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by afavour 8mo ago
UDP is a protocol, not an API
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by afavour 8mo ago
It can be both a craze and a technology shift. AI isn't going away, it will transform some industries. But right now it's overhyped, overfunded and due a trip back to reality.
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by afavour 8mo ago
We’re talking about multiple industries here. In streaming Netflix is dominant. In terms of movie production studio Netflix is the also-ran compared to Warner and Paramount. A purchase by Netflix would give them something they currently do
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by afavour 8mo ago
> But the path there is getting shorter over time, clearly. Why do you assume there is no hard limit we’ll hit with the current tech that prevents us from reaching AGI?
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by afavour 8mo ago
…young people don’t watch CNN.
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by afavour 8mo ago
If “more balanced” means “lapdog for the administration”, sure
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by afavour 8mo ago
I wasn’t bowled over by the idea of Netflix ownership but a merge of Paramount and Warner seems way, way worse. In a sane political situation this would raise huge antitrust concerns but… well, here we are I guess. If it does go through I w
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by afavour 8mo ago
Money always wins out, media consolidation continues apace. I wonder what they’ll do with CNN, given what they did with CBS News? Nothing good, that’s for sure.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I think you're falling victim to survivorship bias there, or something like it. In 1940 I might have said "fusion power is possible" based entirely on what advanced psychics knowledge I had. And I would have been correct, acc
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by afavour 8mo ago
You missed the part where I said "truly believe". I'm not saying "maybe they've made it", I'm asking whether they are knowingly deceiving people or whether they have deluded themselves into believing what
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by afavour 8mo ago
Sure, when you get rid of the timelines and the methods we'll use to get there, everyone agrees on everything. But at that point it means nothing. Yeah, AGI is possible (say the people who earn a salary based on that being true). Curin
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by afavour 8mo ago
It's exhausting to keep with mainstream AI news because of this. I can never work out if the companies are deluded and truly believe they're about to create a singularity or just claiming they are to reassure investors/convin
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by afavour 8mo ago
I'd be interested to know why those comments were flagged actually. They don't scream AI and no-one has replied calling them out as AI, etc. But the vast majority are dead.
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by afavour 8mo ago
Feels like a hyperbolic headline but I do think there’s something worth noting: AI can only use the information it’s given. War games run by actual knowledgeable people (I.e. the military) are confidential, so it can’t pull from that. How m
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by afavour 8mo ago
But what happens when Musk decides the law doesn't apply to him...
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by afavour 8mo ago
And is that sanitization perfect? Kept up to date? With a safe API like this one that's tied to the browser's own interpretation of HTML (i.e. it is perfectly placed to know exactly what is and isn't dangerous given it is the
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by afavour 8mo ago
There's also something about the collapse in civility. Or... something. If you asked a plane full of passengers if they'd be happy to get their suitcase 5 minutes earlier even though it meant someone else lost theirs a lot of them
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by afavour 8mo ago
I think it also highlights something: better things are possible. Zero lost suitcases doesn't require magic to achieve. It just requires enough workers or enough time to make sure each worker is able to do their job successfully. Unfor
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by afavour 8mo ago
> Who would ever want this? Anyone who wants to provide some level of flexibility but within bounds. Say, you want to allow <strong> and <em> in a forum post but not <script>. It's not too difficult to imagine uses
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by afavour 8mo ago
I like the idea of that. But I imagine linting rules are a much more immediate answer in a lot of projects.
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by afavour 8mo ago
A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not.
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by afavour 8mo ago
But fiber optic created in 2000 is still very usable in 2026. AI hardware purchases in 2026 is going to out of date very quickly by comparison.
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by afavour 8mo ago
> AI in particular doesn't have a high requirement at the consumer side. Everyone already has everything they need to use it. That isn’t actually true though, right now everyone has a hard dependency on a cloud service. That is curr
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by afavour 8mo ago
Sometimes I’m absolutely mystified by the items that appear at the top of HN.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's the truth. NYT actually has a "gift article" functionality that makes it easy to share articles with non-subscribers.
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by afavour 8mo ago
> they likely went with something HTML/CSS-based, which would explain the performance issues. This is the case with a lot of apps that still manage to be performant. So it's quite possible Amazon are writing bad HTML/CSS
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by afavour 8mo ago
If all the effort has been spent in trying to replicate the human brain then I am comfortable saying that is a mistake. We have a tool that can tell with great accuracy how far away an object is. The suggestion that we should ignore it and
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by afavour 8mo ago
Doesn’t that make it a sensible long term play to equip your car with $200 LIDAR and start gathering that data as a competitive advantage?
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by afavour 8mo ago
Self driving cars are not equipped with human brains so this doesn’t really make sense. “We should achieve self driving cars via replicating the human brain” strikes me as an incredibly inefficient and difficult way to solve the problem.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I do think it’s that but with a dangerous slippery slope embedded within. FB will optimize for engagement no matter what so if you linger on one political post they put among 99 friends and family posts they’ll immediately amp up the ratio.

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