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This will supplement two of ChatGPT's larger deficiences: math and the veracity of its output. It'll be interesting to see how they price this integration, and how long OpenAI will maintain the $20 pricing for ChatGPT+.

Yeah. I really underestimated OpenAI's ability to productize ChatGPT.

Larger improvement than I expected.

a bit of javascript when it's needed for a form.

Until you get told to implement more reactive features, then it's over. Using Pure JS/JQuery for reactiveness is outright horrible.

Exactly. It will be interesting to see who and what gets shutdown in the next 30 days if the issue isn't rectified.

Wow, absolutely fascinating. AI will continue to revolutionize our current approaches.

Facebook API is today very granular and a lot stricter, in fact their system is borderline onerous for developers. They've obviously learned from the Cambridge Analytica situation, and I understand the need for the requirements, but unfortunately it also stops all smaller projects.

The discourse regarding this incident is deranged. Despite all the resources put into teaching intellectuals and academians to exercise critical thinking, they still believe the most absurd claims without any evidence.

The claims I've seen circulating are all insane, such as that Russia did it to avoid being found guilty of contract violations or that they did it to attack the Norway-Baltic pipeline. Note that the Nord Stream pipelines' total capacity is 150+ BCM, whereas the Norway-Baltic pipeline is only 10BCM NG - less than 1/10th.

Russia has gained zero, whereas EU countries have removed an internal pressure point, and the USA has gained a larger energy share. I don't know who sabotaged the pipelines, but the superficial blaming of Russia without any evidence should be criticized.

Lastly, I detest all attacks and invasions of sovereign entities.

it went all in on China's debt trap diplomacy

No. Debt owed to China is less than 10% of Sri Lanka's total debt. And it owes a lot more to western nations/institutes.

I'm still shocked how this clearly unsubstantiated claim continues to circulate. The so called "China debt trap diplomacy" is a phenomenon mostly fabricated/promoted by columnists with a clear agenda.

I wasn't even considering the people who threatened to leave in response to Elon's takeover - the true number would be inconsequential.

Notable people were using Twitter long before blue checks were a thing

True. Now that I think about it, I most definitely oversold it. Blue-check is a nice to have benefit but notable accounts are still today religiously using Twitter despite not being verified. I think I was focusing too much on the journalist clique on Twitter and their excessive desire for a blue-check.

He, undoubtedly, overpaid for Twitter. Also, the blue-check allows key users to distinguish themselves and is one major reason that "notable" people are using Twitter for essentially all their communications. Elon's plan to diminish the blue-check by giving it to anyone who has verified themselves by buying Twitter Blue would be very destructive and hurt Twitter's moat.

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Actually, disregard the blue-check comment. I oversold it. A blue-check is actually not that important.

Personally I'd prefer true pay-as-you-go without hard limits, even if it's a bit more expensive. To me the point is to sign-up-and-forget-it without having to worry if I'm within those limitations.

Sure, if you can set a max budget. Otherwise, you'd constantly have to worry about the unbounded cost.

Interesting. Presumably, LAPSUS had access to Windows source code but still decided to go after comparatively low-fruit like Bing and Cortana instead of the digital gold that is Windows.

At least, more people will now be exposed to our utter hypocrisy. I used to be a staunch supporter of a free unrestricted internet but the disproportionate power US has is unsustainable - and frankly a threat to sovereign nations. China's firewall seems to have been the right path after all.

It is ignorant to reduce US policies into an ally or not dichotomy. An entity being allied with the US does not mean that it will always work in the interest of the US, e.g., Germany's NS2 project. And US-Ethiopian relations have deteriorated significantly in the past two years. Partly due to Trump siding entirely with Egypt in the Nile/GERD contention, going so far as to state Egypt should bomb the dam. And more recently, due to US engagement in the horrific Northern Ethiopian war, where human rights violations have been committed by all sides. However, the US has only enacted sanctions against the Ethiopian government and its allies. And some Ethiopian officials have accused the US of abetting the rebels.

The Ethiopian civil war is sad and horrific and has resulted in millions displaced. All sides have committed reprehensible crimes. There are, however, many human rights activists like David Alton, the co-author of this opinion piece, and Mukesh Kapila that either ignorantly or willingly disregard the complexity and nuances of this horrible war.

Point number 1) Hate speech has indeed increased and was essentially unavoidable due to Ethiopia's very ethnicized regions. Tigrayans and, to a lesser extent, Amharas have been facing the brunt of it. Most of it is on social media like Facebook and Twitter, which lack the skill to handle Ethiopian languages. The article claims that the government is peddling hate speech by using words like "terrorists" to describe the group that is currently carrying out an insurgency. The group TPLF, which had ruled Ethiopia for almost three decades until 2018, started the war in November 2020 by attacking federal bases in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Point Number 2) TPLF rule was very ethnicized. TPLF had ensured that most of the personnel and leadership in crucial institutes like the military were held by their ethnic group. As a result, tens of thousands of soldiers and many commanders mutined with TPLF. And not only did Ethiopia lose personnel, but they also lost their most mechanized command to TPLFs initial attack, which is how TPLF currently has SAM missiles. The government had no choice but to mobilize militias and has tried to limit them as much as possible.

The reality of war is that it always results in collateral damage and crimes against civilians, and very seldom can meaningful actions be taken to hold the perpetrators accountable. This is equally true for third-world countries as it is for first-world countries. So when we see US and UK commit reprehensible crimes without any accountability, I find it hard to expect even more from a third-world country that is essentially fighting what it believes is an existential war. Nonetheless, Ethiopia has announced that it has already sentenced dozens of its soldiers to jail for crimes and is investigating more, although scant information has been released about each case. But I don't think countries, in general, are open about what is going on in their military courts.

Point number 3) Since all the government and its people believe they are fighting an existential war against insurgents, I find it unsurprising that the "with us or against us" mentality has materialized. I mean, tens of thousands have died, millions of people are displaced, and entire communities have been destroyed. We can look back twenty years and see that the shutdown of discussion is entirely expected and frankly more justified in this scenario.

Point number 5) The international community is divided because the situation is not what this opinion piece claims. The war has a decade-long history and is very complex. Opinion pieces like these that ignore this reality only harm the people. We've seen statements from well-known activists who completely disregard the suffering of some people at the hands of the insurgents because they harped on only one aspect of this war. For example, right now, the insurgents are in Amhara and, to a lesser extent, Afar looting, killing civilians, and stealing food aid destined for the hundreds of thousands of IDPs in those regions. Despite this, you can still see purported human rights activists encourage the insurgents and disregard the suffering of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

This war is horrible and must end as soon as possible, but it is not a genocide. Shortsighted solutions will only worsen the situation and destabilize the entire region. We must be mindful of our actions and recognize how our previous methods have only resulted in a worse situation that, in addition, to the increased suffering, damaged EU and caused a rise to illiberal views. We should, instead, create an environment for peace and facilitate aid to all the suffering people in Tigray, Amhara, and Afar.

And this "other way" won't be cryptocurrency. Countries are and will continue to push for e-currency. It is simply too much power and granular control to give up.

This is entirely the media's fault. Sadly most journalists no longer know the word impartiality. They instead focus on creating narratives that fit their views and push them onto the masses. Nothing is more infuriating and disappointing than seeing simple established facts being distorted and twisted into something it's not. And this includes reputable media such as Washington Post and NYTimes. I think Reuters might be the only news agency keeping sensationalism and bias to the minimum.

This a global problem. Journalism is no more.

It's clear the days of this oligopoly operating unchallanged are numbered.

Funnily enough, South Korea is a country essentially full of monopolies almost as large as the state.

If I were you, I'd change or delete this comment. You've mentioned specific details which would make it very easy to identify you. And disparaging your company when you are already in a precarious situation is not ideal.

If we think rationally, why would a nation state put in effort to block ONE single search term to hinder information spread while still letting multiple other queries give the same results? There is zero to gain from that.

GSuite is downright horrible compared to alternatives and its only saving grace is GMail. And its the same with GCloud which makes doing the most basic things slow and annoying. It really feels like most of those GSuite products are there JUST so that Google can say they have it.

United States unlike EU is one big market, with one unified language and standards, and I believe this difference is a huge reason (the reason?) why US has so many large startups and corporations. Also one might think that the existance of large companies like Apple points to a deficit in executive/governmental branches.

The reality is that police funding has maintained even throughout the "defund movement", so this situation is not caused by police defunding.

WHO did maintain from the beginning that transmission via aerosol was highly likely and possible. Although, I do agree that tweeting the study while still openly stating it is possible sends a contradictory message. One thing to not forget is that WHO is a global cooperation organization, and its power is derived solely from its member-states acceptance and cooperation. This means that they have to play the political game and weigh the consequences of their actions versus the benefits.

We have already seen multiple instances where leadership avoided testing to make the virus appear contained. Now imagine what countries would do early in the pandemic if they saw countries essentially sanctioned for trying to contain the virus. Did WHO make the right choice? I don't know, most likely not, but the world is not black and white. They should, however, rigorously go through their actions these past two years to see what they could have improved and what policies to put in place to prevent this from recurring again.

He is talking about the pattern the website is using to increase the cookie acceptance.

I always find posts/content like this unbearable, it always ends up being a variant of the ubiquitous "you are where you are supposed to be" platitude that really does not in any way help.

US is divided internally on how to go forward with the JCPOA. Assuming it was Israel, I don't think the government could muster up enough support to punish a long-time ally for something like this .

I think people are overlooking the third sentence in the post, which clearly states that they were accepted to build a video lecture platform but then later pivoted to this productivity tool. I don't think YC would invest in a trivial product like this, even if the team had higher aspirations, but that is going off the very basic knowledge I have of YC.

I mean the competitor could also be large company, for example, dailymotion.com could take over from Youtube without any major hassle. And EU would probably love it since dailymotion is local company.