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3ot··on We are not going anywhere
Although I don‘t feel the same level of despair as the author, it struck a nerve reading this. I can imagine that many other had a similar reaction.
3ot··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Obviously the same, when they are viewed through the same lens. And yes, I probably missed the sarcasm in your wording.
3ot··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
It‘s actually stunning how inhumane this suggestion is. Especially, in the way it‘s made in the purely functional sense of human value as means of productivity and efficiency.

Maybe I‘m missing the joke though.

3ot··on Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs
Not all of those regulations apply to AI training or inference. And having models coming from and provided by Mistral should be good enough of a signal that it is possible. Isn‘t this enough of an answer that it is possible to do it?
3ot··on German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
Yeah, I agree about the LLM part.

But can confirm from personal experience that businesses threaten to sue based on Google Maps reviews.

3ot··on Banning facial recognition is missing the point
Is it though? I haven‘t read about any deployed solution, which would fit „near perfect“ identification. I’d be thankful, if you could point me to some „working“ solutions.
3ot··on Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
Wow, perfect. I've been looking for something like this for years.
3ot··on World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass surveillance
It's interesting to note that DE-CIX, before filing this lawsuit, hired the former President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Hans-Jürgen Papier, who is very respected, to evaluate the legality of BND's practice at the DE-CIX. His findings were crushing. Now going into court against the foreign-intelligence agency with the assessment of such a highly respected judge is probably the best strategy you could come up with. I wish them best luck!
3ot··on Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review
After comparing the features of Core and Enterprise, it looks like the Core package is not self-hosted à la non-enterprise github. And the source at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph seems to be the Enterprise version – minus 24/7 technical support and automatic backups I'd say.
3ot··on Single-Tag Website
meh, not even responsive. ;)
3ot··on Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments
"The research firm Gartner estimated that worldwide, people spent $235.4 billion through mobile payments in 2013, compared with $163.1 billion in 2012. But that number is much smaller in North America"

hm.. I would have thought that the number in North America would be bigger than or at least equal the world wide number. Thank God NYT made this clear.

Maybe they'd made a better point, stating that mobile payments were growing slightly faster in North America than worldwide or that mobile payments were increasing by 50% even before the introduction of Apple Pay?

3ot··on Ask HN: Why learn non-JS languages/framework?
You should really check out http://emberjs.com It applies the Rails way of thinking to JavaScript and is maturing fast. As a Rails developer I love working with Ember!
3ot··on Coinpunk becomes first Bitcoin mobile wallet app to be unbannable by Apple
awesome!
3ot··on Cryptosphere - Encrypted P2P web application platform
Check the code, search through the wiki and then you can create an issue. Claiming something without even knowing the facts is really convenient, isn't it?