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clipsy··on An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
What work do you imagine a "low paid fungible AI operator" would perform, out of curiosity?
clipsy··on Viral AI Video of Brad Pitt Fighting Tom Cruise Shakes Hollywood
> To be frank, 'soon' is now

When is your movie premiering? I'll be waiting with bated breath.

clipsy··on OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of "free-riding" on American R&D
So? OpenAI free-rode on vast quantities of copyrighted material. As usual, the oligarchs want to be protected by the law but not bound by it.
clipsy··on Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
Snopes confirms this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system...

But everyone knows Snopes is leftist propaganda, so it's probably false. /s

clipsy··on Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
"Unlimited" with the caveat that 4-5 weeks is typical and anything over 6 weeks requires multiple layers of management going to bat for you.
clipsy··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
Yikes, someone's a bit oversensitive
clipsy··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
> It's deceptively styled to look a big boy car, but it's a matchbox. That's why no reviewers will show themselves or anyone else towering over it. It's for those who want a big car, but without all that space.

I miss the days when men looking to compensate would buy sports cars. It wasn't any less ridiculous, but at least they (edit: the cars) were better looking and more fun to drive.

clipsy··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
> This is not a car for tech bros with no culture, no traditions, and no past.

Weird, because that's exactly what it looks like.

clipsy··on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
I must have missed the episode where Babu spent months in a concentration camp despite having his paperwork in order and doing nothing wrong.
clipsy··on X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts
If you think it was sarcasm, I'd certainly be willing to hear what you think the actual statement being made was.

Please explain:

- What the actual intent of the post was

- How the text of the post communicated that intent

Thanks!

clipsy··on Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked
I thought Anthropic's commercials were pretty good at skewering advertising in AI, but from an effectiveness standpoint I don't know how much Joe Sixpack cares about (or is even aware of) different AI companies.
clipsy··on [dead]
If only the NFL had chosen a pop star who sings in English for the halftime show, then we'd all live in harmony and all the people "concerned" about the country being overrun by Latinos would relax and embrace multiculturalism. /s
clipsy··on X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts
> In a November 2024 exchange, @beaverd weighed in after another user commented on photos of then-President-elect Donald Trump meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. “Weird that he looks so happy while hanging out with literally Hitler,” the other user commented, to which @beaverd replied: “God I wish he was literally Hitler.”

Sounds pretty straightforward to me. What do you think he meant?

clipsy··on An AI chat-assist offered a customer 80% off. Customer has placed £8k order
> The chat logs will clearly show fraud attempts.

What basis do you have for this assertion?

clipsy··on We have an anti-aging vaccine. Why aren't more people getting it?
I think you might be confusing measles with chicken pox? The latter is the cause of shingles later in life.
clipsy··on ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
It's not "cannot" but "will not", and the flaw is not with the American political system but with the GOP and the American populace. Congress could absolutely rein this in at any time if Republicans in Congress cared to do so; the Supreme Court could rein this in at any time if the Republicans on the Supreme Court cared to do so. Do not let yourself be convinced that the problem is Trump or a too-powerful executive; the problem is an entire party and the people who cheerfully vote for it.
clipsy··on Govt's Theory for Prosecuting Don Lemon as to Disruption of Minn. Church Service
You say that "leftist" administrations arrested and jailed abortion protestors, and your proof is an article about a woman arrested and jailed for bodily blocking access and crushing someone's hand in a door:

"On June 19, 2020, and June 20, 2020, WILLIAMS threatened and used force against patients and staff members at a reproductive health center located in lower Manhattan (the “Health Center”) and blocked patients and staff members from accessing the Health Center. In one instance, and as captured on video, WILLIAMS pressed her body against the door of the Health Center’s patient entrance and refused to move, preventing a Health Center volunteer from entering the Health Center. As a Health Center staff member (“Victim-1”) attempted to open the door for the volunteer, WILLIAMS purposefully leaned against the door, crushing Victim-1’s hand. Victim-1 yelled, “She’s crushing my hand,” but WILLIAMS remained against the door, trapping Victim-1’s hand and injuring it."

I do not see the Trump admin presenting evidence of Don Lemon taking similar actions.

clipsy··on We Should Eradicate the Empty String – Here's Why
While we're at it we should get rid of 0, I've never trusted it.
clipsy··on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k
> How many children are dying/starved/killed in the sudan war? Why don't these same protests make the same kind of statements for that?

Because no one in our society is defending, supporting, or funding the killing of children in the Sudan war.

clipsy··on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
But kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point.
clipsy··on France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams
First, why are you talking about LiveKit? I see nothing in the article mentioning it, and with a bit of further digging I found another article elaborating on the new solution being developed in France: "The French government has announced the full rollout of Visio, a domestically developed video conferencing platform that will replace Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other non-European tools across all state administrations by 2027" with no mention of LiveKit: "On the technical side, Visio is hosted on the sovereign cloud infrastructure provided by Outscale, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, and certified under SecNumCloud by ANSSI, France’s national cybersecurity agency. The platform supports AI-powered meeting transcription using speaker diarization technology from the French startup pyannote, with real-time subtitle generation from AI research lab Kyutai expected to be added by summer 2026"[0].

Second, why do you use scare quotes on "open stack" when the entire stack does indeed appear to be open source?[1] If Visio is in some capacity using LiveKit, it seems not just plausible but very likely they are building their own infra using LiveKit's stack rather than paying LiveKit for SaaS.

Third, under the reasonable presumption that any use of LiveKit would be using LiveKit's stack on their own infra, why would it matter who else uses LiveKit?

In short: I try to assume the best, but it seems very much like your post is a shallow attempt at muckraking.

[0]: https://cyberinsider.com/france-to-replace-zoom-and-teams-wi...

[1]: https://github.com/livekit/livekit as noted in other comments

clipsy··on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
> Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting?

Should you be able to sue a liquor store if they sell your kid a fifth of vodka?

clipsy··on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
If you believe that, go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up.
clipsy··on To establish that citizens of the US shall owe sole and exclusive allegiance [pdf]
Have you ever considered getting a second citizenship yourself? I can think of quite a few dictatorships where your attitude would be lauded.
clipsy··on Trump says US used secret weapon to disable Venezuelan equipment in Maduro raid
Weird, I thought the president could declassify anything he wanted, even just by thinking it.
clipsy··on Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot'
Personally, I'd wager it's both of them.
clipsy··on How long do you think? I give it 3 years
This seems like a baffling comment. If AI is good enough to replace the vast majority of knowledge workers, why would the AI bubble burst? (Or, more accurately, why would you describe it as a bubble?)
clipsy··on RFC: A proposal to replace API integration with LLM Semantic Translation
Just fyi, your AI slop readme cuts off mid-sentence in section 2:

"In this model, Large Language Models (LLMs) act"

clipsy··on Ask HN: Why is the $0 hijacking of intellectual labor so normalized in OSS?
Who is doing the "expecting" here? I've contributed to open source projects, both as a volunteer and in return for compensation, but if someone "expected" me to contribute to an open source project I had no desire to contribute to I'd laugh and tell them to piss off.
clipsy··on Nate the Lawyer breaks down the ICE shooting footage in detail [video]
> The driver ran her car into an officer hitting him

No amount of repeating this will make it true.

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