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Well, reverse-engineers could have done this before, but you didn't pay one $3,000 to do it. You paid Claude $30 or whatever to do it. So all that changed was the cost, and the bar is now a lot higher to make a product people will pay for. Furthermore, no one signaled to the market that there was value there, so no one in China reverse-engineered it for $30 before AI. Makes me wonder if these "award-winning" algorithms are valuable due to prestige alone.

Back before Firefox deprecated XUL, there were plenty of download addons that had this feature.

Ah, so the law should only protect the ones that JMKH42 on news.ycombinator.com thinks don't need protesting. I'm sure the top minds in Washington are working hard to accomplish this totally sane and rational suggestion.

Because it's so difficult to avoid protesting in a church huh? I get that you're partisan, but come on, have some common sense.

Being "not nice" guarantees downvotes here. I'm engaging in exposure therapy so that people get used to it so we can actually have debate that isn't layered behind needless coddling and cotton-padding.

When the Amish out-procreate the rest of the population in the US, do they "slaughter" us? With their pitchforks and buggys? Are you funking serious Lund University?! Is this the excellence you can imagine aspire to? Yikes folks. Going to have to remember that name because I'm sure we'll see more lovely headlines from them at this rate.

I switched back to Windows after using Linux for years, simply because the promises of better software never emerged. Maybe AI reverse-engineered apps like that Adobe Creative Suite clone in Rust will start to change things, but I don't really want to hang my hat on an app that could go away at a moment's notice.

I thought for sure a popup was going to appear asking me to log in with Games For Windows Live!

Really? Well, I guess the over-generalization of this factoid is a pet peeve of mine, and I jumped into action to correct what didn't need corrected.

Some people really love tunnels. Personally I always wanted a house with two basements. Or maybe more. Probably inspired by the 2002 movie Resident Evil.

Like a virus, that little fact slipped into your brain and set up shop there.[1] Would you be interested to know that it isn't true (in the sense that you think it is)? Would it make you sit up and strengthen your mental defenses? I hope so.

I just picked 8 random states [2], picked a random suburb of major cities, and looked up the laws around rainwater collection. It's illegal in NONE of them.

[1] - Not only that, it became strong enough for it to easily overrule the idea of data centers, which are by their nature given concessions by the government, could every conceivably collect rainwater!

[2] - Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, California, Nevada

Yeah this feels like what I call the "scientific method for journalists". Step 1: create a hypothesis Step 2: google for evidence supporting that hypothesis Step 3: write an article about how it's definitely happening

McMansion Hell has one schtick and they're going to ride it into the apocalypse.

Data centers could avoid the whole water usage debate if they just collected rainwater on the roof or something. Most places that are getting datacenters are heavy rainers.

Can't speak for the above, but for me it's a hedge against enshittification and sudden shutdowns. If I had a dollar for every community archive that suddenly went offline, I'd have several dollars.

It will cause mass unemployment, which will cause demand for goods and commodities to plummet, as everyone cuts back to just what's necessary to survive, which will cause anything that isn't a bare necessity to become a high-priced luxury item, including the very oil and chips that AI needs, and AI prices will go up, and no one will be able to afford it, so AI companies will fold, or be absorbed by the government, and then the government will be the only buyer of AI, and they'll only buy enough of it to maintain a stalemate with China and Russia. Human labor will become valuable again and we'll all laugh at this weird roller-coaster ride.

Or, you know, microcosms of the above, until AI ratchets down to a low hum.

Your theory is that project 2025, rather than just being a straightforward result of right-wing politics (cut welfare, reduce trans rights, etc) is secretly intended to make people more supportive of private equity taking over everything. You say this is obvious, but I don't see the picture you do, which makes me think confirmation bias might be at play. Note that I'm not defending right-wing politics, I'm just pointing out that the "secret twist meaning" isn't necessarily true.

This feeling is exactly what led to people leaving Europe to found what later became the United States. The Bill of Rights is basically a laundry list of things the King did to his servants - staging troops in their homes, rifling through their papers, stealing ideas, taking property without compensation, trying people in secret trials without a jury, trying people over and over until they got a conviction (or an acquittal if the accused was a friend of the King), levying huge bail amounts to prevent the accused from working so they would agree to plead guilty, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT (one of the King's favorites), and laws being made/removed at the whim whenever they benefitted the King.

All of that is coming back, probably. So enjoy that!

You're getting downvoted because you didn't anticipate and properly defend yourself against angry people who don't understand the is/aught fallacy. They mistake "is this true?" for "this should be true". Actually, it's not even the is/aught fallacy, it's something weirder. I have yet to figure it out. Still working on that one.

This is a huge problem in manufacturing. Unless you're on the latest "node" your options are bleak: Decades-old stock that's been rotting in a warehouse, parts pulled from boards and resold as new, cheap knockoffs. The crystal he's using are huge and outdated by modern electronics standards, and there really isn't anything he can do about that.

Try asking this about anything else. "When the cost of hairbrushes goes up, where does the money go?" "When the cost of RAM goes up, where does the money go?" or if that doesn't get you thinking outside the box, try to put yourself in the role of the commodity: "When the minimum salary I will accept goes up, where does the money go?" You'll quickly see that it's a really hard to answer question. Are you just a pass-through of rising costs? Do you need a raise because your gas went up? Because the cost of hot dogs went up? Why does this apply to you, but not companies?

I dunno, this seems like confirmation bias.

Google is at that mid-1990s Microsoft point where they know what the next big thing is, but they have neither the taste not corporate flexibility to parlay that into the right fit. In 5 years someone will make a search engine that gets the AI balance just right, and Google will buy them for $900 billion or something.

Smith-Mundt Modernization Act as an excuse for addictive algorithms, what a time to be alive.

That just ignores knock-on effects.

And yet plenty of businesses languish because they can't do so.

People don't like to hear this, but we're going to need to become technologically literate as a society. Your local bread shop is going to need to use facebook. Your dentist is going to have to learn to use the latest x-ray machine, not the one they still have from 1992. And yes, your police are going to have to know that ALPR cameras aren't magical criminal identification devices.

So next time start your first post with that, otherwise you lead us on this wild goose chase only to find that you mostly agree, it's a foundational part of discourse.

If you give an ape a slingshot he might think he can take over the entire world. But he doesn't even know what rubber bands are, or what it takes to make them.