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throwaway843on Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they'd think AGI arrived, says Altman

Altman seeking to shift the goalposts of what AGI is like he (and others) shifted the goalposts of what 'AI' is.

Did ChapGPT come up with this strategy? It sounds very generative.

throwaway843on Musk: SpaceX will ground Dragon spacecraft used to shuttle astronauts to ISS

Cut the pork barrel favors for 'friends'.

throwaway843on Ask HN: How do you protect your email address from spam?

20 per day is less than 5 minutes. Most of my spam comes from GMail. Blacklist GMail for the minor annoyance that messages that get through spamassassin, dkim filtering, greylisting, etc for?

throwaway843on Morgan Stanley's AI parsed 9M lines of code, saving 15K devs 280K hours

> AI reads Perl so Python devs don't have to, saving 30 hours per dev over 9 months.

An example of a non hand wavy, actual not hyped use of 'AI'.

throwaway843on Why I'm done with Firefox for good, and which browser I'm using instead

Complains about Mozilla but writes for ZDNet... and recommends Opera.

throwaway843on Tell HN: Namecheap pre-purchasing searched domain names?

Is tasting still a thing? That would be free, right?

throwaway843on Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates' go-to streaming device

From an article linked in the OP https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...

> Smart TVs constantly send large amounts of data about what you watch to the servers. LG captures a screenshot of your TV every 10ms (100 times per second), while Samsung does so every 500ms (twice per second).

throwaway843on Want a humanoid, open-source robot for just $3k? Hugging Face is on it

Game changer human computer interface. This is anthromorphic.

throwaway843on Billions of session cookies for sale sparks security warning

Security advice from NordVPN?

The VPN provider that had their private keys shared on 4chan numerous times but failed to update them until months later despite knowing this?

throwaway843on What Is the Bank of the Future

The future is PSD2 where the bank sticks to mainframes and the service provider serves you AI emojis.

throwaway843on $200k and still no recovery from Google's algorithm

Google doesn't matter anymore.

1. GMail's sticky for mail. 2. YouTube exists as YouTube. 3. Maps is monopoly bundled into Android.

While on the backend, Google may suggest everything's integrated plus how wonderful the free lunch GCP is, the above three distinct products are all there is left.

AI killed search, it's a zombie that's well on the way to Yahoo! Yellow Pages relevance. Google killed everything else it had.

OP may find they're ahead of the game as they were forced to look beyond Google early.

throwaway843on 'Alarming' rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds

Much is about controlling the narrative not just today, but for the bots that will come and read it.

throwaway843on At Trump's $148M meme coin dinner, 'the food sucked', attendee says

Given most attendees' MO is to pump crypto before dumping it, the food must have been truely awful.