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Comment · 27 days ago
None of what Wikimedia accuses OpenAI of seems technically novel, aside from having AI do the bidding. I can't imagine a company doing these things in the past and maintaining any sort of reputation. Is it really a matter of adding new regulation, or just treating them the way any other company would be treated?
Comment · 1 month ago
I could see how the push for larger more profitable suvs and trucks in the name of safety is similar— the only reason they’re safer is because small cars get crushed by big cars
Comment · 1 month ago
The equivalent in health insurance would be a blogpost listing out egregious denied claims. Sure they avoid accountability but these releases by OpenAI aren’t that
Comment · 1 month ago
Wouldn’t the equivalent in chemical be like Exxon having a blog post of their most damaging oil spills?
Comment · 1 month ago
Is there any precedent from other industries where a company tries to frame their own product’s shortcomings appear to be society’s problem?

Would nytimes cover a self driving car company disclose concerning ‘behavior’ of their cars the same way?

For anyone who has had to remind a coding agent to not leave comments over and over again, not following instructions seems more feature than bug

Comment · 8 months ago
The chart in the tweet represents year-on-year growth. Based on these figures alone the actual number of people employed in tech is still really high, and the numbers can't just go up forever.

Also this only captures 6 industries, which is a narrow view of what would define "tech" these days.

Not to say that the job market isn't tough but this graph is a very narrow view

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Any code or blog written by Adam is worth spending some time on.

It will be interesting to see how the tasks framework develops and expands. I am sad to see the great Django-Q2 lumped in with the awful Celery though.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> Ten percent of respondents who reported having a 4.0 said they had cheated in an academic context while at Harvard.

Imagine how many cheated and didn't admit it! A very sad state of affairs...

Comment · 4 years ago
HN is truly a market leader in status page technology
Comment · 5 years ago
Add our current low interest rates to the mix as well and the picture changes dramatically
Comment · 5 years ago
This must result in a non-trivial amount of ink/toner used in the name of security
Comment · 5 years ago
The largest chunk of savings (~85%!) is from Card Account Updater, which many payment processors offer. In some ways that says more about the B in the A/B test than it does about Stripe.

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