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by Permit 7mo ago
>This is great. Journalists are impeding the preservation of the historical record by blocking archivist traffic while simultaneously manhunting those archivists who find ways around their authwalls. You are deliberately misrepresenting
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by Permit 7mo ago
> kinda the same technique Democrats want to use as well with their "pack the SCOTUS" campaigns. They want to shove a bunch more justices in there so they can get their way. Did this take place? Or is it just a fear of a hypoth
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by Permit 7mo ago
He's being dishonest. He's attempting to promote Zenflow (a tool created by his employer Zencoder). He's produced AI slop (that he has not even read!) as a vehicle to promote Zenflow and get it in front of eyeballs on HackerN
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by Permit 7mo ago
> and done a high-level pass on the rest. Why would I read your book if you have not read your book? Edit: I now understand what is going on here. This is an attempt to promote Zenflow. The GitHub account ( https://github.com&#
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by Permit 8mo ago
> i don't know anything specific about the site or any conflicts involved, yet this smells like a negative PR campaign to me... What possible value could a comment from someone who has no knowledge of the site or conflict add to thi
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by Permit 8mo ago
> and to likely sell to 3rd parties. Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case?
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by Permit 8mo ago
> You attack a straw-man: banning all the content from creators. They didn't say this.
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by Permit 8mo ago
> Copyright infringement use to be the absolute worst crime imaginable if you asked the tech industry Every day hundreds of links to archive.is are posted[1] to this website to get around paywalls. Technologists built file sharing tools
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by Permit 8mo ago
It's always amusing that you cannot tell people this rule without in fact breaking it yourself.
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by Permit 9mo ago
> About 10 years ago we had a scenario where bots probably were only 2-5% of the conversation and they absolutely dominated all discussion. This was definitively not the case on HackerNews.
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by Permit 9mo ago
It's possible that different people flag the discussions you're referring to. That said, it looks like there have been ~7 threads with over 100 points on Iran in the last week alone: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRan
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by Permit 9mo ago
> Obviously I think that AI generated undressing pictures of people, especially minors, is bad and there should be safeguards against that. It's not obvious to me that this is your position. What safeguards do you propose as an alte
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by Permit 9mo ago
> It's not an entirely different problem because the main method through which moderators are mean is in closing new questions as dupes This discussion needs a grounded definition of "toxic" then. Elsewhere in this thread
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by Permit 9mo ago
> I remember that half the time the top result was someone asking the question I had, only for it to be duped to a different question that didn’t answer the original. This is an entirely different problem than toxicity is it not? Like, i
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by Permit 9mo ago
StackOverflow was successful explicitly because of the people/question it excluded . The "toxicity" was the point. It was trying very very hard not to become Yahoo Questions. If you want to hear more about this you should w
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by Permit 10mo ago
> You should consider dropping that instinct. This is the reason we have people mistakenly repeating the conclusion that AI consumes huge amounts of water comparable to that of entire cities. If you make any other assumption than "I
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by Permit 11mo ago
Is there anything he could have done that you would not excuse by the society in which he was born?
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by Permit 11mo ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1505312920-20170913%20(1)...
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by Permit 11mo ago
How many people die each year from panic attacks?
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by Permit 11mo ago
> some frequency This is a weasel word you've inserted to be intentionally misleading.
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by Permit 11mo ago
Can you (instead of pontificating about media literacy) share evidence that Tesla is currently battery-limited?
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by Permit 11mo ago
> Now, instead of meeting our demands for living wages, the CEO has announced a new round of jobs hirings internationally I’m convinced that in ~10 years we’ll look back on the work-from-home movement as a major own-goal by American tech
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by Permit 11mo ago
> capital, talent and trust are flowing out of that country Is there non-anecdotal evidence of this that you can share with us? My understanding is that people make this claim but I haven't seen evidence of it beyond one-off article
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Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors(techcrunch.com)
10 points by Permit 1y ago|2 comments
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by Permit 1y ago
> [Edit: Hunh. Imagine that. I ask people to demonstrate their unwillingness to participate in meaningful dialog by down-voting this post and they do exactly that. Si Tacuisses, Philosophus Mansisses.] I was considering commenting when I
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by Permit 1y ago
> but if an idea takes 20 years and $100M dollars to develop, and there are no protections for ideas, then no one will take the time to develop them This sounds trivially true but I have some trouble reconciling it with reality. For exa
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by Permit 1y ago
Yes. If they run a red light today there is some small chance they will injure/kill someone. If they run a red light with a camera, there is a 100% chance they will receive a ticket. The key factor is not the magnitude of the penalty (
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by Permit 1y ago
> I acknowledge, by the way, that I use Google services to run my vanity domain, including my web site and mail server. It's a hassle to move all that, but one I am ever nearer to taking on. > And a final response is for the engi
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Tesla Dojo Went from Essential to Shut Down in 12 Months(bloomberg.com)
4 points by Permit 1y ago|1 comments
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by Permit 1y ago
AI has nothing to do with this. It’s trivial to build a keyword based system to detect someone threatening/joking that they will kill all the Mexicans at their school. AI hype is at play here as well, not only in the breathless press r

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