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by pavlov 8mo ago
This happened to painters and illustrators a few years earlier than programmers. People used to think detailed drawing and realistic painting were kinds of unachievable wizardry. Now they go on ChatGPT or Midjourney and press a button. Prof
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by pavlov 8mo ago
This claim has been going around for a while. I know someone who has been spending $7k / month on Cursor tokens for the past six months, managing such a team of agents… But curiously the results seem to be endless PDF-ware, and every m
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by pavlov 8mo ago
And North Korea maintains a system of neighborhood surveillance, mandatory self-criticism sessions, and hereditary social classes which are perhaps closer to “1984” because they are so well established now. When it collapsed, East Germany w
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by pavlov 8mo ago
I think that's what Google Disco is: https://www.theverge.com/tech/842000/google-disco-browser-ai... Maybe? I really struggled to understand this product from the description and screenshots alone.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Indeed, a Stanford study from a few years back showed that the image data sets used by essentially everybody contain CSAM. Everybody else has teams building guardrails to mitigate this fundamental existential horror of these models. Musk fi
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by pavlov 9mo ago
If you mean a 1950s Southern Democrat, then yes...
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by pavlov 9mo ago
You couldn't pay me any amount of money to have a robot in my home if it's controlled from Elon Musk's data center. And I'm a former Tesla FSD customer, so I should be the ideal early adopter for this product.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
They must be looking at the revenue Claude Code is making on Mac and thinking “Why aren’t we getting 30% of that?” Wouldn’t be surprised if macOS starts locking down CLI tools towards an App Store model too.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
We’re closer to “doom” than in 1962 because Kennedy wasn’t a narcissist with Alzheimer and Khrushchev wasn’t an old KGB agent on a vengeance. The leaders around the world now are the worst we’ve had since the 1930s. And now they have a nucl
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by pavlov 9mo ago
These days having the American president threaten you with random tariffs is the clearest indicator you’re doing something right.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Woz is great, but I'd still go for Alan Kay.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
The EU has mostly done a good job of reining in private data collection. But unfortunately even tech-savvy people often don't see the big picture and just complain about cookie banners and other instances of malicious compliance by the
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Ellison’s Murdoch killer flexing its muscles for a mild warmup. They got Paramount and CBS and TikTok, are allied with Twitter, and still have a chance of grabbing Warner. I don’t think American billionaires ever particularly liked Murdoch,
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Yeah, it feels a bit like asking "which typewriter model is the best for swimming".
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Perhaps the number was artificially low before, and more people actually wanted to live on their own. Loneliness is not the same thing as a one-person household. I'm not seeing evidence that 15% is the correct number and 29% is automat
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
> “it is quite improbable for LLMs to generate a working program, unless it is identical with one from its training set” This is a fascinating result. In some sense it’s like APL is actually the most human programming language, despite
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by pavlov 9mo ago
The difference is that previously these economic levers were used as sanctions against bad actors like Russia, whereas now under Trumpism they're used on a whim against allies and everybody else.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
I didn't read the article. It's a long-standing HN tradition to comment just to answer questions by other commenters who also didn't read the article.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
There are studios that specialize in this kind of virtual production, and it’s appealing to producers because it’s (theoretically) cheaper than doing things in post. For example Fireframe in Finland: https://fireframe.fi/
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Every producer in the industry is looking to cut costs wherever they can (at least here in Europe). They’ll happily settle for “looks good enough for viewers who are distracted by their phones anyway” if it means the post budget item goes a
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by pavlov 9mo ago
It's important to distinguish between traditional post vfx and in-camera vfx, which has come into fashion in recent years. In-camera vfx means that the final CGI is already present in the scene when it's shot. This is usually acco
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Also a multi-billion pound rebate on what Britain contributed to the EU budget. Thatcher negotiated it in 1984 and it’s never coming back.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
The answer is already clear: Britain regrets the move more. In June 2025, 56% of people in Great Britain thought it was the wrong decision: https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-po... It's
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by pavlov 9mo ago
It's not uncommon for democracies to be subverted by a minority party. Nazis did it in Germany. They lost parliamentary seats in the November 1932 election, but remained the largest party with 33% of seats. The next year the country wa
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by pavlov 9mo ago
There's a tremendous anchoring bias around people's perceptions of Meta products. "I don't see anyone using [Product N] in my social circle, so it must be doomed." It's been like this for at least ten years.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
They hate Muslims, but they love money and theocracy more, and Saudis are top of the world in both.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
The comment that points out that this week-long experiment produced nothing more than a non-functional wrapper for Servo (an existing Rust browser) should be at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649046
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Please provide an example so we can evaluate what makes even someone as non-political and neutral as you raise an eyebrow.
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by pavlov 9mo ago
On top of that he was a tremendous speaker. Tyrants don’t usually bother to justify their actions much beyond “because I can and I want to.” (Cf. current US administration’s discourse over Greenland.) But Robespierre was a believer in capit

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