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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   I read The Great Gatsby outside of formal education, for my own benefit, during my college years, in a non-U.S. country. I thought it was the opposite of "actually really good", I found it to be a resolutely mediocre experience. A
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   https://files.spritely.institute/papers/spritely-core.html Spritely seems very relevant, but I don't see it get much mentions when this pops up
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Privacy (like most rights, I dare say) only makes sense collectively. My own privacy is of trifling importance to me compared to our access to the right collectively.
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Bit late here, but one point to consider is that people believe a lot of silly things when it comes to jobs. Maybe you don't, but still. Either through believing some cliche that people say, or letting some insecurity or fear have too
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Calling whoever - this surely shouldn't be flagged. What rule is being broke? The comments are lots of people agreeing in civil tones and sharing their stories. Seems legit
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   I agree that LLMs are useful, in many ways, but think that people are in fact often making the stronger claim which I refer to in your quote from my original point. If the argument were put forward simply to highlight that LLMs, while falli
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   > AI could potentially be a non-judgmental, privacy-preserving matchmaker here. I think it highly likely that LLMs are - overall - going to be incredibly damaging to whatever vestiges of privacy people have left. So this statement came w
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   It seems no discussion of LLMs on HN these days is complete without a commenter wryly observing how that one specific issue someone is pointing to with an LLM is also , funnily enough, an issue they've seen with humans. The implicatio
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Have you ever gone on a day trip with no camera of any kind?
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Surely if genius is to maintain any usefulness as a word at all, it has to mean more than that the person didn't work with a big production crew or have a "primary collaborator", whatever that means. How irrelevant! I'm
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Wow, nearly missed this. Very cool!
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    > DeepMind have some history here so I reserve the right to be skeptical. What history of cheating is there? I hadn't seen anything sneaky, but I don't follow everything. Do share.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Great development. F-Droid continues to be great.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Ah no, I know myself that there have been headlines here and there. I'm pretty sure there was some controvery in the linguistic blogging community even at some stage over the last couple of years, with someone writing an essay claiming
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Hmmm. Is there a statement of HN policy somewhere about that? Or is this just a thing you decided to do on your own accord? No judgment, just curious. I presume you've reflected on the idea that one person's flame war is another p
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Who is saying we ban smart phones for adults? I don't get how this is a response to what I'm saying.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Source? This smacks of "I saw a headline once"-itis. Especially the fact that you refer to the Chinese characters as "calligraphy characters", as if that were the general term or something.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I use invidious, and if I can't because it's down or something, I use a FF extension called "unhook". I hadn't been on to youtube proper in a good few years, but with unhook, I can block everything (suggested videos
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Actually, I should say, using https://news.ycombinator.com/active to see flagged stuff too is great. Not sure if you see everything, but I definitely am more interested in a less curated frontpage. I don't find ignorin
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it. The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and t
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I heard a variant of this recently. I told a colleague I don't use my phone for long periods, days at a time, that I miss nothing, am a happier person, do stuff with my time that makes me happier, etc, and she broke out in a mild panic
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Have you interacted with humans anytime in the last five years? People scroll TikTok or equivalent scrolly things as they drive, eat, poop, cook, as they "talk", as they walk, as they queue, as they "watch" movies and tv
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I think this is a reasonable description of what happened, and a real danger. Dogmatically gettng stuck on one set of economic and social possibilities just because they fit into the grand benevolent -ism is the issue is always fraught. It
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I appreciate the sincere engagement. I wasn't saying that statement you quote is true for all groups everywhere, I was explicit about that, if you reread. I was saying that if that threshold is met in a specific society at a given ti
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Geez, thank you for taking the time to write that! Seconded, very much. I Ctrl-f'd for "Bush", because in my head I immediately went, awh no, I bet it's going to be something a million miles away from what Vannevar Bush
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Any good suggestions for trustworthy and non-propagandistic books that go into this? I've only read one excellent (French, translated) collection of the writing of Alexandra Kollontai, and otherwise nothing much of length on the topic.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Just like they listen to the music they want, watch the movies they want, buy the products they want, and go to the websites they want..? I don't think it's true for porn or for any of the above things that people "do what th
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Assuming that your reading comprehension skills aren't letting you down here, I can only read this as a highly disingenuous comment. I made a serious argument, politely, and you've ignored the entire thrust of it, and instead you
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I'm reminded of the videos about procrastination on youtube where people seem to never, ever, ever tire of comenting to say things like: "I'm watching a video about procrastination... and I've got a test tomrrow! Lolol!&
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I think "society shapes porn" was totally true up until the point where it no longer was. Porn shapes society the exact moment when the majority of young people get the majority of their beliefs and views on sexuality, romance, re