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by overfeed 15d ago
> How can you comment as if you are knowledgeable enough about aviation to speak on this with authority, but you aren't aware that ... This is par for the course for HN; smart people applying first-principle thinking on unfamiliar d
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by overfeed 15d ago
Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break. I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engi
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by overfeed 16d ago
touché
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by overfeed 16d ago
lol are you an amazon wannabe?
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by overfeed 16d ago
> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him. Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, o
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by overfeed 16d ago
> Forgejo disallows LLM contributions You're misreading the rule. >> 5. Using general AI for review is forbidden. The second sentence makes it even clearer, as it would have been unnecessary under a blanket ban scenario >
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by overfeed 16d ago
> If manufacturing ever became Google's Achilles heel, they can take a majority stake in something like VinFast and manufacture a Google car. They won't even have to (partially) buy any manufacturer - they can utilize contract
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by overfeed 16d ago
I can't wait for OpenAI to do this to companies firing people to free up AI budgets
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by overfeed 17d ago
This comic from 14 years ago remains evergreen https://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/
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by overfeed 18d ago
> That sucks for search quality. I was shocked to see Google's AI panel show my niece Bluey fan-fiction[1] as authoritative fact, sourced from an wiki (may have been a fandom wiki, IIRC). Independent wikis have variable quality, pag
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by overfeed 18d ago
> reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words. I bet reading a hardback lights u
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by overfeed 19d ago
I "read" 6 audiobooks on my phone last month. Listening to audiobooks counts as reading, text-snobs be damned.
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by overfeed 20d ago
> Nothing we do today will be even remotely important in 1,000 years The irony of quoting the work of a poet who died over 200 years ago is thick.
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by overfeed 20d ago
The US free speech advocates had plenty to day about Julian Assange, an Australian stuck in the Ecuadorean embassy all the way across the Atlantic.
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by overfeed 21d ago
i.e. if some crazy, cartoon villain scientist were to create the perfect tool to enable fishing for crimes, the Flock cameras and drones would be the first.
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by overfeed 22d ago
> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law Corporate lawlessness has no good outcomes for humans.
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by overfeed 22d ago
Its not just about saving $0.05. There are many legitimate reasons to not want the AI to do the thinking (aka architecting or planning) for you. In those cases where one-shotting is undesirable or unnecessary, closed frontier AIaaS has no a
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by overfeed 22d ago
I'm just glad the dweebs who were parroting "OMG, Distillation attacks!!1!" have been empirically proven wrong, and discussion around open-weight models are more rational now.
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by overfeed 22d ago
> licencing the models for local use Who's going to be the new Bill Gates, with a vision for "a GPU cluster in every home?"
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by overfeed 22d ago
Its almost as if NYT has had a hawkish agenda for the past few ...generations.
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by overfeed 22d ago
I don't think most motorists would care if OpenAI's gas stations just released 106-Octane "Intersteller" gas, unless their cars specifically require it.
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by overfeed 22d ago
> I know discs are just physical licenses at this point in time, not actual software on disc like the old school days. I don't understand why people keep repeating this meme when emulation exists, and discs remain the easiest legal
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by overfeed 24d ago
> These companies subsidizing green energy expansion, because it's now the cheapest power to expand. Unless you consider natural gass green energy, it's quite the opposite for the moment. This is because the AI build-out is abo
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by overfeed 24d ago
On the flip side, I also see many people taking this thread as an opportunity to shit on Zitron as a person, and not "discussing his prediction". Incompetent/ blow hard/ dishonest are ones I remember off the top of my he
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by overfeed 25d ago
> writers are mostly supporting themselves with other jobs anyway. Skill issue. This is common for low-barrier careers that look like anyone can do them, but only a minority break-even. Others include porn/Onlyfans, social media &qu
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by overfeed 26d ago
> There is no reason to believe that equivalent level model output will be more expensive in 12 months It's almost never a drop-in replacement, and having to check and adjust integrations and workflows with new models gets old fast.
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by overfeed 27d ago
I'd be impressed by an AI that can go against tons of training data by reversing the polarity of a common turn-of-phrase. I was proud of that, and am slightly bummed to hear someone thinks it sounds AI-like. Also, I had a typo, its sup
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by overfeed 28d ago
> ngl this is just gatekeeping As a beneficiary of Debian, this is good, you are praising Debian with feint damnation. I wish Debian had done more gatekeeping in the past on specific components.
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by overfeed 1mo ago
> ...they're dealing with now that everyone is constantly building and pushing with AI. Also known as the AI chickens coming home to roost. Microsoft was the first to use code uploaded to GitHub to train AI models.
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by overfeed 1mo ago
Are you also sociopathic, and can you speak confidently even when you're blowing hot air? How about your bullying and/or flattery skills?

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