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> The problem is that this is only happening because the powerful are forcing it on us. Look, I won't deny that like the dot-com bubble and the "cloud" hype of years before that th…

Skipping the analogy and going straight for the point then, it is possible to be against something because you view it to be a waste of a resource, but to be for something else tha…

> The already embattled Fender CEO said the other day that he plans for Fender to be at the "forefront" of AI, and that covering others' songs was "analogue AI". >The simple truth …

Eh, that's pretty specious reasoning. If I start a business selling space water cannons that anyone can use to spray water at the ISS as it flies by. If these cannons are consuming…

If the EFF gives you a template email to send to your congress-critter to opposed some terrible spyware bill, isn’t that your “speech” for the purposes of the 1st amendment? It doe…

I agree with your first part, that software is built to solve a problem. But I think you sort of sidestep what makes AI exciting to non-software people with your second part. The p…

> we just weren’t used to seeing them at the same scale we do today. I think there's also a lot of recency bias in it. The same thing that makes you suddenly notice how many people…

> They're supposed to be able to understand and intuitively fill the assumptions present in vague requirements, then produce working applications. They're supposed to shrink the ti…

> Given the way LLMs are marketed, we should expect a vastly more favorable project success rate, not simply a close parity, and definitely not a decreased rate. > Even if we consi…

Automatics had shift positions for lower gears for engine braking when going down steep hills long before the manual gates were common. It might be a convenient design that allows …

After the big corrections entry level jobs had to do during and after COVID, I think it's probably more than you think. As an example, the BLS says in 2000 the mean hourly wage for…

As someone who enjoys driving a manual transmission car, I'd rather something like this over the "up or down" manual mode gate in most automatic car shifters these days. Not becaus…

Look I’m a big fan of having CLI interfaces, and they can definitely let you do things that you just can’t do (or are extremely difficult to do) with a standard desktop gui. But at…

It’s possible that Medicaid has certain rules for a minimum stay before they will pay for rehab after the fact. I think there was a story recently floating around HN specifically t…

I can buy that some of the spacial and tactile aspects of a real book can help with recall, I also wonder to what extent it has to do with the type of screen. I’ve found I dislike …

I had a realization recently that the problem with "AI isn't consistently good enough" is that experience is probably not sufficiently distinguishable from the experience most non-…

“Life changing” money is relative. We take some family friends and their kids on a vacation every two years. Sometimes the bill is split, sometimes we cover most or all of the cost…

The problem isn’t so much the difficulty in finding a pre-made config, it’s a combination of: A) which premade config to choose B) what half of those settings even do (and do you n…

On my MacBook I map the right hand command key to “ctrl” and the right hand option key to “meta”. Since the command keys are right next to the space bar that puts the ctrl key on a…

> Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection. Start laying hazards in the middle of the road…

> The result will be an internet full content written from the perspective of an ignoramus; not addressing any complex issues, Not to be overly negative, but have you really looked…

For comparison, the transition from PPC to Intel started in 2006 and the first MacOS version to require an Intel processor was just 3 years later in 2009[1]. By comparison, the M s…

But then what is a friend? If a "friendship" ever ends, does that mean it was never a friendship at all? I've had very good friends, people I've shared houses with, helped move, be…

> That may well be true for some extroverted people, yes It's true for some of us introverted people as well, especially given that without some "reason" to get together, some of u…

> The people paid to be there aren’t your friends. They’re nominally “coworkers,” which is not a social relationship but a transactional one. You're getting paid to be friends with…