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Comment · 21 days ago
Be careful what you wish for; the regulations don't cover Flock cameras because of the distinction between mobile(which is covered) and fixed(which is not) ALPRs. Among other issues.
Comment · 23 days ago
You're welcome to find a more suitable place to visit. Nobody is requiring your presence here, unless they are. Which is a different conversation.
Comment · 24 days ago
I assure you that if your body did not emit co2 throughout the day you would not continue metabolic processes for an especially long period.
Comment · 24 days ago
I wonder how much co2 you use to get through the day, and how much you use to remark on other people's creations in a way that suggests you disapprove of their utilization of their available resources. How much co2 do your projects emit, since you seem to be interested in those metrics?
Comment · 25 days ago
>"Why would we help whichever side is larger?" I missed my sanity pill today, of course it makes perfect sense to increase the suffering of more people so that corporations get even richer.
Comment · 25 days ago
Okay, so which side is in the majority? The people who have credit card debt or the people who are using rewards programs in a way that doesn't put them in an objectively worse position? Let's help whichever side is larger.
Comment · 26 days ago
Or maybe they secretly believe you are trying to distill their models and are deliberately degrading your experience. Who knows with them?
Comment · 26 days ago
>it’s to be expected that an AI lab will know all your prompts, they aren’t providing a paid service for free out the good of their heart. lol.

Er. When you actually pay, at least Anthropic gives you an option to not use your prompts in their training data.

Comment · 27 days ago
>How do I know that a private LLM system won't have a degradation of quality similar to this or worse?

You use benchmarks, you test, and because YOU'RE the sysadmin you know what weights are running at what time, it's very visible. You can airgap the hardware and be guaranteed it won't change over time. And, frankly, degradation over time doesn't seem to be what's happening with the open models.

Comment · 27 days ago
>What if someone started an AI company that uses end-to-end encryption to make it impossible for anyone but you to access your data? Personally, I would switch to it in a heartbeat assuming it's competitive with the other products.

Why wait for a company to build it? Get your own local hardware like I did and have those guarantees because YOU set it up.

Comment · 1 month ago
Ah, no, it was "HTML, Java, CGI, VRML, SGML Web Publishing Unleashed" I had forgotten what all it covered
Comment · 1 month ago
I got that same feeling, I used to own a book about it that was quite hefty and from one of the semi-reputable publishers of the time, a very boring brownish cover is all I remember(this was probably 25ish years ago and I probably removed it from my library when the technology was defunct), it was really cool what the web could have been with it...
Comment · 1 month ago
>1. If it were true, I expect it would be a national security concern, and quickly remedied

It was known in the early 2000s and they've been working on it for decades. Presumably things are better now.

Comment · 1 month ago
>You guys are so deluded in your little bubble it’s hilarious. Please do not lump all HN posters in one category, and if you insist on doing so, please be courteous and generous with your interpretation of their words. As an aside, I had to look up what pwc is because they're totally irrelevant to me. But in general, it costs you nothing to tell people to spend years retraining their hard-earned skills, which is roughly what your advice is worth. You can't promise that the industry they pivot into will exist by the time they qualify to work in it, and the cost of their career retraining is denominated in time they don't get back. Nor will you be there for their journey to even know if they made it.
Comment · 2 months ago
>Ditto for refusing to honor the 2nd amendment.

Honoring it, no doubt, by restricting firearms to duly registered militia personnel as written in the plain text for all to see? What about the 14th Amendment section 3, also written plainly?

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