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100% of my income in the "employment" segment is coming from a single employer. That's an unsustainable level of concentration, showing there just isn't sufficient demand for my sk…

Original submission (460 votes) two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058 For some reason comments got moved to this one.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058

Flagging since statcounter's data is just so unreliable that discussing it is like discussing last week's lottery numbers. (Just a couple of weeks ago there was an equally implausi…

Good grief that thread is sad, with it ending by Gary Marcus asking for the crank to be taken seriously.

There's no business in straight-up news aggregation. Google News is purely a public service (it isn't monetized) and a liability (see the regular attempts by governments to make Go…

Now, now, let's be fair. I don't think LLMs are used for writing or editing the articles in any way. (Each reader can decide themselves whether what you wrote is unfair to Zitron o…

The original was an actual quote? But "had" still doesn't mean what you are implying: once the model solved the problems and the solutions were verified, the problems weren't open …

> analysts have estimated that it will take $2 trillion a year in revenue to pay for the infrastructure that has already been built I doubt any credible analyst has claimed that. W…

> A back-of-the-envelope calculation finds that covering AI capex through identifiable AI income requires revenue on the order of $2.5trn per year, Ok, so what is the botec? They d…

Isn't it up to the open model advocates and publishers to come up with the solutions for making them safe? Like, there's three plausible arguments about safety of open models: 1. A…

The publisher, in this case Postbank, decides what countries to allow installs from for an app. Google just enforces the policy the publisher sets.

It's very hard to make sure none of the outputs are ever made available to third parties. Source code can end up widely distributed (e.g. client-side js, open source). Prose will f…

Some of his numbers are rebutted all the time. It doesn't matter, because he will just ignore the rebuttals and just keep repeating the invalid or irrelevant numbers. For example, …

You're biasing for quantity of argument vs. quality of argument. That's Zitron's MO: writing 10k word rambles that cover 20 topics, ostensibly with tons of links to sourcing, but w…

Early in terms of there being no sign of actual signs of decay of their business. It's less than a week since Google reported literally the highest quarterly profits by any public …

Relevant article + discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014034

The exact claim I was replying to "It does that by increasing the cost of scraping, not by preventing it entirely." In that context, quantifying the cost isn't theoretical nitpicki…

Except it does not actually increase the cost of scraping meaningfully. Compute is really cheap. The compute for minting an Anubis cookie will cost less than a thousandth of a cent…

Unbearable AI slop, flagged.

Your title leaving out the "innocent" part makes it a stunningly inaccurate summary.

Uhh... This is not a popularity chart. It is an aggregate of benchmarks. It baffles me that somebody would write something that aggressive from that deep a level of confusion.

[flagged] means flagged by users; if it was done by the system, it'd be [dead]. I can't speak for others, but the reason I flagged it is that the number is untrustworthy and absurd…