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For those low wage earners, you're not going to get a large deal of independence by doing the job in Des Moines compared to San Francisco. You'll still be scraping by, possibly saving a little bit but not much.
Anthropic 10x'd its employees over the past 3 years. Shouldn't it be cutting employees if that's the case? Especially because they probably have access to more powerful models which aren't released to the public yet, probably with fewer restrictions, and don't need to pay the markup for using their own service?
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:23PM (#50341211)
Andrea, Simone, Nicola, Michele, Daniele in Italian are all male names, but English speakers would probably assume the person is female from the name alone.
Re:Napping characteristics and incident dementia on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:02PM (#50339866)
Where do you nap when overcome with langour or ennui?
Re:Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:52PM (#50320091)
There's also the overwhelming feeling that the comment section is overridden with bots. I started using reddit back in 2007 or so but have basically stopped
I'm responding to OP who is saying exposing randos in Egypt to porn is a good thing and will turn their society upside down
Where in my post did I say that Arab women don't enjoy porn?

My point is that many Arab men wont have a single meaningful interaction with a woman outside their family this year. Presenting women as sex objects to those men isn't going to have great effects. Similar to incels and porn.

Porn in the Arab world is probably going to turn already misogynistic men even more down that path. First, perhaps they can try to view women besides their mothers as humans, then we can work forward from there
Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:37AM (#50313249)
Inference will keep getting cheaper and cheaper though. Perhaps model releases will be fewer and farther between because these groups can't affording paying out a billion or more in training each generation
Buy Polar stock you say??? I'm dumping my life savings into it right now, hope I'm not too late!
Re:After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:33PM (#50295473)
He couldn't go to Belfast because he was active duty in the British military.

But, he left the army to do his around the world walk, which means that he could have left the army and gone to Belfast instead.

He and his adult son have a good relationship now seemingly, but that doesn't mean his son didn't need a dad growing up. Having said that, it seems like this dude had a whole slew of mental issues, so perhaps it was for the best that he wasn't around his son much while he was growing up.

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:17PM (#50295224)
"I've seen everything" - Patrick Stewart.

Good life advice as well

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:34PM (#50291800)
15 years ago, every pizza or chinese food place would have employees hanging out waiting to take delivery orders
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:32PM (#50291776)
Drivers ostensibly pick their jobs, but if they reject too many jobs they are put on a time-out and can't take any jobs.

Regarding line cutting - it doesn't quite make sense that someone just picking up a bag that is already prepared should wait in the same line as people who are putting in orders for food. For an extreme example, a BBQ place near me in Brooklyn commonly has lines that are 45 minutes long, with people waiting to order. Should a person who called in an order wait in that line, or just go to the front and ask for their food?

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:29PM (#50291717)
Maybe the idea is that this market will shrivel once the rest of the populace "wise up" to what the various OPs already know.
Because it's true, and he tried when he wasn't being prosecuted. The point has that some people are unfortunately prone to chronic suicidal episodes. It doesn't make sense to blame some external factor in cases like these.

If he was cut off in traffic and then went home and committed suicide, would you say that the driver that cut him off was responsible for his suicide. You might say that's because no normal person would commit suicide over that act, but no normal person would commit suicide when offered a 6 month house arrest.

And if you were going to commit suicide because of a long prison sentence you would probably do it after you were found guilty, like the guy who drank poison right as he was found guilty of something that would put him in jail for most of the rest of his life

He was offered a 6 month plea deal. He took his own life due to depression. Something he tried to do multiple times in the past
Won't the people using this strategy end up paying a lot more (in terms of percent ownership of their holdings) in an extended downturn?
Re:Nietzschian Debugger on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:58PM (#50251655)
As another more poignant philosopher said, "what doesn't kill you makes you very, very weak"
Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:03PM (#50246074)
They aren't charging for open data. They transformed the data, using AI.
What happens when their competitors decide to pay for a more intelligent frontier model?
Re:Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:20PM (#50233216)
The only people who will find this a masterpiece are people who are not actually enjoying the movie itself, but deriving a meta enjoyment of it by constantly saying to themselves "wow, can you believe how much mastery that shot must have taken?"
Re:Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:45PM (#50227786)
16 years to make a movie seems more like a failure of some sort - either of vision, or funding.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:10PM (#50225330)
They have world simulators which verify, to an extent, the behavior of the software
Disregard requires intent. Are you sure that's what happened here? Or was it an administrative error?
This is an AI post. Because it's about a data center that will host AI computers
You could also get civil judgements against them, which can't be pardoned. These are commonly used in clawing back ill begotten financial gains
No ex post facto is in the constitution though. And any attempt to change the laws that can be changed by Congress would have enough lead time where POTUS could pardon just before the laws changed
I've thought about this and I don't understand why we can have plea deals which are so radically different from the potential punishment if found guilty. Like, if the state thinks you did it and offers you a $1000 fine, how is it reasonable to potentially go to jail for 6 years if found guilty?

The state already showed that it believed that the crime was only worth a $1000 fine.

Maybe there should be a rule that whatever plea deal offered should be the maximum punishment possible if you're found guilty.

Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:28PM (#50189514)
Usually firefighters are on the clock and are paid the same whrehr they respond to a call or not

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