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ncr100

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One-line fixes are the best

FTFY: Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to sarcasm.

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(WARNING: Has LOUD Star-Wars music):

- https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/FP-LxbQVrUHPe7UvJL-8

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ncr100··on GPT-6 Astra
Joke: it's so proponents who choose to lord their model as better without objective reasoning can call themselves, "Astraholes".

Seriously though the linear planetary naming is pleasant. I do hope the double meaning of "weapon", as you point out, is untrue.

Interestingly, Bruce Schnier just gave a fascinating talk about the Weapon aspect of AI, at DEFCON: https://youtu.be/eEBv0STiYhI very much worth watching

ncr100··on GPT-6 Astra
Only costs $200 Billion to build it, vs open source js framework
ncr100··on GPT-6 Astra
If it's AGI then can it replace Sam Altman yet?
ncr100··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
If Sam Altman had said it, I'd have reason to believe that it was a lie....

But since this other guy at Open AI said it, it must be the truth. This guy, for CEO, of open AI.

ncr100··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
Insofar as messaging goes, it's pretty disheartening ... "The product is what you want it to be".

?!

Please somebody in the chain of command at openai, sanction the guy because this kind of hyperbole is not helping the ethical lapses that open ai is responsible for leaving unhandled by allowing its models to hack other businesses.

Look over here! Distraction!

Please somebody stop this dumbing down.

ncr100··on Open AI X post on Astra
The second follow-up post to this (1960s era man in a easy chair pointing at a wall with the finger and the computer and projecting a dot of light onto the wall) video, is someone who has replaced the screen with the HTTP 404 error.
ncr100··on Grok outage
That idea is reminiscent of what I understand is the current economic bubble of mutual investment. Am I wrong in my understanding?
ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
In my view this is faulty logic --

Buying in this case is "buying", and is a redefined term inside the legal contract which you choose to agree to when Sony accepts your money for a license to access their published video games, and so, it does not mean buying in the mundane sense of physical goods.

I would suggest this workaround: If you don't accept society's rules about related norms, such as you having a different definition of theft froom society's, you must proactively declare -- in your mind at the minimum -- and accept without two-way agreement on behalf of everyone else whom you steal from, that theft means what you choose to define it as at any moment. Do that, then that logic is solid.

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Yes. "buy" and "purchase" are redefined in the EULA
ncr100··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
Youtube decides the thresholds, the payouts, the promotional algorithms.
ncr100··on ICE to use robot dogs from Boston Dynamics in deportation operations
Evocative of the Robocop movie.
ncr100··on The safest job from AI may be writing
I also disagree with the author.

The first careers I witnessed being negatively impacted by AI coming onto the scene .. just a couple years ago .. was tech writers. Source: my personal network of tech writer colleagues.

ncr100··on Run macOS Software on Linux
> Do you know about opensource.apple.com, GNUstep, The Cocotron and other projects?

> We do, and in fact, Darling is largely based on the original Darwin source code published by Apple. We use The Cocotron as a basis for our Cocoa implementation, along with the Apportable Foundation and various bits of GNUstep.

Apportable (<3) was a YC startup https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apportable from 2011 - the Foundation repo last update was Dec 2014.

ncr100··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Unless those 5% are 500% more productive than the 95%
ncr100··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Is this spite?
ncr100··on Want to listen better? Turn down your thoughts and tune in to others
Ironic
ncr100··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
I don't know, if Google offers a service and a contract via license and you pay the service which is the developer fee, then Google violates their own contract, isn't that fraud committed upon the client who in this case is the app developer?
ncr100··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Hey, it looks like this is a ripe opportunity for countersuit, because it's bad faith.

I am not a lawyer, but this seems like harassment on a matter that has been previously settled.

ncr100··on USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida
Burrito with jalapeño salsa?
ncr100··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
IDK.

I'm seeing the gov capitalize on the lag time of the US judicial system reacting authoritatively to illegal gov behavior.

To me this is a continuation of a Win At All Costs strategy.

ncr100··on MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Oh of course, I understand.

I'm just ignorant to German universities. Honestly, the only thing I know of is not even University level German education, but just the concept of the German gymnasium system, and that was from when a exchange student visited my high school, in the 1990s!

Thanks for the response. Cheers.

ncr100··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
Just trying to wrap up this thread, and say, ...

... I intended to indicate more a Quantity concept, the existence of these links is to suggest that there is additional interest and effort out there in the human universe of developers, that this whole GitHub disruption services issue is worsening and we all here on this Hacker News thread are trodding a somewhat well-worn path.

And I apologize for not making that conclusion in my comment so as to stave off spinning out a tangential discussion unnecessarily.

ncr100··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
I disagree.

Yes it's reckless to say that I trust these browser extensions and GitHub repos with my private information.

In this circumstance, and somewhat ironically because of the actual issue at hand of us not being able to trust GitHub when we need to trust GitHub in order to get through our daily triage burdens, but in this circumstance, I wrote that I did not trust these.

So, I'm sorry for the confusion that it's causing, but it's really an indicator, showing that other people are experiencing frustration around the friction between they themselves realizing something is not working, and them resolving the issue after going through a potentially lengthy process to figure out that it actually is their source control and remote developer automation tooling that is failing them.

So I didn't put that conclusion in my comment.

When you two, in this thread, talk about humor on hacker News, I see where you're going. I really should have just put a conclusion in my comment so that it staved off the wandering to help make my comment more comprehensible, more quickly.

Sorry to have blown as much mental energy as it did, obviously resulting in an unwelcome and toxic result.

ncr100··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
Thank you Tim, yes, merely sharing is what I was doing.

I didn't say, and I probably should have said, "Use the fact that there are a number of these developer focused IDE/ browser extension tools as motivating information, about the emerging need to support human developers in there daily triage burdens, as is it's arguably a need .. a trend that is worsening."

ncr100··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
> why you'd share links to software you don't even recommend yourself?

Overall, I disagree and think it's valid and responsible to share links to apps if I disclaimed that I don't recommend installing their linked applications in an environment that has access to private data.

One valid reason, to share links, is to illustrate that there are more than zero efforts to address this issue - the parent comment issue - through and even more convenient practice than firing up a web browser, following link, waiting for it to load, reviewing the material, to see if GitHub status is red or green today. So this reason attempts to build up the importance of the parent comment's idea, and suggests that legitimate verifiable work is advisable, to continue down that path of making it more convenient for developers have simpler, more human indicators about the reliability of their digital tools.

Pretty simple reason but that's my reason.

ncr100··on MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
How is this interesting? Sincerely?

Tell us more about how MIT giving AI some thought compares superiorly to 'many German universities', and please tell us more about which German universities and in which circumstances.

ncr100··on Apple Silicon's Surprisingly Speedy SIMD
Seriously, posting to the same site owned by the Creator of DOGE, who is ethically responsible for mass death now and future deaths too.

Using the site supports him and his efforts.

ncr100··on Apple Silicon's Surprisingly Speedy SIMD
I don't know...

.. Perhaps something about the same site being by the DOGE guys?

ncr100··on 1,000 missing after catastrophic floods caused by a glacial collapse
Jesus. This is climate change. This is terrifying.
ncr100··on Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies aged 80
Fantastic video quote - I feel it's marvelous how actors can captivate me (and other people ?) for _entertainment's_ sake.
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