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This is a woefully naive view on the nature of monopolies. You could have made the same argument for Standard Oil.

What are you saying? "None of the doomsday predictions have come to pass." -> nothing is wrong and the USA is fine

"There's been major impact to some things" -> so bad things have happened

"but for the most part the economy has hummed along without a blip." -> so despite bad things happening, just plug your ears and sing loudly?

As for prices in Walmart, they HAVE gone up. Several companies have had press releases stating they need to increase prices because of tariffs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-r...

"Retailers like Costco and Best Buy said they have already raised some prices, while Walmart, Target and Macy's plan to follow suit"

I'll be the first to say that given the circumstances our underlying economy and people have held up better than complete collapse. But you can't pretend this is not happening.

That's a false equivalence. You might read a blog post about engineering from someone who paid a maid to clean their house, and sends their laundry out.

But would you read their blog post on laundry tips?

No - it's just as easy for you to send out your own laundry.

I tend to agree with you, feels to me like the root of this is essentially whether foundries will "go all in" on AI like the rest of the S&P 500. But why trade away one trillion-dollar customer for another trillion-dollar customer if the first one is never going away, and the second one might?

I'm not sold on the idea that commits and PRs are always easily tied back to tickets. Ideally, sure. In practice? Not always.

I'll be contrarian to the thread sentiment and say: Mozilla has misstepped in the past, and will continue to do so, and they're partially funded by competitors for antitrust reasons, etc.

That said, I can't really disagree with anything in this. As a developer (and socially conscious human) I want to move in the direction of openness.

Thanks for pointing out this section, but "race baiting garbage" is a strong term, no?

There were historical inaccuracies, some of which I expected like timeline issues and things like that, as well some things which were actually true that I did not expect (John Glenn asking for the calculations personally). In the end it is a movie meant to spark interest in NASA / science and tell a compelling story about people who helped us during a time before the Civil Rights Act. To call it "race baiting garbage" is overly dismissive and I think exposes an alarming personal bias.

This is inflammatory, dismissive, and hardly constructive for discussion. Flame wars are discouraged by the rules.

All said, you're comment worked. I'm angry now. Good job.

Do you have any concerns about production bugs or human-in-the-loop?

I believe existing laws carve out exceptions for medical fitness for certain positions for this very reason. If I may, stepping back for a second: the reason privacy laws exist, is to protect people from bad behavior from employers, health insurance, etc.

If we circumvent those privacy laws, through user licenses, or new technology - we are removing the protections of normal citizens. Therefore, the bad behavior which we already decided as a society to ban can now be perpetrated again, with perhaps a fresh new word for it to dodge said old laws.

If I understand your comment, you are essentially wondering why those old laws existed in the first place. I would suggest racism or other systemic issues, and differences in insurance premiums, are more than enough to justify the existence of privacy laws. Take a normal office job as an example over a manual labor intensive job. No reason at all that health conditions should impact that. The idea of not being hired because I have a young child, or a health condition, that would raise the group rate from the insurer passing the cost to my employer (which would be in their best interest to do) is a terrible thought. And it happened before, and we banned that practice (or did our best to do so).

All this to say, I believe HIPAA helps people, and if ChatGPT is being used to partially or fully facilitate medical decision making, they should be bound under strict laws preventing the release of that data regardless of their existing user agreements.

If it was really down to two engineers, it's almost certainly what one or both of them were already comfortable or familiar with and no other reason. Six months is such a short time frame for long term projects like this that I imagine they could not spare much time for analysis of alternatives.

Could you elaborate a little bit more?

plugging your AI newsletter at the end of your comment comes off as an indicator you want to farm engagement, not genuinely stimulate conversation.

>it seems likely that it's going to be on the LLM user to know if the out is protected by copyright.

To me, this is what seems more insane! If you've never read Harry Potter, and you ask an LLM to write you a story about a wizard boy, and it outputs 80% Harry Potter - how would you even know?

> there will be probably be some "reasonable belief" defence in eventual laws.

This is probably true, but it's irksome to shift all blame away from the LLM producers, using copy-written data to peddle copy-written output. This simply turns the business into copyright infringement as a service - what incentive would they have to actually build those "secondary search thingies" and build them well?

> it definitely isn't as simple as "LLM wrote it so we can ignore copyright".

Agreed. The copyright system is getting stress tested. It will be interesting to see how our legal systems can adapt to this.

This is a frustrating comment. Please elaborate with a real point! Just highlighting something that used to be the case, does not imply that it should always be the case, nor does it imply that it reflects the case now.

Wow, I might need to steal that idea for bypassing Jira discussions. I hate Jira with all my might.

This sounds very interesting to me. I'd read through that blog post, as I'm working on expanding my K8s skills - as you say knowledge is very scattered!

Respectfully I disagree there. Social media is dangerous and corrosive to a healthy mind, but AI is like a rapidly adaptive cancer if you don't recognize it for what it is.

Reading accounts from people who fell into psychosis induced by LLMs feels like a real time mythological demon whispering insanities and temptations into the ear directly, in a way that algorithmically recommended posts from other people could never match.

It will naturally mimic your biases. It will find the most likely response for you to keep engaging with it. It will tell you everything you want to hear, even if it is not based in reality. In my mind it's the same dangers of social media but dialed all the way up to 11.

Interesting statement. I suppose you could argue that long term archival storage is communication with a long tailed, sometimes ill-defined window for receiving the message. Few people write books they don't want anyone to read.

Good question

I 100% see the Framework Desktop and Steam Machine less as competitors and more as separate flavors of the same form factor: Steam Machine for the lower priced, casual plug-n-play gaming use case, and Framework Desktop for the higher priced, professional use case.

Seeing as the Steam Machine feels like a way to get traction for SteamOS just as much as it is a venture for selling hardware, a partnership between them selling Framework laptops/desktops verified for SteamOS seems like exactly the type of thing Valve would want.

Any recommendations on registrars?

This seems like you are not fully thinking this through, either intentionally or not. Benefit of the doubt, I will add to your question about why you should care with more questions: what if it's someone you know? what if they want to then sell the generated content? what if it was your political enemies? what if it was your boss? what if it was someone who was stalking you or made you feel unsafe?

Just yesterday, there was a post that made me angry in the same vein: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609942

Not only was the article slop, but the author kept responding to comments/criticisms with MORE slop. I must scream.

What is this? The formatting of this article is horrendous, the writing style follows common AI output (read: slop), often to the point of being nonsensical, and the citations are questionable at best.

For example, they never actually state WHAT their basic needs are - despite it being the crux of their article and referencing a consumer's "basket" 18 times, they never state what goods they are comparing!

They cite bizarre data like linking to a CSV of "their" OECD, then utilize it to rattle off a number of stats that don't correlate with each other. The charts don't look right either.

The website is drowning in banner ads - despite being a .org TLD - and looks so sloppy that a high schooler could make a more coherent and convincing report, despite being written by "(name) Economic & Pricing Investigator | Content Reviewed by CFA (name)".

This is frankly trash, and any valuable insight is impossible to distinguish against the backdrop of sloppy garbage. We should be posting higher quality articles than this.

This is why I use the phrase "sucking all the oxygen out of the room" where the proverbial oxygen is funding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Hyp...

Musk literally admitted he wanted to block progress on new rail projects, and the Hyperloop was his PR project to do so. Snake oil.

There are many people who want new train infrastructure. Musk is not one of them.

everybody knew and voiced their knowledge before, during, and after the Vegas tunnel that Boring Co and the Hyperloop were just bad concepts. You didn't need to waste money to try it, because it's not new tech. It's a tunnel. It's a solution to traffic. It's for riders, not drivers. But instead of calling it a train and therefore being _lame_, you slap a fresh coat of paint on it with _self driving cars_ and _insane_ promises you could never deliver on.

Calling out snake oil, for being snake oil, and lamenting that it sucks all the oxygen out of the room for _real_ , _serious_ technology and progress? That's a good thing.

I agree the market is niche atm, but I can't help but disagree with your outlook long term. Self hosted models don't have the problems ChatGPT subscribers are facing with models seemingly performing worse over time, they don't need to worry about usage quotas, they don't need to worry about getting locked out of their services, etc.

All of these things have a dark side, though; but it's likely unnecessary for me to elaborate on that.

In that case the obvious move from the 5$ wrench perspective is to hit you with it until you tell them where the private key is kept, because you would need to have it somewhere.

I've had this same idea! Of course, it remains an idea never taken out of the garage. Are you delivering broadsheet, or formatting a printable file for users to print at home?