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Comment · 2 days ago
Kagi might be (intentionally or accidentally) working around GitHub's attempt to prevent indexing of repos.
Comment · 16 days ago
These numbers are made up. I don't see how IP clearly makes things worse or better.

On one hand, yes, IP = monopoly = rents, as you say.

But on the other hand, no IP means economy of scale is a lot more important, and that favors huge corporations.

Which effect is bigger? I don't know.

Comment · 17 days ago
Not only elections, anything he thinks he should win is rigged: Emmy awards, Nobel Peace Prizes, probably a lot more.
Comment · 20 days ago
If the cost comes down, that could make something worth paying for when it previously was not.
Comment · 20 days ago
> We have banned or curtailed access and research for other technologies before.

Such as? I can't think of anything comparable. Nuclear energy maybe, but that has obvious justifications for regulation. Not just "I don't like it".

Comment · 23 days ago
Why would this help? Unsigned integer overflow is defined behavior, that causes basically the same set of bugs in practice. In a way it is worse, because at least runtime UB checkers have a reason to complain about signed integer overflow, but they won't complain about unsigned integer overflow.
Comment · 23 days ago
> We got a firehose on behalf of our client, a major movie studio, of search of their titles by zip code from “G”.

Doesn't Google basically make this kind of data public? I know I've seen maps by state of what people are searching for, this is barely different.

Point being, it seems absurd to compare this to snooping on people's private networks by third parties

Comment · 23 days ago
I don't know about this person, but for me and I'm guessing the average professional in basically any field, before LLMs, they simply ignored information that needed summarizing, made their own crappy slides, and didn't proofread their emails.
Comment · 25 days ago
This is just handing harassers a foolproof method for avoiding police intervention if they wanted to harass (or worse) in person.
Comment · 27 days ago
Remind me who leaves 8 bath tub faucets running 24/7/365?
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not that simple. A pure EV needs ~10x as much battery as a PHEV. So for the same amount of batteries produced, you could make 10x as many vehicles PHEVs as EVs. Not all vehicles can be EVs due to practical issues.

Which results in more total electric miles driven replacing gas? I don't know, but "gas is destroying the world" is a brain short circuit.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's a matter of scale: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-u-s-has-been-spending-bi...

If you trust Google's AI summary, China spends 4-5% of GDP on industrial subsidies, vs US at 0.4%. 10-12x as much.

Comment · 1 month ago
It looks like the curve is flattering, and the current state actually looks slightly cherry picked (it matches a previous spike that looks a bit of an outlier before the result went down). The longer they train, the more they risk getting scooped by another release by someone else. Etc etc it's a judgement call based on all of these factors (and more, including cost/occupying a big cluster as you mention)
Comment · 1 month ago
Was there really a choice? What they do or advised others to do would have had no bearing on what is happening.
Comment · 1 month ago
> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake.

From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this was a continuous stream of bad decision making for the entire approach, with the copilot suggesting the pilot go around too.

Also: this kind of incident is very rare, so obviously, the vast majority of pilots don't make this mistake.

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