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Western media has been overwhelmingly one sided regarding state led IP theft for the last three decades. China steals western IP has been the story, and it hasn't been even a little balanced until reading this.

Of course national media is biased, that's why you read news from multiple countries so you don't end up in such echo-chambers. I'm assuming we're talking about reality here, not "as reported by US media", but I guess if it's the latter, I could see how some Americans thinks it is now irony.

So the degradation to Opus 4.8 from the article isn't happening in practice?

No, you get a AUP violation and have to manually swap the model

(I had same issue, just asked it to check some code that 4.8 had modified earlier in day)


Maybe that's only in the chat UI, and not the API?

It is, it asks you if you want to continue as opus 4.8… but I was trying precisely to evaluate fable

Americans are every race. How could it be racist?

Imaginary numbers are purely theoretical, but they turn out very helpful in almost every engineering discipline

Imaginary numbers are a helpful tool for calculating things in our universe. All these holographic theories and their insights are based on a universe that behaves basically opposite to ours.

From Wikipedia, imaginary numbers...

> Originally coined in the 17th century by René Descartes[4] as a derogatory term and regarded as fictitious or useless, the concept gained wide acceptance following the work of Leonhard Euler in the 18th century, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 19th century.

I think the jury is still out wrt utility of AdS spaces. They could be useless toys, or they could be in the Descartes phase rn.


Sure, let me know when any of these imaginary physics is useful for predicting anything that can be observed.

Not a physicist, but I think this paper used holographic principles to predict the minimum ratio of shear viscosity to volume density of entropy in fluids https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0405231

> Why does ever single bleeding heart liberal globalist try and ignore the deep psychological truths about human tribalism?

I'll bite.

In the US, for one, every single person has an ancestor that thanked their lucky stars the locals didn't think the way that you are recommending we think today. Or an ancestor that suffered because the locals did think that way.

We honor that heritage by paying it forward, lest we be lumped among the trash of history that punished the Irish, the Chinese, and the Jews for the cardinal sin of living down the street.

Lot of Americans in this forum, so that's why.


You are forgetting the natives who royally massively got screwed. Perfect example why they should have done everything possible to stop migration.

That analogy doesn't work well. Their situation involved foreign powers enforcing jurisdiction and property claims over their land with a regular standing army; a completely different situation than modern immigration

Yes. Now it’s through a judicial army based on criminalising speech, and instead of based on a country, based on a religion.

Because that’s so much better


I certainly don't understand all you're saying through this tortured analogy, but yes an "army" of judges that issue rulings is much, much better than an army of soldiers that issue killings

And yet american culture and values are from it's dominant and founding group. All other groups were expected to assimilate and join the melting pot.

>>In the US, for one, every single person has an ancestor that thanked their lucky stars the locals didn't think the way that you are recommending we think today.

I don't think you thought it through before you wrote this. As the locals, certainly didn't want what you imply and were defeated tribe by tribe.


> All other groups were expected to assimilate and join the melting pot.

I partially agree. Counter evidence is that Little Italy, Chinatowns and the like exist and have done for many decades. Ethnic clubs like Sons of Italy persist. Some Pennsylvania Dutch still don't speak English, and still set themselves apart. But at the same time, many from those groups join the majority culture and leave their old languages behind.

In this respect I don't see modern immigration in America any differently. Newer immigrant groups have their culture enclaves, but many from those groups also enter and adopt the majority culture.

> I don't think you thought it through before you wrote this

You're misreading my comment. For most of us, the locals at time of ancestor arrival had already displaced the natives to whom you refer



Fertility rate of 0.80.. and I thought Japan, Italy, and my own country had problems. Note however that https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-korea-p... says 0.76, and last year was 0.75, so there's barely any change there. Catastrophically low birth rate, and maybe it's not so hard to figure out why.

Maybe the fertility rate has to go below zero to bounce back... Japan's rate is like 1.14 yet [1].

Hopefully Korea has figure out something more actionable

[1] https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/77220


What's fertility rate below zero? Women not only have zero babies, they also sometimes kill babies of others?

A rate below 0.99… so less than 1 kid per 2 adults

Looks like that's below 1, but I don't have my glasses on so might be mistaken.

It is, merely saying what he meant

> I opposed the rule changes at S&P

So you are happy with this outcome, but also so upset at the people that evangelized your preferred policy position that you think HN readers should cut them from the information diet?

Seems most likely that the public outcry actually influenced this outcome, so I don't see why the nuances of alarmism about it (imminent decision vs fait accomplit) should nix an entire information source.


> you are happy with this outcome, but also so upset at the people that evangelized your preferred policy position that you think HN readers should cut them from the information diet?

I'm fine with this outcome. I genuinely don't care about HN readers' opinions on this. I posted the original consultation to HN to crickets [1]. It's abundantly clear that people want to use this as a useless vector for griping.

> most likely that the public outcry actually influenced this outcome

Nope. Lots of reasons to show how and why that is the case. From personal connections to the timeline of the decision making. But I'm sure that's how the same YouTube commentors who misled the first time will spin it to great effect...

> I don't see why the nuances of alarmism about it (imminent decision vs fait accomplit) should nix an entire information source

Because they're bad information sources. They're terrific entertainment. And if you recognise that, keep subscribing. But this is in line with the numpties who listen to All In like it's the gospel.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054324


After a couple years I realized the key part of “As an X I want Y so that Z” is the “so that Z”.

When managing teams these days, the only part I keep is the “so that Z” — what beneficial change in the world does this ticket make?

If the ticket name is just “fix this bug” then I’m not certain the engineer knows why it’s important, and knowing the importance of your work is itself important.


> Anthropic believes they are the only people who should control AI.

I’ve seen this a few times in the thread. Can you or anyone provide a link that supports this claim?


This seems to be a rumor being coordinated by OpenAI.

There's OpenAI employees spreading this rumor on Twitter with 0 evidence. Their entire evidence is "I keep hearing Anthropic wants to control AI". Their evidence is literal rumors.

https://x.com/_aidan_clark_/status/2052089187659346047


Yeah. And this thread seems so astroturfed. I get the feeling openAI is trying this sort of propaganda campaign out now that theyre desperate

The world saw Anthropic take a possibly company-killing risk wrt weaponizing their AI, and are rewarding them for holding to their values, for now at least.

It’s not like anyone owes Sam Altman their business just bc their product has become slightly, perhaps temporarily, better


Anthropic literally already works with companies like Palantir and others weaponizing their AI. Those just aren't quite as well known by the general public.

They have no values that align with humans prospering.


Source on this? Does anthropic work with them or do they simply use the normal product offering anthropic provides? Because the thing with the DoD was specific RnD for DoD purposes.

If someone just uses normal claude to make killer robots, i dont think thats on anthropic, that on the legal and regulatory system to step in and stop that


It literally takes a 2 second Google search of just the two terms Palantir and anthropic to find sources for this and is fairly well known.

https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/karp-palantir-anthropic-clau...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/palantir-faces-challenge-...

Any company of Palantir size is not just gonna have people using personal subscriptions to use Claude on mission critical software or it's development.


Both companies don't mind weaponization. The difference is whether it should only be domestic. Both are ok with foreigners being bombed.

Do you have a citation for that?

Because the Anthropic's presentation of their position doesn't have a domestic or foreign caveat to autonomous weapons. It's a categorical no.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war


> We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values.

Your link


Yes. They draw that distinction on intelligence.

I was asking about autonomous weapons.

>> Both companies don't mind weaponization. The difference is whether it should only be domestic. Both are ok with foreigners being bombed.


That aligns with average human values

I hate that this discussion is about OpenAI vs. Anthropic and not OpenAI+Anthropic vs. Google.

Google put up so little of a fight against the DoW for their use of Gemini that we didn't even hear about it. They are clearly the worst of the evils here, but OpenAI is the one getting all of the negative press.


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