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[1] “A formidable founder is one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way.”

Obstacles are also any legal constraints that will break and pay later in fines, like Airbnb.


Or economic ruin, societal ruin they may cause along the way, like OpenAI.


Interesting take I haven't heard so far. Any sources for this?


https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-b...

Sources are very well cited if you want to follow then through. I linked this and not the original source because it’s likely the source where root comment got this argument from.


"Separately, LLMs have been an unbelievable life improvement for me. I’ve found that most people who haven’t actually played around with them much don’t know how powerful they’ve become or how useful they can be in your everyday life. They’re the first piece of new technology in a long time that I’ve become insistent that absolutely everyone try."

Yeah, I'll not waste my time reading that.


You are purposefully blinding yourself to facts you dont want to see because of ideology.


Come on, "an unbelievable life improvement", was this said with a straight face? Maybe i'll wade through the substack hyperbole and find the source.


It's the same one as crypto proof of work, it was super small and then hit 1% while predominantly using energy sources that couldn't even power other use cases due to the loss in transporting the energy to population centers (and the occasional restarted coal plant), while every other industry was exempt from the ire despite all using that 99%

Leaving the source to someone else


The difference with crypto is that it is completely unnecessary energy use. Even if you are super pro-crypto, there are much more efficient ways to do it than proof of work.


AI is also unnecessary.


So is the internet, computers even


Source about Sony?


You could've just Googled.

https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/television...

A family member's TV came with it.


This is an optional add-on product. Your comment made it look like it’s part of the TV.


Why not encrypt your server? Or store the photos on an encrypted partition?


I have this dilemma.

> Why not encrypt your server?

I’d like to provide the service to my semi-extended family — not just me and my partner, but also my parents and siblings. And I respect their privacy, so I want to eliminate even the possibility of me, system administrator, accessing their photos.


I specifically care about my server getting stolen. You need Luks encryption in place for that, but also some clever password automation so you don’t type it in each time


How is this related to HN?


I think this is relevant to HN because the HN crowd understanding hyper-exposed themes better is a net positive.. So:

One of the very many supersad things in this: the Broadcaster weakened here (Kan), as the public broadcaster, has been one of the voices or resistance against the deranged government that, starting from a point of 100% sympathy after the Oct 7 attack, has managed to provoke the blowback seen here.


On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.


Cloudflare is down :p


I believe that in a day or two, the companies will address this and it would be solved by them for that use case


This is the first time I found out that she was credited. Thanks for that.


So strange that I haven’t seen global coverage of this crisis on a daily basis, or demonstrations for “Free Sudan” on campuses. If anyone has a theory about why this humanitarian disaster doesn’t receive the same attention as Gaza, which didn't have such events, please feel free to share.


> The AI tool Co-pilot is installed and enabled without consent. Removal is difficult or nonexistent.

As much as I agree with the article's general tone, uninstalling Copilot is actually quite straightforward and easy.


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