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It's not difficult. It's undesired. It makes simple things slightly easier and makes difficult things impossible.

Exactly the sort of behavior that will suck in the unsophisticated user, and then leave them with no options when it fails.

...they are the mark of the beast, intrinsically evil, and should be avoided at all costs

That's basically my recommendations to people.

1. Avoid using them if possible.

2. If you have to use them, make sure you have a password login to fall back on.

3. If the site forces you to use them, make sure you don't use it for any thing you rely on.

I don't think that's the unpopular opinion, I think that's the standard opinion, outside of the corporate security cloister.

I wrote that comment entirely by myself, on my phone while waiting for a souvlaki. Perhaps the things that you consider AI tells are simply a use of language from someone in country with a different education system.

Nah, your writing was perfectly fine and something a native speaker would write also. The poster is just seeing false tells.

I use them and I'm fine with them training on our information and knowledge. It's what it's for. No one takes it or steals knowledge; they just copy it.

But because of that, I'm also ok with the Chinese doing it. The worst they might be guilty of is breaking a terms of service.

The only incoherent position is that it's good for one and not the other. You can consistently think it's bad in both cases, or good in both cases.

I'm not producing any youtube videos. I should let everybody know.

(Reminds me of https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesn...)

You can't make many national judgements based on the economics of the Bay Area. It's much more sane in nearly every other area (with some other outliers, such as New York City).

Well, a short time ago somebody made the first LLM. Was that the end of it?

Everywhere I've ever worked, if I went to management and said "hey, I've got some files from my last job, if you want to see them," they would say "absolutely not, please get rid of them RIGHT NOW," and probably fire me.

But, I don't work in Silicon Valley.

I was thinking that somebody (Me? No... Somebody.) should start a foundation to start making archive copies of models... not for usage, but because every model is a (somewhat flawed) snapshot of the state of global knowledge as of the time it was trained. In fifty years, you'll be able to talk to Gemini 2.5 flash and get answers from the perspective of 2025. It might be a valuable for historic and sociological research.

I'm guessing this was initially '1.5 metric tons', and through a number of helpful and friendly conversions, ended up at 3,300 sugar bags.

But AI generated linked content was explicitly not disallowed. At least not at this time.

No, there were plenty of other reasons as well. I didn't downvote, but I wanted to at the second word.

There were consumer 8-track writers, and you could buy blank 8-tracks. But it was more expensive and less common; just never caught on.

But I won’t let a discussion about X, Grok et.al ever focus on anything technical.

Highlighting this sentence, because it exemplifies so much of the contemptable behavior in this thread.

I kind of doubt that Twitter/X is any sort of net benefit. Boring company was a wash, Tesla is a net positive, although it also has some issues. Paypal was a huge advancement, although it's still deeply flawed. Grok may end up important, but right now it's kind of just hovering around 'acceptable' second-tier.

But SpaceX has the potential of driving some of the grandest and most revolutionary accomplishments of the 21st century. That's going to be what determines if high-schoolers recognize his name two hundred years from now.

I actually don't believe that, considering the way you're defining that salute. In fact, somebody mentioning it is a clear indicator to me that they're engaging in bad faith... similar to seeing someone say "Trump told people to drink bleach" or "immigrants are eating our pets"

But at every point, your product was better if you still understood the lower level. Your Python is better if you understand Assembly.

"Less than 5% of Microsoft’s half a billion commercial Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot features"

Seems to me that 4.5% of 500 million isn't necessarily terrible. What should the rate be?

How do you judge the caliber of a philosopher?

9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy!

Honestly, that shifts me firmly into the "I don't believe that for a second" territory. If anybody can actually show the studies with measurements where that happened, though, I'd be interested.

It does a lot; just not any actual accomplishing of goals.

This has been the standard in many rural areas since the post office was founded.

When I was younger, I read that stars tended to have a bimodal distribution of rotational periods... many have a period measured in hours, and then another large group (like our sun) have a period of many days. The thought at the time was that the slower-rotating stars lost their angular momentum to planetary systems.

That makes sense to me, but that was before we had discovered exoplanets. I wonder if that theory still holds up?

Plus, an important aspect of capitalism is that the employer/employee relationship is freely entered into or exited from on both sides. In communism, that typically isn't the case.

I don't like how somebody is flagging/downvoting all your comments. This is about your product; it's highly relevant, whatever somebody might think about it.

Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.

An important compilation target for Godot is mobile, since it's obviously a very large games market.

And, since the Godot IDE is, itself, an app written in Godot, porting to mobile is almost free. More a question of tweaking than rewriting. That's the same reason there's a version of Godot runnable in a browser... it's a consequence of Godot allowing webapps as build targets.

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2026/06/like-an-explosi...

$3.86 million claim from a pothole. I'm normally pretty skeptical of damage claims, but that is a pretty nasty pothole.

The issue isn't the big one. The issue is a minor tremor that happens to crack a vital support beam, or cracks a pipe, and causes $25k of damage.