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by Frieren 1y ago
> Models are still very bad at determining truth from opinion Models are not bad at it. Models are not even trying. As you point out, it is about what is the most common text. It has nothing to do with logic.
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Road and street design is the main difference with Europe. A lot of work has been put to make streets safer for everybody. That fact alone acts as a multiplier for everything else. The cars are bigger in the USA? The bad streets make it way
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Society requires a level of stability that no tech companies is willing to provide. There is a lot of money in forcing users to buy new stuff, and to force them to be connected to central servers that monitor their usage and allows them to
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> I guess we can keep fantasizing and thinking about it. Strong regulations is the answer. To think that big corporations are going to do anything for us out of their good heart is naive and dangerous. If a society wants nice things then
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That is a false dichotomy. I want a smartphone with apps that are heavy regulated against bad practices. - No dark patterns that make difficult to unsubscribe or that add automatically products to the basket - No promotion of hate and other
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> What's the difference between a messy codebase created by a genAI, and a messy codebase where all the original authors of the code have moved on and aren't available to ask questions? Very unskilled programmers can use genera
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> If people elect officials that promise to not enforce crimes, how is that not Democracy? Did people elected officials to not enforce the law? Or did people elected officials because they though they will be the law-and-order (even if t
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That is because we are moving away from Democracy and rule of law and towards Feudalism and aristocracy. In such a system, the law is not blind but it is applied depending on the accused social status. Feudalism is not a good goverment syst
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Artist like Picasso were great publicists. His art was innovative, but not more than other of his contemporaries. But he was really good at self-promotion. This is why so many famous artists are such ass holes. It is a biased sample. But ne
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> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and critical thinking skills to verify its outputs and steer it toward better answers. My personal productivity has skyrocketed in
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> Huntington Ingalls is using AI in battlefield decision tools, Zoetis in veterinary diagnostics, Caterpillar in energy systems, and Freeport-McMoran in mineral extraction. But most AI push is for LLMs, and all the companies you talk abo
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> "hamburger buttons" I work on a desktop PC and "hamburger buttons" frustrate me beyond reason, in the same way that many other "modern" designs. I understand that cost benefit of having just one implementa
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> programming 101 courses should be taught in as concise and syntax-light a language as possible 100% this. To make Java be the all-language makes it a mess without a defined goal. It is better to start learning with a language better su
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> Long term, software engineering will have to be more tightly regulated like the rest of engineering. That's for sure. Software is too important for not only the economy but for people's safety that it needs to be regulated. A
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> There are no technical hurdles remaining with respect to nuclear waste disposal. That is very inaccurate. There are still a million problems to solve. nuclear waste is extremely dangerous. Even "normal" trash has been proven
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My experience may be different from the rest of people at HN. But I am used to work in large projects that last decades. How main is written is totally irrelevant for my day to day work or my career. How does it affect you this change day t
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That they will do with anyone below 18. But there are some rules that allow teens above 16 to work in certain jobs and they may be considered adults depending on the circumstances depending on a judge interpretation. Below that age the poli
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> The squatting thing is seen by many as a measure against speculation on living space and at the same time giving young kids a cheap place to live and get on their feet. This is true for abandoned empty buildings. If the owners are not
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Kids of rich people now can exploit this loophole. They can get up to 300k from some fake job and do not pay any taxes on the "tips" part of it. Each month the tips part is going, oh surprise, going to be the maximum allowed by la
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If a doctor fucks up is liable for bad practice. If an architect fucks up is liable for bad practice. CEOs, CTOs, etc. of organizations with the budged of small countries can be stupid, unknowledgeable and reckless and there are no conseque
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People cannot deal with today's complexity. I have seen the argument: all my games in Steam, all my movies in Netflix, all my videos on YouTube, etc. To have to pick and choose between different apps makes everything more complex, and
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>so none of the users of those oil, who paid for it willingly, had any responsibility at all then? - Ecologists and native-right defenders being killed in many countries. - Politicians being paid off by corporations to fight against wind
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The open internet is not as much dying as being killed. Big platforms were somewhat open to attract as much users as possible. Now that they have the users all doors are being closed and people is getting trapped inside. For many people the
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> Adoption is also hampered by the fact that much knowledge is tacit and organisation-specific, data may not be in the right format and its use may be constrained by regulation. The article mentions three times regulations as a problem.
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> Future generations, who will be dealing with long, dry summers, would probably be shocked at the profligate way clean tap water was used to flush toilets, water gardens and run washing machines. Climate change means societal change. Th
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Correctness is a key characteristic of a compiler. To have something that sometimes checks the types and some times does is not a feasible solution.
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This is a great video, it is very sad that ethics are not a concern for investors. The good news is that thru strong regulations and laws it is possible to make it one. Make sure to vote for politicians that put mental health of society abo
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> They also cite prior cases where class lawsuits have been denied certification because the class was too big to be manageable. Evil corp got away with it once. All evil corps should be able to do the same is not a sane argument. But it
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I prefer to have better designed cities and to use of tunnels/walkways when there is no better alternative. In Asia, the walkways usually exist for wide roads that are in themselves not very friendly for the eyes, nor ears. The newest
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> I've seen clips on Reddit where animals are harmed for engagement. Usually "nature is brutal" type clips, where one animal kills another. Social media is like TV and cinema before regulations. It is full of cruelty, and

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