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It's a reference from Star Wars if you really don't know. People say things they hear, I don't know what else to tell you.

The AI giants got where they are by pushing similar limits and setting aside moral (and legal) issues to be settled later in court, so the idea seems to fit the general zeitgeist we're living in. Not really criticism, just an observation.

Unless they mean Cloudflare is actually a political entity, as it was created, but that doesn't make their claim any better.

it's harnesses all the way down.

> The whole rest of the world has their own agency and is wising up to the fact that the US is limited to financial instruments and 5-13 functional aircraft carriers to project force. Soft power and goodwill is spent and we're just ignorant bullies who elected a rapist twice and can't be trusted

Maybe it's just the American way of passing the torch, this is kind of a gift by reminding the rest of the world about what they can do without us. The "America, defender of democracy" image was an illusion constructed as we emerged from WW2 as the strongest of the Allies, and that of course was due to the unique privilege of deciding when to tip the scales strategically, not when we were forced to.

So much has been built on that American privilege at all levels since then. The most glaringly obvious folly was interpreting this privilege as American Exceptionalism, because as a "leader of the free world" obviously that depends on how the rest of the world feels about it.

> account named throwaway* lobs weak rage bait

I don't think they're actually proposing anything.

It's Sturgill Simpson all the way down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down_(song...

Alternate take: you can click that link. We are not on Wikipedia and the OP isn't a link to Wikipedia.

I feel like there is surely something besides a snarky comment about an opportunistic billionaire Nazi's attempt at revisionist history just simply revealing itself as hollow.

Not sure why forking Wikipedia ever sounded like a good idea.

or, roll three dice for an implosion engineered by the companies that needed them in the first place.

why are you bringing your socialist boogeymen into this. what's absurd is that this is somehow louder for you than the real, life-changing actions of the genocidal maniac.

Been a big fan Brave for a while. I just recently learned about Brave Origin, the core browser with all the crypto/ads/etc removed, free for linux and one-time payment for others: https://brave.com/origin/

also worth checking out Librewolf: https://www.librewolf.net/

Was the Linux version just released or something? afaik Orion on iOS and Mac is nothing new.

Hard to get prepaid debit cards? They sell them anywhere with a cash register these days.

Are you suggesting this is fine for sites outside the scope of Texas's specific ire?

The audacity to push things called the Affordable Care Act too.

well, if you go to the main page you can find articles about pomodoro, lifting techniques, and a "prompt of the week". so there's that.

> https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

This looks great! thanks for sharing, been looking for something like this for a while.

more likely, most of HN who care about reading this article use something like archive.is

It doesn't help that these companies aren't doing anything to dampen the anxiety around AI or how it's going to eliminate everyone's jobs.

I've been wondering when/if they will start making frontier models more opinionated and less sycophantic, since sycophantic AI can really create "AI psychosis". stuff like "no, you're not crazy, no one else has thought like this before", but if the AI pushes back more then people won't enjoy using it as much, since people love being told they're right.

I don't think it's sexy, though I wish people would stop using this word for things like... war machines. Gun culture is just a subculture in the US, and I agree weaponized drones aren't 1:1 with guns to gun nuts.

> https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/featur...

* looks inside *

click 'next' on your link and it explains the plugins for memory providers.

aka, Them.

the article was posted on 5/28, three days ago. both steam decks are showing as available for me too.

My point was that the world we have is here, for better or worse, and "reaping what we sowed" seems like a wildly reductive and self-defeating interpretation. There's no way this guy who says he never worked directly on automation-related tech should feel like he's banking bad karma by earning a living doing the best he can. I'm assuming that not working in automation was a conscious decision, like I've also been very selective about my employers based on their general operating philosophies.

The analogy wasn't the best, but the whole of tech isn't on the hook for this. Just like a typical daily driver or someone who works on their own car can't be directly responsible for the climate crisis. There are major players making the decisions that are causing the state we're in.

> Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap.

Well, I quite enjoy getting this community's perspective on current events and political topics. I wish more people would care about the ways these things intersect with their areas of interest and expertise. One man's crap, I guess!

Really? Not sure if you like to work on your own cars, but would you also feel like you're accumulating negative karma for associating with the automotive and fossil fuel industries? We're not responsible for the world that is here right now, but we have to figure out how to operate within it. The idea that "we earned this" like we're all at fault for the state of things seems pretty far off.

Not trying to say you're wrong but long way of saying don't be so hard on yourself, its not like you're Elon, Altman, any of the other awful figures steering our tech world right now.

they're not really spineless, they're fully on board with this. This is how they hammer through everything they've been working for, the rest of us be damned.

in the video he mentions that Trump explained this. "I realized no one cared, and I'm allowed to."

> punish cops

just say you're not being serious and save us the time.