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Re:Apple targets OpenAI employees with legal letters on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:16PM (#48952396)
You don't need to "come from a poor country" to have seen this
I wish the author would open source the full benchmark. I'm curious how sensitive the results would be to small changes in the benchmark initial conditions
Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:27PM (#48274625)
This has been one the most significant improvements of using AI for me. Before I would have to really think through the plan of a new feature before committing to the implementation and would only catch incompatibilities with existing code after a good portion of the implementation was already written. Now I can ask AI for detailed implementation plans and find these nitty gritty detail problems in a few hours if not less
Re:The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:35PM (#48080135)
Thank you! I was trying to find someone pointing this out
Re:The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:27PM (#48080080)
To be fair, "american" could refer to anything made in the American continent (North, Central and South America)
In my view, the core of the solution here is to realize that no system will be stable and "perfect" forever. That is, we may chart into the unknown and arrive at a pretty good solution that benefits people, but over time, as people relax, some people will try to take power and eventually succeed. My point is: some people will always try to get advantages. So it will always come to the community to put in work to improve society and guarantee the benefits are given to all. There is no defining a set of rules and forgetting about it
Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:33AM (#48046146)
Same, the other day my manager sent a python script to create a jira ticket from some data to a team slack channel... as if no one else could figure that out or ask some LLM (sorry, I needed to vent)
Re:Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:06PM (#47957241)
On the other hand, it was somewhat expected that we would have a correction for the prices. Hopefully after this correction things will be more stable and we won't have to worry too much about future price increases
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:50PM (#47954435)
> That is what a lie is.

I don't think that is, because, at the time, he probably haven't decided one way or another. I think about it like the Schrodinger's cat. If Schrodinger's said "I think the cat is dead" and you went ahead and opened the box and found the cat alive, would Schrodinger have lied?

Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:20PM (#47940118)
We need a Wine-like compatibility layer for android alternatives
He was charged with "unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of non-public government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.". Supposedly, unlawful use of government confidential information could also be applied to legislative and other people in the government
Re:OpenAI Acquires TBPN on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:53PM (#47621741)
They are probably preparing for an IPO
Re:Epic Games lays off over 1k employees on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:58PM (#47509177)
Just a company with 40%+ of ownership from Tencent, Disney and Sony (all public traded companies). You could have googled this
Zoom has this feature as well
Re:OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO) on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:46AM (#47436549)
It's unlikely to happen because of the deal MS has with OAI. It's hard to ignore a percentage of revenue as money back guarantee
The median salary in the US is around $61k a year and in Japan is around $42k a year. Salary-wise the difference is not as big as GDP per capita
I'd say that the advantage for Venezuelans has more to do on having a cheap and fast way of transferring money than the cryptocurrency itself. IIRC an article that I read pointed that crypto holdings in there where very short lived, meaning people didn't keep the coins as a way of savings
I wouldn't bet on it
I had never noticed the flow of AI text. They do make the flow of reading feel weird with a lot of pauses! Thanks for pointing it out
Re:No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:01AM (#47322064)
To capture market.
Gotta love the slippery slope argument
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:01PM (#47224010)
I think it's not a bad thing that people make the "Don't use this one use this one it's better!" comment, at least from my perspective. That is one way I end up learning about the options I have!
I tried doing that but I'm certain they didn't delete it, because I tried logging in after a week and it worked
Re:OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:22PM (#47189312)
You definitely would not know if you were, no one does. I think the healthy position is to assume you are wrong and trying to find evidence of why you are wrong

For instance,I'm very skeptical of AI and, from experience, do not think that the current models are worth the cost, but I'm always in HN trying to find arguments/people that use AI successfully to prove that I'm wrong

I'd say the latter. Right now AI is Nvidia's biggest consumers. If any big AI company crashes, they'll lose a lot of money
Not GP, but I imagine they are referring to Nvidia's stock price It's down 6% today
Or if the stock is not actually worth $100
It's already frowned upon when crossing the border
Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:18PM (#47095970)
I'm re reading the Hitchhikers guide and was going to say exactly that!

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