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> could have been sued by HF if HF chose to do so

Hugging Face was another AI company. Do you see many of those suing each other and especially the top dogs in the field? Also, do you think it's a coincidence NVIDIA bought Hugging Face ASAP to stop any damaging anti AI waves from happening?

The other incentives aren't enough. All the labs are basically Russia against Ukraine in 2022-206: launching high caliber imprecise ballistic missiles against military targets surrounded by civilians. Whoever orders that knows civilians will do die but doesn't care.

AI labs aren't using proper sandboxing measures for their agents because that would slow down their testing. Plus any hacks that happen, short of breaking into Trumps social media accounts, only cause the kind of publicity they want.


> I don't think corporate power is the issue.

When were anti trust, anti cartel, anti monopoly laws last enforced?


Why would those be the ones holding back regulation of AI?

My point is that corporate power is currently so strong that existing regulations aren't even enforced, see anti hacking laws from 30 years ago.

Let alone creating and enforcing new effective regulations.


No regulations on corporations are enforced? That doesn't seem to be case. Making it about a bigger issue it reduces what pretty vanilla regulation could actually achieve, I think.

You'd need to hit wheat, corn AND rice at the same time. And we probably have 10 others we're not using because those 3 are already enough. It would be a tragedy but we can eat lots of things.

I agree with them. It will happen circa 2035, when OpenAI will at best be a Microsoft division, acquired for $20bn.

And renamed to Copilot

What's the story?

Seems like Kling is a wee bit of a chud. The claim about human rights likely stems from the "trans rights are human rights" mantra and is likely is reference to this (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814) where Kling accused a contributor of bringing "personal politics" to the project for changing one instance of "he" to "they" in a markdown file. Since then he has, for example, apparently gone on to complain about anti-white discrimination in the workplace (https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401).

For what it's worth, the perpetually-offended progressive has become an annoying stock character in our culture. At risk of falling for Poe's Law, the commentor on that PR who said "The denial of non-male users and/or developers is sufficient reason to not use SerenityOS" is a perfect example of this. Another more contemporary example would be the seething outrage over Last Ditch Bar's new mask-optional Saturdays.


>Last Ditch Bar's new mask-optional Saturdays.

Wow, hadn't heard of that dustup. People are crazy. I guess they always have been, but... wow.


Ladybird have a "no politics" stance by the looks of things, what that really means is kind of up to you. Here's an article about it further, I'm biased against it and so is this article so take that as you will:

https://kvibber.com/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

Also I'm seeing comments suggesting that the lead behind it, Andreas Kling, is quite openly on the DHH side of things


In 2026, no politics usually means "we don't want you digging too deep into ours". Ask Ed Sheeran how well "no politics" works out.

You mean the guy whose concerts went on as planned, and the online slacktivists screaming literal baby murderer at him have already moved on to the next $thing?

Musk also has FSD, the Boring Company, Tesla Solar Roof, Cybertruck, Hyperloop, etc.

Let's stop pretending he's God.


FSD is on the path of being incredibly successful. You really have to try it, if you haven't already.

Boring Company is also on the path to being successful, it's just not advertised much.

Solar roof - yes, this one I would mark as a failure.

Cybertruck - they're still selling, so not a failure. But not as great as originally promised.

Hyperloop - this could still come after boring company succeeds.

Nobody is saying he's god. But maybe, he understands engineering better than some commenters on HN, that's all.


> Boring Company is also on the path to being successful, it's just not advertised much.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? It's a marketing gimmick with lower transport capacity than a horse and buggy (and similar travel speed!) that's distracting cities like Vegas and Nashville from actual public transit.

It's an abject failure.

> If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Loop

> Hyperloop - this could still come after boring company succeeds.

If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bycicle.

Also, my guess is that you guys are all American. For the kind of money they're investing they could just start an automous train/tram company and the environment and humanity would be much better off.


Ah yes - a company is such a failure that it recently raised 3 billion dollars at a 23 billion dollar valuation?

If it's successful, their boring machine will tunnel 10x faster and 10x cheaper than competitors, and it will be the one making new tunnels for all sorts of trains.


That just says Musk is a good company salesman. Speaking of which, I can't find news about this funding round (found it; turns out there is a lot of dumb money out there). Plus Musk is famous for shady company operations (SolarCity being acquired by Tesla at an inflated price to pay off his family).

Last I read about them their tunnel boring tech wasn't revolutionary, it was just smaller diameter tunnels.


Typically, tunneling involves abandoning the tunneling machine underground because it's too difficult and expensive to retrieve. The Boring Company's innovation was to find a way to retrieve the machine inexpensively, thus significantly reducing the cost of tunneling.

They also operate the machines remotely, so that humans are not risking their lives underground.

Tunnels are a good thing. They cut across a city without paving over more greenery. They will reduce surface traffic.


Fsd is amazing. I use it daily, it completely changed my daily drive in that I don’t. All of my driving is now on fsd, I sit back and chill while the car takes me to my destination.

The craziest part about FSD is that people still think it doesn't work.

The fact that you can pay the average price for a car, and get a car that fully drives itself today, is mind boggling.


We have truly lost the plot, oh well, once you make something part of your identity, reason won't take it out.

Yeah seriously. Saw a Rivian parked with all kinds of anti-Elon accessories: custom license plate, anti-Elon bumper sticker AND a anti-cybertruck sticker. Was fun to park my cybertruck next to it and take some joke photos but in retrospect I should probably keep my distance from unhinged people like that.

Lol, you bought a cybertruck?



Emacs and Vim are basically like that.

They have very vocal and entrenched users so that practically no defaults can be changed lest the single Amiga user will start a huge uproar.

And since they don't really have a BDFL or commercial pressure, they can be super detached even from standards or expectations that appeared 40 years ago.

Neovim was basically a reaction to that, for Vim, where they updated defaults to stuff basically every Unix editor since 2005 has.


Maybe neovim should advertise like: Your fully configurable vim instance as a full IDE on your developer machine, only.

Driven by <3, passion and bravery.

Anyhow; I switched back to vim after one year of neovim shrugs. Still a Junior, here.


When I visit the US everything strikes me as overbuilt to the point of being dull or in the case of vehicles, downright dangerous. The dullness part, especially, is a real pain. Cheap concrete sidewalks. Cheap looking infrastructure everywhere, etc.

There are few places I've seen that seemed as dull or boring when walking through them as the LA metro area, for example. Yes, there are also awesome looking neighborhoods, but damn, I didn't actually realize those concrete brick 1 floor no sloped roof buildings were truly universal as were those very ugly vacant lots with wire fences.

I imagine most LA residents are just used to them plus they only drive by them.


Ok. And what does the US have to do with anything?

The odds of you not being American are less than 0.

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