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American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source(letter.palladiummag.com)
2 points by ForHackernews 1mo ago|5 comments
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Not within a single calendar system, I think. There have been discontinuities when transitioning between them. Sweden skipped 11 days in 1753: https://todayinhistory.app/events/12868/
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Earlier, from the same author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020193
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
> Those will use a licensed model from the current leaders. Says who? In the world of video decoding, H.265 is losing out to AV1 largely because it's not superior enough to H.264 to justify the expensive and complicated licensing. D
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Indeed, "pennies on the dollar" is the key point the author is making in this article.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
You mean like how Western Digital is only a 168 billion dollar business, but Dropbox is a $7.4B behemoth... er, wait?
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
AI boosters denying that their machine god is burbling sweet nothings to itself?
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/ Almost certainly written by AI
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Tactical Computer System (1988) [pdf](librascopememories.net)
3 points by ForHackernews 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
I thought this was already widely known? From March last year: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio... There's no reason to believe the model's self-reported "thinking"
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Speaking of embarrassing, your argument is an argument against having any professional ethics whatsoever.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
yeah but LLMs might be even cheaper than grad students
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
You are not required to present an annoying banner to the user. You could simply honor user-agents' DO NOT TRACK header and silently avoid setting tracking cookies and that would comply with the law.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Blue plaques are standard in London: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Boring isn't bad. Ideas are cheap: often the execution is what counts. Doing a boring thing to near-perfection looks like the Japanese Shinkansen trains that average 1.6 minutes of delay annually and have operated with zero fatal accid
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Gecko is the only semi-mainstream browser engine that isn't controlled by Google.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoBikesInTheApoc...
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Historically a more multipolar world has been a more violent and chaotic world, but maybe this time will be better.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Relative to the US or Europe? I think you know the answer to that.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
It means you can settle an international transaction in CNY with Deutsche Bank. Imagine a European lender financing a project in Nigeria that involves purchasing a lot of infrastructure from China.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Rising power challenges the fading imperial hegemony. In this case, CNY displacing USD.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
In 20 years using Linux, I don't think this has ever worked cleanly for me. Inevitably this will fail with some mysterious missing dependencies, it won't be clear what .deb package provides them, it turns out the distro version is
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
How does this compare to Typora? That's the leader in this market as far as I can tell.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Prior art to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
You're advocating for a corporate-friendly zero-money license. I don't know what you want to call that other than "giving away your work to help sponsor enterprise software"
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Rate limits, presumably.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
How many calories do you get when you eat it or burn it. Everything else is down to taste.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Likely yes.
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
One path for developers who don't want to make a charitable donation to their friendly Fortune 500 is to pick a free software license unpalatable to corporate lawyers and then charge corpos for a commercial dual-license. You are free t
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by ForHackernews 2mo ago
Selling commercial database software to big enterprises seems to work in practice for Oracle.

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