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Conventional wisdom is Google did all the groundwork with LLMs...

The creepiest part of Voight-Kampff in Blade Runner was the idea that I'd fail it (not imagining myself as a replicant, but still as a human).

My layman expectation would have been much higher. It's got no atmosphere refracting anything and it's closer to the source of energy.

I could also see some key decision-makers just being nerds that like space.

Someone should spend money on a marketing campaign teaching people how to be tech literate (while skirting the law, and making implications).

Someone like Nathan Fielder would have the balls for this.

"I didn’t realize Disney+ had twice as many subscribers as Hulu. Hulu has been around a lot longer than Disney+. Goes to show the value of the content mix."

Brand awareness is more likely. No one knows wtf a "Hulu" is outside the US, and even parts of the US too (it was never the biggest player).

Parents see "Disney" and sub for a free** babysitter.

**With all these price hikes this dynamic may have shifted.

Whether it was easy or hard to do, there is still massive misalignment happening here. Either with the AI itself, or OpenAI as a company.

Haha, that's a fun fact. (Solaris+x86)+(Linux+PowerPC), what a setup.

> I have tried a recent Mac, and the system isn't intuitive at all. The first time I used GNOME, it was a breeze. Not the same with the MacBook system.

I thought I was the only one.

Maybe it's because I started on Windows and Gnome "feels" closer? Hard to quantify. Like they're US and Britain, while macOS is China.

Or OpenAI just buys them outright. Buying your upstart competitor seems to be in the Silicon Valley Ten Commandments. The Fed whussed-out on breaking up FB and Insta last year, so there's never going to be any kind of remediation to worry about.

And for Jev, everyone has a price, and OpenAI's raised an historical amount of funding.

And thanks to that lawsuit, we got to see Oracle lose (always nice!) and SCOTUS establish that using APIs constitutes fair use (awesome!)

At least they had the intelligence not to sue Google. I wonder how much money Oracle lost on that debacle. (The policy loss is big enough to them on its own! SCOTUS made the right call.)

He must have had them at one point.

Because malice takes more intent and energy than passive greed. Malice is a human invention, selfishness is not.

> The entire ad tech industry may truly be an intelligence agency front. The lengths they go to track individuals is quite alarming.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained as greed.

The quiet part you rarely hear is that advertising is a smoke and mirror industry akin to throwing darts at a wall. The idea of "homing darts" that stick the target a percentage more of the time would be very attractive in this analogy.

Tech turns advertising from mostly a buckshot spread into something that kinda sounds like something solid and real ("Look, numbers! CTR! CPC! KPI! Our ad product WORKS! Paying customers for your business, guaranteed!")

Ad budgets almost never correlate with actual performance.[0] We're all just lying to ourselves that this business model is performing as expected, and I don't think a reckoning is that far off.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...

I was going to say, wasn't this supposed to be the default in Chrome by now? But Google reneged on it two years back:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-third-party-cookies-chro...

This disgusts me more than any of their recent news. There needs to be a lot more pressure on them to phase this out.

Maybe this article will be the small snowball that gets that started...

Putting aside the question of "why consume any media," and even admitting that I myself have seen hundreds of hours of General Hospital (don't ask), why consume this media specifically? Are people seeking this out or is it just TikTok algorithms?

Is it reductive to ask what the point is? Do fans get together and discuss plot developments? "I can't believe X did Y!" Maybe it's the future of media but to me it just rings hollow.

I haven't seen overly political links in a while; I would assume the experiment failed.

This is a cool idea! Where can I learn more without signing up?

> There are projects like PostmarketOS which work to get mainline Linux on phones. From there, you can run Linux on phones through desktop environments such as Phosh and Plasma Mobile which are touch optimized.

Gnome is undertaking some mobile work in-house (no need for a different DE like Phosh or Plasma). My ideal would be a "Fedora Mobile" spin (based on ARM Silverblue).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6vCWFleBHk

It's looking good! Wish this would get the momentum it deserves.

It sounds like you want a phone version of Raspberry Pi, something that's totally open to tinkering? That would be cool to see, but it would be a tough sell to general users.

That linked article really blows apart 10-years of Pixel security posturing. Numerous press articles about the security of its Titan chip, "most secure phone ever," etc.

(HN types would snicker, "Google's getting all your data, it's not secure" but that wasn't the conversation.)

I'm glad they disclosed it, but what a huge black eye.

Sometimes market forces fail and it becomes the only choice.

AI is definitely going to cause a chilling effect for (human-written) code. Why connect with other young nerds to make something cool when an AI can make it for you? Why share code if you've never sought out shared code yourself?

Further contribution to the trend of humans becoming more capable but less social.

I fear someone higher-up taking the dataset, pointing AI at it, and saying "find me people who said something I don't like."

Semi-related but I'm ignorant: when did Apple change to use a universal version number? Is it just for the public, like how Windows 11 is actually NT 10.0? I can't believe I missed the HN discussion on this one.

I think the multiplayer is very smartly implemented. The big "Anomaly" space stations can feel very busy. I don't feel very alone playing tbh, unless I want to be. MMO raid-like expeditions are right there if I wanna join up with people.

I have a weird personal theory that whittling down the number of app vendors on your phone is just a good thing to do.

As a Pixel user, I've gotten my phone to just having four (4) third-party app vendors.

- Duolingo (I've never seen an app be so annoying in a positive way, I appreciate it)

- Nintendo (obvs)

- Caffeine (quick setting tile that keeps the screen on--should really be a native feature, and I hope that day comes soon so I can ditch this)

- Super Productivity (saved my life)

Having a banking app installed seems way riskier than using a website. If someone had access to my phone, the banking app stands out like a spotlight. But if it's not installed, they have to open the browser, guess which bank I'm using, and enter the right URL (possibly aided by autocomplete, possibly not).

It just feels like a safer, additional step. My bank's mobile website is junk but I'm not spending all day on it.

In summation, fuck your app, give me a website.

I don't know why I've never drawn a line from our current situation to the zaibatsus, that's a great insight.

I completely forgot you could "squirt" songs to other Zune owners. What a time!

(Brown launch model here.)