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Do you actually get any signifcant AI traffic today?

Nothing, but the article is about American AI, so using Chinese models by American companies can be risky. And it's risky for the Chinese to use American models. So every country o…

Are open weights models secure? E.g. if a Chinese model is run by an American provider then can it still do bad things, like inserting backdoors into generated code or accessing ex…

There should be at least some correlation. When building the model they give more weight to some pages (e.g. Wikipedia) which have bigger trust (pagerank?). And when they provide l…

Secifically in Google AI Overview I always see links to sites where the information is sourced from. Or at least some of the sites, if the same info is sourced from 100 pages then …

Is his code maintainable, though? Or is it just a pile of code which happens to work? What if he wants to change something? Does he generate again the whole thing from scratch? Or …

That's exactly what PageRank is about, invented by Google.

The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. Th…

There should be some warning if some "fact" is only supported by one or very few obscure sources. The strength of the sources should be clearly indicated in the answers to help use…

Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his stories.

What bothers me is that even some tech forums use Facebook groups and stuff, hiding the information in non-searchable silos. Why can't at least tech people use only traditional for…

> Content can’t be free if you want it to be of any quality. There are lots smaller local websites which can produce useful local content because of ad support. Those may not have …

> Luckily, there's tons of information on the web provided not by commercial entities but by volunteers The question is: is there content which is useful, but not provided by volun…

" it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine " Most people won't bother with buying …

> but unless you're deeply, deeply into repetitive religious tracts of 600 years ago, most of the collection is more of a curiosity than a valuable resource to modern scholars. It'…

Unless that typo was inserted intentionally to make it look like it was written by a fallible human.

Keybindings are the least interesting part of emacs. I modify the default keybindings heavily, because I find them uncomfortable. Emacs's strength is being a portable programming p…

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> I just want write some scripts and SSH to a Unix box I don't want to maintain kernels, web servers, or SSL certificates. That's my use case too. I don't want to maintain a VPS, j…

> I don't trust Google reviews anymore, Maps or otherwise. What do you use as alternative?

> I saw some shady third-party tool that scrapes the data, but it's against the Terms of Service and I don't want to worry about being banned from my entire Google ecosystem. I'm p…

How does he have time for that beside CEO-ing several companies and hacking the government?

I wonder how long vim and emacs can stay vibrant. I've used emacs in the last 20 years, so I stick with it, but new generations who are trained on vscode and such are less likely t…

> How can I stop black people from shoplifting from my drugstore in Chicago? The question is why you are asking about black people? Is there a different method of preventing shopli…

> A good designers is not going to be replaced by Dall-e/Midjourney, becuase the essence of design is to understand the true meaning/purpose of something and be able to express it …