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by overfeed 3mo ago
It sounds to me like you and people like gp could both be served by a bounty mechanism that doesn't have to include Pine64.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> The right is concerned that Chinese-American dual citizens born in the US but raised in China might, upon reaching adulthood, act with impunity as US-citizen agents of the Chinese Communist Party. The US seems fully committed not to le
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by overfeed 3mo ago
Enterprise plans weren't usage-based until recently. Lots of enterprises were bait-and-switched by AI companies from flat per-seat fees, and now have to go on a token diet to rein-in budgets - which is the blog post's premise abou
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by overfeed 3mo ago
The retconning is absurd. Companies CxOs's exhibit herd-line behaviors all the time: hiring scrum masters, mandatory return to office, and now tokenmaxxing. FOMO is a sufficient explanation of the behavior, any trend gaining momentum
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by overfeed 3mo ago
Search Algolia's HN index for common reactionary boogiemen
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by overfeed 3mo ago
The Linux Foundation was bankrolled by the US government (via grants and code donations) to undermine the EU Operating System industry. Symbian was going to be amazing, until Microsoft - an American company with government links - nuked i
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> And they seem mostly happy with sticking to speculations that match preconceived notions ...you've almost achieved enlightenment on the nature of the majority of HN comments: vibes-based, off the cuff braindumps, where an idea is
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by overfeed 3mo ago
They teach this sort of literary analysis in high school. You should not take the words as a complete and unbiased retelling of history - just one point of view. Knowing who the author is, their role and possible biases helps place what t
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Do you consider the American fight for Civil rights to have been motivated by Nazi (or Soviet) propaganda? Would one's opposition to the Nazis preclude them from supporting Civil Rights based on some truth exploited by Nazi propagandis
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> it's pretty clear that YC does not care about a negative reputation. Perhaps not what the general public thinks, but I assume YC cares a lot about its reputation among VC firms that fund its companies, because VCs don't lik
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Many YC companies do bad things, My comment was not about doing a generic bad thing - it was about scammy behavior in particular (which ties to the Delve incident). YC depends on the VC ecosystem to fund its companies, and no VC want
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Now suppose Apple goes to any of Samsung/Micron/Hynix and says "we'll pay you the entire cost of building another DRAM fab and in exchange we want its entire output" It's revealing that they aren't do
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> If it can do 90% of the tasks the big boys do, at 50% speed I want to live in this world too, but these numbers, as of today, are very aspirational and far removed from reality. I'm no tokenmaxxer; I find my modest local setup use
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The AI companies are attempting displace Google for that sweet ad revenue. Relying on another company's search index means they can squeeze you later for a bigger slice of the pie
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> I am curious how this will play out legally I am curious if/how YC will handle this to get ahead of earning a reputation of being a den of scammers - a few months after the Delve scandal
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Though, I've been saying for a while that the local AI inflectiom point is the death knell for these frontier labs. "Death knell" is a touch hyperbolic. Hardware that can only run quantized models that take up GBs in VRA
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by overfeed 4mo ago
To be fair, Anthropic is participating in the misinformation by dishonestly characterizing what Alibaba is doing with the data as "Distillation" rather than the more probable adding a small fraction to the "fine-tuning"
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Amazon is a Rivian investor and ordered a bunch of them. Rivian vans start at $80k, which is in the same ballpark as the R1S starting price of $83. Rivian axed the cheapest SUV trim in its line-up, so we're even less likely to see chea
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by overfeed 4mo ago
I can't make heads or tails of your opinion-free comment, made up of only questions. My best guess is you're suggesting that Anthropic's model outputs are transitively under copyright (as a reproductions of human work under c
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The surviving non-American farmers would be confused by the future-speculative tense as America has already been doing this for decades in agriculture, and have been complaining for decades about both the subsidies and dumping of American
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> China aren't offering a cheaper solution. They are subsidizing an existing one Chinese labs are also pursuing legit frontier-advancing R&D into efficiency and publishing papers in the open, a culture that's in retreat at
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> The issues with LLMs go beyond just IP theft. There is no IP theft because LLM outputs aren't protected, just egregious ToS violations.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> which is also why Anthropic introduced identity verification, to slow down the onslaught of bots. Lol. The irony is thick for anyone who ever had to attempt defense against an onslaught of American AI lab crawlers that ignore robots.tx
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by overfeed 4mo ago
There's also Mercedes (eSprinter). Electric vans will remain ecpensive until the eSUV market has been saturated: the cost to make either is similar, and using the limited inputs and lines to make more of the lower-margin vehicle model
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by overfeed 4mo ago
I heard cars with zany colors get stuck on the sales lot for much longer than boring colors. If that is true, customizations lower the value on the secondary market relative to factory restrained factory options, and the owners may get lowb
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by overfeed 4mo ago
I cannot fathom how people fall into the trap of thinking that LLMs have a consistent world view on any of the users bugbears (what would be an opinion in a human). CoT is a work-around and doesn't persist across sessions. "You ar
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by overfeed 4mo ago
You managed to defeat the first layer of defense - the warning. The yellow identifying dots were present on your printed copy, should you have decided become a precocious criminal successful enough to warrant the attention of the Secret Ser
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Google will likely outlast everyone walking the earth at this moment.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Careful: AIPAC may call you antisemitic for commenting on their effective lobbying Edit: I wonder if the (predictable) downvoters are following the news https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/mamdani-aip
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Iran[1] may also have all the pieces for nukes by then[2], hence Bibi's fraught gamble with the decapitation strikes, and present desperation to continue - even escalate - hostilities. 1. Or the UAE, which has shown interest in nuclear

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