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by pu_pe 9mo ago
It will be interesting to see where those tariffs will be targeted. The EU might target digital services, for strategic and political reasons.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Trump keeps offering Europeans the opposite of the classic Godfather quote: an offer they cannot accept. He is melting American soft power over such an unpopular, unreasonable demand. A trade war is inevitable.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
This is a real threat that is not discussed enough. If labor could be completely automated, then the value and political power of workers tends to zero.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Very weird, I thought they just finished a long negotiation to have those chips.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
This move had a chance to work a couple of years ago, when European companies were seeking CYA compliance in regards to GDPR. The tone has now clearly shifted to a decoupling from American tech. My prediction is that American cloud provider
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
The other major AI providers do not have a social media platform attached to it. I also doubt that the guardrails in Gemini or OpenAI are as lax as the ones on Grok. The debate is whether to ban X, not Grok though.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
That's the optimistic take. The pessimistic one is that we, people who need to work jobs to survive, are not an intrinsic part of human existence and will be obsolete and/or left to die once we no longer have an economic purpose.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
And who owns every social media platform, if not a few very rich individuals?
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
So the concept is that requirements and rationale will be more permanent and important than code, because code can be regenerated very cheaply? I think commenters here identified many of the issues we would face with it today, but thinking
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
I used Phind quite a bit about a year ago and thought they were actually very good. In comparison to Perplexity, for example, I thought results were simply much better. I guess at some point the approach of finetuning their own models could
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
I think two phenomena are at play here, other than plain-old enshittification: 1) Demand for mailing of common letters and documents has dramatically decreased, so it makes sense to defund the mail system. Economies of scale also suffer, fu
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by pu_pe 10mo ago
> If the EU repeals Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, some smart geeks in Finland could reverse-engineer Apple's bootloaders and make a hardware dongle that jailbreaks phones so that they can use alternative app stores Apple cou
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by pu_pe 10mo ago
I would have thought the Office brand was much more valuable and recognizable than Copilot.
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by pu_pe 10mo ago
The infamous Dropbox comment might turn out to be right in 10 more years, when LLMs might just build an entire application from scratch for you.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
X is likely losing money in the EU at this point, and complying with the rules would also cost them money and/or reputation. Maybe they should consider pulling out.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
It has always been hard to tell who will be good at a job based on a CV and a bunch of short tests. AI has just disrupted the stupid proxies created by HR, because now everyone can fake being a good CV writer or doing leetcode.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
This is the type of hard constraint that could seriously hamper scaling. You simply can't scale hardware at this level without some supply chains issues that increase costs enormously. Similarly with electricity production.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
> To give you an idea, Georgescu’s TikTok presence was carefully crafted: short clips showing him speaking "against the system," promising to "free Romania from foreign control," heavily relying on emotional imagery l
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
Yeah, I mostly agree with your opinion. It's true that in the short-term there will be tons of disruption and likely more bad than good will come out of it. I guess my point was that ultimately how the upsides and downsides of a new te
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
The optimistic view is that Anthropic is one of about four labs in the world capable of generating truly state-of-the-art models. Also, Claude Code is arguably the best tool in its category at the moment. They have the developer market lock
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
> “I own the compute infrastructure” or “I owned the company that bought the AI systems early”, on the other hand, is just being in the right place at the right time. It’s not about your talents, effort, or contribution. It’s pure capita
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
Looks like Samsung decreased a lot because Xiaomi ate their lunch, which doesn't surprise me.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
Why are you using Claude Code directly in prod?
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
We don't understand how humans think, and we don't yet understand completely how LLMs work. It may be that similar methods are being used, but they might also be different. What is certain is that LLMs can perform as if they are d
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
It's not slightly better margins, we are talking about huge cost reductions on the main expense which is compute. In a context where companies are making trillion dollar investments, it matters a lot. Also, performance and user choice
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
I think you are addressing the issue from a developer's perspective. I don't think TPUs are going to be sold to individual users anytime soon. What the article is pointing out is that Google is now able to squeeze significantly mo
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
The perception of Kagi at HN is extremely positive, but in my personal experience the search quality reminds me more of Bing than Google, with Kagi sometimes surfacing puzzling results first. Also, I wasn't thrilled about giving them a
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
Sure, but not every application has dramatic consequences such as plane or car crashes. I mean, we are talking about theoretical physics here.
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
I don't see it so bleakly. Using your analogy, it would simply mean that if the program underperforms compared to humans and starts making a large amount of errors, the human who set up the pipeline will be held accountable. If the pro
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by pu_pe 11mo ago
Ok, here is another realistic hypothetical: a team of 10 devs billing $500/hour, plus extra "package" fees for subject matter expert review, machine learning experts advice, senior partner reviews, focus group experiments, A&

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