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>> The chatbot consults its training data

> Err, no? That's not at all how llms work.

For a lay article, it's a fine conceptual approximation.

Presumably OAI and HuggingFace reached some sort of mutually acceptable arrangement outside the court system. That's how torts work; you injure someone, you owe them. But just them.

When an AI bot injures you, you can call the owner to account. But not until then. You have no standing to demand "accountability".

I don't know where you live, but I'm pretty much at ground zero for tech and my world doesn't look anything like what you describe.

I do find it annoying when I visit my inlaws, who have a television on every waking hour. But you know what? It's their home and their lives.

"this time it really is different" is what they always say.

There just aren't enough existing nuclear bombs to kill everyone in Australia, let alone the world. On the scale of the earth, nuclear weapons just aren't that powerful.

It's not "their" president, Iranians didn't elect him. Khomeini was a religious extremist who only months ago presided over the murder of ten thousand protesters and we should shed not one tear.

Is this just a guerrilla advertising campaign for a hosting service? Do you work for them? Are you even a human?

You sound so certain that these other parents are being negligent. Despite the fact that my 9yo doesn't have a phone or tiktok, I'm going to argue the other side's case.

You're right "we don't know what it does to kids brains". But that means we should give parents discretion. Some parents want to run an experiment where they give their kids constant tiktok. Maybe we'll find out in a generation or two that this was bad, good, or a nothingburger.

I'm in my 50s. I have watched sooo many moral panics evaporate to nothing. TV, video games, D&D, heavy metal music, porn, literal satanism, and now everyone's favorite whipping boy, social media.

Let it go. Parent your own child, let other people parent theirs.

There is a YouTube channel sponsored by people like you:

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I'm in my 50s and did the same. But even then the toy guns were often bright orange.

Nerf guns are the modern equivalent of our dart guns and kids run around with them today all the time. They are pretty unmistakeable, I'm sure by design.

I was also super confused because it doesn't do this if you are logged in (to google).

I ran the same search in an incognito window and it showed the /goto links.

> regions such as East Asia are clearly better off due to declining American hegemony

Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines would very much disagree.

I love programming and I have the exact opposite experience. AI has made programming even more fun.

* I love programming, not typing. I type less!

* I get to pick and choose which parts of the code to focus on. I hate spending hours on stupid CSS alignment issues, now I don't have to.

* I'm working at 10X+ the speed I used to. It feels more like "moving at the speed of thought".

* The penalty for going down technological dead ends is much lighter. It's worth trying some architectures that might not work out; you can refactor them away without a big time investment.

I'm having way more fun than I ever did, and I always had a great time writing code. But I'm still in the code and nitpicking every decision the LLMs make.

> All other nuclear nations behave [...] What makes you think that Iran won't?

Iran already misbehaves, exporting violence to the entire region. How do you think they are going to act when they have nuclear weapons?

US military power does most of its heavy lifting without throwing bombs. We're seeing the end of Pax Americana and it isn't pretty.

These takes are also a bit premature. Wait until the new apps have rolled out and users are happy.

Most likely this will work out fine, but big rewrites like this have a big enough chance of going off the rails that I wouldn't shout success from the rooftops just yet. I'm sure Digg engineering was proud of their rewrite too.

I'm perfectly competent at CSS and... at this point I don't even look at CSS. I just feed descriptions of what I want to the LLM and it nails it every time. The result either looks the way I want or it doesn't.

I'm not universally pro-AI. I meticulously review every line of backend code, and still do hand edits. I review FE commits less carefully but still keep an eye on it to make sure AI doesn't go off the rails. But there's only so much trouble you can get into with CSS and the problems are the kind of bite-sized problems that LLMs excel at.

I don't think it matters at this point what you use for styling. If you like tailwind, the AIs use it just fine. If you like SASS, or raw CSS, the AIs are also just fine.

I'm not sure there's really a human job here anymore.

Nonsense. There have been perfectly good free date picker widgets available for every era of web development, going back to clunky server-rendered html templates.

Even the people that voted for Trump didn't sign up for this, which is why his approval ratings are terrible even by historic standards. He didn't run on a platform of "attack Canada and suck up to Putin". Most Americans are very pro-European. Most of the voting population has living memory of the cold war.

As to what happens post-Trump, it's anyone's guess. I expect a hard reset. Markets have short memories, as they say.

> I don’t think Americans are realizing yet how much has changed for us the past two years.

In two more, possibly less, the current administration will be gone. The Trump agenda will be dead in the water by the end of this year.

While I basically agree with you, I wonder how quickly people will forget.

I think the parent's point - and what I more or less agree with - is that the problem is the hardware.

Human arms and hands are incredibly intricate. Reproducing their facility with hardware requires a large number of actuators and finicky fine parts. This isn't a software problem. Industry solves it with maintenance schedules.

There's probably nothing in your house that has as many moving parts as a robot needs. Your car maybe, and pretty much all it does is rotate wheels.

I offer this, as someone who is heavy into AI development (as a coding assistant, not vibe-coding). I was pretty fast before and now I'm easily an order of magnitude faster.

* I scrutinize every line of backend code and frequently make revisions.

* I pay just barely enough attention to the frontend code to make sure it's not doing anything dumb.

* I pay zero attention to the CSS.

Either our expectations for UI interaction are going to go up a lot, or FE devs should start looking at product management roles. I think the asteroid metaphor is apt.

> most websites don't need any interactivity

I dispute this. I don't have any statistics either, but my subjective experience is that most websites are not like newspapers or blogs. Even shopping websites have pretty heavy interactivity these days.

Also, most boring pure-information-presentation problems are mostly solved by ancient technologies like wordpress. If you're working in web development in 2026, you probably aren't making static websites or blogs. You're doing something novel that probably has much higher interactivity demands.

I picked my own age and location. My life expectancy is apparently 59, my friends average 4.3 children, and 9% of my cohort died as infants.

Yeah, not even close. Neat idea, needs real numbers.

In other news, Canada will be renaming Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein.

(saw it on the internet, had to share)

A large religious gathering is not my idea of a good time. It might be yours, that's fine. But these are not similar things.

This is literal whattaboutism. We can be disgusted by violent acts and fraud. This post reads like you're trying to excuse the violece.

I should add - if you want the "old school burning man experience" without big crowds and big expense, go to the exact same place for 4th of Juplaya. The art is smaller but still present; there are people who either got fed up with the bureaucracy, or are field-trialing their projects. You can go to the hot springs and explore the hills. Good place for dirt bikes, if you have them.

It's great both ways.

I've been a dozen or so times, dating back to 1994.

It's changed over the years - price has gone up, scale has gone up, and rules have become more strict. Not surprising when there are 70k people instead of 3k. Some people (fairly) don't like these changes. And some people like to badmouth things they've never experienced.

It's still the best party going on anywhere in the world that week. Most people you meet are not in tech. The crazy art pieces (most of which are interactive) are like nothing you will find anywhere else. It's definitely fun.

I stopped going regularly because it's a big expense and time commitment and I wanted to allocate my limited budget of both to other adventures. But if you haven't been, you should go.

How prevalent is that kind of abuse? Quantify it. I am sketpical.

The interesting thing here is that Samsung thinks they are going to get people to pay for API access to their smart devices, when "app access" is free. We are now past the point where LLMs can automate the apps. You don't even need to write the code, the LLM will do it for you.

As a recent owner of a Samsung fridge, I'm really curious to know what the plan is here. The probability of me paying a monthly for my refrigerator is exactly zero.