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I don't understand how safety is taken seriously at all. To be clear, I'm not referring to skepticism that these companies can possibly resist the temptation to make unsafe models …

If you need help (monetary or otherwise), please email me at tolmasky |at| gmail |dot| com. This is a sincere offer. I can't tell how much is hyperbole in your post, but if you're …

I want to sincerely ask whether you read my post, because your response is so unrelated I believe you might accidentally be responding to another post? If so, please ignore the res…

I am so surprised by the comments on this thread. I was not expecting to see so many people on Hacker News in favor of this. As is typically the case with things like this, the rea…

Is having a real robot creepy? I don't know. Is having a robot operated by a human creepy and scary? Absolutely yes. We've seen that people behave worse when you introduce indirect…

If this ever gets popular then sellers will “optimize” their product listings to exploit the LLM (a “soft” prompt injection if you will). This will definitely be the case in market…

Perfect number to make H1Bs a tool that is out of reach for startups but still meaningful for large entrenched corporations. Nailed it. Maybe they can even waive the fee if you giv…

I'm glad the em dash is getting properly shit on these days, if for unrelated reasons. I've never liked it. I hate the stupid spacing rules around it. It never looks right to put n…

Does no one else find it weird seeing anything from this administration "anti-Bitcoin" at all? I wouldn't be surprised by this headline during a previous administration, but genera…

This doesn't really address the point that is currently being argued I think, so much so that I think your comment is not even in contention with mine (perhaps you didn't intend it…

Generally speaking, the second you realize a technology/process/anything has a hard requirement that individuals independently exercise responsibility or self-control, with no obvi…

How strange that the article never links directly to the Helix editor. I usually immediately open the homepage of whatever a blog post is talking about as a background tab to be ab…

I didn't see mention anywhere of a license. I also don't see anywhere to download this from. Is this release equivalent to saying "here is an OFL metric-compatible Arial," or are t…

By bypass I mean "successfully pass the challenge". Yes, I also have to sit through the Anubis interstitial pages, so I promise I know it's not being "bypassed". (I'll update the p…

> I specifically want a search engine that does not run JavaScript, so that it only finds documents that do not require JavaScripts to display the text being searched. (This is not…

From the first paragraph in my comment: > You'd see them taking some additional steps to combat this. They haven't. Their CDN handles it just fine. They don't even both telling AI …

If the rest of my post is accurate, that's not the actual concern, right? Since I'm not sure if the check itself is meaningful. From what is described in the documentation [1], I t…

Wikipedia says their traffic increased roughly 50% [1] from AI bots, which is a lot, sure, but nowhere near the amount where you'd have to rearchitect your site or something. And t…

“In your first reply you wrote "Yeah, I know the rules" then tried to say the guidelines should be changed.” You are assigning way too much intent to my reply. There was literally …

You listed two violations: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." I can understand the first one, but the second I think is debatable. RFK Jr.'s funding cuts are an essential …

The fact that IP protection is expensive is essentially its defining feature . One way to think of "intellectual property" is precisely as a weird proof-of-work, since you are tryi…

Yeah, I know the rules. But I also know they were written before our current reality. More important rules seem to be being rewritten in front our eyes, so you never know. Also, if…

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It's too bad startups can't invest $600B in local manufacturing to get a tariff carve out, right? Oh well, not like entrenching one of the largest companies on Earth even further c…

I think I explained why this is different from the point of view of it being "encouraged" vs. "available". If your employer provides a tool in an official capacity (for example, th…