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So many things wrong with this blog post. Any seasoned frontend dev would have EASILY pointed these out for you.

OP, I think your being a bit hasty here, more curiosity will do you good.

This is fascinating. How does "pub" not immediately scream British?

When I read stories I feel I can pick out US and UK instantly:

> Everyone is freaking out about ... - American

> ... has been Sacked from - British

> They negotiated a total sum of ... - British

> The ... is totally insane - American

When he does what we know he is going to do, the optics are going to be an absolute disaster not just for Denmark but Europe

Like to point out, Z image turbo puts out frontier quality images in a reasonable time on a local device.

But since it requires less than 16gb, the author is still right.

Thank you for adding context.

Probably not a great idea to run a private vpn. You aren’t hiding your ip. You are only acquiring a second ip, that is still your ip.

A private vpn is only good for punching through firewalls

Because once upon a time it was with pride you could point out all the ways your democracy was different than “theirs”.

Now you’re just condemning what you’ve already done. Why should anyone respect it? At some point you loose respect and eventually you just look confused.

> The law was enacted without consulting the Hong Kong legislature and gave authorities broad powers to charge and jail people they deemed a threat to the city's law and order, or the government's stability.

The UK throwing a very big rock at a thin glass house.

I don’t agree with any such laws in any country, but I think it’s important to point out the hypocrisy here

The author points out that the sheer scale of what you generate in that 7 seconds is so vast that you’ll have plenty of time to generate the next tile even when moving at extreme speeds. So your only problem is the first tile, which you can pre compute at the very beginning.

Latency vs Throughput

Because in the long book of history, HN wants to look absolutely neutral during this episode.

That’s apparently the good look

A lot of that innovation benefits only YouTube . Also these other innovations (recommendation system, translations etc) existed before YouTube.

There are definitely innovations from the big companies but not “key” innovations.

In the article it looks at innovation from a national level. I.e new products and services, and methodology.

The scaling you describe is great but its only impact is within YouTube, and it’s not unique. Every other company of that size has also figured their own way to scale. No one was depending on YouTube for this.

Almost everything can be termed innovation, but we need to be mindful that we are trying to justify the existence of monopolies. Ie “society needs them otherwise we couldn’t figure it out”. With that the threshold for innovation increases quite a bit.

Yes, there are a lot of situations where that is true. And as you say industrial projects, and I assume you specifically mean heavy industries, like building a new type of airliner. I agree.

But when it comes to information technology those situations are far and few in between.

Hear me out. What if it’s not capitalism as a whole but one specific facet. Debt.

> In the liberal fantasy, spearheaded by Adam Smith, bakers, brewers and butchers laboured within markets so cut-throat that none could make more money than the bare minimum necessary to keep their small, family-owned businesses running.

In a cash only capitalism world that you can’t conspire to have more than you earn. You earn what the market earns.

But debt suspends capitalism long enough for someone to “beat” the market. And when capitalism resumes you have this perverse player operating under exceptional circumstances.

> Joseph Schumpeter … Progress he argued, is impossible in competitive markets. Growth needs monopolies to fuel it. How else can enough profit be earned to pay for expensive research and development

I know this to be false. Almost all the big tech companies consistently FAILED to bring about innovation through research. They instead had to acquire SMALLER companies and teams that had the innovation.

YouTube, Android, Instagram, WhatsApp etc…

And almost every other innovation was gained at the startup stage not the monopoly stage.

Uber, AirBnB etc..

If all the kids start pretending to be grownups, they end up escaping all the protections put in place to protect kids in the first place.

In football we call this an own goal

Worse still, EU isn’t actually a democracy. It’s an economic union. Which citizens voted for Vonderleyen? What power do EU citizens have over policies tabled in EU parliament? Who made the final choice on chat control?

Autocracy is what threatens EU democracy, not a check mark on a social media website.

So I don’t get called a Pro-Elon shill, I don’t like Elon, and think he is an ass. But he has done (maybe unwittingly) more for democracy on social media than his counterparts.

EDIT: Community notes might have been before Elon. So he only gets a half credit.

> of course personal 1:1 messages should

And what my undersensationalized friend do you understand by the word chat?

Not a good start.

Also don’t reply to this.

Remember all the thuggery and whatever we are seeing now was happening back then.

What has changed is we know about it.

> Where AI comes in is as a helper

This is where things stop translating well to the real world.

Imagine a pocket calculator:

10 + 33 = 44

Clearly incorrect, then someone tells you

“this one is different, it “helps” you, like 44 is in the ballpark. The real work is now the actual answer”

I made a comment a long time ago explaining this.

Tech enthusiast will judge ai based on what it gets right, we’re interested in what “can” do. Everyone else will judge ai based on where it fails, they are interested in what “problems” it “does” solve.

> a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

They see: A computer software generally unreliable and unable to accomplish basic tasks

It’s the new fund raising for an increasingly militarized world

Finally someone does some digging

You do realize the headline matches what you just quoted?

I understand the public and suits falling for this, but cmon

That the EU has these “closed door” processes doesn’t sound very democratic.

The frequency, aggression and coordination around chat control, both in the Uk and Eu tells me there is a single entity.

It’s not just by chance

- backseat engineer

- keyboard princess

- Robin to the Batman

- meatstack engineer

- artificial manager

> But Israelis having previously worked in the IDF doesn’t really provide any signal to me on the motivations or beliefs of that person

You know what, you’re absolutely right. But you’d be wrong if it turns out it’s not the general IDF we’re talking about, and specifically not one all Israelis have to serve. And that Google has all the good stuff.

But anyway I’m going to let you believe what you believe about a corporation that makes “donations” to a military, and I’m going to believe what I believe.

I’d like to clarify with a couple of questions.

- Are you saying that you believe apple is picking someone who is a real wizz with css, but because of the country’s laws they had to serve with the IDF?

- Are you saying the formality of having to be a former of your previous employer, as part of taking on new employment is to be unexpected in any way?

It wouldn’t be a disaster, Apple already donates to the IDF. They literally have IDF among their staff.

How is none of this public knowledge

Absolute decentralization is difficult or maybe impossible.

But you don’t need absolute decentralization to achieve sovereignty. For example a small group of certificate authorities are trusted by all of us for privacy, however these CA’s are unable influence what we encrypt since they can’t see what we encrypt. So relying on a provider doesn’t always have to equal control. Decentralization does not equal Sovereignty. But it helps.