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by ronsor 7mo ago
Seedance has a lot more restrictions now, but still arguably not as much, it's probably cheaper for ByteDance to run, and as you said, it at least looks good enough to be worth paying for. Sora had all of the downsides, and attracted a
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Unlike, say, Seedance 2.0 (which has yet to come to the West), Sora 2 was more of a tech demo than anything usable: * It was (assumedly) expensive to run. * It was not good enough for customers to seriously pay for. * There were too many co
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Companies fire people all the time. Layoffs are regular. To the extent that AI has much to do with layoffs in the past few years, it's mostly AI being used as an excuse, rather than it being the true reason.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
When the moral perspective isn't that sound and isn't that important, yeah, they usually do. Everyone gets tired of complaining.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
AI is going away, folks. https://undeleted.ronsor.com/ai-is-going-away
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Deno basically popularized the idea of a standalone JS runtime that primarily relies on standard Web APIs over "in-house" APIs like Node, although we can say that those standard APIs didn't exist yet when Node was created and
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by ronsor 7mo ago
> without a legislative solution and an enforcement mechanism If there's one thing people, especially HN users, should've learned by now, it's that there's no enforcement mechanism worth a damn for Internet legislatio
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Licenses != contracts, and well, the FSF's position has always been that the GPL isn't a contract, and contracts are what allow you to impose arbitrary limitations. Most EULAs are actually contracts.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Guess the solution is to not do it and simply pay fines (or not pay fines, if you don't have any EU operations).
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by ronsor 7mo ago
I literally said "They'll get a warrant and seize servers or domains."
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Mostly Microsoft (inertia, you're already paying) and game consoles (expensive SDK/dev-kit licensing with NDA crap). I see it less on Apple platforms except for published applications and niche tools.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Sam Altman is a special kind of person; not many could pull off the schemes he does.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
I know the tariffs are the bad thing of the moment (and they certainly are capricious), but I don't think you understand how much worse things can get.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413195 @indutny explains their views in that thread.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
This is basically a mutually assured destruction scenario. The US is not going to let all US companies get fined out of retaliation, so there would be more retaliation from the US against the EU, and everyone else. In the end everyone loses
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Yes. Hollywood is mad, but piracy sites are still up and unblocked. Book publishers are mad, but Anna's Archive persists on CCTLDs. The US by and large doesn't censor websites even if the content is illegal in the US. They'll
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by ronsor 7mo ago
The US would likely not process those extraditions, and it would make trade and international relations worse for no real benefit.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Scammers will gladly wait on hold for 10 hours a day, for a week, if they think they'll get their Bitcoin. They have infinite time and patience.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
It is relevant. There's a material difference between shipping material overseas and shipping it (and handling it) within the destination country. If someone mails $ProhibitedItem at a USPS to the UK, then it's the job of local UK
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by ronsor 7mo ago
It's just the current moral panic. The views aren't even relevant; LLMs will either stick around because they're useful or the industry will collapse if they're not. And even if people still don't like them, they&#x
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Well, we've proven the 27 smaller, competing bureaucracies are creating plenty of their own issues. It's not like the US where 50 states (and yet more territories) actually compete on simplifying corporate law and offering strateg
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by ronsor 7mo ago
They're saying we should remove the features in general because they're anti-features harmful to everyone, and focusing on children distracts from that fact. This conclusion is up for debate, but that's what they mean.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Now we'll have to encrypt the files to prevent the performance hit of antivirus peeking inside. Oh, wait...
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Well, I'm going to block the ads anyway (or just leave), so if they're trying to find profitable ads, they may need to revise their strategy.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
In the end, all reasons resolve to either "it's what we had at the time" or "someone thought it looked good."
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by ronsor 7mo ago
AI means that you cannot defer software design until you've written half code; you cannot defer documentation to random notes at the end. It has the effect of finally forcing people to think about the software they're making, assu
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by ronsor 7mo ago
We simply have to make the Internet unusable for them until they stop being lazy.
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by ronsor 7mo ago
Probably recent active exploitation
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by ronsor 7mo ago
I think people sitting on a handle for 10-20 years without active use is annoying, so I'm fine with them taking them from dormant accounts. I think the selling is sketchy though.
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by ronsor 8mo ago
Governments are deprecating legacy media. Tech oligarchs are in now.

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