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Comment #49049735
Great, how are we supposed to use those websites now? No wonder web is breaking down
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Comment #49039643
I'm choosing to read this as an option for people who want to put forward a serious attestation that the writing is not generated by AI, and are looking for ways to make that pledg…
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Comment #49004654
That’s what a brain is
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Comment #49000441
This whole incident reads like OpenAI want their Fable moment
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Comment #48625242
I’ve been wanting to get better acquainted with local inference but I don’t have the hardware, which has made me think about something I haven’t seen discussed, which is local coll…
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Comment #48623921
I appreciate this distinction. The are multiple senses of SOTA and one that has been taking on greater mindshare is as a synonym of “the best available”. By rebasing on SOTA as gen…
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Comment #48622205
Wouldn't this also be true of government issued ID's? There's nothing preventing a non-US national from having a drivers license... Maybe I just don't understand the definitions?
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Comment #48622086
> We are not collecting more than we need Why does anthropic need more than a credit card for paying subscribers?
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Comment #48467600
Thanks for sharing this, I didn’t realize that there was a fundamental philosophical divergence here- you’ve really helped me expand my thinking
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Comment #48467579
That’s a good point. So maybe another point of divergence here is that the outcomes of the DMA are rooted in inherently unpredictable market interactions, whereas a medical device …
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Comment #48467550
It sounds like what you’re saying is that because the legislature can’t anticipate how companies will abuse loopholes, they sidestep that by outlining the outcomes instead. The iss…
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Comment #48467479
Big scary warnings aren’t a solution either. I watch the way my son interacts with consent screens and warnings, and it’s barely believable- the average person is very well trained…
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Comment #48463407
But that does have to do with privacy. Apple wants to implement features that access data locally. It doesn’t want to allow competition for offering those features, but if it did, …
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Comment #48463335
As I follow the situation, it seems that regulatory uncertainty is a major issue though- the EU’s requirements are framed in terms of outcomes sought, rather than in terms that can…
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Comment #48455361
There is a vast asymmetry in knowledge and capability to make those choices for most users. Most users will press agree and consent to things they don’t understand to get to the ne…
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Comment #48449163
I like it I think it’s sort of cool to see the different environments around Apple Park and be able to hear from a lot of different employees without having to watch a parade over …
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Comment #48376306
Acquired by ServiceNow in 2025 and now shuttering the service.
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Comment #48047729
Plenty of comments about using an LLM to assist with this, and I was happy to be able to read about a learning experience where the stakes were pretty low and the feedback loop pre…
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Comment #47990280
For an adobe creative cloud subscription? I just looked at their pricing page and could only locate "annual, billed monthly" options. If there's an actual monthly subscription whic…
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Comment #47927034
Maybe the goal is to release something publicly every day, can’t get away from OpenAI announcements the last two weeks. Competing for mindshare.
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Comment #47888657
If I read it right, the 4B ballpark figure is based on total annual per employee cost of 500k * 8000 employees, so the figure is actually 4B/year. 20B over five years.
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Comment #47874268
This makes me think of the interface for one handed touch screen typing that was used in the movie version of Ended’s game; it stuck with me as an example of a more touch friendly …
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Comment #47825933
It’s insidious because you’re being required to agree to pay for a year of use, split monthly, but cannot decide to cancel during the term of the agreement without paying for use t…