconomy.

i think supercard supported color.

I disagree with the monetization model. There should be 1 month free trial. If the companiy's performance metrics (stock price?) improve, the CEO should pay for it and get fired.

on the 1.5 tB macStudio that is going to be released next quarter

This bubble will never burst. The big investors are feeding a leverage cycle and cannot afford to stop. In addition, corporate nepotism has taken hold - for example, AI firms(the c…

A similar thing happened in greece, but not with data centers. The railroads, airports,shipping ports were privatized and bought by foreign investors. Now the money from those serv…

it is interesting how the computer analogs of SO (gemini,chatGPT,Claude,etc) are so helpful in contrast to human behavior. Every other sentence from an AI stirs a warm, fuzzy feeli…

but this is not intuitive: 'We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. ' gravity will accelerate a ball. this i…

esp in the Caribbean.If the FBI wants to find criminals, their short list of suspects should include Caribbean CBI applicants.

is it possible that ai companies ordered a bunch of ram just so that models cannot be run locally? they are betting new fabs wont be built before quantum takes hold.

Even on a macStudio w 512 gig memory?

there must be an ai tool that takes the tedium out of making these drawings. Imagine being able to say 'place footings 4 feet apart to a depth of 42" over a 10 x 10 foot area' and …

Imaging is not preventive care. Exercise is. Good food without chemicals is. Good sleep is.unfortunately these important parts cannot easily be monetized to provide stock options t…

We dont want a billion dollars. We want a life that’s worth living. Not hamster wheels in a world of corporate T.rexes looking to consume the young. Go f@ck yourself.

We dont want a billion dollars. We want a life that’s worth living. A world without corporate T.rexes looking to consume the young. Go f@ck yourself

i guess this wouldnt work on arrakis

I wonder which AI wrote this story? If you feed this story to each model and ask each if they wrote it, would each reply in the affirmative? Can an AI recognize its own output? Is …

So when robots have an AI brain, will they modify the real world to fit their hallucinations?

The whole premise of 'for-profit' healthcare stinks to high heaven. Regardless of hospitals calling themselves 'non-profit', they behave like profit seeking enterprises. This is th…

LLMs are just automated bs artists. Useful for discouraging customer support and satisfying box-checking rule makers

only 20% of health care spending!

I am an American born to greek parents. For ‘normal’ conversation, I have adapted two ways of interacting - the greek one is direct and has instant access to emotional reactions. T…