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this is the same in any field, 99% of human content is terrible, including this comment (and your comment) the thing is, we need the other 1%, but when in absolute numbers it is sm…

having read his manifesto multiple times, I think its better to read Ellul's books (particularly Propaganda and Technological Society)

why do you think if we can not understand the dependency chain, the regulators and the auditors can?

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none of this makes any sense in 2 years i will just run local llm and not touch google/microsoft models with a ten foot pole the internet will be full of generated garbage and rend…

haha i have most of the negative symptoms and never had any drugs what so ever > Continuous anxiety about literally nothing. I felt like a student who didn’t do their homework, and…

if their parents give them heroin, will we turn blind eye?

'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.'

you assume they just reproduces the training set, but when they get big enough they start to "understand" things, when the input is really big it actually can never "guess" the nex…

the jupyter desktop plus whisper and gpt might be the new way we use computers, like iron man's jarvis :)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

shutterstock just introduced shutterstock AI partnering with dall-e they will get it back quite quickly

You probably are considered abusive to someone, you might not even know it.

i used to care great deal about this, but recently i gave up why do you even care? most of your files are either on apple's computers or google's computers

what do you mean? you can open an issue on github and there are build instructions in the readme

you mean now? ads and cookie warnings and spam

maybe not search engines, but it has totally replaced stackoverflow and google for searching for docs or even wikipedia in some sense (e.g. make alpha blend between two argb uint32…

this line of thinking is quite difficult to get by in the modern world, same applies to vaccines, or to your car, or to the food you eat the browser you use, etc, in fact if you ra…

like brexit? you will be surprised what would happen if USA switches to direct democracy

the dutch are closing 3000 farms because of too much nitrogen nothing is as easy as it seems

wow this poll shows how many standard deviations the hackernews audience is away from the norm

isnt it time to abandon the idea and accept that the internet is more bots than humans and more malicious and hostile actors rather than well meaning ones? twitter/fb/google with t…

or fix the cities? wfh, better public transport, incentivize local business, e-bikes, etc individual cars are not going to solve anything, ev or ic or whatever

most of people on hackernews experience very different internet than the rest of the world, due to adblocks, pi holes, netflix, paid youtube, etc... most web pages are up to 60% ad…

its school vacation now, and its like 40 degrees outside watching youtube and crunchyroll for 4 hours is not the worst i remember at this age when i was not ouside i could watch co…