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AI's new political donor class is outspending Big Tech's last one(sfstandard.com)
16 points by roddylindsay 2mo ago|0 comments
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by roddylindsay 4mo ago
As someone who has been in the messaging industry for more than a decade, it sounds naive to think that the litmus test for whether Apple will ban you is whether your traffic qualifies as spam. There is a long history of people trying to
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Show HN: I built a 1:1 coaching service to reduce my screen time(zabit.com)
11 points by roddylindsay 2y ago|2 comments
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
I hear Kyle Rittenhouse is also coming on board as a junior associate.
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Brilliant move. The transition of the major social networks over the last 10-15 years -- from being a space for friends to interact to being a space to consume content produced by "unconnected" entities like influencers -- has cre
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Zabit | Staff or Principal Mobile Engineer | REMOTE (Europe preferred) | Full-time We're a small behavioral health + AI startup looking for a seasoned mobile engineer with specific expertise building local-first apps using Expo /
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Nice work! Can you export for multichannel playback or is it binaural / stereo?
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Keep in mind this is just the lobbying that requires disclosure, which is a tiny sliver of the overall policy effort. There's a whole constellation of consultants, think tanks, industry groups, "grasstops" organizers, push po
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
For me outright deletion just led to other issues like missing out on events / family photos / chats with people I otherwise wasn’t connected to. The target for most people is probably low-moderate use. <shamelessplug> Perso
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Zabit | Staff or Principal Mobile Engineer | REMOTE (Europe preferred) | Full-time We're a small behavioral health + AI startup looking for a seasoned mobile engineer with specific expertise building local-first apps using Expo /
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When a Crop Becomes King(michaelpollan.com)
1 points by roddylindsay 2y ago|0 comments
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
As someone who's worked in the wireless messaging / telecom industry, the "Salt Typhoon" news came as absolutely no surprise. The major U.S. carriers don't have the capacity or talent to deal with the more mundane t
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Ask HN: Is anyone successfully integrating LLMs with their entire codebase?
5 points by roddylindsay 2y ago|3 comments
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by roddylindsay 2y ago
Zabit | Staff software engineer | Full-time | Remote (Hungary or California) Zabit is a small startup building messaging applications that pair human workers with AI to enable affordable and accessible behavioral health outcomes, such as ha
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Mike Masnick is funded by Google via his Copia institute, so any time Mike rails against a proposed regulation of Google / YouTube you should probably just dismiss it.
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Ableton Live!
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Fun fact: Theo Baker, the student journalist for the Stanford Daily who broke (and continues to break) major portions of this Marc Tessier-Lavigne scandal, is the son of Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the NY Times.
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Contrarian prediction: OpenAI will be just fine. The board will bring in an adult CEO who can balance the nonprofit charter with Microsoft and the commercial business, and who doesn't have a million side projects taking his or her focu
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The Armageddon Scenario for OpenAI(aipoliticalpulse.substack.com)
3 points by roddylindsay 3y ago|1 comments
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
On the AI policy side: https://aipoliticalpulse.substack.com/
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
"The Biden administration’s chip export controls, which restricted China’s access to the most advanced GPU chips, were an initial attempt to ensure U.S. AI supremacy and reduce the risk of foreign threats. But with U.S. cloud companies
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
Credit where credit is due: there was a ton of cynicism about whether the government had the expertise to come up with sensible regulations. Whatever your specific qualms are with it, the Executive Order demonstrates that the administration
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
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Mayor Adams deepfakes himself – will the FCC do anything about it?(aipoliticalpulse.substack.com)
5 points by roddylindsay 3y ago|1 comments
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
A landline phone obviously wouldn't have such capabilities. As far as smartphones, I doubt Apple / Google would build classifiers into their default phone applications for obvious privacy reasons.
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
"Because voice calls are classified as a Title II telecommunications service (vs. Title I services like text messages and broadband), carriers can’t and don’t listen in. Specifically, the classification means they can’t filter or block
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
(b) “Online” means appearing on any public-facing Internet Web site, Web application, or digital application, including a social network or publication. SMS could be a considered a "digital application", so it might apply. Agree t
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
"17941. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly de
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/california-s-bot-disclo...
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by roddylindsay 3y ago
What was the initial message? A bot pretending to be a human for the purposes of political persuasion is a crime in California.

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