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by deaux 1mo ago
> If they choose to support the PKK, which the EU, UK, and US have all deemed a terrorist organization for over 20 years, then of course the US should sanction them and they have no moral ground to stand on. No moral ground to stand on
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by deaux 1mo ago
> Much more capable than the top SOTA models from 12 months Confidently wrong here. It's absolutely not across the board "more capable" than GPT 5 or Opus 4.1 or even Gemini 2.5 Pro. It's potentially better at certain
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by deaux 1mo ago
> claude fable is better at writing both code and prose than smaller code- and prose-specific models. There's a million ways to define "better at writing prose", and it's only better at some of them. It's worse a
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by deaux 1mo ago
Back in the day the business backing this platform wasn't incubating companies like Flock (YC S17). I think the increased focus on "moneymaxxing" in the community reflects a similar change by its owners.
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by deaux 1mo ago
> Who did Obama sick the DOJ on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#Government_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou
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by deaux 1mo ago
> And FWIW, most economists think retaliatory tariffs are stupid - on net they cause more harm to the retaliating country than if there were no retaliation. This is wrong, because you're using the extremely broad concept of "ha
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by deaux 1mo ago
"I am a freedom fighter, you are a rebel, and he is a terrorist." Going against the US regime means you're a terrorist. If you instead bomb a "terrorist nation", i.e. "a nation not aligned with the US regime&qu
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by deaux 1mo ago
Right, so after already ramping up mass surveillance to the level of China [0], now the gap in freedom of political expression gap is also rapidly closing. Soon, there will be no gaps left, and it will just be worse in every single way imag
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by deaux 2mo ago
Huh? Read plenty of threads here on M series releases, never saw any. I do see them on "Certified Apple Polishing Cloth" threads because, y'know, such comments kinda make sense for this particular product.
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by deaux 2mo ago
25 day old account, very first comment about using US models because you can't trust China? Be gone russian bot @TRACK: yipinwong Just kidding but seriously man, this level of paranoia isn't healthy. Try talking about it with some
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by deaux 2mo ago
> Between Chinese values and American values which do we prefer? To anyone in a third-party country, it's incredible that someone still says this without any doubts in their minds about a country whose regime leader is Jeffrey Epste
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by deaux 2mo ago
> The countries who jail CEOs who due “societal damage” as a fuzzy cultural concept, as opposed to jailing CEOs according to the law, are not legal systems you want to imitate. The US doesn't jail people according to the law and doe
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by deaux 2mo ago
A company is made up out of people. Some are made up out of people with morals (yes, these exist). Those companies have morals. Some, like Meta, consist of people with no morals. Those companies have no morals.
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by deaux 2mo ago
It's funny isn't it, what the word China triggers in people. They'll say that the US is going down the gutter, but then the very next sentence if China is mentioned, it's all "we have rule of law, we're a just,
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by deaux 2mo ago
> we have rule of law here You're in the lead for funniest comment of the year award! How's Ghislaine Maxwell doing nowadays? Last I heard, living a very comfy VIP "prison" life. How are her mates? Right, running free
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by deaux 2mo ago
That's a cop out. You can do both. Do you really think they haven't tried to fix the issues? There's no reason why they wouldn't. They try to fix the issues and rightly jail the CEO. To act as if he was just an unknowi
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by deaux 2mo ago
He was definitely planning on PII abuse at scale for personal gain from day one. Probably not planning mass surveillance, but from all we know of him, he wouldn't have disliked the idea.
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by deaux 2mo ago
There are dozens of these.
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by deaux 2mo ago
There are definitely other things that could happen, that would not make OP scream. Not by the justice department though, that's true.
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by deaux 2mo ago
It would take 1 week for everyone to move over to something else. > but the world still needs the company for the time being. You have been caught hook, line and sinker. Flush the koolaid out of your system. I can absolutely guarantee yo
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by deaux 2mo ago
The inability to personally jail megacorp CEOs who cause untold amounts of societal damage is not common "everywhere" ("many places", maybe). And that is the actual thing the person you're responding to cares about,
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by deaux 2mo ago
Flock doesn't just sell ALPRs. They bundle it with CCTV, audio sensors, sells to private parties, analyze visual data. That's why they're everywhere. Pointed at pools, walking paths, indoors. In countries where ALPRs are wide
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by deaux 2mo ago
> and like I already said punishment is hard specifically because how do you fine someone with infinite money? This isn't true though, if they had infinite money they wouldn't be spending every single second of their waking exi
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by deaux 2mo ago
My counterexamples prove exactly the point; TBTF is fugazi, arbitrary, something in your head.
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by deaux 2mo ago
I see this parroted a lot, yet have never seen a case where saying "not" to do something makes it more likely to do it, which is what you're implying by saying `It's also worth noting that saying "Don't cheat
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by deaux 2mo ago
China is indeed "bad" for the gestapo shit. The difference is that China's gestapo shit comes with benefits for the common man too, whereas in the US the gestapo shit only serves the inner circle at the top of the regime with
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by deaux 2mo ago
I do this and did it in this case, but I've never seen it make a difference.
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by deaux 2mo ago
It closes the development loop. Without it a model can't check if the stuff it made actually visually renders like it's supposed to. It can only guess/assume.
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by deaux 2mo ago
Sometimes you intentionally want to verbatim keep "mistakes", sometimes you don't and want them to be "fixed". OCR-only models tend to only do one of those two, in VLM cases often the latter. With multi-modal LLMs y
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by deaux 2mo ago
The obvious use case, especially on HN, is frontend dev of any kind at all. The second most obvious one is OCR of paper documents.

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