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by kelnos 3mo ago
I'd be a lot more comfortable with gun ownership in the US if we could require every owner to have military-level firearms training and certification.
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You can personally interpret the US constitution however you want, I suppose, but the only interpretation that matters is that of the Supreme Court. And they have held over and over that 2A includes a right to many different kinds of firear
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Are handgun deaths predominantly murder, or are they mostly accidents? If the latter, then I don't think it's odd to go after AR-15-type weapons, which usually end up killing people during mass shooting incidents.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
The difference is that Chinese companies and their government are much more intertwined than their American (or Western, in general) counterparts. It seems much more reasonable to look at actions a Chinese company takes through the lens of
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Agreed, but the Chinese government has much more of a say in what their companies do than is common in the West. It seems perfectly plausible to me that the Chinese government wants US AI labs to fail, and might direct some/all of the
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Did the GP actually say that? I think you're putting words into their mouth. They specifically referenced the actions of the Chinese government , as well as mentions of IP theft. I don't think that covers 1.5 billion people. M
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I mean, I expect Google open-sourced those projects because they see economic benefit to themselves in doing so, not because they are good-hearted. Chromium is an especially silly example to use: they benefit by controlling the web platform
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by kelnos 3mo ago
The issue with stories like yours is that they don't really tell us anything. The incidence of racial profiling is low enough that some people, such as yourself, will never have a problem, ever. But that doesn't mean there aren&
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by kelnos 3mo ago
> In Latin America, things are considerably more professional, and the government officials don't act like they hate you and just want you to go away. Depends. Someone I know had a terrible experience crossing into Belize on a la
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SFO has fingerprint machines in all lines, including the citizen lines. And in the Global Entry lines, even. I agree with you that US citizens aren't supposed to be fingerprinted on entry, but I am absolutely unsurprised that it happe
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by kelnos 3mo ago
> It's hard to say what their motivation is. Feels pretty easy to me. They want to turn LLMs into a commodity, and watch the US AI labs crash and burn. There will still be plenty of customers who will pay them to host the models a
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by kelnos 3mo ago
It may be available to us, in the form of a git checkout of their public repository. It's true that we don't know exactly which, and whether or not there are any other changes added on, but that is the case for every single releas
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by kelnos 3mo ago
A charitable interpretation is that the version of bun inside Claude Code corresponds to some recent state of their public git repository, so if you clone that, you more or less get the same thing. I don't see what it would buy Anthrop
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Your attitude suggests you are unserious about the future of the human race.
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If the cookie in this analogy is crack cocaine, then yes, I'd say it's immoral.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
That suggests the system working as it should. They present terms for use, you don't like them, so your don't use it. One of their other products has terms you're ok with, so you use that product. Good, fine. This is an examp
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Your argument boils down to "they've done something I find objectionable, so that means everything they say must be lies". I'm not comfortable with how these models were trained. I have quite a bit of open source code ou
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... and nothing of value would be lost.
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I don't think the GP said anything about their own practices, just their impression of the majority of devs. Maybe turn down the temperature on your vitriol a bit?
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Your anecdote does not make GP's comment "patently untrue". It's just a counter-example, and we don't know how prevalent your scenario is compared to GP's. (And I agree with the GP. I'm fairly cynical ab
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by kelnos 3mo ago
As an American, what? A heat pump is a heat pump. An air conditioning unit is a subset of heat pumps (that is, a heat pump that can only run in one direction). I'm just as confused as you are about the temperatures quoted though. I&#x2
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by kelnos 3mo ago
My wife and I cook often, but we'll usually go out to eat (together or separately) once or maybe twice a week. We love having several good restaurants within walking distance, with a variety of cuisines. We also love having a small but
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Neither? Amazon sounds like an absolutely terrible place to work, and I'm not convinced it's going to be stable or long-term lucrative for someone just entering the job market now. I don't think a masters in CS is going to bu
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by kelnos 3mo ago
If that's the case, I don't really get the purpose of this. It's presumably not a useful system for day to day computing. The main reason I could see someone wanting to build this would be as an educational exercise, and usin
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Collectively, yes, but not individually. The problem is that the electorate tends to not understand the concept of second-order effects. For example, a college graduate in the arts might, directly or indirectly, generate more economic activ
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Typical attempt by the right to disrupt higher education. Hopefully this garbage gets challenged in and struck down by the courts.
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(The person you are replying to is one of HN's mods.)
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by kelnos 3mo ago
I have lots of smart gadgets that also have physical switches. It's convenient to be able to control them in more than one way, from more than one location. Anyway, why are you commenting here if you're not into this sort of thin
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Absolutely, but just as it's not ok to enter someone's home just because they forgot to lock the door, it's not ok to exploit access at your old employer because their offboarding process missed something. I do the same as GP
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This is a fine example of coming up with some "plausible" numbers to support a conclusion, but all of the "plausible" numbers are actually wildly incorrect. A new ambulance will probably run 2-4x what you quoted. Gas&#x

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