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adamiscool8
·पिछला माह·discuss
Zuck was in roughly the same position and they didn’t put out a statement skipping that IPO. The valuation criticism is more valid but this line belies political motivation.
adamiscool8
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Can you give a specific example, ideally that would not have been solved by people-hours amounting to less than the token costs?
adamiscool8
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Agree, but the average user trusts the AI knowledge box as expert summary, even though clicking through often reveals contrary information, so this is going to be a net negative overall for a while…
adamiscool8
·2 माह पहले·discuss
It was a public safety disaster that the country is still trying to recover from.
adamiscool8
·2 माह पहले·discuss
In Canada, for most of the 20th century until maybe 15 years ago, your PII was in a big book that lived at everybody's house and the library unless you specifically opted out.
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·4 माह पहले·discuss
"Once you've been to [the Netscape ISP Homepage], you'll never stop wanting to beat [front-end Javascript frameworks] to death with your bare hands."
adamiscool8
·4 माह पहले·discuss
After thousands of years of research we still don’t fully understand how humans do it, so what reason (besides a sort of naked techno-optimism) is there to believe we will ever be able to replicate the behavior in machines?
adamiscool8
·4 माह पहले·discuss
The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti
adamiscool8
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!
adamiscool8
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Hopefully they embrace AI. 800 episodes is such a rich corpus and there could be such bright-line guardrails in a "Springfield style guide". If AI can replicate the 90's Golden Era through voice cloning + an intentional hand-drawn cel animation quality aesthetic, I would unironically love to create my own AI-generated episodes from a random premise.
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
0.1% of users is not necessarily 0.1% of conversations…
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Just realizing that in more than a decade of perusing Hacker News, I may not have ever visited the homepage.
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Two years ago the same party that currently holds Canadian government and just made these concessions to China completed a report [0] that found

>[China’s actions] collectively "undermine our democratic institutions, our fundamental rights and freedoms, our social cohesion and our long-term prosperity.”[343] [and] the need to consider the threats in the context of an increasingly assertive PRC. Accordingly, Minister Garneau stated that various countries, including Canada, are reassessing their relationship with the PRC in light of its authoritarian and coercive actions.

But yeah a little chirping about Canada’s own unfair trade practices must be DEFCON 3 for US-Canada relations.

[0] https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CACN/report...
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Better how?
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Ragebait would be trying to argue that China running secret police and propaganda operations on Canadian soil, against Canadian citizens, is in any way equivalent to a domestic force taking actions primarily against foreign nationals, in a statutorily authorized way within a legal framework that can be challenged.
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
It’s a good thing Canada waited for China to resolve all these issues before swinging open our market doors to them.
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
The offset is not positive when you factor in the externalities that go into escalating Chinese EV production.
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
China and their famously steady temperament would never be so bold as to try to own a dependent country or strategically weaponize trade. These are real things Canadians believe - talk about eye opening!
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Except those actions are not secret, nor illegal, nor a threat to any other country’s sovereignty?
adamiscool8
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Nothing to do with “unfair, non-market policies and practices […] and China’s intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards”? I suppose that doesn’t even register anymore to the average selectively outraged parochial Canadian.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/08/can...