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by Suppafly 1y ago
>These are books that we might not pick out to read on our own, but society as a whole is better off if everyone reads them and they are part of our common culture. This, we already lose a lot by not being familiar with the canon that we
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>Can’t talk about the other countries but $20K is a shitload of money in many countries of the EU. It's a decent bonus in large parts of the US too. Not everyone on HN works for a FAANG company.
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This, parent comment is telling on themselves, they didn't understand what the class was teaching because they chose to be obstinate instead of curious.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Sometimes I think high school English courses are designed to make kids hate reading. That's because most kids are too dumb at that point to understand that reading has multiple purposes, and being entertained and liking the charac
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>HDR support is very lacking in PCs atm. I think it's because no one wants it.
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>I'm surprised the major cell providers are cool with letting randos operate cell towers that back into an unknown untrusted ISP and their customers will automatically switch to when in range. A lot of office buildings have these in
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I could not use my Google Voice number (that I've had since Grand Central) for most companies that only do SMS 2FA until it became my Google Fi number. Then I guess some flag got set in the database they check against. I was wonder
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I remember being in college in the early 2000s and asking a professor about that, and he mentioned that they'd been saying it since the 70s (at least) and it hasn't gotten any closer to being a reality.
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>It is a legal argument Not a very good one then.
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>You can't just make a collage of copyrighted works and shield yourself from copyright with "expression". And yet collage artists do that all the time.
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My issue is that your rhetoric of "performatively conflating an organism and a machine" doesn't address the core issue of "humans can learn from art why can't machines". You're essentially saying that you
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Actually that is probably one thing that credit cards could do without legislational changes, by modifying their merchant agreements. Businesses would be salty about it, but the value of being able to accept credit cards would mean they&#x2
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by Suppafly 1y ago
There are a lot of things that work for one person or 10 people, but growing from 1-10 is the hard part. Even things like lawn care, as soon as you grow beyond what you can do, the first employee needs a duplicate of all of your truck, trai
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Maybe an electrician, plumber, carpenter can weigh in Those trades mostly pay their dues when they are younger and then the next batch of journeymen and apprentices take over that part of the job as they move up into the less physically
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>To me this is a validation of my parenting approach. My mantra for teens has been learn a trade, and then a profession if you want to. I think one or the other is ok. My main thing is that you have to have some sort of plan. You can pla
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I certainly don't subscribe to the whole rewrite-the-world in rust. Good because those Rust people get really upset when you point out that Rust mostly seems to exist for people to "Rewrite X in Rust".
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does it just remove some of the vowels from comments?
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>I would just have 1 improvement for HN: add category tags to each post. A lot of times I wish it had the equivalent of subreddits, but then I remember that's sorta why reddit sucks.
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Are you guys all using alternative frontends? Is that why the base experience never gets any improvements, or is it just to keep the uninitiated out?
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Canceling your credit card doesn't magically get you out of owing money that you're contractually obligated to pay. It might get them to eventually cancel your service for non-payment, but it's not a guarantee. They might jus
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>If they come after you, well - you canceled. Then you have to go court to decide which of you is right, much easier to sit on the phone for a couple hours.
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Of course they did, everything pro-consumer gets canceled or put off during republican administrations.
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The stuff people write for old consoles and computers is pretty amazing. Computers definitely evolved faster than they needed to for the general public. All of these industries were built around taking advantage of Moore's Law instead
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Sometimes, so sometimes it's copyright infringement. So in those cases, the original authors might have a case. Generally you don't see these LLM doing that though. >Doesn't help that it's explicitly for-profit an
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>Under current law OpenAI, Google, etc. have no right to cheap training data, because someone made that data and may have the reasonable interest in getting paid for their efforts. If it were that cut and dried we wouldn't have this
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>that are also free for people sounds like a good deal if you're people.
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>The person making the argument is capable of distinguishing the two things, they just performatively choose not to do so. I think that sort of assumption of insincerity is worse than what you're accusing them of. You might not like
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>Their weights are derived from copyrighted works. Evaluating them preserves the semantic meaning and character of the source material. That sounds like you're arguing that they should be legal. Copyright law protects specific expre
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>The fatal flaw in your reasoning: machines aren't humans. I don't see how that affects the argument. The machines are being used by humans. Your argument then boils down to the idea that you can do something manually but it be
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>Windows Defender hogs resources, laptop reviews showing Windows systems getting 10 hours of web browsing battery life are lying, Windows Defender actually ruins the performance of your computer There are definitely times when I wish I c

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