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The tagline boasts that it is "introducing the world’s best document understanding API". So, holding them to their marketing seems fair

Tell me this response was not generated by AI

Correction: China has never banned any US social network. That said social network decided not to comply with local laws is their decision. Even Tiktok does not work in China

The author's confidence in their conclusions hints at naivete at best

Yeah... African users... oh poor infantile, gullible, creatures... so incapable of discerning truth from falsehood are the ones to be fooled by generative AI...I get the gist

Snowden will disagree with you

A cynic would see Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea as vassal states of the US and as such "Western".

For a while I thought this is a step-by-step lesson on GPT, the model and architecture

For me, I have been using it as a faster substitute for Google+StackOverflow - generating short snippets that I'll still audit anyway. It is just another, better search engine once…

Some things are a little more appealing when you are in a country without a competent Federal Reserve

Working on Acadar( https://acadar.com ) and Neviwi( https://neviwi.com ) in Africa

Have you heard of Lightning Network?

You can DM me on stan AT acadar DOT com for details

Hello HN. I am Stan from Acadar. Acadar provides a storefront for a business or service tailored to that kind of business. We also help owners reach out to and build an audience ar…

Four legs good, two legs bad. Hypocrisy of the incumbent

Are you pretending not to see how a language outside your tribe opens up more opportunities. The entire tribes of Africa and South America underwent the same massive foreign langua…

Xender is more popular than Play store near where I live

From China to US... surveillance-free?

Same here. HN has recently been swamped with polarizing geopolitical rhetoric. Finding it more difficult to get any rational discourse outside the pro-US echo chamber

As a counterpoint, I have never been made to realize the US origin of HN as in recent times. The "hacker" in the name is gradually being swallowed by the "news"-mainly US