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To your point, if you were able to reason about it, couldn't you make some self-determination and decide for yourself or at least communicate what you wanted to your "slaver"?

LLM's like GPT are just predicting the next token in a sequence of tokens. It's not magic. It's still just a computer program.

The entire AI safety culture inside the corps is driven by abject terror of our modern cancel culture. I can't say I blame them. There is already talk of regulating AI by Congress. The premise is that we can't be trusted with this information but the AI is really just regurgitating information that's already a few google searches away.

This article is a perfect example. I picture a journalist getting giddy when they are trying out Mistral's AI and realizing there are no "safety" controls. It gives them the perfect opportunity to write an alarmist masterpiece on the evils of AI.

They then go find people on the fringes who are "outraged" and make it sound like the entire world is up in arms about AI being unsafe.

This is true in most parts of the USA as well. In the State of Florida where I live, all drawings and plans become public record and these would definitely be enough to build. This is because all drawings used to build are required to be submitted. This includes details like engineering drawings and calculations and roof truss layout.

They are still protected by copyright but I'm not sure if it's relevant in the context of using the same plans to build a house. Copyright is meant to protect against copying and derivative works not how the information is used.

I don't understand your logic. This is addressing a real problem faced by people in America. I think what you're saying is YC billionaires should be fixing everything about our healthcare system instead?

First, other billionaires have tried and failed[0]. Billionaires don't stand a chance against a trillion dollar industry. Second, did you ever consider that a more realistic approach is to start with easily addressible problems like this one rather than trying to boil the ocean.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-j...

There is a subtle difference between "I would like to know when this will happen so I can make plans"and "I need this done because I'm being paid for your work, please hurry". If the requester left out the background information, the tone of the request would have been more of the former and less of the latter.

[edit] This is a response to the original unedited comment that claimed he wrote the first version of Confluence

I'm a former Confluence developer (2008-2013). I don't know anything about you or the detailed history of Confluence.

- When I started there were 12 people on the team including me. I wasn't there at the very beginning but some people on that team were and they would discuss design decisions from the start of the project.

- It was a spring-hibernate-webwork Java web application. Very complex and structured. Not your typical weekend project. Mike Cannon-Brookes (co-founder) of Atlassian wrote a book on this type of architecture.[0]

- They were always very open and forthcoming about open source they were leveraging. I don't remember this ever being discussed or mentioned.

[0] https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Java+Open+Source+Programming:+wi...

Agree 100%. I worked at Kennedy Space Center for a government contractor in the early 2000's. While I was there, NASA cancelled a software re-write of the launch control system. By then, they had already spent something like $800M and had nothing to show for it.

I can't think of a single piece of software that exists in the world today that couldn't be rewritten with $800M in capital.

First and only Yelp review I ever left was three stars for an Indian restaurant in 2011. It was quickly hidden because "it didn't pass the bot filter" or something. I've never used it since as a reviewer or to find places. It lost all credibility on my first interaction with it.

Well first, the original poster is making a gross generalization about Americans. Many Americans do bike places for enjoyment and necessity. Just like France, it's the exception not the norm in places with spread out amenities. Just like France, the decision to do this or not do this is based on things like free-time, safety, money, and yes, laziness.

Ah yes, American bashing. I won't go into the psychology behind it because I don't want to insult your background or whatever country you may be from.

By calling it a penchant, you make it sound like Americans choose these things. Most of us are held hostage by capitalist interests. Right now, it's much cheaper to eat processed foods than it is to make a similar meal from whole foods. Also, most of our towns over here in the New World were built with cars in mind. It's not generally feasible to walk places unless you live in a large city. Most people don't have 2+ hours to make a walking trip to the grocery store 5 miles away.

Seems like a great vertical for AI. Many successful startups have taken commoditized technologies and glued them together in novel and interesting ways. Why can’t you guys do that with GPT4? Don’t confuse the technology you developed with the product you are offering to customers

What I’ve found is people who use low code tools are more willing to lower their expectations to the capabilities of the tool. This is in comparison to your typical customer of bespoke software development who has a long laundry list of requirements that they’ve imagined up based on their perfect vision. If “good enough” was good enough for these people they would be using low code tools

Sure, that would be great but history has shown this is a beautiful but naive pipe dream. It doesn't take into account the ambition and greed of humans and their capacity to exploit others.

I'm not seeing the similarities to what the parent comment describes.

The people accused of participating of wrongdoing in these articles weren't pressured to participate by threats to their families from their "home" government. They did it for personal gain.

I really dislike posts that attempt to present their opinion as a new sort of dogma. I argue that this is one of those because his intro specifically mentions teaching junior developers as a senior developer and code smells. Bootstrap and Tailwind have completely different strengths. I don't really see them as in competition with each other.

His most valid point is how hard is to customize bootstrap theming options. The rest of his points are just a matter of taste.

Luckily, if you google for "free bootstrap theme builder", there are several free sites that let you point and click your way to whatever fonts, colors, etc. you want in bootstrap then download a bootstrap.css file that is a drop-in replacement for the one that ships out of the box.

It sounds like you are falling victim to propaganda from the other side.

Profiling and racism by police in America is obviously a problem. Unfortunately, we don't have a nuanced view of policing in China because any criticism of laws and policing by Chinese press is illegal because no freedom of press. The stories we do hear don't paint a rosy picture. A couple of examples are death sentences for drug crimes and organ harvesting.

To your point about "USA asian tributary states under USA hegemony". First, this sounds like Chinese propaganda. Let's assume you're right for the sake of argument. All of those countries you list have free or low-cost healthcare while American society pours money into weapons and military research. They don't pay the USA any kind of tax tribute that I'm aware of. Their economies have flourished and they have kept their own culture. They set their own laws and manage their own governments. It's not clear to me what we get out of the arrangement.

From my point of view, we are gearing up to defend Taiwan if necessary. That is all. I haven't heard anyone mention anything else in the press. Can you explain to me why defending a sovereign country that has existed as long as China would make us guilty of genocide?

Maybe but it's a lot less likely to happen AND it might make the news over here if it did happen. That was my original point.

You aren't going to see many (or any?) media stories that are critical of the government or laws in China.

Yes, they helped us find the "lawyer" and told us based on their experience that it was very likely he would spend time in a Chinese prison regardless of guilt or innocence. He got lucky in one sense because this was right before Covid hit. When everything started going a little crazy over there because Covid was spreading, they decided to let him leave for whatever reason.

Valid points but a lot of frustrations and injustices you hear about in the USA are told by our own press because freedom of press. We are a very transparent people. This is not the case for other places.

My brother lived and worked in China for many years as a professional photographer and basically made the same points as you when we would ask him about what life is like over there. That was until he fell under suspicion at some point because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time taking pictures. He was under house arrest for over a year. They confiscated his passport but eventually let him leave because of Covid. He had zero due process. It was decided by the local police that he should be under house arrest. My family hired a lawyer but he had to present the lawyer to the police as a "concerned family friend who lives in China".

That anecdote is relatively tame compared to what some people go through in authoritarian countries. If the government targets you in one of those countries, your life is over with near zero chance of getting out of trouble.

Ok but you could easily view the question as "What headaches to you want to solve and/or cool things you want to build that could be done using an API that you would be willing to pay for"

There is a chicken-egg problem with using ChatGPT for domain specific technical knowledge. ChatGPT is trained on data from sites like SO. If everyone starts using ChatGPT instead and technical communities die off, it seems like ChatGPT would quickly become ineffective.

You would still have documentation published by originators of the technology but a lot of programming is figuring out the quirks of things that aren't in the documentation or getting past bugs.

Dabbled with Rust a few years ago. It was not a true joy coming from the C#, Java, Javascript world because it was comparatively verbose to do similar things. It felt like it was meant to be an improvement on the C development paradigm.

I'm sad this was downvoted. I think it would make a more interesting discussion for unpopular opinions to be present and engaged with rather than downvoted into invisibility.

I think you make a fair point, if you don't want to agree to the terms of a transaction, don't participate in the transaction with the intent of breaking the terms. This is the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in any contract.

What's the alternative in modern society? The village craftsman building single-source hand-forged juicers no longer exists.

In the USA, there is a huge payment processing API industry. Stripe is a great company and it has this family of products that work great together but it has lots of competitors that have better pricing and better service.

I work in the industry for a payment processor. It's not a silicon valley startup (it's basically run by salespeople) but we have way better pricing and you can get someone on the phone if you have an issue.

Reading HN, you might think Stripe is the only option.

It’s also a big problem in communities surrounding domestic USA bases. I live in a community with an Air Force base. They tested the groundwater after a cluster of cancer cases appeared in graduates of the local high school. The PFAS levels were off the charts

Agree with you about the magical mexican clinic sounding a little too good to be true.

However, I can totally see doctors in the US and Europe ignoring or not knowing about the latest treatments for conditions. As I've aged and watched my parents age, We've dealt with several conditions where doctors have no idea and at some point they just think you're making it up. It feels like most doctors are just barely showing up to work mentally. If you don't fall within the dozen or so conditions/treatments they are familiar with they throw their hands up.

I'm in the banking API space. Yes, the current technology is decrepit and garbage. It's not the bottleneck though. Risk management and underwriting is. If you want to build a SaaS in this space, the hard part is figuring out how to vet customers cheaply and quickly. Every customer you sign up is a potential OFAC (Office of Foreign Access Control), BSA (Banking Secrecy Act), or AML (Anti-Money Laundering) violation.

Here is why: I still have people I can't send Zelle payments to because they bank with some random credit union. I can ACH anyone. ACH is managed through the "partisan" Federal Reserve.

Also, not sure if you're aware of the irony of your statement on no government involvement. Zelle originated at Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo in 2011. Three of the largest recipients of bailout funds after the 2008 financial crisis. So, technically, Zelle wouldn't exist without government involvement.

This article is all over the place.

The debate is over. The web won. You can see that by the way popular websites will try and force you to install their apps. That’s because their web experience is perfectly competent to scratch the users itch. They are forced to artificially cripple their mobile web experience to drive app installs.

There is a strong niche left to native. I’m thinking of things like creative tools. Photo editors, development environments, etc. you don’t typically do these things on mobile though. Another sign the web is winning: This niche is slowly shrinking as well. The big software companies are building web versions of the most popular products like photoshop, office etc.