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In the heart of tech country, voters turn on AI(politico.com)
1 points by rurp 4d ago|0 comments
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by rurp 8d ago
This seems right to me. Nuclear proliferation could very well end up being the most consequential legacy of this administration. Their malicious incompetence in this area has dimmed the outlook for humanity to a material degree. The amount
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by rurp 8d ago
Calling people's anger purely psychological is simply wrong and extremely out of touch. Perhaps you personally are in a privileged position where this is all great, but most people aren't. Most Americans work a regular job and don
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by rurp 10d ago
Beyond speakers, this is great advice for anyone whose public work you appreciate that isn't a major celebrity. I've sent questions and compliments to creators of all kinds of work I enjoy and more often than not gotten a genuinel
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by rurp 10d ago
Cloudflare has gotten out of hand for me lately. Not even solving a challenge will get me through many times, I'll just get straight up blocked from normal browsing. I guess because I do crazy things like use Firefox and block some tra
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by rurp 10d ago
There's a great episode from the Search Engine podcast about this. The gist is that it takes a lot of concerted effort to make something great, otherwise it will probably suck. The host got interested in a restaurant that seemed obsess
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by rurp 10d ago
Yep. I had a recurring contract with a local service company that got bought out by a larger one. Old company had an email that I could message and immediately get a useful reply back from a human. New ownership got rid of that, and their w
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by rurp 10d ago
It's wild to me that a private company in a volatile industry like Google can borrow so cheaply for such a long period. I get that they have been wildly profitable and powerful in recent years, but modern history is absolutely stuffed
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by rurp 12d ago
SimpleNote is outstanding. I've gone through countless note apps over the years and this was the only one that stuck long term. Every other option was either too complex for what I needed, got enshittified, or needless UX churn broke m
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The US is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes(spacedaily.com)
9 points by rurp 13d ago|0 comments
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by rurp 14d ago
Impeachment means nothing without convinction by a super majority in the senate. The republicans had a chance to convict trump and remove him from our politics right after he tried to murder them on Jan 6, but most of them were still to s
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by rurp 14d ago
I'm not a mathematician but it seems to me that if all it took to solve the problem was an enthusiast level understanding of the domain and a few hundred dollars of tokens then the result probably isn't that valuable. Even assumin
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by rurp 15d ago
Yeah Chinese oil reserves were much larger than was publicly known. They immediately cut imports by a massive amount as soon as the war started and have been able to keep it up for months. Without that the economic fallout would have been f
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by rurp 16d ago
An experienced runner can almost always tell if another person is an experienced runner by watching them run or hearing them talk about the activity. Same for a mathematician, or a car mechanic, or a software engineer. I don't see why
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by rurp 24d ago
Dems are certainly less evil and marginally more competent, but they are still an unpopular shit show. Even with trump attacking America left and right and becoming deeply unpopular for it they're only a coin flip to win the senate. Va
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by rurp 24d ago
> something will have to change if we want to still have a functioning world where people make good art and others are enriched by it. Unfortunately this is completely opposed to the goals of the companies creating AI. An org like Google
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Musk's AI company sues its users as victim lawsuits over Grok deepfakes mount(politico.com)
8 points by rurp 29d ago|1 comments
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by rurp 1mo ago
I'm not going to vouch for every single HN comment, but running a large established company is fundamentally different from founding a startup, and I think most people recognize that. Getting a big company CEO job has way way more to
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by rurp 1mo ago
Few Americans have done more than musk to destroy state capacity and to enable corruption on a massive scale, all while enriching himself to an unprecedented degree. That's great for him and his cronies that he has gotten so wealthy do
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by rurp 1mo ago
To prevent countless thousands of easily preventable deaths. Human problems don't just stop at some point, especially in poor areas that are also getting hit the hardest by climate change. Are you also upset that western countries have
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by rurp 1mo ago
> Samsung just includes too much overlapping bloat "features" Yep, that's a major drawback. My partner has a Samsung phone and seeing all of the included bloatware, plus the terrible updates and add even more, made me not
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by rurp 1mo ago
Eh, it depends on how you use it. I have a heavily used Linux laptop that's almost a decade old and I still love it. I've had various work and personal MacBooks over the years and don't really miss them. It sounds like their
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by rurp 1mo ago
I think it's more about institutional trust than the technology itself. AI could be a great common good in the west, but look at the companies and politicians controlling its development. The notion that trump/elon/altman&#
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by rurp 1mo ago
Translations are inherently lossy, especially for cases like the bible that use less common dialects and have conflicting source versions. Are any biblical translators claiming that their work is a 100% reproduction of the original? I doubt
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by rurp 1mo ago
Scale matters and modern humans drive species to extinction faster than the historical average by several orders of magnitude. Even if you value non-human intelligent life at zero, which I think is morally reprehensible but know plenty of o
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by rurp 2mo ago
SpaceX isn't more secure than the government because the government might bail it out in the future, that makes no logical sense. Obviously SpaceX is a higher default risk than the entity supposedly backstopping it. Not to mention that
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by rurp 2mo ago
I can relate to this so much. My interests tend to be pretty niche and I have little interest in most of the major online websites. The scale at which Google has hollowed out the non-corporate internet boggles the mind. The earlier web era
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by rurp 2mo ago
Not just reading, videos have been ruined in many ways as well. My base reaction to seeing anything surprising on video form has switched from "Interesting!" to "Probably fake". Novel events caught on video are now immed
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by rurp 2mo ago
Part of the problem is that there is so much overlap between GenAI's biggest boosters and people who reflexively welcome on any tech change as an unalloyed good. People can be really fanatical about this stuff. Any nuanced discussion o
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by rurp 2mo ago
Scale matters. Parents taking their phones out to record discrete events in a visible way is one thing, and the data may or may not make its way to Facebook. Parents wearing glasses that record and upload 100% of what they are seeing to Fac

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