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I'm tired of this point being repeated. This is not universally true. I'm in communities where the more active discussions are not ragebait.

I'd say HN's problem is rooted in that many folks participate in malicious contrarianism.

ChatGPT is marketed as a tool to assist with real-world scenarios like looking up information, vacation planning, and other non-fiction scenarios.

Why do you find it surprising to find someone may expect to utilize the tool in a non-fictional way or that someone could interpret it’s output as non-fiction?

It’s unreasonable to apply this bizarre standard of “it should be treated as fiction only when I want it to be”

I'd wager "scientist with a deep background in research of rocket propolsion technology in the 1950s" was a bit more difficult to come by than "early-career software developer who integrated a bunch of APIs and maybe wrote a frontend in React".

iCloud Private Relay

It's a very limited VPN as it only works for Safari/Mail and only anonymizes you to your region/country.

Perhaps a quantity below "a single company causes enough of a spike in global demand that it'll have demonstrable impact in nearly every single industry"

And usually trade regulators would be the entity to start being concerned.

I assume you're on a quest to assert a "let a completely unregulated free market roar" position, but do recognize that global supply issues of critical components have negative market effects, especially when it'll have some impact on nearly every industry except perhaps lawn care.

This does not change that:

- The Switch is primarily a gaming device for entertainment purposes.

- The eShop overwhelmingly focuses on providing games for said entertainment purposes.

- It can be assumed that the overwhelming majority of people do not use the Switch, or expect to use the Switch, for general lifestyle purposes.

(That said, I wish we lived in a world where the eShop wasn't the only way to get digital games on the Switch, but phones have evolved to impact a large segment of the economy in many ways)

Since when does any organization factor in inflation for renewals from vendors?!

All the purchase renewal decisions I've been part of have been:

1) Will they budge on renewal rates?

2) Does an alternative vendor exist?

3) Is the increase reasonable compared to the cost of switching to an alternative?

4) Do we anticipate future price increases, and if so, how can we prepare ourselves to consider a switch in the future?

That's fair, but my point was that AI should be implemented in a way that's out-of-the-way but is still helpful to users.

I think LLMs are incredible, I think there's a lot of really good usecases where it can help promote recommendations and actions for a user to take. I don't think every user wants to have every app they touch into a Chatbot though.

Do recognize, you're voluntarily participating in a highly moderated forum. If one were principled in their opposition to moderation, one would not voluntarily choose to use said forum for nearly a decade ;)

Part of what makes Hackernews enjoyable to read is the strong and very reasonable moderation. We aren't subject to walls of Viagra/Cialis ads or back-and-forth flamewars.

I'd argue it's because of content moderation that HN is an environment that generally promotes a marketplace of ideas.

Some AI was done tastefully. Apple Photos search comes to mind. I can search for objects across your photos, and it does a reasonable job finding what I want. It's an example of AI that's so well done, the end user doesn't even know it's there.

Now Microsoft pushing "Copilot" is the complete opposite. It's so badly integrated with any standard workflow, it's disruptive in the worst of ways.

As much as I'd appreciate more open source for the sake of transparency, binaries provided on websites aren't guaranteed to match the source code provided and I'd assume most users are pulling binaries versus building themselves.

I can’t imagine the framers of the Constitution envisioned having 50 states, either.

26 Senators is a substantially different shape of legislative body than the current 100.

This is false.

Most rural routes are served by the USPS-proper.

I partially agree. FSD seems fine to me but I wouldn’t buy a second Tesla. Tesla seems to have stopped caring about being a car company that caters to nerds/tech enthusiasts.

Mine has been an extremely well done vehicle and I was (and kind of am) bullish on FSD as a driver assistance technology, but a car is a 6-7 year investment for me and I have big doubts about their direction. They seem to have abandoned the idea of being a car company, instead chasing this robotaxi idea.

Up until 2023/2024 was fine for my 6-7 year car lifecycle. Tesla was really cool when they let you do all sorts of backwards-compatible upgrades, but they seemed to have abandoned that.

I’ve found it incredibly disappointing seeing their flailing direction now.

Rivian seems to still have a lot of the magic that Tesla had. They’re definitely a strong contender for my next vehicle in a year or two.

Why make the assumption that municipalities must treat their internet services as a second-rate utility? Many local governments are competently run.

If the internet is out, it's going to be just as visible and probably will yield as many complaints as losing power, sewer, and water.

And have extra wear on your battery that would far outweigh anything you’d get out of it?

I’m down about 18% capacity after 4 years of owning my current EV. It’s still plenty for my needs but I would be very disappointed if I saw this capacity drop much sooner or if it drops much more.

A replacement would be ~$15k and the cost of replacing the car would be a lot greater.

I’m very much digging the current strategy of grid-tied batteries and the myriad of companies working to re-use battery packs for grid batteries.

Do recognize that we already have many, many levers to pull to remove an administration that is not acting in the best interest of the people

The problem is:

1) We never actually want to pull the levers

2) While some early politicians expressed concern about party politics, for nearly 250 years there have been very few actual changes that recognize the harm of very cohesive party politics. If anything, changes were made to further entrench the system (the competitive game of admitting states in the 19th century, rules that only recognize 2 major political parties at the state and federal level, etc)

> establish temporary emergency standards of eligibility for the duration of the emergency for households who are victims of a disaster which disrupts commercial channels of food distribution

I thought we are all victims of a disaster, including with commercial food distribution, hence the need for these emergency tariff actions? (Half tongue-in-cheek)

But on a more serious note, it’d be interesting to see what happens when emergency actions start interfering with interpretation of other emergency actions.

Per the linked article:

> In an experiment, the company found that the stickers actually resonate with customers, reminding them of the problem of food waste.

For TechCrunch you need to latch onto at least a few trends.

For example: Medium Memories is introducing an AI-enabled coffin personalized to the relationship between you and your late-loved one. Medium provides you an always-on cloud-connected camera to ensure you won’t have to lose sight of those who matter to you. Medium Plans start at $2.99/mo for 60 minutes of AI-enabled talk time a month. Here’s our interview with founder Bamuel Saltman.

Who’s pretending COVID didn’t happen?

The inclusion of the word “already” suggests that someone should have put forth effort to fork this project by now.

That’s where I interpreted this as a demand.

Demanding people do free work for you, like starting a fork on your expedited schedule is quite juvenile.

Forks take time and effort from humans to maintain.

Poland[1, 3], Latvia [2], Lithuania [3]

1. https://apnews.com/article/russia-nato-members-borders-airsp...

2. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-drone-that-cras...

3. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-says-russian-...

Among other events, like drones being spotted near commercial airports.

Are you suggesting repeated airspace intrusions and acts against civilians are merely acts of innocence?

Why the framing of alliances like it’s a boolean?

The question of “can we trust the American government” is now being asked more often. Existing alliances and new potential alliances face that question, whether or not you personally believe that they should trust America.

Even if no concrete actions are being performed with asking that question, the fact that question is even being asked is a major drop from where we were.

Please quote the exact part of my statement where I absolve any political party of blame for inflation-inducing measures.

The only two plausibly mainstream (by name, not votes) parties I am willing to absolve blame would be the Greens and Libertarians as they hold no power.

The stimulus spending started under the administration prior to the last one.

In the United States, elections were held on November 2020. A new administration would’ve started in January 2021.

Or do what the rest of us have done and configure our usual clients with IMAP access.

I’d rather Fastmail ship their web client in Electron than waste engineering resources on reinventing the wheel for a client that’d get it’s own share of endless complaints from people wanting it to be more like Outlook or Thunderbird or Mutt.

If we’re going on HN rants, this bizarre tendency of reframing the blatantly obvious into something it isn’t doesn’t help any argument.

The messenger isn’t some random, disconnected third party here.

“Unconstitutional” is a loaded term that fails to convey any meaningful insight if you consider the Supreme Court only has power because they declared it so.

That said, there isn’t a fourth branch of government and the strict boundaries of branches is a rather… elementary understanding how our government works.

If an independent agency is “unconstitutional” and a fourth branch, how would you define our Armed Forces in practice?