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Your assumption is ignorant.

Most Ivy League schools have free tuition if your parents household income is below $200-$100k and full ride room and board if below $100-60k.

Rich kids can get cut off from their parents.

No, it is disqualifyingly clueless. The author defends one neural network, one bag of effectively-opaque floats that get blended together with WASM to produce non-deterministic outputs which are injected into the DOM (translation), then righteously crusades against other bags of floats (LLMs).

From this point of view, uBlock Origin is also effectively un-auditable.

Or your point about them maybe imagining AI as non-local proprietary models might be the only thing that makes this make sense. I think even technical people are being suckered by the marketing that "AI" === ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini style cloud-hosted proprietary models connected to chat UIs.

LLMs all

Sounds like you don't know how RLHF works. Everything you describe is post-training. Base models can't even chat, they have to be trained to even do basic conversational turn taking.

That is 20% of trading volume, a lot of which is day/week trading, which goes up the more they buy and sell to each other. This does not mean 20% of their assets under management are retail. The "voice" of the retail market is still tiny, it is only because institutional investors are betting with each other off what reddit is going to do that things actually move.

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why would you go to grade school and high school at institutions that produce graduates like that?

Do you not know how U.S. K-12 public schools are funded by local property taxes, which means the quality of a child's education is a direct causal relationship of the wealth of their neighborhood?

Why don't these children just grow up in richer neighborhoods?

Literally false.

I thought her writing was 10x better than your comment, which was completely unoriginal, retreads old cultural tropes, and added nothing of value.

Of course you father of daughters doesn't think she's a good feminist role model for your girls. Thank you, good sir, for being an actual feminist. How brave.

Tell me more about what you think would be a service to women? Do you have a Substack where I can read your manly wisdom?

I mean, did you not read the "If you desire the comfort of neat conclusions, you are lost in this space. Here, we indulge in the unsettling, the excessive, the paradoxes that define our existence." disclaimer?

Yes, they are logging. I did not say anything about that.

I said it is absurd to think this is such a unique feature, it is absurd to think that the likely explanation is OpenAI stole it, rather than independently invented it.

If you're racing to develop AI interfaces, you should expect that one of the many people on the big corps many product teams have independently thought up obvious features like this, since before the engineering team even finished their proof of concept.

We used to say "what have you been smoking?" when someone said something so confidently wrong. But these days I feel a software engineer can only believe such a statement if they were: 1) high or 2) had their critical thinking bypassed due to excessive LLM-on-autopilot use.

I'd bet money they asked Claude if this was possible and Claude said "You're absolutely right!"

the very idea of giving the user an on/off switch for LLM level memory is ours.

Absurd. You may have independently thought it up, but it is the first and most obvious feature one could imagine if memory is an option.

Make intentional, rational, specific decisions about which people and companies to support with your hard earned cash based on alignment of values and interests.

Let me try one: Software is trash and programmers are happy to lie about anything if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability.

See how you sound?

A bike shop or other small retail business brings jobs and benefits to the local community. A data center brings pollution and practically no new permenant jobs or benefits specifically to that community, only to the cloud.

But don't worry about it, this is something an $850/hr consultant is paid to not understand.

Because cities felt the devastating effects when industrial factories staffed with good union jobs went away, and yearn for their carbon copy replacement. These factories had ripple regional advantage effects beyond the factory workers. Armies of teamsters have to drive in and out of town to deliver inputs and outputs for industrial factories, and they all need to eat. Corporate and R&D types used to need to spend more time at the industrial factory. Put a factory in a region and a corporate office often follows. Put enough of them in the same region and you start to get an innovation hub as they all hang out and see each other at third spaces. Universities and innovation hubs mutually benefit and expand when distance matters.

So the industrial factory tax break model often did pay off. Data centers are selling the same story: give us tax breaks for big expensive capital investment and regional prosperity is yours. They often lie about even the direct number of jobs. But the implied regional advantage is definitely dead when it is all cloud and zoom, rather than widgets and happy hours.

It is absolutely infringement if you paint a picture in Ghibli style. You just have fair use to infringe in a personal, noncommercial, educational, etc. purpose.

Fair use is a defense to infringement, like self defense is a defense to homicide. If you infringe but are noncommercial, it is more likely to be ruled fair use. If Disney did a Ghibli style ripoff for their next movie, that is clearly not fair use.

OpenAI is clearly gaining significant material benefits from their models being able to infringe Ghibli style.

But that is what they are mostly used for.

Like in 1929 or 1999 everyone knows it is a bubble, but always thinks they're the rational one who can ride the rollercoaster up and time the bubble, then sell before it pops.

It is the same psychology behind meme coins. Everyone knows they are worthless, they gain value because everyone is trying to make everyone else the greater fool holding the bag.

2008 was less a bubble of irrational exhuberance and more a bubble of overvaluation enabled by fraud of bundling bad mortgages into A rated investment products

We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue

What a curiously specific phrase. So if they traded your data to Palantir in exchange for hosting or services, this would still be allowed. The fact that they have another revenue stream says nothing about your data privacy. Or if Thiel has a backdoor to snoop on Silicon Valley's most intimate social networking data.

It is criminal conspiracy, a federal felony in the US, if you contract to commit a crime. Conspiracy is a standalone crime on its own, independent if the contracted crime is never carried out (in breach of contract).

The mob tried your argument generations ago. It never worked.

Good. The shame is the point. If you're going to rely on an LLM, then take ownership over the words you post under your own account. Just posting "this is what the LLM said" with no other content means they take no responsibility for what they say, but still think they are making a contribution.

"Use it as a tool" is always the line from LLM advocates. Okay. If you used a search engine as a tool to find some source, you don't need to say "I used google to find this," you just present the link as your contribution. You found the source. If it is a bad source, you can't get away blaming the search engine. You fucked up the source.

Same with LLMs. If you actually use it as a tool and not an outsourcing of your own role, then you shouldn't need to disclose. But using it as a tool means more than just typing "summarize this for hackernews" and mindlessly copy pasting. If they summarized, validated, and was confident enough in the summary that they felt they didn't need the "I asked an LLM" disclaimer, then that's a contribution. Maybe it is still wrong. As you say, there is a lot of that on the internet.

So yes, we should be shaming those who admit using it to outsource their role. People who want to make contributions when they are completely unqualified to distinguish between a good and bad contribution will learn to hide their use. Good. People who are both attention addicts needing to always make a contribution and who are now cognitive addicts should live their lives in fear over knowing if what they are saying under their own name will get them ridiculed.

If you can't understand the article, how do you know the LLM did?

Delete this unverified hallucinated slop. Then delete your HN account.

If people want an LLM summary of an article, they can do it themselves.

Then that person is making three felonies: fraud, perjury, and frameup. AirBNB requires a lot of verification, you can't just use Tor, protonmail, and a VoIP number to list a place. That person would leave such a digital trail that would be easy to find with a subpeona. And both AirBNB and the person framed have every incentive to help with that investigation.

Frameup is a big fucking deal.

you have to play the game and I don't blame them as such.

Not to Godwin the thread, but that is exactly what the executives at IBM thought about their European subsidiary Dehomag in the 1930s. Soon they were custom building machines that organized the logistics of the Holocaust.

They got away with it and kept all the profits and were exempted at Nuremberg, for the same reason as all the rocket scientists: America needed the tech.

It doesn't include pull requests, when cloning from github, though.

Because GitHub pull requests are a proprietary, centralized, cloud-dependent reimplementation of `git request-pull`.

How the "free software" world slid head first into a proprietary cloud-based "open source" world still boils my blood. Congrats, Microsoft loves and owns it all, isn't that what what we always wanted?

early advocates for Palenstinian rights

Early? https://enwp.org/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight

Translated:

For starters, all accounts opened at US providers (Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, Paypal, etc.) are immediately closed. The delivery companies whose capital is American stop delivering the ordered parcels, and the magistrate says that a hotel reservation taken for a stay in France has been blocked by the Expedia platform in the name of the sanctions to which he is subject.

This is further complicated by the possible interruption of the payment methods that pass through the Visa or Mastercard networks. Nor can it make bank transfers via intermediaries like Western Union.

As you see in other comments, people are debating the relative net effects of other inventions of modernity. I think it is interesting and very HN to think about screens vs sugar. What value does your pearl clutching add to this discussion?

You mean the industry that has practically relocated to Vancouver, Toronto, and Georgia due to the aggressive tax breaks those governments give, which the governors and legislature have been refusing to do for a decade?

Almost nothing is filmed in LA county anymore.