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NHS's ‘healthy weight’ calculator made people fatter(telegraph.co.uk)
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by Veen 3y ago
The article is a little unclear, but I don't think this was a breach of OpenAI. The credentials seems to have been collected by malware installed on user systems.
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Apple remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to writers’ strike(theguardian.com)
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What sort of personality did you expect the man responsible for the Gallic Wars to have? He was a genocidaire, a slaver, a rapist, and more. All of these 'great' historical leaders were murderous shits when viewed from a modern pe
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by Veen 3y ago
> if you don't trust the answers and double check later, it's not “answers” it's merely “hints” or “suggestion”. The same is true of Google search results and Stack Overflow answers and academic journal articles and so on.
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Siracusa also developed an app to get Classic Mac window layering behavior on MacOS. - https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/ And one that gives him an application switcher that works the way he likes: - https:&#x
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If moderators are the aristocracy, what does that make Huffman? The King?
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And the money laundering places.
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I think it's largely a matter of taste, although there are people for whom bright interfaces cause accessibility issues. Personally, I can't stand light-on-dark interfaces and turn them off wherever I can, although that may be bec
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To put it more politely, these people are expressing attitudes that, if they were ever widely put into practice, would destroy the liberal democratic foundations on which our society is built, including the protections that give them the li
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I have no issue with editing click-bait titles in general, but specifically with adding a "?" where none is required and where it misrepresents the article's content. Your further title edit just strikes me as retaliatory and
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It may be a longstanding practice, but it's a foolish and aggravating one. Do you think HN's readers are so silly they don't understand claims made in headlines are not to be taken at face value? The article advances a positi
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It’s not a documentary purporting to be a factual examination of multiple people’s life stories or an analysis of social attitudes to the elderly. It’s a touching essay detailing one man’s thoughts and experiences as he moves through life,
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These are all health risks associated with smoking, not with nicotine itself. If you click through to the pages those risks link to, you'll see they are talking about smoking, not nicotine. There are some risks from nicotine (high bloo
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I find that very hard to believe unless these people are making their own vape juice with hundreds of times the recommended amount of pure nicotine. For example, a standard Juul pod contains about 40 mg of nicotine, each puff gives you a ma
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Splendid news. I can ditch the artificial sweeteners and return to putting three sugar lumps in my tea, since, somewhat counter-intuitively, using sweeteners instead of sugar doesn't help with weight control.
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I think a lot of the negative reactions to this paper are because people don't trust corporations and academics to determine what is hateful and what is not. And why should they? It's not that anyone thinks there are no hate group
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I'm struggling to find specifics in the paper and its appendices about which hate organizations and individuals were deplatformed. I understand that there are privacy concerns, but it's hard to take this entirely seriously without
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What are you doing that contributes to those ends (aside from sermonizing on forums)? I had a quick look at the website linked in your bio, and it seems you're a working stiff toiling for a for-profit company, building shit for other f
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But "buying for quality" and "buying for status" are different, and I don't think rich people conflate the two (or the people here). The person buying Louis Vuitton luggage (or whatever rich people buy these days) k
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It was quite common for high-status women in the Tudor times. https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/post/why-did-tud... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cleavage
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The final edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica was $1,395.
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Now it's open source, you can look at the code and find out why.
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Feeling good when you do good things is, in the main, what makes you a good person. I'm not sure it's sensible to describe such people as essentially selfish.
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No doubt they are waged and have a substantial number of shares, which is why they are desperately and rather scummily trying to juice short-term profits pre-IPO. There's a big pay day in the offing, and they don't care who they r
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He made those decisions based on information he'd received from Reddit. His mistake was believing they were acting in good faith (rather than being lying scumbags).
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Yes, but all the high-value content on reddit is created by a minority of users. The people who moderate reddit are a minority of users. The issue for reddit is that these are the same people as your "loud vocal minority" who use
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by Veen 3y ago
So your solution is to ban everyone who disagrees with you? In fact, your solution is to ask HN to take an explicitly political position of no relevance to its intended purpose, and then ban everyone who objects to that?
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Hacker News serves the interests of its users, not the interests of the sites it links to. It's not spiteful to help Hacker News users avoid unwanted redirects.
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You’re probably right, but nothing you’ve said will convince anyone that you are. If you want people to take your argument seriously, you have to do more than point out the author’s biases. You have to engage with her arguments and say why

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