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It’s not a US specific problem. Young drunks also ride electric mopeds in European capitals, usually renting them through apps. Sometimes without even a driving license. So while public transports might be a part of the issue, I doubt they
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Hence “worry”, and not an adamant objection to the idea of prolonging life.
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Here: https://www.nature.com/articles/428128a
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> Plus, I can't think of a scenario where, once this technology exists to extend life indefinetly, the state's monopoly on power won't turn into a dystopian monopoly on life. And the wealthy’s monopoly on wealth will only
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Or perhaps, lives being so long, there wouldn’t be any perceived difference between dying at a hundred and a thousand years old. Today, a twenty-something dying in a car crash after drinking alcohol is as stupid and preventable as deaths ge
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by ElFitz 2y ago
That would be the purpose of formal proofs, wouldn’t it? Formal proofs may not be silver bullets, and we’re never safe from a faulty implementation of the proven algorithms, but this quanta article on a DARPA project showed impressive resul
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by ElFitz 2y ago
There’s the issue that many products seem to consider AI to be a feature in itself, and market it as such. People don’t care about it. They just want to do whatever it was they wanted to do. It doesn’t matter wether the tool uses hardcoded
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> […] much less be willing to take on giant tech corporations […] I’d argue that, on the contrary, it seems to be all the rage lately.
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> I had thought homomorphic encryption could be used to do actual calculations, at least certain kinds. Well yes. There was this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21638639 - https://news.ycombinator.com&
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Those that leaked because of the CBP’s poor security practices? [0] I really can’t wait for tomorrow’s hackers using the next generation of Sora to make fake video of me doing god knows what [1] thanks to the CBP’s next data leak. And I can
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You’re confusing glaciers with icebergs.
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From Vietnam to Jumping Out of Planes with Nukes [video](youtube.com)
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Especially in countries with housing taxes (you pay based on where you live, independently of how much you earn or wether or not you earn anything) and property tax (based on an estimated value of what is owned, independently of any revenue
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> And the acquiring company […] The happy lovey-dovey kumbaya-chanting rainbow bunnies that made piles of cash (aka Creo) were the acquiring company. Not the other way around.
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> delivery will eventually be the only job left for all of us Reminds me of Death Stranding, aka "FedEx Simulator". The game also mentioned the topic of automation a few times.
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I never implied it was good thing. Or even something I want. I’m just certain it is an obvious next step given, on one side, these platforms’ goals and incentives, and on the other how generative AI capabilities have progressed in the past
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In my experience, YouTube’s is much more influenced by the latest videos a user has watched. It’s pretty much always "more of the same". TikTok seems to manage to more quickly identify users’ interests and surface content based on
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Because this way they don’t have to rely on pesky people to produce content that maximises the engagement and retention of the other pesky people to which they want to show as many ads as possible. I am not implying this is a good thing. Or
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The point here isn’t to give users any kind of truth. It already isn’t YouTube goal. Wether we’re talking about the videos or the ads, they’re happy spreading ridiculous nonsense. The only point of these kinds of platforms, for worse and fo
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Absolutely. Using a recommendation algorithm similar to TikTok’s, learn what each specific user are into, and instead of showing content produced by other users, produce custom-tailored content on the fly, perfectly matching the type, tone,
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> it sounds like this issue is enormously more of an abstract concept to you than it is for me Maybe. On the off chance you may have some first hand experience with these topics, I would be inclined to believe you. However, considering t
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Yes, I simplified. But that still wouldn’t explain why the webpage isn’t available in New Zealand.
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GDPR doesn’t apply to New Zealand. Although I’d gladly welcome our Kiwi friends into the EU.
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There’s also a second reporting, from years later, on what some of the survivors have become. It tells about the lifelong vaguely defined health impacts those exposed to the bomb had to live with, and how they tried to rebuild their lives a
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While it may not have been your intent, your response felt dismissive and condescending to me. Additionally, the first paragraph seems to engage in whataboutism. Which, should it be the case, doesn’t serve the point you are trying to make.
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Or Objective-C method swizzling
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I may have been unclear. I meant that my first instinct when you mentioned libel and slander was that neither are worth risking compromising, even slightly, the privacy and censorship resilience these tools offer. But your comment also remi
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No creepypasta here. Just a barebones html page full of photographs of children being abused. I didn’t think it necessary to spell it out loud, but apparently it was.
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> There's no server to seize, no way to take it offline, it's there, encrypted, for perpetuity. I usually disagree with any argument trying to compromise on anonymity, privacy, and free speech. Fifteen years ago I was fascinate
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These stories are a big part of what I love in HN. Thank you.

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