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Of course, but I'd rather not share it for obvious reasons. It is a nonsensical biography of a non-existing person.

Google does the "ransacking" for them - ContentID.

I exclude all the published LLM User-Agents and have a content honeypot on my website. Google obeys, but ChatGPT and Bing still clearly know the content of the honeypot.

I don't know. The reality is just that most business ideas don't pan out. There were hundreds of well-funded efforts to build online retailers before Amazon happened. If you're wel…

That last part makes me a bit nervous. It's dangerously close to the EA belief that it's actually OK to be a ruthless exec for a tobacco company, because you can do good things wit…

The wifi protocol is computationally intensive. The wifi module is effectively a fast 32-bit computer with fairly complex firmware. And then, there's all the RF engineering that ne…

I think it's one of these things that people like to talk about in the abstract, but how many people really want a big CRT taking up space in their home? Modern OLED displays are s…

I'm not sure what you're getting at. The point of these (ill-defined) alignment exercises is not to achieve parity with humans, but to constrain AI systems so that they behave in o…

I doubt it works this way. People at Google use search too, and they don't like what they see. Part of the problem is that they're fighting against financial incentives that they t…

Oh, come on. Not everything is addiction. I can accept that algorithmic doom-scrolling is somewhat habit-forming, but even there, we have agency. But background music? Yeah, I like…

Well, then again: maybe Spotify was hoping you wouldn't notice, but by now, the problem has been exposed publicly a number of times. This article is one of many. How many of us are…

If a customer wants endless elevator music, then I don't think that Spotify is wrong to generate endless elevator music for them. The problem is deception. If you want to listen to…

Most homes of people who are reasonably well-off - including most people on HN - go through three distinct stages. The first stage is right after you spend an insane amount of mone…

I don't think it's a useful way to frame it. Model training is very compute-intensive. Generation isn't. You can run it on locally on consumer hardware. It's just not very monetiza…

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Is there demand for AI-generated images in general? No, it's just that there is a lot of demand for middling, utilitarian artwork. And a…

So you paid another fee for a checked bag (or soon will, given that more and more airlines are converging on that). Either way, you're paying less for the base fare, but more for e…

But that's not making the actual price lower. There are few situations where you don't need carry-on, so almost everyone will end up booking a "cheaper" flight, but then paying ext…

Eh, kinda. It technically preserves content, but it has almost zero discoverability. The site disappears from Google & co, so unless you come across a dead link in some old HN or R…

In my experience, it's more common than we suspect. I've met quite a few people in their 60s with fascinating hobbies. Some of it boils down to the fact that they had many decades …

What's interesting is that in many cases, you will not be given a vaccine. A skunk bite will do the trick, but if you were bitten by a squirrel, you probably won't be getting any. …

We have trillions of dollars riding on one-person open-source projects. This is not the barrier for "serious businesses" that it used to be.

Airlines are trying to squeeze every penny out in a depressing race to the bottom because they couldn't really differentiate themselves and travelers overwhelmingly just pick the c…

We have already thrown and will throw a lot of wrenches into the works. We have extensively reshaped the planet to the benefit of some species and the detriment of many others. It'…

Huh? The bulk of your local taxes probably funds public schools. As for federal taxes, the bulk is social security, followed by defense, Medicare & Medicaid, and various unemployme…