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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> But giving a good answer is just as core as their search results. What I'm saying is all Google has to do is stop giving those types of "custom" answers it already has. No one will abandon using Search if it goes away. &
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
That's fine, but arguing that Google should give accurate times based on where you are is ... crazy? In the pre-LLM days it was cool that Google did weather, unit conversions, sports results, etc. But that's not even close to th
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yes, but I wouldn't fault Texas for producing electricity to sell to other states. And in any case, that lowers Texan per capita consumption even more given that they're not actually consuming all of it.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
They're actually not the highest on a per capita basis. 3 states produce more than double Texas's, by that metric.
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> This is, putting it gently, not a majority opinion in the US and especially not in Texas. Texas is the largest producer of renewable energy in the country.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
The same could be said for someone taking a university course where Rudin is the textbook, and they rely on the professor/TA to help them understand the book. This is needlessly nitpicky. The stark reality is that the majority of under
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Every company has lots of people trying to be Cassandras. The problem isn't that no one is interested - it's that they don't know which 1 out of 10 of the folks complaining actually are worth listening to. When I look back in
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I would argue that if you’re going to use an LLM to make Rudin easier to understand, you are not learning how to absorb difficult material, nor are you learning analysis efficiently. I would argue that if he can solve the problems on h
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It was bad long before they increased the character limit. Saying shitty/toxic stuff can be done concisely. Giving a nuanced response is simply not possible. So people respond with jokes/sarcasm/counter toxic stuff. And the c
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Unfortunately, I can't not use AI because it provides the best speech recognition I've ever used and, going along with hand problems, it now allows me to write code after a three-year absence from that skill. I'll second
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
The character limit is, in my opinion, the primary reason Twitter became so bad. It encourages absolute language (qualifiers take up characters!) It discourages any level of nuance. I use Mastodon which has a 500 limit, and even that someti
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> But I must ask: in the anti eth0 club, or is this a genuine question? I don't see why you "must" ask such a question? You're being way too defensive for such a simple question.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Reminds me of org-social ( https://github.com/tanrax/org-social ) > Notes are limited to 280 characters. The constraint keeps them quick to write and read, making room for one thought at a time. No thanks.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> So, it comes down to if you believe a couple judges ruling on a couple cases is the right way to determine a world-altering new legal framework. It's not an either-or.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Because of the rulings of a couple of judges. Is that actually what the majority of people think? There's a good reason for the law not to be based on what the majority thinks.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Oh - I was and still am absolutely against Uber's tactics in expanding to cities. I still do not use Uber unless I travel to countries where that's the only option.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> So nobody can report facts if it makes the subject of an article look bad (or good)? If the specified goal of the article is to make the subject look bad, then of course it's fine. I've said that in many comments, and I say i
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> They didn’t accept guilt for incorporating all of human output into their model without consent. Because that use case is actually permitted by law.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> If the legal system declares the first thief’s theft not theft But they didn't find it. The Big LLM provider accepted guilt and paid a fine. You can argue whether it was a fair amount they paid, but there is no legal precedent tha
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I already addressed that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202037 And yes, I would be equally critical of any article that talks about someone violating laws with their data center, and that tries to list the pos
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> You don't think someone flouting regulations on distribution of internet content won't flout data center regulations? You don't think someone flouting the speed limit laws won't flout online content regulations?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> What evidence is there of Musk's competency? Why are you asking me? What makes you think I suggested he is competent? What does your question have to do with this whole conversation?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the author intended it as a regular "we".
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> but part of the purpose of an article is to give you reasons to give a shit about what's being reported. And this is where the article is trying to bias the readers. As I said elsewhere: If this article was "Elon Musk is a sh
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Within your metaphor, the person I'm replying to would say "I did nothing to stop the land theft because I found it annoying how people made irrelevant arguments about what the land would be used for". Really calls into
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Pretty bad analogy. The building is violating some laws. The laws being violated are unrelated to potential other laws being violated. If I own a house and am not paying property taxes on it, the fact that I'm murdering people in tha
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> you don’t think “Creating widespread non-consensual nude images of primarily women and children“ is illegal somewhere/anywhere? Are you reading any of my comments? I'm having trouble tying your question to anything I've
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> That is an example of ignoring laws and regulations. OK. Let me ask you: Is the article about those laws and regulations? I'm well aware of all these problems. They are simply not relevant to data center violations. Again: Stall
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Facts and "irrelevant details" are not mutually exclusive. > It would be bad enough if the data center was used to research cures to cancer, but instead it is creating nudes of children. Sorry, but what it is being used for is
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> The things you're calling irrelevant actually flout a number of regulations in various jurisdictions Elon (or Grok) espousing racist views is not flouting data center related regulations. His business practices are.

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