Hacker News: the_mar

New comment by the_mar in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

the_mar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:45:49 +0000

there is no cloud, it's always someone else's computer, so technically someone who is physically in google/apple datacenter at the exact moment your data is being operated on, hypothetically would have a chance to steal your data.

saying that because google owns the hardware, they would quietly not delete or copy your data is quite a wild accusation.n

New comment by the_mar in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

the_mar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:35 +0000

pardon my ignorance, but why does compute hardware pose any security concerns?

New comment by the_mar in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

the_mar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:58:05 +0000

From the information presented, the privacy case is not that your data is only accessible to you (which arguably can have a backdoor) but that the data is NOT stored at all, so it's not possible to build a backdoor. I know there are probably other ways around it, but it's my understanding is that no data is kept on any server when the response is sent back to your device

New comment by the_mar in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

the_mar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:14:09 +0000

well, name an example of a thing that can never change then.

"research alternatives" meaning what exactly? You think open source is somehow not susceptible to the same issue, plus all of the malicious updates?

New comment by the_mar in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

the_mar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:18:08 +0000

I for the life of me could not solve the <18 example from wikipedia. but the number/color one is super easy

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:36:27 +0000

by your definition, what is marketing then?

New comment by the_mar in "Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025"

the_mar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:35:07 +0000

it included flights, hotels, food and travel expenses for 9000 for multiple days, as well as the "party". US-based travel for 1 person for 5 days is easily 4K, on top of that some people were probably international so it would be higher, and on top of that there are the "party" expenses like venue and catering which probably wasn't that significant.

New comment by the_mar in "ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study"

the_mar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:56:43 +0000

it's a very simplistic take. the issue with ChatGPT is that it speaks with authority, vs webMD and such just provide information. to say that how the information is presented is irrelevant to the outcomes is reductionist at best

New comment by the_mar in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

the_mar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:54:18 +0000

a friend of mine was a creative director and a big tech co until recently, she was replaced by AI

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:51:24 +0000

do you genuinely think that numerous meetups isn't a marketing push?

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:47:28 +0000

I mean, do you think no one at OAI and every other lab has vibe-coded some agentic demo? The problem (?) is that when you work at a corporate job you have to think about security.

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:04:08 +0000

It was killer compared to alternatives. All other "homepages" of the internet were the cluttered mess of ads.

I feel like we are arguing semantics though. But IMO any UI that does the job that consumers want well is good UI. Just because it was simple doesn't mean it wasn't good

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:22:50 +0000

google search did have a killer UI though, you might be forgetting what search looked like before google

New comment by the_mar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

the_mar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:46 +0000

he was worth 14B

New comment by the_mar in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

the_mar — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:09:15 +0000

I am this person (not a genius or whatever) but work is absolutely life for me. I still absolutely resent the 996 culture and would never do that. I'd like to have agency when I want to abuse myself

New comment by the_mar in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

the_mar — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:58:59 +0000

look if you don't care about privacy, just buy a google phone

New comment by the_mar in "I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models"

the_mar — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:16:41 +0000

why do you think this doesn't already exist?

New comment by the_mar in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

the_mar — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:03:39 +0000

scale does not own the data of most of it’s large customers.

New comment by the_mar in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

the_mar — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:02:27 +0000

scale is no better or worse than any other labeling vendor.

New comment by the_mar in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

the_mar — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:52:30 +0000

I mean your employment can't technically be terminated because you are taking sick days, unless it's whatever qualifies as long term illness (18 or 28 weeks I forget).

Technically they are not obligated to continue to pay you and the govt sick pay is like 100 quid per week.

in the us they can fire you the day you don't show up