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Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:22PM (#49745335)
Haha, indeed. Although, who knows if folklore is just survivorship bias. If the villain succeeds then the story is not as interesting right?
Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:31PM (#49744700)
"Necessity is the mother of invention".

If someone is capable of doing something, and your goal is to prevent them from doing it, the worst thing you can do is to make it necessary for them to do it.

[edited for grammar]

Yes, exactly. Probably a settlement similar in spirit to Google v Uber RE: Anthony Levandowski stealing self driving IP
Re:Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @07:01PM (#47955829)
Doesn't it require some form of educated electorate to sustain a functioning democracy? Otherwise it is really "by the people" if they are merely avatars?
Re:Banned in California on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:39PM (#47159654)
Probably helpful to add why, otherwise this is just seems intended to trigger biases
I guess this is trend now because it's a contrarian / attention grabbing headline. See:

- "Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity..." https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-s...

- “Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI…” https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

But fundamentally, large shifts like this are like steering a super tanker, the effects take time to percolate through economies as large and diversified as the US. This is the Solow paradox / productivity paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

  > The term can refer to the more general disconnect between powerful computer technologies and weak productivity growth
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @08:34PM (#46983795)
I think the point bcherny is making in the last few threads is that, the new verbose mode _default_ is not as verbose as it used to be and so it is not "too verbose to handle that". If you want "too verbose", that is still available behind a toggle
Re:I miss thinking hard on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:41AM (#46882315)
I think the more apt analog isn't a faster car, a la Ferrari, it's more akin to someone who likes to drive and now has to sit and monitor the self-driving car steer and navigate. Comparing to the Ferrari is incorrect since it still takes a similar level of agency from the driver versus a <insert slower vehicle>
Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:26PM (#46505950)
Terrible take in the 2nd premise of your argument. Is Venezuela a sovereign nation or a colony? Can similar logic be applied against Russia or even the US?
Re:Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:20PM (#46381492)
Grok... with a k
Re:JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:57PM (#45570639)
Actually, not quite how this works. You always get valid JSON, as in this sequence from the readme:

```json {"name": "Al"} {"name": "Ale"} ```

So the braces are always closed

Re:iPhone Air on Thursday September 11, 2025 @01:32AM (#45208153)
Yes, but it is not MTE, they are technically different. That's what I was attempting to point out but thought it may have been a typo
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:12PM (#45190039)
MIE
nuclear_power_run_book.doc
Re:Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:17PM (#44963260)
In my experience Playwright provided a much more stable or reliable experience with multiple browser support and asynchronous operations (which is the entire point) over Puppeteer. ymmv
Re:When Did AI Take Over Hacker News? on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:01AM (#44941394)
I think that's the point, the author isn't trying to get into the weeds of the debate itself, just the way the debates are usually framed and how most people might not realize it. It is a "meta" article in that sense and yes you're right, you can apply it in many other contexts where novel and advanced technology is being debated
Re:When Did AI Take Over Hacker News? on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:58AM (#44941358)
I tend to agree with this. I just the "pretty negative" adjective jarring in this case and wanted to get a sense of what some in the community here think. Seems mostly in line with your sentiment
Re:When Did AI Take Over Hacker News? on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:13PM (#44934546)
What I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited.

> " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI"

The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/. I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI, although it's clear the author has concerns. But the thrust is inviting the reader to not fall into the trap of the current framing by proponents of AI, rather questioning first if the future being peddled is actually what we want. Seems a fair question to ask if you're unsure?

I got concerned that this is framed as "pretty negative post", and it impacted my read of the rest of this author's article

infamous*

but yes, sure sounds like it!

Re:Tesla shows no sign of improvement in May sales data on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:06PM (#44182955)
> really sad that people are giving up high quality reasonably priced electric vehicles over politics

> obviously to me that sending money to shady petro states all over the world is just a bad idea

Do you not see the contradiction, in the same sentence?

Re:Yagri: You are gonna read it on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:49PM (#43777499)
Care to share what you've been working on?
The FAA confirmed that debris fell outside designated areas, temporarily disrupting air traffic and causing several aircraft to divert or delay flights.

You can read more here and other news sources

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/spacexs-starship-grou...

Oh common?! Do you own the travel path when driving down the highway? No you don't but there are agreed upon and codified rules on right of way that protect your right to safe passage or navigation. Similar convention applies to air space and air travel, look up Annex 2: Rules of the Air by ICAO which outlines right of way principles for air travel
Re:Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:16PM (#42728809)
This was the post by Bryan Cantrill of Oxide on the Tofino saga with Intel

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wr...

Looks like it worked? Smart strategy
You're kidding right? This is space debris. If a Qantas flight crashed into your neighborhood, you know who's responsible right?
Re:California Bans Sell-By Dates on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:24AM (#41766306)
I don't think this law forbids producers from adding supplemental dates? So a coffee container could conceivably have both dates
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:21PM (#41735139)
> but I wish it were integrated into tools already used for coding and writing rather than having it be a separate app

Take a look at cursor.com

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