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Comment · 8 days ago
I had a co-woker tell me why they want to us AI. They don't want to read the reports.
The concept of cross-domain pollination is for a select few. It requires time and energy.
Too many will take what ML produces with face value and move on without thinking. This behavior was observe before LLM. [0]
People are even starting to accept AI over themselves in their domain of knowledge. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
[1] https://www.axios.com/2026/10/21/ai-trust-executives-survey
Comment · 8 days ago
So, real life Fallout?
Comment · 8 days ago
Monopolies exist when adding more variables in categorizing business that are perceived to be competing against others. When removing these variables, the false argument that monopolies don't exit can be propagated.
When I think of streaming services being owned by content producers, I think of the 1940s push to bar content producers from owning movie theaters. Unfortunately that anti-trust decree was removed in 2020 in support of big businesses. [0]
This is why content producers, like Disney, should not be able to run streaming services. They are no different then the movie theater owners before digital access.
USA keeps repealing anti-trust laws and allowing business to get bigger and more corrupt. This allows them to maximize their wealth by reducing competition. USA has become a Corporatocracy through the actions of putting big business ahead of their citizens.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
Comment · 9 days ago
It is a more complicated for non tech people. Web site would need to be designed for simple interaction for the person managing and owning. Simple text entry to post messages and remove them. RSS feeds or some other means would need to be used for notification to those that wish to stay actively informed. There is also the cost of hosting versus free hosting that facebook provides.
Example; I have been at a local restaurant were the WIFI was not working properly so they could not do check out at the table. You and I would know how to fix this with placement and picking equipment. The whole restaurant staff did not. Number of the staff were younger and grew up with the technology.
Comment · 11 days ago
The issue is that small business still utilize them instead of paying for and maintaining a web site. Want to know our business ours, events, or when we close early ... facebook.
There needs to be an easy to use low-cost, possible also advertisement driven, alternative that business can latch to so more can leave facebook.
I actively refuse to support Meta and block all their domain names in case of clicking on a tiny URL that sends me to their site. It also helps block their analytics used by 3rd parties. I will forever be a sunk cost for them.
Comment · 14 days ago
There is a reason Pimps, Dealers bought gold chains versus kept cash. Cash and bank accounts could seized while what your arrested with, such as jewelry, is given back to you upon release.
Need cash on hand, pawn it or use it as collateral for a loan.
It is away around the legal system to retain wealth.
Comment · 15 days ago
It is the locally ran models that get me excited. They have an immutable user agreement and a focus on privacy.
Subscription / on-demand polices are a moving target, along with cost.
I foresee the ML market replicating the video streaming services market. Join us at a low rate and no advertisements. Six months latter, advertisements for everyone, unless you pay more $$. Now $$ will still show you ads. We are raising the rate to $$$ with adds ...
Comment · 15 days ago
There is a great deal difference between billions and millions. People have a hard time understanding powers of 10.
There is also giving away your wealth to others versus consolidating it and hording it like a dragon ....
But you know ... too many people look up to inhuman individuals like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Sweeney. Those that do are are detrimental to a civilized world.
You can create wealth by creating a good product that does not exploit the users nor those that assisted you on the creation and delivery. This is were our current large organizations fail to understand.
Exploit, exploit, to support that Friedman doctrine is the go to now. This were the three listed above support.
Comment · 16 days ago
Thanks for that. I can understand his disdain. Too many on here worship wealth and bad actors like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Sweeney who only care to propel their own wealth. There is a void of humanity and humility in such people.
Real intelligence must incorporate empathy. Lacking empathy means people lack real intelligence.
I respect people like Jamie Zawinski and Steve Wozniak. It is not about the wealth it about making a good product and solution. That is real value.
Also explains how he has the know it all to setup his site and fingerprint people logged into HN.
Comment · 16 days ago
When ISPs have so much control, I don't see it as decentralized.
It is designed for fallbacks or ability to reroute when connections become congested or get cut.
Real world decentralized communication would not require an ISP and could operate by proxy with multi modes of communication. This way you can circumvent Government restrictions.
Sneaker net is decentralized and how North Koreans circumvent their government.
Comment · 16 days ago
That is strange.
The URL only works properly with Firefox in Private mode or with LibreWolf.
Guess the person that runs the community does not like HN.
Comment · 16 days ago
Tim Sweeney is the CEO of Epic Games. [0]
I personally have no respect for him.
Few years ago he made exclusive deals with game producers so their game could only be purchased through Epic's store for one year. Number of these games were already listed on Steam with pre-purchase ability before the agreement. Steam did the right thing and fulfilled any refund request that was made via pre-purchase.
There were a few games I was looking forward to but was blind sided. Being a Linux only gamer, Epic launcher was pure trash. A year after the exclusive deal was over, I never bought any of the games. Those studios are effectively dead to me.
I personally will never fund Tim Sweeney.
Comment · 16 days ago
You want your key input controls to be based off of the book _The Secret Doctrine_ by Helena Blavatsky? [0]
[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/12/alien-1970s-city-futura-hel...
Comment · 16 days ago
Started work with OpenCode and my number one issue is that they do not cleanly document how to configure the settings to only run local ML models.
It is all focused on pushing prompts out to 3rd party providers that uses them for training. Irony is having to use the 3rd party provider to properly configure OpenCode with local only ML. I cannot have private information leak.
Good thing I tested it on open source code base before touching property code bases.
1983 was the year the gaming industry crashed because all these production companies cared about profit and pushed out slop. [0] Slop is not new, it has always been there.
This is why Nintendo brought gaming back. They rejected slop on their platforms and only wanted quality products to be bound to their name. They also limited the number of games a 3rd party could publish per year on their platform.
There are AI slop houses that pump out content to make a profit out of trash.
There are indie developers that use LLM for assistance and know wealth is the by product of a good game.
Wealth is a by product of a good product / solution / service. That concept is lost on majority of MBA and those that seeking to maximize their wealth. Private equity continues do this by reject this concept and moving to push out slop with brands that original built quality.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983