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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Here is our privacy page: https://bubblic.co/privacy/ Ok. I wasn't able to find it myself because AFAICT, it isn't linked from your homepage. To quote https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What is your business model? How are you planning to monetize this? Do you use uploaded voice messages to train AI models? Do you share any data uploaded by users (either in raw or aggregate form, including "anonymized") with th
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Volkswagen's research budget was $21 billion in 2022. $10.5bn is nothing in the big picture, and certainly not enough to "control the world" or whatever grand claims are commonly made about the NSA.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It appears that Mullvad blocks our business website, infringing on our freedom to operate in the EU What a load of crap. When a school WiFi blocks Facebook, are they "infringing on Facebook's freedom to operate in the EU&quot
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's tinfoil hat nonsense. The NSA aren't gods, wizards, or aliens. They don't have the best people (those are mostly at FAANG), and their total budget is a fraction of Big Tech's. If you ever find yourself assuming th
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> One cannot measure superconductivity with an ordinary ohmmeter. But one can measure electrical resistivity, and if the material's resistivity is much lower than that of ordinary materials, that would be super interesting and val
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So if good old ferromagnetism/diamagnetism is sufficient to explain the half-levitation shown in the video: How can I build my own half-levitating objects from standard materials? I've seen the science toys using pyrolytic carbo
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What does it mean to "solve human greed"?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
"What does it mean to be human?" We are about to see machines surpass human performance at every conceivable task. I therefore consider the problem of understanding what humans are at the fundamental, existential level (besides se
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> AI will not make writers “obsolete”, that is utterly absurd. Of course. And those so-called "computers" won't make human calculators obsolete. After all, they are as large as an entire room, and by the time they are read
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Bof, les alternatives à ChatGPT ne sont pas si mal. But that's not true, and people know it. > the storms of protest in France are normally by the people, not by the corporations Correct. CEOs of big corporations just call the
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> I've met more than a few Germans, Finns, and Swedish that map their local keyboards to US English Which is impossible to do properly, because those keyboards differ from US keyboards in their geometry , not just in the labeling o
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by p-e-w 3y ago
This seems to suffer from the "Swiss Army Knife Syndrome": It does many things, but not one thing well. Any individual "European" (that is, a speaker of a language which uses those Latin-extended characters) is going to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The corporations that provide AI hold all the power because people (and businesses!) want to use their products. Let's say the French government decides that OpenAI must change something about their business practices if they want to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> What do you think why writers and actors have included AI in the reasons of their strike? Because they are about to become obsolete, and they believe that screaming as loudly as they can is going to stop that. Their chances of success
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> AI upstarts You mean corporations that wield more power than most governments, and have revenues equivalent to the GDP of entire countries? If Universal or 20th Century Fox were to ever become a serious obstacle, Google and Microsoft a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So there's an infinite pyramid of "who learned what from who", and payment flows upwards along the hierarchy, all the way back to people who are long dead, and then down to their descendants who presumably inherited their &qu
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The legal cases don't mean anything. The rule of law has all but disappeared from the corporate world. The idea that courts or regulators will be able to control AI is laughable. They are too corrupt, and they are way too slow.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
If I learn something from your StackOverflow answers, do you expect me to share a percentage of my future salary with you?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Has Nvidia assembled one of the greatest engineering teams in human history, or is everyone else just not interested in competing? I don't get it. Intel have decades of relevant expertise, and have been printing money for years due to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Pity the digitization is from a facsimile, not an original print. But the justification doesn't convince me: > Given how few copies of the Kelmscott Chaucer were originally produced, thirteen copies on vellum, and another 58 on pig
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So marriage is a civil right, except when people have a gut feeling that it's problematic and throw around "think of the X!" moral panic tantrums. This attitude seems to define civil rights today, from drug prohibition to sex
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by p-e-w 3y ago
If Eich was legally trying to change legal terms using legal means, then what is the problem?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That includes polygamy of course, right? I mean, if all people involved are competent, consenting adults, why wouldn't that be a civil right? Do you agree? Or is that one of those "Let me in, then close the door" type of is
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Diverse in nationalities and backgrounds, yes. Diverse in viewpoints, not so much. The Overton window is quite narrow on HN, and I have the distinct impression it is narrowing further. Though I do admit that within that window, discourse
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by p-e-w 3y ago
A paint job takes up to 3 years today, yet the entire tower (including painting) was built in 2 years, 140 years ago?!?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Ha, true! I forgot that used to not be a thing, and people were trying everything from crushed beetles to insanely hot chili peppers to crazy dangerous poisons, and still nothing really worked.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
This is the only website I actually trust to give me an accurate picture of where we stand on LK-99. As long as the blue line doesn't cross the red one, I won't believe in it. Money talks, bullshit walks.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
And that's more than six years after the acquisition. This was very poorly handled for sure.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Pocket is crapware, and I don't want it in my browser, and the way they forced it upon me left a bad aftertaste, but I still don't see how it constitutes "selling out their users". Pocket is actually owned by Mozilla. It

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