jacquesm

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Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit(reddit.com)
143 points by jacquesm 1d ago|13 comments
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by jacquesm 3d ago
10x loc? wow. That makes me wonder how it will perform. And how you will review that, since if it is physically impossible for a human then who will take responsibility for what you release?
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Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all(heise.de)
11 points by jacquesm 4d ago|3 comments
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by jacquesm 4d ago
Why would that be funny? Years of people's work appropriated and they end up without even the recognition? I'd be furious.
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by jacquesm 4d ago
> But with math, everyone in the world would gain from computers becoming really, really good at it. I'm not convinced of that. It is one possible outcome but there are also other possible outcomes.
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by jacquesm 4d ago
Yes, as does the USA. So your point is moot: tariffs are a tax on your own population, ostensibly to stimulate local manufacturing but in practice it is just another tax. Protectionists will immediately reach for this mechanism because they
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by jacquesm 4d ago
Given that the arrival of this stuff has been compared to nuclear weapons already the question is whether or not the same mechanisms that kept us from annihilating the planet would hold there too. I am not sure that it will. But a balance d
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by jacquesm 4d ago
Except... (From WP) India In 1998, India said it would only sign the treaty if the United States presented a schedule for eliminating its nuclear stockpile, a condition the United States rejected.[18] Israel In 2016, Israeli Prime Minister
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by jacquesm 4d ago
They made a movie about that. Between: "Iron Sky" "Whoops Apocalypse" "Wag The Dog" and "Idiocracy" You'd think we were amply warned.
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by jacquesm 4d ago
If they manage to leap ahead they can effectively kill all competition, present and future and you'll be at their mercy.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
I worked for a little bit with a group making optical sieves, this stuff is mindblowing to a non-trained-in-the-art outsider. I can easily see losing a couple of decades in that rabbit hole.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
Wow, how shortsighted. > - NATO - Maintaining security on the high seas for other than USA shipping, NATO consists of a lot of countries, why would they only work for USA shipping? And where do you think that shipping comes from? >
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by jacquesm 5d ago
I trust neither. But 30 years ago this would have been an easy question. 10 years ago it would have been an irritating question and now it is a hard one.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
You need an SGI 1990's era video cable and I'm your guy :)
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by jacquesm 5d ago
Only one big box? The poor people. I have at least five big boxes and I'm regularly being accused of being a hoarder. Except of course when someone needs a cable ;)
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2nd mathematician is accusing OpenAI of being dishonest about training data(qz.com)
5 points by jacquesm 5d ago|0 comments
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by jacquesm 6d ago
> It's funny to think that back in the days we used to think the most evil thing a company could do was charging money for their software. They did a lot more than that.
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by jacquesm 6d ago
See my post earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643556
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by jacquesm 6d ago
You must be new here...
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by jacquesm 6d ago
Yes, blame the users.
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by jacquesm 6d ago
What a lot of assumptions. Other people here are experiencing the same thing, and other people are not experiencing the same thing. Hence the way my original bit was worded, I am not saying it happens for everybody, I am just saying this
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by jacquesm 6d ago
Somehow it never fails the other way...
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Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
486 points by jacquesm 6d ago|188 comments
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by jacquesm 8d ago
> My previous comment was simply my attempt at deconstructing Penrose's argument, participating in the ever-ongoing popular debate. That may be so, but just the mention of Penrose's name in the context of something else caused
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by jacquesm 8d ago
'if'
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by jacquesm 9d ago
Script kiddies will soon have capabilities that nation states once upon a time could only dream of.
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by jacquesm 9d ago
Anybody still think Elon Musk is a great guy who wants nothing but the best for humanity? I mostly wonder how far he'll fall, but to say I'm disappointed would be a gross understatement. What surprises me is that people keep worki
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by jacquesm 11d ago
It's not about switching because chrome got exploited one time, it's about switching not to reward unethical behavior.
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by jacquesm 11d ago
That pig can hardly dance...
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by jacquesm 12d ago
That is so cool. I'm doing weird stuff with robotics, llms and obsolete languages, your project seems a lot more practical :)

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