> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security) It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current…
So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?
> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility
> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible. If they are such stable long term SaaS…
I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording. There’s no common theme, very little justification of any of the claims, and frankly very…
It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine
The hard part of GitHub is scalability
Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!
This is an odd criticism. I am (A) a zoomer and (B) I wasn’t criticising the use of the word spicy? I am saying the comparison itself is bad
> allowing spicy autocomplete Yknow, if the spicy autocomplete can solve difficult open math problems and build medium sized complex programming projects, it’s probably not useful to analyse it as an autocomplete…
Branch predictor can predict these pretty damn well
Europe is not particularly anti surveillance
I can see some risks with creating a hyper intelligent mecha-Epstein
Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way
This is the exception to the rule
> People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it Yes because stealing illegal items (if you believe AI generated imagery should be illegal) is still…
> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home. Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the street is one of the strongest measures…
The increasing fraction of “zingy catchphrase” HN comments compared to actually nuanced takes is depressing. Feels like a horrible mix of Reddit and tumblr
> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many exciting libraries, lots of pottery,…
Out of the 26 polls since the GE, 13 are pro indy 13 aren’t. But it’s worth noting that 9 of the 13 pro-indy polls were commissioned by strongly pro-Indy groups (The National, The Herald, STV News), which seems like it…
I don’t think Amazon have a vast conspiracy (that no one has whistleblown on!) of secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising. It would be difficult, require huge amounts of processing, probably not help very…
It just seems really far fetched that thousands of Amazon employees are conspiring to commit an insanely obvious and illegal breach of privacy for data that isn’t even all that useful (hard to analyse, computationally…
If a hearing aid was genuinely sending everything it recorded back then it would run out of battery insanely fast. It would also have insanely high network usage
Yeah of course they do the looped listening to pick up their wake sound. But extrapolating that to “constantly recording and sending that data to Amazon” without evidence is silly. Again, you’d be very easily able to…
Presumably they don’t secretly listen in to the user because it would be very inefficient, easily detectable (that’s huuuge network traffic and battery drain), and awful PR. I thought the whole “your devices are…
> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security) It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current…
So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?
> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility
> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible. If they are such stable long term SaaS…
I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording. There’s no common theme, very little justification of any of the claims, and frankly very…
It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine
The hard part of GitHub is scalability
Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!
This is an odd criticism. I am (A) a zoomer and (B) I wasn’t criticising the use of the word spicy? I am saying the comparison itself is bad
> allowing spicy autocomplete Yknow, if the spicy autocomplete can solve difficult open math problems and build medium sized complex programming projects, it’s probably not useful to analyse it as an autocomplete…
Branch predictor can predict these pretty damn well
Europe is not particularly anti surveillance
I can see some risks with creating a hyper intelligent mecha-Epstein
Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way
This is the exception to the rule
> People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it Yes because stealing illegal items (if you believe AI generated imagery should be illegal) is still…
> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home. Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the street is one of the strongest measures…
The increasing fraction of “zingy catchphrase” HN comments compared to actually nuanced takes is depressing. Feels like a horrible mix of Reddit and tumblr
> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many exciting libraries, lots of pottery,…
Out of the 26 polls since the GE, 13 are pro indy 13 aren’t. But it’s worth noting that 9 of the 13 pro-indy polls were commissioned by strongly pro-Indy groups (The National, The Herald, STV News), which seems like it…
I don’t think Amazon have a vast conspiracy (that no one has whistleblown on!) of secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising. It would be difficult, require huge amounts of processing, probably not help very…
It just seems really far fetched that thousands of Amazon employees are conspiring to commit an insanely obvious and illegal breach of privacy for data that isn’t even all that useful (hard to analyse, computationally…
If a hearing aid was genuinely sending everything it recorded back then it would run out of battery insanely fast. It would also have insanely high network usage
Yeah of course they do the looped listening to pick up their wake sound. But extrapolating that to “constantly recording and sending that data to Amazon” without evidence is silly. Again, you’d be very easily able to…
Presumably they don’t secretly listen in to the user because it would be very inefficient, easily detectable (that’s huuuge network traffic and battery drain), and awful PR. I thought the whole “your devices are…