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It's also every textbook on philosophy, psychology, political science, etc. Even if you just believe in the stochastic parrot, there's signal here.

If LLM technology is going to shake out a bunch of scientific discoveries because it's trained on all disciplines simultaneously - isn't the same true for philosophy and psychology?

In any 1 given LLM it could just be a quirk of its weights. This isn't a machine opinion, it's what training data points at. Training data created by human academics studying human behavior.

I bet they're building a personal defense AI and the early adopters they're hoping for arent on Windows

I don't think it's a stretch to see a systemic pattern of big tech avoiding consequences that leave the rest of us in the power of monopolies.

Regardless of the content of this ruling, it's another brick in the wall.

There's a good chance that Blizzard was spared a lot of this round of layoffs because they're in labor contract negotiations right now.

I bought one of this system back when you could get one for $1800 (the GMKTek Ryzen AI Halo 128gb machine). It's a very good dev machine, the 16 core CPU is quite good for development work. I find this is a useful configuration for local LLMs with plenty of RAM left over for doing actual work on the system (split something like 64 system, 64 dedicated to LLMs).

I don't think I'd pay $4k for it today though, 2 years ago and less than half the price feels like a good machine. I'd be very disappointed in it today for $4k.

Nuclear lifecycle calculations include mining. The human cost is terrible, but a separate problem (we could theoretically have ethical mining practices that don't produce more CO2).

Here's some numbers I was able to find on total carbon lifecycle for the energy types: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5... - Coal is 68x more CO2 than Nuclear https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/LCA_final.pdf - Coal is 165x more CO2 than Nuclear https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy - Coal is 161x more CO2 than Nuclear

"AI has evolved more rapidly in the past two years than anyone predicted."

We clearly do not live in the same universe.

Literally anyone with the access to these people would be someone making bank. Do you think Cheryl Sandberg would bother to talk to a poor person?

That's kinda the nature of whistle-blowing. You're complicit, you have inside knowledge and THEN you choose to do the right thing. Snowden worked for the NSA before he exposed their lies about spying on US citizens, you think he did literally no work towards that end before blowing the whistle?

Why is this being presented to the HN community?

I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.

As a game developer, I'm really rooting for open source game engines.

Unity and Unreal are dinosaurs that target the shrinking console market. Godot is being built in their image. My hope is that something more versatile like Bevy becomes common so that we have something that could potentially compete with the next generation of Roblox.

Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hurt resale values for some reason...

"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished."

- A professional writer

The only use-case I've heard for cryptocurrencies that doesn't just sound like a get-rich-quick-speculative-betting-scam is providing financial services to the un-banked.

That's the wrong lens to use. Determine monopolies based on the view of a potential competitor.

Say I'm a new search engine startup that has some better tech than Google has, we invented a better wheel. How hard would it be to compete on merit?

I'd guess VLC will get support for it soon now that ffmpeg supports it.

"Turn Trends Into Content Instantly with AI"

This feels like infrastructure to help deliver AI slop.

What is the sales pitch for a company like this, "spammers will always exist, so fund us and we can take a cut of peoples' spamming activities?"

If you have continuous sunlight, can't you get away with no battery?

Not arguing with your overall point - this company looks ridiculous.

I get the sense that these sorts of tools are more for power users than for software engineers with production AI experience.

Typetunes

Q: "What does it do?" A: "This is what it looks like!"

-_-

Yes, you could walk around in it if you wanted to wait for 4gb of textures to download.

I'm happy they thought to make a youtube link.

"Maharaj" is a protester, the billionaire is "Khosla". I think you got them mixed up here.

Khosla is still a dick though, so the rest of your point is valid.

The animations don't feel as bad on a touchscreen. I think the biggest problem with material design in this sort of context is that Google made something that feels nice enough on mobile but feels trashy on PC.

http://i.imgur.com/pnWrc.jpg I use a walking desk for about 8 hours a day. I found that about 1.2mph is my sweet spot where it doesn't affect my productivity at all. Took me a few weeks to get used to walking all day, but now it's completely natural.

I just interviewed at Google Boston (in Cambridge) and it looks like there's lots of automatic standing/sitting desks there, but they're definitely the expensive versions ($1,200+ on amazon).