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Huh? Look at the hottest topic at the moment:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-has-attacked-irans-nuc...

and see for yourself if Twitter is dead.

Can you come up with a plan to ship Budweiser beer to the consumers around the country via train?

> But that’s what they sell, that AI could do what the author did with AI.

Can you give an example of what you meant here? The author did use AI. What does "AI coming up with that" mean?

Nobody?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542497

I've worked under communist regime. A real one, a few decades ago, and let me tell you, they also demanded proof of disability. Did you have different experience?

Such as?

> That's not true at all. Someone can simply buy all the media, and the free market will not correct that as long as that person has the wealth to persist.

Do you have an example of that happened in real life? Not just a hypothesis. When was a person being wealthy enough to buy all the media?

Use cases such as?

From TFA:

> LLMs and the platforms powering them are quickly becoming one-stop shops for any ML-related tasks. From my perspective, the real revolution is not the chat ability or the knowledge embedded in these models, but rather the versatility they bring in a single system.

Why use another piece of software if LLM is good enough?

Google's revenue for 2023 was $307.394B, a 8.68% increase from 2022. 2022 was $282.836B, a 9.78% increase from 2021. 2021 was $257.637B, a 41.15% increase from 2020.

Doesn't sound like just past glory.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...

Really? Ad is the most popular business model for Internet businesses. Any you saying none of those companies is viable?

It's a Chinese company in a wild hot technology field that China want to compete in. I bet that they are very well supported by the state. Similar to Llama with Meta's money.

So anyway, what is your idea of a less shitty business model that can sustain their business? Paid tier? they already have it.

War is terrible. Nobody likes war. Yet war is also the norm for as long as human being exists. Saying military is the war machine is a cheap emotional appeal.

Military also fight to protect civilians when war break out.

Military is the deterrence force that prevent wars.

Military plays a key role in rescue and recovery when natural disasters hit.

Most military forces have more peace time than war time duties.

Why not?

Software engineer in the US makes 100K or higher. Why?

If you have reasons to believe the price is too high, present them?

Dell's employee number grew from 105,000 in 2017 to peak level of 165,000 in 2020, before going down to the current level of 130,000 - [0]

But are you saying we should only pay attention when layoff happens, ignoring a long period of significant growth?

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/264917/number-of-employe...

You are very hostile in this thread. The GP didn't say anywhere that it was ok for people to be uninsured. Neither did they say they were among the 55% figure.

Secondly, it's easy to find some official figures - [0]

From January through June 2023, among people of all ages, 7.4% were uninsured, 40.7% had public coverage, and 60.8% had private coverage at the time of interview

And:

The percentage of adults who were uninsured decreased from 14.7% in 2019 to 10.7% in the first 6 months of 2023. Public coverage increased from 2019 (20.4%) through the first 6 months of 2023 (23.6%). No significant trend in private coverage was observed between 2019 (66.8%) and the first 6 months of 2023 (67.7%)

In other words, the majority of people in the US (> 90%) have insurance -- private, public, or both.

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur202312....

Are you sure? People of the old time spent most of their time worrying about having food on the table. I doubt they could have time for FB if it was to exist at the time

Well, now you have access to other kinds of food that you didn't have when you were a kid, such as international cuisines. Who is to say which way is better? Although it's certainly the case that it'd be ideal if you could have both

Huh? Mobile phone was available commercially in 1980s, and started to proliferate in 1990s. It was definitely not popular in those groups early on. Any of them.

Perhaps. We'll also have big robust space junk removers

People pay for expert opinion all the time. The experts also have realistic sounding but wrong opinion all the time, to the point that seeking 2nd opinion is the norm. Emphasize "2nd" there -- we can afford to only pay two, or at most a handful number of experts.

> AI cannot and will never be able to provide this motivation to learn, which is what kids actually need, because it is not human.

We hear all the time about digital addiction, gamification, FB, Tiktok, etc. Addiction is arguably more difficult to achieve than motivation. AI will be able to motivate people just fine

> From a user perspective Facebook's feed is spam.

The topic is FB groups. They aren't spam, at least for those I'm a member. Some groups may be quiet, some are active, but I don't recall coming across spam posts from any of them. A particular group has a rule that members can promote their business once a week, enforced by the group's admin

You called the criticism "ad hominem", but your own criticism of the study lacks any substance. How about look at their method [0], and/or the method of the polls that their findings are based on [1], and justify your opinion that the design of this study is not sound.

If you can't provide concrete debunks then your complain is nothing but hot air.

[0] - https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/a2exdqgg#s2

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220319202108/https://news.gall...

> as for example the anesthesiologist may be out of network and you’ll never know until it’s too late

Are you sure you don't make this up? Any insurance that I've ever had always let you search if a particular provider is in their network. I just verified on the website of my current insurance. Dozen of anesthesiologists nearby are listed. In fact they often go out of their way to notify you if your doctors leave their network.

Car ownership continue to grow around the world. Maybe not everywhere, but definitely in countries where public transportation is popular, such as the Netherlands. The number can be found easily.

Kyiv would still be the right location. Russia want anything that may distract the world's attention from the crimes they commit everyday in Ukraine.

What if OpenAI couldn't bring ChatGPT out with the fund they was able to raise prior to converting to for-profit?

If investors didn't get any benefits ("richer" in your parlance) why should they invest?

If they didn't invest where would the money come from? tax dollar? Can you envision tax dollar be spent on AI research? or would they bring ChatGPT as quickly or as capable?

This kind of comment is what you get when you are on the wrong side of HN. You wouldn't find it for Nvidia's or Apple's events that are similarly full of marketing and hypes.

Google earn it, someone would say. That doesn't make such a comment less pointless or shallow.