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sorry to hear that and glad you are here to comment :)

Fair enough, and I had the (mis?)fortune of watching folks go through that as an EMT.

For sure when clinical death starts (even if later reversed), some processes kick in that never would otherwise activate, totally agree. The commonality of near-death-experience suggests something very basal.

I suppose for me, it is the difference between a true “translation“ and having an LLM reinterpret intent and state “its” words.

Ideally, I want the speaker’s words translated “verbatim” to English, to the extent possible.

Australia turned out kinda OK

it’s fairly simple:

clinical death = heart stops = reversible, depends on circumstances

brain death = irreversible = perma-dead. no one’s ever come back.

legal death = brain dead (not clinical) or court order (missing for X years/etc)

so maybe more hospitals shutdown from ransomware attacks coming?

I appreciate the thoughtful approach. It must be a deluge.

You write well enough to use your own voice.

I don’t think it is so binary black/white though.

I don’t mind if someone who has no command of English uses a translator. But there is a difference between a translator and an AI/LLM.

Amen and agreed 100%

There is no universal cure so every community has to figure it out. I know HN will.

If the community gets lazy with our standards, we drown.

Downvote & flag the AI slop to hell. If we need other mechanisms, let’s figure those out.

I don’t want to read AI slop, but how do you feel about translations?

I don’t mind when non-native speakers use it to express themselves, especially if disclaimed (but I give a pass even if not). Does it bother you?

yeah that is a lot of tech, but it’s all B2B- no consumer breach, right?

My only knowledge of this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

I guess they have some sensitive data on our emergency services organizations and their headquarters addresses and accounts payable people, maybe PII on signatories (officers, board members & “important people”) and whatnot.

Anyone know if it would be worse?

tickets: Linear over Jira every day

KB: Notion over Confluence no question

Just a couple examples, you could swap a dozen other better vendors in either category.

What does Atlassian have but inertial lock-in to keep them going?

the all-lowercase thing was popular on the early internet. i sometimes slip into it; always thought of it as the written equivalent of dressing like a slacker- it signals a bit of laziness mixed with some nonconformity

but maybe the elite use it differently

Neat, what was the total token count and cost?

> Trademark admittedly does not fit this view, but doesn't seem all that damaging either

Isn’t trademark the only thing keeping a certain cartoon mouse out of the public domain, despite the fact that his earliest animations are out of copyright? Not sure if you’d consider that damaging, or if anyone has yet tested the boundaries of the House of Mouse’s patience here.

Bernstein v US says you’re right but let’s see if it gets there and hope they get legal reasoning right. One can hope the EFF and others are on this. Anyone know about any current challenges?

Secret FISA court decisions are also law, the public just can’t see or challenge them. So we really have no idea what is considered lawful.

If the contract says “all lawful use” it’s a blank check to the state.

per other Snowden comments, “all lawful use” means whatever we want it to mean.

Secret FISA court decisions will say the use is lawful, but you’ll never get to read or challenge those decisions.

I love these illustrations! It’s always hard for me not to automatically conjure pictures from the Ralph Bakshi animated film when I think about The Hobbit, these give me another very cool perspective.

keep programming and learn to use AI.

it’s just another tool. lots of people didn’t want to use compilers and got left behind. the world moved on.

i’m older than you and doing fine. it’s just another tech upheaval, we’ve been through plenty.

yes it gets tiring and at some point you find your way off the treadmill. but it’s really not that hard to stay on, especially if you have the experience.

There is certainly a cultural component. A very good book named Albion’s Seed traces the waves of early American immigration. The North was mostly settled by dissidents pre-ECW. The South was mostly divided up into estates and settled by post-ECW lords that mirrored the social structure and power dynamics they liked.

hey don’t forget, that shitty ORM also empowers you to write beautiful, fluent code that, under the hood, generates a 12-way join that brings down your entire database.

I’m guessing the fields of view overlap for any 2 adjacent cameras, so you can get parallax measurements from any angle.

America is not NYC. NYC is proud of its police-state apparatus. Most of the rest of the country is very different.

There are good arguments but this isn’t one. Many humans (like me!) drive fine without binocular vision. And the cars have many cameras all around, with wide angle lenses that are watching everything all the time, when a human can only focus in one direction at a time.

Related: Apparently even non-subscribing Nest cameras send video to Google, where it’s stored for an undetermined length of time.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/guthrie-doorbell-video-delayed...

Apparently even non-subscribing Nest cameras send video to Google, where it’s stored for an undetermined length of time.

Awesome game. Winning was HARD. I don’t think I ever got the max score. Maybe time to try again!

One of the stated disadvantages was “the difficulty of designing adaptable action selection through highly distributed system of inhibition and suppression”

I can’t help but wonder how well a token-based AI could iteratively tune (or develop) a subsumption-based AI.