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Related: I recently wrote a blog post about using docker to containerize my ML research dev environments -- I've never found another way to make properly reproducible dev environme…

It's stupid sour grapes comments like this that make me hate HN commenters. Meta and Google have both contributed an enormous amount to open source (creating PyTorch, TensorFlow, C…

Using the existence of regulation as proof that the regulation is needed is circular reasoning.

Humans give explanations that other humans find convincing, but they can be totally wrong and non-causal. I think human explanations are often mechanistically wrong / totally acaus…

What? They want their bottom line to decrease, not increase. The fastest way to increase their bottom line is to cut costs.

Are you trolling?

I've spent a significant amount of time playing with the variety of Diffusion models available and DALLE 2 tends to produce much better quality images. The other killer feature is …

>without government intervention you end up usually with a monopoly or oligopoly. I would love to hear your explanation of how government intervention is the only thing preventing …

I don't see why you can't add guardrails to things like subpoenas -- it's not like they are allowed to engage in aggressive subpoenaing of non digital info without a due process pr…

There's a free market of platforms without subpoena power, and people time and time again choose the free platforms powered by ads. I'm in the overwhelming majority with my stateme…

Copy and paste from elsewhere because it's the same talking point over and over: big tech is not the government , and your complaint is with the government. The FBI could just as e…

People continue to flock to new, free, targeted ads powered platforms. Look at the enormous growth of TikTok in the US; it has exploded well after the discussion on targeted advert…

Your complaint is with the government, not Google. The FBI could just as easily setup a StingRay [1] and capture all cell information. The only protection against that is robust di…

>nobody can compete with free Yes you can, just make yours also free and put up ads like DuckDuckGo. >the amount of money being earned by said advertising is private. Google is a p…

They already did. People vote with their feet and attention, and people continue to flock to free services powered by targeted ads, systematically out competing services that had o…

>It all goes into profiles that most definitely have an impact on you in real life Such as? I might add the initial discussion was about Google tracking ads but I'm curious to hear…

Google making ad auctions more efficient and "state surveillance" aren't the same thing. Did you legitimately not know this or are you being intellectually dishonest in your argume…

>wholesale sale of data to anyone You know Google doesn't do this, right? Besides being against their own terms of service (and outright illegal), they're economically incentivized…

>But that just means the novel representations are a step forward, just not the whole solution. No. The part where people argue Google is collecting a lot of data is sound. The par…

>If you couldn't make money from ads like now, there'd be way less SEO This is just nonsense. If there were no ads, hyperoptimized SEO would only be more important because it's the…

And you think that complaining about tech companies , companies owned by share holders who have no particular obligation to satiate the complaints of non-shareholders, is a more ra…

A lot of AV companies bootstrapped their maps off of OpenStreetMaps -- it's great anything is free, but they kind of suck. The "cost" of a company using info about me to run more e…

I wholesale reject the following: 1) Big tech colluded with government, and got nice advantages for their participation with the surveillance system -- they're getting raked over t…