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I think he means AWS/Azure/GCP and other hyperscalers.

And most importantly some clients will not communicate that they are unhappy and just move on quietly. Especially for something like virtualization which is essentially a commodity.

That is why you always regulate the provider/seller (ie. the social media site) and not the consumption side. We already learned this in the war on drugs, prosecution of consumption has never really worked all that well.


If you put the parent in jail for 6 months and fine the company 1 million per user account, they for sure will start thinking real hard about fixing the problem.


I mean Apple even added a native feature to iMessage with full on tracking, exactly because of safety. Sure someone needs to send it manually but the whole point of Check-in (tracking someones progress home) is safety. Just too many shady blokes out on the street at night.


I understand. My girlfriend lives in LA, lot of shady people out in the streets during the daytime, too.

I do not see how following her every step would help her though.

We are usually in a call whenever she is outside, but I feel like even this is futile were anything bad to happen.


They are not propaganda in the classic sense since that requires intent and a goal.


Sorry, why do you believe these entities have no intent nor goals? That's a very odd assumption to make.

As always, I highly recommend Manufacturing Consent, which well illustrates how to examine financial interests to determine the above. Propaganda does not require conspiracy nor explicit instructions on what messages to convey; it only requires a class of people produced from the same environment, aiming to reproduce that same environment.


> illustrates how to examine financial interests to determine the above

On this basis we have to exclude all "citizen jounalists" as unreliable click bait at best or just plain manufactured news.


The difference between what they are and what you should call them. Getting voted in asks for coddling your potential base.


Depending on you size, even just having some people from all the open source products on staff is probably cheaper anyway. And gives you pretty good control. And if it used to work the only one that can have broken the config is you, which means you can also fix it. Sure maybe you need to rollback a kernel update or whatever but in the end it's on you.


Quite a few C libraries are using it as their build system. Even in "production-ready" libraries.


It kind of does though, because it means you can never trust the output to be correct. The error is a much bigger deal than it being correct in a specific case.


You can never trust the outputs of humans to be correct but we find ways of verifying and correcting mistakes. The same extra layer is needed for LLMs.


> It kind of does though, because it means you can never trust the output to be correct.

Maybe some HN commenters will finally learn the value of uncertainty then.


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