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I was told AI makes people more productive so the costs should easily pay for themselves in the form of more revenue.

barring fully local AI, not sure how it can work without using your data, by design. it's personalized or not.

I've been toying around an architecture that sets things up such that the data for each user is actually stored with each user and only materialized on demand, such that many data leaks would yield little since the server doesn't actually store most of the user data. I mention this since this sorts of leaks are inevitable as long as people are fallible. I feel the correct solution is to not store user data to begin with.

some problems I've identified:

1. suppose you have x users and y groups, of which require some subset of x. joining the data on demand can become expensive, O(x*y).

2. the main usefulness of such an architecture is if the data itself is stored with the user, but as group sizes y increase, a single user's data being offline makes aggregate usecases more difficult. this would lend itself to replicating the data server side, but that would defeat the purpose

3. assuming the previous two are solved, which is very difficult to say the least, how do you secure the data for the user such that someone who knows about this architecture can't just go to the clients and trivially scrape all of the data (per user)?

4. how do you allow for these features without allowing people to modify their data in ways you don't want to allow? encryption?

a concrete example of this would be if HN had it so that each user had a sqlite database that stored all of the posts made per user. then, HN server would actually go and fetch the data for each of the posters to then show the regular page. presumably here if a data of a given user is inaccessible then their data would be omitted.

ah interesting. I wonder why that person mentioned the federal government then. couldn't a single person just refuse to sell their land and block the entire thing then?

is this because of the federal government capitulating or is it because the small group inherently has influence structurally?

land rights aren't exactly a constitutional right, but the 5th amendment makes it hard to take it, so in practice would probably require a constitutional amendment.

the railways are excellent, but it's funny. I was just in Kyoto and saw flyers seemingly at every single temple opposing the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension. apparently this type of opposition has always existed (I looked at the history of trains in Japan and originally most Japanese did NOT want it at all because they thought it looked really ugly), like nimbys in USA, but such decisions are apparently federalized according to some Japanese nationals I spoke to, so the nimbys have no power.

USA should do the same (well, the current federal government is volatile to say, the least, but in general I think it'd be improvement).

there's really no reason American kids in metro areas like SF, Boston, DC, NYC couldn't take a bus 5 miles away by themselves. when one comes up of an actual reason to why, it contradicts real statistics.

the biggest things parents should worry about is their kid being bullied by other kids during school, a supposedly safe place, and other family. strangers just aren't the major source of violence towards children.

most acts of abuse to family members are by other family members. ironically strangers are more likely to leave your kid alone than extended family.

> my kids play outside unsupervised all the time, as do all the kids in my neighborhood. I live in just a regular suburban neighborhood

Your kids are hardly free-range. Let me guess, there's no way for them to actually meaningfully leave the area (no train, bus, etc)? It's like dumping kids on a 5 acre farm and saying they can do whatever they want. hardly free-range in the way described in the article.

Presumably you live in a suburb for the reasons the person in the article checked in on the free-range kid.

my personal litmus test is if you'd let your 13 year kid explore Manhattan alone during the day. Many say no because it's dangerous, and yet Manhattan is safer than most American suburbs. just FUD all the way down sadly.

AI doesn't actually know anything, just predicts, and as such most training data is in high level languages.

Google search doesn't "just give you solutions"

I’m curious what you are proposing exactly. I see articles even from year 2000 about PhD lifestyles being terrible during and after school.

I find AI painfully limited and dumb for all but the most repetitive common sub problems. I feel great.

More spam at scale. I wish recipients of email had more control over the conditions to which the email is delivered to them, rather than after the fact curation…

More benchmaxxing I see. Too bad there’s no rig with 256gb unified ram for under $1000

this is a big nothing. they relicensed the previous cal.com as cal.diy (MIT by the way, instead AGPL or something else) and effectively forked their own product into the "new" cal.com. anyone who cares would just use cal.diy as they were prior to this announcement with cal.com

I’m curious if there were some consortium of all private businesses with their own surveillance cams deciding to aggregate their footage could it be stopped?

Was uber a startup? Airbnb?

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Not if you’re launching a startup based in the real world. Tell me how AI will make a laundromat business DoA?

If your business is selling services at 40% margin that are entirely digitally based, then maybe you’ll need to cut some margin, sure.

Yes, it’s trivial. What are you having difficulty with? There are plenty of threads here on HN about this

You’re saying moving on from Google is similar to switching government?

I honestly don’t understand the scenario you’re defending against. Google still knows where you actually live and work trivially. If you don’t trust Google you should just de-Google completely.

Google has your location either way. What difference does it make?

Gemma4 in my view is good enough to do things similar to Gemini 2.5 flash, meaning if I point it code and ask for help and there is a problem with the code it’ll answer correctly in terms of suggestions but it’s not great at using all tools or one shooting things that require a lot of context or “expert knowledge”

If a couple more iterations of this, say gemma6 is as good as current opus and runs completely locally on a Mac, I won’t really bother with the cloud models.

That’s a problem.

For the others anyway.

sure it is. what a ridiculous comment. go read how this country was formed, or how the civil war was resolved, or...

you can disagree that this was necessary, which I'd agree with.

The answer is capitalism. Unfortunately in most of Africa corruption prevents it from actually doing its thing properly. I don’t know how anyone can honestly look at India and china and say anything else. Excellent governance is useless without money and most people know how to use their own money to further their own life if given capital and opportunity, thus capitalism is the solution.

Anyone who disagrees should consider why you’re on a venture capitalist website.

They did not say what you are saying…

> If you try to automate a small model to look for vulnerabilities over 10,000 files, it's going to say there are 9,500 vulns.

Citation needed for basically all of this. You basically are creating a double standard for small models vs mythos…