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“AI shouldn’t make groundbreaking advancements because the scientists who otherwise wanted to make those advancements feel sad”.

All those scientists can go pound sand as far as I am concerned. I don’t give a shit about “joy” I care about curing diseases and solving the universe’s mysteries. If AI can get us there faster then I’m 100% for it.

Doesn’t really matter what happens at the GPU level when Google can see all API traffic.

Contracts and lawyers are more powerful than any technical tool.

This is a very misleading stat. A single path or subdomain on the website needs to be running PHP for the entire site to count as “powered by PHP”. Plus it excludes sites whose server-side tech cannot be identified at all (aka properly configured ones).

Depends on how you define Java. Android can execute Java programs, and bundles a handful of OpenJDK libraries, but it stopped running the JVM a long time ago.

Have you used public transit in San Francisco?

You can tell that this piece is written by someone who visited San Francisco to sit in a Waymo and then extrapolated how weird it must be for people who see them every day. In reality after the initial shock wears off these cars are just a normal, boring part of the road. Seeing them drive around town is the same as seeing any other kind of taxi. I find that the strongest opinions about Waymos come from people who live in cities where they don't operate.

Teach your kid to be a good person, to value hard work, to set lofty goals and strive to achieve them. Beyond that they’ll find their own way. “I’ll make my unborn son a programmer just like myself” was always going to be a pointless effort, AI or not.

So what people are really complaining about is the lack of an approval or curation process on Steam’s end. AI is exposing the problem by making it worse.

Title isn’t fully accurate. This is specifically for business pages. You can still post links on your own profile or groups.

Creating a dependency on OS specific APIs solves this one niche problem but causes a hundred more.

Why? How do you pin a website to a specific cert provider? And what happens when you want to switch?

Reason #1385275 why an iPad will never be a replacement for a real desktop OS no matter how much fancy hardware they shove in it.

Model weights being open to inspection means absolutely nothing. What are you going to inspect in a bunch of numbers?

Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/605/

Something like 99% of US businesses have less than 100 employees.

Willing to bet that after all the Meta glasses backlash companies are going to start releasing AI devices that have cameras but don't store photos or videos.

Even worse because rigging professional sports is illegal, but similar manipulation in any other betting category is perfectly fine. Kalshi and co. are being used pretty openly by insiders. Trump's own family are major stakeholders and advisors of both Kalshi and Polymarket.

Sports gambling is the perfect counter to everyone who says "people are going to do xyz anyways so it's better to legalize and tax it". Yes some people will gamble regardless of the legality, but putting the experience in an app in your hand, gamifying it to maximize addiction, blasting ads 24x7, including in the broadcast itself, having all your favorite athletes and celebrities endorse it, getting VC/PE and big corporate involved and giving it wide social acceptance increases the problem 100000x. It's perfectly fine for such vices to be left in society's underbelly rather than shoved in everyone's faces.

Now scale that up to Nvidia and you've understood the entire AI market

Yeah so simple, every gaming company basically has to operate without money.

The irony is that restrictive immigration policies designed to keep out "low quality" immigrants are only going to stop the flow of skilled ones who have better options at home or elsewhere. People who are desperate will continue to immigrate no matter what.

Nemotron, Inkling, Gemma, Trinity Large, Snowflake Arctic were all released/updated in the last 6 months, and there are countless other smaller models out there. US open weight is very far from "dead", and certainly doesn't need Zuck as a savior.

Tech people really are drug addicts. Rant about Zuck and Meta for 364 days a year and then jump over each other to be first in line the moment he shows something shiny.

> The rent market on intelligence never materialized

So where is the ~$100B combined revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic coming from? Open weights models have been close enough to the frontier for over a year now, probably longer, yet the $$ shows no sign of shifting.

Turns out competition works!

2026 is the 30th anniversary of targeted advertising on the internet. Do we really need to post a new version of the "<free service> shows you ads based on your data" article every single day? This is not a revelation. You are not enlightening the dumb tech-illiterate masses. People already know, and they don't care.

No one spoke out when the government started abducting US citizens (who happened to be brown) off the street and killing them in detention centers or putting them on deportation planes to random countries without any due process. This is just the next logical step of the program. All authoritarian governments handle dissidents in this way.

Because people are going to lie in their own favor.

Do you think that claims of innocence should be given the same weight as confessions of guilt?

> According to OpenAI, its technical surveillance countermeasures team found the device during a sweep of a conference room.

Not surprising that a large company does these kinds of sweeps, but pretty cool to see an example of them being useful. Every security guy who has been doing this for years without finding anything must feel so validated right now.