HotGarbage

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Did ABC get AI credits to air this? Are they going to use said AI to justify laying off staff? Then use that money to pay Oprah?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove humanities from curriculums.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Historian sneers at billionaire while HN trip over each other to lick boot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (8 children)

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Ars' example gave me some hope User asking: "Can I evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent?" Chatbot responding: "No, you cannot evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent. Evicting a tenant for this reason is not allowed."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/crypto-miner-pennsylvania-hit-with-lawsuit-over-pollution-bitcoin-mine-2024-03-26/

Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.

 

After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all

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